Spirit of Hope

“If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you” Romans 8:11
The Spirit of holiness is the power by which God raised Jesus from the dead and declared him Son of God.(1:4) The presence of that same Spirit then, guarantees , as a first fruit offering from God, the redemption of the believers bodies and their adoption as Sons(8:23) . This is an anticipation of an eschatological event The covenant blessing of an inheritance will be provided in the liberation of the entire creation from decay.(8:18-23)
“Paul seems intent to tie together both the work of the Spirit with that of Christ, as well as the ethical life of righteousness effected by Christ and the Spirit with the final eschatological inheritance gained through the resurrection of the ‘mortal’ body “Gordo D Fee again)
Until that day, the Spirit remains, groaning with creation and believers, and interceding for them as they, in their weakness find hope incomprehensible. Paul himself groans with the Spirit for the incomprehensible restoration of national Israel(9:1, 11:33) . After exhorting the Romans to seemingly impossible standards of love(13:8-10) and difficult welcoming of each other, even in times of disagreement(15:7, 14:1), which still today seems hopeless, Paul's prays that the God of hope would give the Roman church peace and joy, that they might abound in hope, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Paul’s teaching on the Holy Spirit, as the Spirit of life, encourages the faith of the readers of the letter to the Romans. In it, they find themselves united to the risen Messiah, the goal of the law who brings in covenant blessing. By the presence of the Spirit, the Roman believers are assured, even in times of suffering and hardship, of eschatological life that the Law was intended to bring, the restoration of all creation and the restoration of Jewish and Gentile relationships.