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Rom.8:19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 8:20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 8:21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

Vanity the quality of being worthless or futile.
"the vanity of human wishes"
synonyms:
futility, uselessness, pointlessness, worthlessness, fruitlessness
"the vanity of all desires of the will"

Solomon the wisest of all Kings said life was vanity a chasing after the wind. Strange thought because human in each generation don't think their lives or efforts on this earth are vanity! They simply refused to give into any thought of their lives being pointless, useless, and/or fruitless.

Psalms 89:47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

Ecclesiastes 1:2 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Pride of being important is also vanity, but Paul under power of Holy Spirit state the creation of God, man include was subject to vanity or futility not by its own will, but by his. In other words, without God as our complete ruler life has no meaning, what? Life is a gift given each of us, but if we don't find God and do his will this life is pointless, worthless, without meaning, why? It is simply a chasing after the wind, because life cannot continual or anything we do under the Sun, our hates, our jealousy, our material things, even our name will vanish in time.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.

Ecclesiastes 4:16 There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

But here Paul is speaking to God's anointed those with the Spirit that will set creation free from enslavement, enslavement to what? Vanity, pride, futility, wishful for thinking that cannot produce anything in God's world. Enslavement to the seed planted in the Garden of Eden, which grew into a massive tree call this system of things alienated from God, sin!

Isaiah 40:17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Isaiah 41:29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

Jeremiah 16:19 Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, [even] vanity and things in which there is no profit.

1 John 2:15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. 2:17 The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

The whole system groans for what? Freedom from enslavement to its own thinking which is death. In other words, if all the desires of mankind heart could be built into cities, government, religion, and commerce what would it produce in the way of eternal life? Could it pass anything more onto the next generation, but death and futility, or would it like many believe in vanity that things are going to get better and better until Nirvana is reach?

Matt.7:16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 7:17 Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
7:18 A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Has society increased in morals, in the gift of Holy Spirit, it certainly has prosper materially only to degrade into corruption of pride and vanity. Paul did not paint a self-help positive picture for any anointed brother of sister to think they were going to have wonderful prosperous life on this earth and pass into heavenly glory only to eat the icing on the cake.

Romans 5:3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance.

James 5:10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Philippians 1:29 Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf.

Galatians 3:4 Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

He stated instead what the wisest and one of the most wealthy kings himself being under the direction of the Holy Spirit said that life is vanity a chasing after the wind if we have not been set free from enslavement that will end up into a pointless life on this earth. These brothers and sisters had been set free of the corruption of creation and its thinking, but how?

Galatians 5:1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Galatians 4:26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

John 3:31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

John 8:23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

Luke 6:40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Simply put, they had been reborn into Christ, not into corruption, and death or its thinking given us by Adam. Yes, they were new, a new creation for a purpose, not to live life as the rest of the world, but to be trained, by God's Spirit to conquer the corruption of our fallen flesh upon this world. To suffer and groan as the very creation of all mankind has done since sin enter into our world bring vanity and death with it.

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

James 4:7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 4:8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 4:9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

This working of God was not in the sight of mankind, the world, it was completely unknown to the this world. In fact, the suffering of God's children didn't matter at all to the world, because it offers nothing to this world for its reform. The Spirit kills the flesh and its desires so what fun is that?

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Nevertheless, the world will continual to groan for freedom worshiping every new thing that they can invent or create to find freedom, but it is vanity, why? Because there is one chosen channel that God will uses to set creation free with, and that channel was not known to the world of his time, and certainly not to ours, which is Christ Jesus.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

1 John 4:5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

1 John 3:13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

The sinless channel not created with human hands, an important point these brothers and sisters were missing, they were created by sinless hands, why would they imagine God would uses mankind to build all things in his new heaven and new earth? They had become fleshly in their thinking, they were not under the mind they claimed to be under Christ Jesus as their head, they had two heads, like Eve in the Garden her, husband, and Satan's, but she knew as these brothers and sisters knew one cannot have two heads, one must live and the other die, but both is unfaithful to both!

Rom.7:2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. 7:3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34}

1 Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 2:16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"{Isaiah 40:13} But we have Christ's mind.

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