Romans 8:1-17
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1-8 9-11 12-17
1-8 9-11 12-17
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Verse one starts out with there is therefore, the therefore referring back to the end passage of chapter 7, who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! the rest of verse one is the confirmation of God’s grace and our hope and faith, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, what a wonderful statement to read. And as Pastor Isaac touched on Sunday, note that it says no condemnation, it does not say some of the condemnation or part of the condemnation, there is now No condemnation. All of our sins were paid for by Jesus when he was on the cross, when he said that it was finished he meant it. No remaining sins left to be paid for by us in purgatory, family members do not need to obtain passes for us to get out of unpaid for condemnation, Jesus paid it all, and all to him We owe.
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The law of the Spirit of life, our binding to God through the Spirit, has set us free. God has given us his grace so that we could want to repent and have faith in Jesus so we could receive the Holy Spirit and now we are freed from the law we were previously under, sin and death. Yes we will still die if Christ does not come first but this is our sin marred flesh that will die, our soul has been set free from eternal death in Hell.
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The law was never sent to save us, the law shows us God’s holy character and his spotless morality, the law shows us how far apart we are from God. It in itself does not condemn us, it is sin, and our sinful state that rebels and hates God. God did not send his law to save us, He sent it so that we would know that we need a savior, a savior that God provided for us in Jesus Christ who took on flesh like ours but unlike us he did not fall into sin and kept the law perfectly so that he was able to take our sin and punishment.
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Because Christ had no sin of his own to pay for he was able to take the substitutionary punishment of our sins, so now when God looks upon us he sees Jesus’ perfect keeping of the law thus the law is fulfilled in us through Jesus. So now that we have been granted grace and died to sin with Christ and have recieved the Holy Spirit we are able to walk, or carry our remaining time on this Earth according to the spirit that resides in us. We now live to serve God and not our flesh and sin.
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The unsaved, or as Paul says, those who live according to the flesh, only live for themselves. The unsaved will only ever do or accomplish works of the flesh because the spirit of God does not reside in them. Everyone is born dead, spiritually speaking, and the dead can only do works of death, but once saved we receive the spirit and our hearts and minds are forever changed. We can and want to do the will of God, the saved set their minds on the things of the Spirit, the will of God.
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The unsaved do not have peace. They do not have inner peace nor do they have or can have peace with one another. If you are walking in the flesh the only desire you have is sin. The law of God is written on every heart and living a life of sin and producing works of death rubs against what we all know, the conscience can be ignored and suppressed but it will never go away no matter how hard one tries. The unsaved can never have inner peace, no matter how much incense they burn or what crystals they have, they also will never be at peace with their fellow man. When everyone is living for themselves and self absorbed trying to “live their best life” there will be little to no concern in practice for each other. There is no peace where sin abounds. But when one is saved and no longer lives for themselves and lives and works for God peace will follow. When we are no longer at war with God, who can not only destroy the body but also destroy the soul, we can give all our cares and troubles to him and have peace.
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The unsaved, or those who have their mind set on the flesh, are at war with God, they are hostile to God and the law of God, they will not and cannot submit to the law or God.
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Just as the unsaved are at war with God, God is at war with the unsaved. Any work done in the flesh is abhorrent, or an abomination to God. If you are living for yourself anything that is done is done for the self, no matter if the work or act in and of itself is “good”, like giving to the poor or helping others. If it one who lives for this world does a so called good work, he does it for himself, to make himself feel better or so that others will think better of him. Those works done for the self cannot please God, as they are not done to glorify God but are done to glorify the self.
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If you are truly saved you will have the Spirit of God in you and will not walk in the flesh as a standard of your life. If you call yourself a Christian the pattern of your life will not be just like before and mirror that of the unsaved world, if it is you must truly examine yourself according to the word of God. If you do not feel the need to live, not according to the world, but according to and doing the will of God then the Spirit may not reside in you. It is a work of the Spirit to desire to do the work of God and if you do not have the Spirit in you, you do not belong to God.
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But for the Christian the Holy Spirit is in us and we are saved by Christ’s righteousness and will have eternal life even though our saved soul, that desires to do the will of the Father, is encased in this fallen body that still wants to sin. But we will war with our flesh, with the help of the spirit and grow in sanctification.
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We have died to sin with Christ and now live in the Spirit, but also just as Christ was raised from the dead physically so shall our bodies be raised from the dead at the end of days. Our resurrected bodies will be sinless and perfected through the power of the Holy Spirit so that we will live forever with God who will also resurrect all of creation in the new heaven and Earth as the eternal dwelling place of all of the saints and of God.
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Paul addresses his brothers, but unlike in chapter 7 when he says brothers and then clarifies that he is talking to his Jewish brothers by saying that he is talking to those who know the law, here he is addressing all of his brothers and sisters in Christ. We are all debtors but to whom we are debtors are not implicitly stated but he does say that we are not debtors to the flesh, and since there are only two choices of who our masters are, flesh and sin or God then the answer must be God. And since we are not debtors or slaves to sin anymore we no longer live according to the flesh and its sinful desires.
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Because if you live according flesh and delight in sin you will earn your wages of sin, death, again not death of the flesh but the eternal death in the lake of fire. But if you are saved and died to sin with Jesus and now have the Spirit, you will live forever.
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All that have been covered by Christ’s blood are now called sons and daughters of God, having been adopted by the Father. So now we can call on Him and truly and sincerely say our Father in prayer and thanksgiving.
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The gift from God that we have recieved is not a spirit of slavery that leads to fear of death and judgement, we have been delivered from the fear of death and punishment. We have recieved the Holy Spirit and are adopted into God’s loving family and can call Him our Father. Abba is a tender term for father like “Papa” or “Daddy”
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The Holy Spirit in us speaks to the truth that we are children of God, that Christ is in us and we are in Christ.
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If we are children of God the we will receive the benefits of being sons and daughters, as sons and daughters we are heirs of God along with Christ. Provided we have followed Jesus’ command to take up our cross and have suffered and died with him to sin so that just as Jesus is glorified we will be glorified along with our Lord and Savior.