God is always at work within us

I’ve skipped chapter seven, but i would like to try to explain the important points.

Paul uses the picture of marriage (under the law) to show that the married man and woman are bound to each other until death. But, if one should die, the other is free to remarry and not be an adulteress

In the same way we were married to the law. However, since we died with Christ we are free from the law and are able to be remarried- even to Him who rose from the dead. This is what happens when we are born again.

We are in Him, and He is in us. We are married to Christ. We are the bride. We are married to each other. Remember, we are a spirit living in a body as Christ is a Spirit who lives in a body and His name is Jesus.

Having said that,,, let us begin Romans eight- but remember when it says ‘in Christ’ it means it literally. 

1 THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus.

What a beautiful- free- gift from our Father. Free righteousness! and never ending. Just because you have been born again.

For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.

There was something waiting for you in Christ.  A better law, that works like gravity, it’s everywhere- there is nothing for you to do.The law of the Spirit of life. It cancels out the law of sin and death. If you should sin (all of us will) it no longer separates us from the presence of God. He will deal with our sin as He sees fit. But always in and with love, because you’re His child now. He will sometimes set you in circumstances that your flesh won’t like, but you will come to recognize the difference between your flesh and your spirit.  

For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice],

I want you realize one very important thing, and then read the above scripture again. He condemned sin! not you!

Sin entered the world by one man, Adam. It came in (sin) like an incurable infection throughout all generations. You and sin are two different things. You are not a physical body. You are spirit. Remember. God cursed the serpent saying ‘You shall eat dust all the days of your life’. Our body is made of dust of the earth. That is the realm of Satan. 

So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit].

For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit. Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].

[That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God’s Law; indeed it cannot. So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him. But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you].

But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God]. But if Christ lives in you, [then although] your [natural] body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of [the] righteousness [that He imputes to you]. And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.

So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh. For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father! The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God. And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory. 

[But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!

For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God’s sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship]. For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it—[yet] with the hope That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

Well, I believe we’ve got enough to think  about till next time- pray all of you are  ioyful-until next time stay kool.