Romans ch. 6-8

Transcript Romans ch. 6-8

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1:1-17 1:18 – 3:20 3:21 – 8:39 9 – 11 12 – 15:13 15:14 – 16 Introductory Remarks The Problem: We are all sinners The Solution: Righteous through Christ Israel’s Future Practical Living Concluding Remarks

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The Freedom from Sin

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The Freedom from Sin

1. We are dead . . . To sin

Romans 6:1-7

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remain in sin so that grace may increase?

What shall we say then? Are we to Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

may live a new life.

Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ were baptized into his death?

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too

Romans 6:1-7

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For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

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We know that our old (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

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The Freedom from Sin

“Sin has neither the right nor the power.”

-Bengel

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The Freedom from Sin

1. We are dead . . . To sin

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The Freedom from Sin

1. We are dead . . . To sin 2. We are alive . . . To God

Romans 6:8-11

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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

Christ Jesus.

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We So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in

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The Freedom from Sin

Sanctification is God’s progressively separating a believer from sin to Himself and transforming his total life experience toward holiness and purity.” Sanctification refers to God’s work of transforming believers so that the legal declaration of innocence (justification) is progressively worked out in life through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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The Freedom from Sin

Justification

Instantaneous Sin is pardoned Declared righteous

Sanctification

Gradual Sin is subdued Made righteous

Justification 100% R i g h t e o u s n e s s 75% 50% 25% S a l v a t i o n Sanctification A Christian’s Lifetime D e a t h

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The Freedom from Sin

1. We are dead . . . To sin 2. We are alive . . . To God

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The Freedom from Sin

1. We are dead . . . To sin 2. We are alive . . . To God 3. We have a new Master . . . And He’s God

Romans 6:12-14

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mortal body so that you obey its desires,

Therefore do not let sin reign in your and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

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For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

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The Freedom from Sin

“It is for you, O man in Christ, to say to the enemy, defeated yet present, ‘Thou shalt not reign; I veto thee in the name of My King.’” -H.C.G. Moule

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The Freedom from Sin

Application

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Recognize your freedom from sin

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Thank God for setting you free already Consider yourself dead to sin but alive to God

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Do not let sin reign in your life; do not obey its desires; do not present your members to sin

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The Beauty of Slavery

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The Beauty of Slavery

1. You are enslaved to the one you obey

Romans 6:15-16

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What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?

Absolutely not!

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

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The Beauty of Slavery

1. You are enslaved to the one you obey

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The Beauty of Slavery

1. You are enslaved to the one you obey 2. Since you obey God, you are enslaved to Him

Romans 6:17-20

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But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,

and having been freed from sin, you righteousness.

became enslaved to

Romans 6:17-20

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(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

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The Beauty of Slavery

“There is no absolute independence for man; our nature requires us to serve some master.” -J. Denney

Matthew 6:24

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24 No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

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The Beauty of Slavery

1. You are enslaved to the one you obey 2. Since you obey God, you are enslaved to Him

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The Beauty of Slavery

1. You are enslaved to the one you obey 2. Since you obey God, you are enslaved to Him 3. Slavery to God leads to holiness and life

Romans 6:21-23

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So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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The Beauty of Slavery

“The freedom brought by grace does not provide carte blanche to continue in sin. On the contrary, grace places the believer under obligation to holiness and growth in righteousness.” -Robert Mounce

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Application Who is your master today?

Who was your master in 2005?

Who do you want to be your master in 2006?

Learn how to please your Master.

Rid your life of elements that displease your Master.

Daily present your members to God.

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The Release from Law

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The Release from Law

1. The Principle: Death dissolves a legal relationship

Romans 7:1-3

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Or do you not know, brothers and sisters (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person as long as he lives?

married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.

not an adulteress.

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For a So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is

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The Release from Law

1. The Principle: Death dissolves a legal relationship

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The Release from Law

1. The Principle: Death dissolves a legal relationship 2. The Application: We are now joined to a person rather than a code

Romans 7:4-6

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So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

the old written code.

For when But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under

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The Release from Law

1. The Principle: Death dissolves a legal relationship 2. The Application: We are now joined to a person rather than a code

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The Release from Law

1. The Principle: Death dissolves a legal relationship 2. The Application: We are now joined to a person rather than a code a. We are released from the Law

1 Corinthians 7:19

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Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

is nothing.

Instead,

1 Corinthians 9:21

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To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

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The Release from Law

“The believer is free from the moral law with respect to justification and condemnation, but not obedience.” -Melanchthon

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The Release from Law

“The law continues to teach the believer much that is indispensable about God’s holiness and the holiness he expects of his people.” -Moo

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The Release from Law

1. The Principle: Death dissolves a legal relationship 2. The Application: We are now joined to a person rather than a code a. We are released from the Law

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The Release from Law

1. The Principle: Death dissolves a legal relationship 2. The Application: We are now joined to a person rather than a code a. We are released from the Law b. We are joined to Christ

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The Release from Law

1. The Principle: Death dissolves a legal relationship 2. The Application: We are now joined to a person rather than a code a. We are released from the Law b. We are joined to Christ c. We bear new fruit

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The Release from Law

Old Life Married to the Law Bound by a code Offspring/fruit of death New Life Married to Christ Led by the Spirit Offspring/fruit of holiness

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The Release from Law

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The Work of Holiness

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The Work of Holiness

1. The game of life is governed by good rules

Romans 7:7-12

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What shall we say then? Is the law sin?

Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law.

For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “

Do not

dead.

covet

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But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is

Romans 7:7-12

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And I was once alive apart from the law, but with the coming of the commandment sin became alive through it I died.

and I died. So I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life brought death!

For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and

righteous, and good.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy,

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The Work of Holiness

Three Comparisons The Bible is like a rulebook for a sport The Bible is like a microscope The Bible is like a mirror

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The Work of Holiness

Apart from the law “Sin is dead” “I was alive” When the commandment came “Sin became alive” “I died”

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The Work of Holiness

1. The game of life is governed by good rules

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The Work of Holiness

1. The game of life is governed by good rules 2. Although life’s rules are good, the players don’t always follow them

Romans 7:13-25

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Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

we know that the law is spiritual—but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

For I don’t understand what I am doing.

For I do not do what I want—instead, I do what I hate.

But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good.

For

Romans 7:13-25

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But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.

that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

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For I know For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

Romans 7:13-25

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So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

delight in the law of God in my inner being.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

For I

Romans 7:13-25

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Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

serve the law of sin.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I

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The Work of Holiness

“I believe that in this section Paul was revealing with considerable candor his difficulty in meeting the radical demands of the Christian faith.” -Mounce

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The Work of Holiness

“The farther men advance in the Christian life, and the more mature their discipleship, the clearer becomes their perception of the heights to which God calls them, and the more painfully sharp their consciousness of the distance between what they ought, and want, to be, and what they are.” -Cranfield

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The Work of Holiness

1. The game of life is governed by good rules 2. Although life’s rules are good, the players don’t always follow them

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The Spirit of Life

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The Spirit of Life

“The inner sanctuary within the cathedral of Christian faith.” “The tree of life in the midst of the Garden of Eden.” “The highest peak in a range of mountains.”

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The Spirit of Life

The Spirit seals our safety from condemnation

Romans 8:1-4

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in There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

the flesh,

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could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son the Spirit.

For God achieved what the law likeness of sinful

For the flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to

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The Spirit of Life

The Spirit seals our safety from condemnation

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The Spirit of Life

The Spirit seals our safety from condemnation The Spirit furnishes holy inclinations

Romans 8:5-8

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For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

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who are in the flesh cannot please God.

For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

Those

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The Spirit of Life

Ten Reasons Why I Procrastinate: 1)

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The Spirit of Life

The Spirit seals our safety from condemnation The Spirit furnishes holy inclinations

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The Spirit of Life

The Spirit seals our safety from condemnation The Spirit furnishes holy inclinations The Spirit gives life

Romans 8:9-11

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You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

eousness.

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of right-

Romans 8:9-11

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Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

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The Spirit of Life

1) The Spirit of God is in believers 2) The Spirit of Christ is in believers 3) Christ is in believers

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The Spirit of Life

“The indwelling Spirit and the indwelling Christ are distinguishable but inseparable.”

-Moo

John 7:37-39

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On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘

within him will flow rivers of living water

let the one who believes in me .’” 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

From

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The Spirit of Life

The Spirit seals our safety from condemnation The Spirit furnishes holy inclinations The Spirit gives life

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The Spirit of Adoption

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The Spirit of Adoption

The Spirit ensures our past adoption

Romans 8:12-17

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So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh the body you will live.

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

Romans 8:12-17

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For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.” bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.

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The Spirit himself And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)—if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

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The Spirit of Adoption

“The believer, like a man on shipboard, may fall again and again on the deck, but he will never fall overboard.” -Charles Spurgeon

8: 14 8:15 8:16 8:17 8:19

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The Spirit of Adoption

We are adopted into God’s family: “all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God” “you received the Spirit of adoption” “The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children” we are “heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ” we are “sons of God” 8:21 we are “God’s children” 8:29 we are “brothers and sisters” of Jesus

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The Spirit of Adoption

The Spirit ensures our past adoption

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The Spirit of Adoption

The Spirit ensures our past adoption The Spirit ensures our future inheritance

Romans 8:18-25

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For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

of God’s children.

For the creation For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly but because of God who subjected it—in hope

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom

Romans 8:18-25

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For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

the redemption of our bodies.

sees?

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Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

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We share much in common with creation

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We both suffer

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We both groan

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We both eagerly wait

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The Spirit of Adoption

“Some of us love this world too much because we love the next world too little.”

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The Spirit of Adoption

The Spirit ensures our past adoption The Spirit ensures our future inheritance

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The Spirit of Adoption

The Spirit ensures our past adoption The Spirit ensures our future inheritance The Spirit ensures our present progress

Romans 8:26-30

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In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

Romans 8:26-30

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And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose, because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

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The Spirit of Adoption

Two natures war within my breast, One is foul, the other blest, One I love, the other I hate, The one I feed will dominate.

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The Golden Chain

He foreknew

He predestined

He called

He justified

He glorified

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The Spirit of Adoption

The Spirit ensures our past adoption The Spirit ensures our future inheritance The Spirit ensures our present progress

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The Promise of Victory

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The Promise of Victory

We have no worthy opponent

Romans 8:31-32

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What then shall we say about these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

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The Promise of Victory

We have no worthy opponent

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The Promise of Victory

We have no worthy opponent We have no legitimate accuser

Romans 8:33

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Who will bring any charge against God’s elect?

It is God who justifies.

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The Promise of Victory

We have no worthy opponent We have no legitimate accuser

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The Promise of Victory

We have no worthy opponent We have no legitimate accuser We have no other judge

Romans 8:34

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Who is the one who will condemn?

Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

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The Promise of Victory

We have no worthy opponent We have no legitimate accuser We have no other judge

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The Promise of Victory

We have no worthy opponent We have no legitimate accuser We have no other judge We have no fear of separation

Romans 8:35-39

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Who will separate us from the love of Christ?

persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

your sake we encounter death all day long; were

Will trouble,

considered as

or distress, As it is written, “

sheep to

For be slaughtered

loved us!

.”

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who

Romans 8:35-39

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For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,

anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

nor height, nor depth, nor

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The Promise of Victory

“The indefinite expressions are meant to denote all that can be thought of, and are only a rhetorical paraphrase of the conception of allness.” -Olshausen

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The Promise of Victory •

Such love demonstrates God’s sovereignty

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Such love promises ultimate victory

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Such love strengthens us through present hardships

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Such love rules out indifference

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Such love models how we should love others

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Such love requires a response

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The Promise of Victory

We have no worthy opponent We have no legitimate accuser We have no other judge We have no fear of separation