Transcript Slide 1

Romans 8
The Believer’s Freedom from condemnation,
Our Privilege as children of Yahweh,
Our Hope in Tribulation,
Assistance in prayer from the spirit,
Our Interest in the Love of God,
Our Final Triumph through Christ!
The Believer’s Freedom from
Condemnation (1-9)
• Believers may be corrected by the Lord, but they
will not be condemned with the world
• God punished Christ so that we might escape
punishment – and thereby satisfied justice.
• By the spirit the law of love is written in our hearts,
and it is fulfilled in us by the spirit of Christ
• Are we most wise for the world, or for our souls?
Those that live in pleasure are dead, 1Ti_5:6. A
sanctified soul is a living soul; and that life is in
peace
• Having the mind of Christ brings our own carnal
mind into submission and inevitably leads to
behavior pleasing to God the Father
Freedom from the wrath of
God (1)
• Romans 8:1 NKJV
• (1) There is therefore now no
condemnation to those who are in
Christ Jesus, who do not walk
according to the flesh, but
according to the Spirit.
Freedom of the Spirit (2-4)
• Freedom from what?
– Death
– Sin
– Law
• Freedom how?
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Through God’s gift of his son, Jesus
Through Jesus becoming sarx (g. flesh)
Through his being a sin offering
Through God condemning sin in sinful
man
– Through the law being met in him
The Mind of the Spirit (5-8)
• Kata pneuma (of the spirit)
• Basic nature vs. Spiritual
nature
• Eternal consequences
– Carnal mind: Death
• Unable to please God
– Spirit minded: Life
Our Privilege as Children of
Yahweh (10-17)
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If the Spirit is in us, Christ IS in us!
Grace in the soul IS its new nature; and thereby the soul is
alive to God, and has begun an eternal holy happiness
The righteousness of Christ credited to us, secures the soul,
our better part, from death.
So we see it is our duty to walk, not after the flesh, but after
the Spirit.
If we live (as habit) according to sin and lust, we will certainly
die in sin
What does the world have to compare against the things of
God?
Though we can’t succeed on our own, we have the high
privilege of walking towards life (working out our salvation),
and the Spirit is our ally in this effort. We are adopted by God
out of bondage and into the freedom of spiritual obedience
Peace comes from the spirit
Though we may sometimes feel like losers for Christ, in the
end, God has called us to be more than conquerors!
The Indwelling of the Spirit
(10-13)
• We are no longer controlled by
flesh (re: 9)
• Consequences: Life 10-11
• Obligations 12-13
• “Mortification”
Witness of the Spirit (14-17)
• He leads us into holiness (as
sons of God!)
• He replaces fear with freedom
• He prompts prayer the Jesusway Abba
• He guarantees the inheritance
– Suffering AND Glory
Influence of the Spirit
• Liberated from the bondage of
the law
• Empowered to fulfill the law
• Called to live a life set on Him
– Obliged
– Prompted
– Empowered
Suffering and Glory…
• Romans 8:16-17 NKJV
• (16) The Spirit Himself bears
witness with our spirit that we
are children of God,
• (17) and if children, then
heirs—heirs of God and joint
heirs with Christ, if indeed we
suffer with Him, that we may
also be glorified together.
Interlude: The Glory of the Christ
Scenes from movie “The Apocalypse” John/Patmos
Music: “Angels Fall Down” by Skillet
Hope in Tribulation (18-25)
• Our current trials can go no deeper than temporary
and are light in contrast to the sentence of the word
and the sentiment of the world, concerning the
sufferings of this present time!
• Creation has been corrupted by the fall of man, and
the whole of creation waits with earnest expectation
for the time when the children of God will be
manifested in the glory to come.
• Now there is an enmity of one creature towards
another and they are used (or abused rather) by
men as instruments of sin.
• Yet creation is in a state of hope. God WILL deliver
it from man's depravity. The miseries of the human
race, through their own and each other's
wickedness, declare that the world is not always to
continue as it is.
Revelation 21 NKJV
(1) Now I saw a new heaven and a new
earth, for the first heaven and the first
earth had passed away…
(4) And God will wipe away every tear
from their eyes; there shall be no more
death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There
shall be no more pain, for the former
things have passed away.”
Hope in Tribulation (18-25)
(cont.)
• Our having received the first-fruits of the
Spirit, quickens our desires, encourages our
hopes, and raises our expectations. We
WILL be resurrected!
• All pain and misery, destruction, tears,
groans and pangs of body and mind have
come from sin.
• Sin hurts God and diminishes his glory,
and the justice for this will be frightening.
• Believers are safe; but our comfort consists
in hope rather than in enjoyment.
• We need to be patient with this hope and
relentless in our clinging to it above the
things of the world.
Assistance in prayer from the
spirit (26-27)
• The enemies and afflictions of Christians are
numerous and overpowering, so that Christians
would be overpowered if left to themselves, yet the
Holy Spirit supports us, and instead we are drawn
closer to Christ – more than conquerors
• The Spirit, as an enlightener, teaches us what to pray
for; as a sanctifier, works and stirs up prayer and
grace in our hearts; as a comforter, silences our fears,
and helps us overcome discouragement
• The Holy Spirit is the source of our hunger for God
and desire to grow in him and experience his victory,
the outpouring of which is often more than words
can utter
• The Holy Spirit advocates for us in prayer and when
our will is aligned with Gods, he assures the defeat
of the enemies efforts.
He is Sovereign over all! (28)
• We need to realize that the impact of
events upon our souls is far more
important than the impact to our finances,
health, comforts or status. God in his
mercy assures that the trials of the world
and their amplification by the enemy lead
to the spiritual good of those that love
God; in leading us from sin, bringing us
nearer to God, and weaning us from the
world, thereby preparing us for heaven.
• When we act “out of character”,
corrections will be employed to bring us
back again.
The 4 Causes of our Salvation
(29-30) [I]
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1) God knew us, and chose us for
conformation to the image of his Son.
The Father has chosen our end as one of
glory and happiness, and paved a road
of grace and holiness to lead us to it
We deserved destruction. Regardless,
God chose to restore some of us through
a predestined path of regeneration and
grace. In this life we are only partially
renewed, and we walk in his steps
towards the completion of that good
work which He has begun in us.
The 4 Causes of our Salvation
(29-30) [II]
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2) God called us from self and
the system of this world to
God and Christ and heaven as
our home (now and in the
future).
• He called us out from sin and
vanity to grace and holiness
(sanctification). This is the
gospel call, to live a life that
bears witness to the love of the
one that saved us.
The 4 Causes of our Salvation
(29-30) [III]
• 3) God justified us.
• Those who stand against the
gospel call, remains under
guilt and wrath.
The 4 Causes of our Salvation
(29-30) [IV]
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4) God has glorified us. The power
of corruption has been broken in
our effectual calling, and the guilt
of sin removed in justification, so
now nothing can come between
our souls and this promised glory
This should encourage our faith
and hope; for, as for God, his way,
his work, is perfect. It WILL come
to be, just as he said!
If God be for us… (31)
• While God is for us, and while
we keep in his love, we can
boldly defy all the unholy
powers of darkness, according
to the will of God.
• We are no longer subject to
these principalities, we are
residents only…
• Our citizenship has already
been changed!
The Proof of the Promise (32)
• Romans 8:32 NKJV
He who did not spare His own
Son, but delivered Him up for us
all, how shall He not with Him
also freely give us all things?
• Does this include late model
cars?
• Does this include eternal life
with him in paradise?
The Final Triumph through Christ!
(33-37)
Romans 8:33-37 NKJV
(33) Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is
God who justifies.
(34) Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and
furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also makes intercession for us.
(35) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
(36) As it is written: "FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE
KILLED ALL DAY LONG; WE ARE ACCOUNTED
AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER."
(37) Yet in all these things we are more than
conquerors through Him who loved us.
The Final Triumph through
Christ! (33-37)
• Who can charge someone cleared by
the supreme court?
• The loser condemns, our master
intercedes
• Paul asks Who will separate us, but
then lists the “what”. Causality?
• We may face unending trials BUT…
• In ALL things we are MORE than
conquerors through Christ, …
• WHO LOVED US!
The Love of God (38-39)
• The apostle Paul speaks as if he is
completely amazed, and swallowed
up in admiration, wondering at the
height and depth, and the length
and breadth, of the love of Christ.
• The more we know of other things,
the less we wonder; but the further
we are led into gospel mysteries, the
more we are affected by them.
• The Love of Christ, from which we
can not be separated, includes the
provision of Grace, Hope, Peace,
Resurrection, and Eternal Life!
Finito!
•Yeah God!!!
• See you next week!