Life in the Spirit: Sanctification - Part II [45:33m]:
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Romans 8:1-17 [+/-]Romans 8:1-17
[8:1]There is therefore now no condemnation for those
who are in Christ Jesus. [2]For the law of the Spirit of
life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin
and death. [3]For God has done what the law, weakened by
the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in
the flesh, [4]in order that the righteous requirement of
the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to
the flesh but according to the Spirit. [5]For those who
live according to the flesh set their minds on the things
of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit
set their minds on the things of the Spirit. [6]For to set
the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the
Spirit is life and peace. [7]For the mind that is set on
the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to
God's law; indeed, it cannot. [8]Those who are in the flesh
cannot please God.
[9]You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,
if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does
not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
[10]But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead
because of sin, the Spirit is life because of
righteousness. [11]If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus
from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus
from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies
through his Spirit who dwells in you.
[12]So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh,
to live according to the flesh. [13]For if you live
according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit
you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
[14]For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of
God. [15]For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to
fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of
adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" [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 fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with
him in order that we may also be glorified with him. (ESV)
As night follows day so sanctification follows a genuine work of grace in the salvation of sinners. This is the promise of God and it is the purpose of God that is fulfilled through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. There is no salvation of a sinner that does not lead to the work of sanctification based on the Word of God through the Spirit of God among the saints of God. A sinner saved by the graced of God is a sinner compelled to come together with the people of God for the praise of the Name of God and the passionate pursuit of the purpose of God. The Bible knows no alternatives so that the Holy Spirit who works salvation shows the legitimacy of that work of salvation in the work of sanctification on the foundation of Romans 8:1 [+/-]Romans 8:1
[8:1]There is therefore now no condemnation for those
who are in Christ Jesus. (ESV)
: there is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because of the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Those who are in Christ Jesus are those who are committed to Christ who have come together in a body of believers in which and through which they carry out the purposes of Christ because of the law of the Spirit that brings life.
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