We are joined to him in suffering but also in our future destiny. Abba is an Aramaic word meaning “father.” Jesus used it in prayer to God the Father ( Mk 14:36).Ĩ:17 All God’s children are his heirs and coheirs with Christ. The Spirit also gives us assurance of our status and therefore of our salvation. It is the mark of a Christian to cry out to his Father in prayer. By the Spirit we have a consciousness that God is our Father. 13).Ĩ:15-16 The Holy Spirit is not an agent of bondage but is instead the means of our adoption into God’s family. It is the Spirit’s empowerment for mortification of fleshly desires ( v. The leading of the Spirit is not mystical direction or ecstasy. It is common to all believers, it is constant, and it will bring the believer to glory ( Rm 8:17). He can mortify the flesh and its activities, and he lives.Ĩ:14 The leading of God’s Spirit is his providential sanctification ( Ps 23:3). The Christian is empowered by the Holy Spirit to stop doing the sinful deeds of the body. If a person lives to the fallen nature, death is his destiny. Now the Spirit provides life and righteousness.Ĩ:12-13 Freedom brings an obligation. The pledge and promise of the Spirit is that he will raise us as he did Jesus. The Christian’s physical body will still die because of sin’s effects (unless the Lord returns before death 1Co 15:50-57). The Spirit’s presence is the mark of Christ’s ownership. They can live freely in keeping with the Spirit.Ĩ:5 Paul described the two kinds of people: two different kinds of existence or two “mind-sets.”Ĩ:6 The outcome of the two ways of thinking are explained: death versus life and peace.Ĩ:7-8 Unregenerate people (Gk en sarki lit “in the flesh”) are hostile to God and unable to submit to God’s law because they lack God’s Spirit, which makes submission possible.Ĩ:9-11 Christians are in a new realm, for the Spirit indwells them. He fulfilled the law’s demands in his life and in his death and broke sin’s power in a human body on the cross.Ĩ:4 Christians can now live a new way of love. He did not cease to be God but took on a real human nature (without sin) and became the perfect offering. The Second Person of the Trinity, the Son, took on humanity. They can now serve God in the “newness of the Spirit” ( 7:6).Ĩ:2-3 The believer’s freedom comes from Jesus’s incarnation and his work as the sin offering and by the Holy Spirit’s operation in providing life. 8 describes the new self in relation to the Holy Spirit and his work in and through the new man.Ĩ:1 There is no condemnation for believers because they are not under the law ( 6:14), and they have been released from the law ( 7:6). Whereas 7:14-25 describes the new self in relation to the law, chap. 1) and ends with no separation from God ( v. 8:1-39 Romans 8 has been called the most wonderful chapter in the Bible.
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