Archives for February 2015

If you’ve been persevering in memorizing Romans 8 this year, hopefully you have been dwelling on these verses in the month of February: "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. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the m...

During yesterday’s church gathering, we sang a new song, with this chorus: These guilty hands are raised, filthy rags are all I bring And I have come to hide beneath your wings These holy hands are raised, washed in the fountain of your grace And now I wear your righteousness...

In earlier posts on Romans 8, we have seen that one of the blessings of being in Christ is that we have freedom from the rule of sin. In Christ, God has condemned our sin, and the result or purpose of this is that believers fulfill the righteous requirement of the law. But we do not do this in our own power or strength, but in the strength of the Holy Spirit. It is those w...

Notice Romans 8:3-4 are connected by the words “in order that”: "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, 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 Sp...