In Christ is the Victory Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 8:1, 2. Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Christ to the Rescue Romans 8:3 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. Where is Your Mind? Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. Mt. 16:23. “Get behind me Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.” Galations 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like. Gal. 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Mind Control 2 Cor. 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. I Chron. 28:9. And you my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. Glory Beyond Suffering Rom. 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. All Creation on Tiptoe Rom. 8:19 For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed. By textual evidence we understand this creation as subhuman. Paul want us to catch a glimpse of the cosmic significance of both humanities fall under sin and the believer's restoration to glory. Birth Pangs of Hope Rom. 8:22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. The childbirth motif points to the birth of a whole new order in which the former things are passed away and there will be no more groaning or crying or pain. Five Firm Convictions Rom. 8:28 We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. First: We know that God is active in our lives Second: We know that He is not only working for His people, but He seeks their good. Their highest good concerns their salvation Third: We know that God is not merely guiding some things for good, but all things. Fourth: We know that the beneficiaries of God’s working for good in all things are those who love Him. Of course that love is not free-standing—God loved us first. Fifth: We know that God has called us according to His purpose. Our salvation. Five Unanswerable Questions 1.) Rom. 8:31 If God be for us who can be against us? 2.) 32 He who did not withhold even His own son, but gave Himself up for all of us, will He not also with Him freely give us all things. 3.) Who shall bring any charge against Gods elect? It is God who justifies. 4.) Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. Rom. 8:34 5. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Rom. 8:35. More Than Conquerors In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. Rom. 8:37 Victory’s Crescendo Rom. 8:38,39. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come…shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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