No Condemnation
For I am Persuaded • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Romans 8:38-39
Romans 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, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Opening
Cynthia’s Book reading
She reads the 1st chapter then the last to see if she wants to read the book
Over the next couple of weeks we will be doing something similar
Think of our key text as the epic conclusion of a book and we will be looking at the lead up to it
Week One - No Condemnation - Romans 8:1-11
Week Two - No Excuse - Romans 8:12-17
Week Thee - No Pain - Romans 8:18-25
Week Four - No Fear - Romans 8:26-30
Week Five - No Weapon - Romans 8:31-36
Week Six - No Failure - Romans 8:37-39
Romans 8 is one of the greatest up lifting chapters in the bible
However, it follows one of the biggest Woe to Me chapters
Chapter 7 is all about the Law and our in ability to live it
For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
Example of the Highway with no Speed limit
Autobahn
It is a series of roads in Germany with a total length of about 8000 miles
It is 4 lanes of road designed to allow drivers to for the most part drive as fast as they want to
Do you know what the average drivers speed is on that road?
About 75 mph (you can drive as fast as you want but the average driver stops at 75)
So why do I bring it up
Lets think about 79
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Romans 7 ends with an extremally powerful and almost defeatist statement.
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
If we stopped at Romans 7 we would have a very bleak outlook on our life for Christ
It doesn't matter what I do I will fail anyway
Then we go into Romans 8
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Considering the ending of the last chapter this seems to be a 360 on what was said.
This is why we read the whole bible and not take just hold on to one bit.
If we stopped in Chapter 7 we would be
Left with a self defeated version of our lives as a Christian
Left with the belief that we can live any way we want as it is “just our nature”
Left with mind set that we will never have any true victory over our flesh
If we started in Chapter 8 we would
Misunderstand the problem of Sin and human nature
Be left with rose collared glasses as to how our living for Christ should be
Have a misconception of our lives are like here on earth
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 Spirit. 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 mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 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. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Here is the Good News
God through Christ has done for us what we could not do for ourselves
Christ fulfilled the law that we could not do in our flesh
Yet we now can fulfill the Sprit of the Law because we no longer walk after the flesh
Highway 79
Drive on the way to and from work
You try to drive at the speed limit but are also under constraints of time
You are more likely to be constantly aware of the speed limit and how it hinders you from getting to your destination
Drive if you are retired or “Out for a Sunday Drive”
You drive for the fun of it and are not as worried about time
You are more naturally to drive as the law intended
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. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 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.
There is no condemnation left in us or on us because the price has been paid.
As long as we continue to walk after the Sprit and not of the Flesh
Your flesh and the works of it are dead
We choose to walk in the Sprit or the Flesh
