Romans 8
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There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Since Christ has come, a most wonderful thing has happened. The people who believe in Christ are not condemned.
1. "No condemnation" means that the believer is not doomed and damned, but is freed from the penalty and condemnation of sin; he is not judged as a sinner, but is delivered from the condemnation of death and hell; he is not judged to be unrighteous, but is counted to be righteous.
Very simply stated, the person who is in Christ is safe and secure from condemnation now and forever. He will not be judged as a sinner; he shall never be separated from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (cp. ; ).
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Romans 8:33
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 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.
(But remember: the believer is to be judged for his faithfulness to Christ. He will be judged for how responsible he is—for how well he uses his spiritual gifts for Christ—for how diligently he serves Christ in the work of God.
The judgment of the believer will take place at the great judgment seat of Christ.)
2. Now note the most crucial point: only the believer who is in Christ Jesus will not be condemned. All non-believers will face condemnation for sin.
A genuine believer is a person who does not "walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Note what it means to be in Christ Jesus.
Believer, Position In Christ: What does it mean for a person to be in Christ?
1. In the simplest terms, being in Christ means placing your faith in Christ, in all that Christ is. Christ lived and died and arose; so being in Christ means living, dying, and arising in Christ. Christ is the person's Representative, his Agent, his Substitute, his Mediator in life, death, and resurrection.
The person who believes in Jesus Christ is identified with Christ: counted and considered to be "in" Christ.
2. To be in Christ means that a believer walks and lives in Christ day by day.
He is in union with Christ. To truly believe is to walk, and to truly walk is to believe. A true believer... · lays his life—his past sins, his present behavior, all that he is—upon Christ · entrusts his present welfare and destiny—all that he is or ever will be—into the hands of Christ
To live and walk in Christ means that we do not "walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (, ).
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
It means that "denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world" ().
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
It means that we bear the fruit of the Spirit ().
It means that we bear the fruit of the Spirit (). It means that we abide in Christ, that we become as connected and attached to Christ... · as the members of the body are connected and attached to each other () · as the branch is connected and attached to the vine ()
Teacher's Outline and Study Bible - Commentary - Teacher's Outline and Study Bible – Romans, Volume 2: The Teacher's Outline and Study Bible.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
It means that we abide in Christ, that we become as connected and attached to Christ... · as the members of the body are connected and attached to each other () · as the branch is connected and attached to the vine ()
1 Cor. 12:
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.