The Holy Spirit is the evidence and the power of a radical new life in Christ.

Review of Romans 8:1 4

Review of Romans 8:1 4 We are off the hook! Our legal guilt has been eradicated. (8:1)

Review of Romans 8:1 4 We are off the hook! Our legal guilt has been eradicated. (8:1) We are out of prison! Our spiritual captivity has been overcome. (8:2)

Review of Romans 8:1 4 We are off the hook! Our legal guilt has been eradicated. (8:1) Christ died in our place! Our rightful punishment has been substituted. (8:3,4a) We are out of prison! Our spiritual captivity has been overcome. (8:2)

Now we expect a vivid contrast. Our core perspective is now transformed. (8:5)

Now we expect a vivid contrast. Our core perspective is now transformed. (8:5) Why? Believers have the Holy Spirit living in us.

Key Reminders

Key Reminders Our righteousness comes from God. Righteousness as behavior is the product of the Spirit s empowering, not a requirement of obedience in order to get in (Gordon Fee).

Key Reminders Our righteousness comes from God. Righteousness as behavior is the product of the Spirit s empowering, not a requirement of obedience in order to get in (Gordon Fee). Our righteous living involves our participation. The keeping of the Law is God s work, yet this does not exclude human activity and obedience (Thomas Schreiner).

You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. ROMANS 8:9

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. ROMANS 8:10

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you. ROMANS 8:11

Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. ROMANS 8:12

For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, ROMANS 8:13

because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. ROMANS 8:14

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by Him we cry, Abba, Father. ROMANS 8:15

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God s children. ROMANS 8:16

Now if we are children, then we are heirs heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory. ROMANS 8:17

Have Spirit, Will Travel (8:9 11)

Through the Spirit we are given a new position and infused with new power. KEVIN DEYOUNG

The Spirit is not an it, a kind of aura that influences one from the outside. Rather, the Spirit is a personal presence taking up residence within the life of the believer. God s habitation has been transferred from the temple to His new temples. GORDON FEE

Through Spirit, Kill Sin (8:11,12)

Effort is not a four-letter word. By faith we are justified. And by faith we make every effort to be sanctified. KEVIN DEYOUNG

Holiness of life is achieved neither by our own unaided effort the error of moralism or legalism nor by the Spirit apart from our participation let go and let God but by our constant living out the life placed within us by the Spirit who has taken up residence within. DOUGLAS MOO

When it comes to killing my sin, I don t wait passively for the miracle of sin-killing to be worked on me. I act the miracle. JOHN PIPER

Mortification is a ruthless, full-hearted resistance to sinful practice; to declare war on attitudes and behaviors that are wrong give them no quarter, take no prisoners, pull out all the stops. This means a Christian doesn t play games with sin. TIM KELLER

Romans 13:11 14 Ephesians 4:25 5:4 Galatians 5:16, 19-21a Colossians 3:5 10

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. GALATIANS 5:16

The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; GALATIANS 5:19

idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions GALATIANS 5:20

and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. GALATIANS 5:21A

The trouble with many Christians is that they have taken a passive approach to the Christian life. COLIN SMITH

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. PSALM 23:1

He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, PSALM 23:2

He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name s sake. PSALM 23:3

With Spirit, God s Children (8:13 17)

We are still slaves of Christ, of God, and of righteousness, but these slaveries, far from being incompatible with freedom, are its essence. Freedom, not fear, now rules our lives. JOHN STOTT

I will give you a new heart and put a new Spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. EZEKIEL 36:26

And I will put My Spirit in you and move you to follow My decrees and be careful to keep My laws. EZEKIEL 36:27

Because God is our Father, the Holy Spirit turns obedience from being a duty to being a delight.

Having the Holy Spirit transforms our experience in life.