Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture by Constantine R. Campbell

Author:Constantine R. Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Testament;Bible (New Testament)—Textbooks;REL006220;REL006100
ISBN: 9781493427352
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2020-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

Life in the Spirit

READ ROMANS 8:1–17

For those in Christ, there is no condemnation, because the Spirit has set them free from sin and death (8:1–2). God condemned sin by sending Jesus in the flesh to die as a sin offering, thus fulfilling the law’s demand (8:3–4). Instead of living according to the flesh, which leads to death, believers now live according to the Spirit, which leads to life (8:5–7). Those living according to the flesh are unable to please God; believers are not in the flesh, but rather are in the Spirit and therefore belong to Christ (8:8–9). The Spirit who lives in believers is the same one who raised Christ from the dead, and will raise the dead in Christ too (8:10–11).

By the Spirit believers will put to death the misdeeds of the body, just as all of God’s children are led by the Spirit (8:12–14). Indeed, the Spirit enables believers to cry out to God as their Father and confirms them as his children (8:15–16). As God’s children, they are also his heirs and coheirs with Christ. And as Christ’s coheirs, believers will share in his suffering as well as his glory (8:17).

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