The Life of the Spirit - Romans 8

1. A Prayer for the People of God
O God of mercy,
in Jesus Christ you freed us
from sin and death,
and by your Holy Spirit
you nourish our mortal bodies with life.
Plant us now in good soil,
that our lives may flower
in righteousness and peace.
Amen.

2. Coronavirus Sunday #18
The COVID-19 Calendar

3. The Church Calendar
July 12

4. Romans 8:1-11
the LIFE of the SPIRIT

5. ROBERT JEWETT
When law is employed in the effort to
dominate others and to earn superior
status before God, its holy purpose is
perverted and it leads to death rather
than life…zealous advocacy of what one
side conceives as right often produces
the opposite, and the
quest for superior status makes conflicts
more irresolvable.

6. ROBERT JEWETT
It is not that Paul proved unable
to obey the law, but that his very
obedience achieved the opposite
of its intended effect…this indwelling
sin transforms obedience into a means
of status acquisition and thus produces
the disastrous contradiction between
what is intended and what is
actually achieved.

7. What a miserable person I am!
Who is going to rescue me
from the body of this death?
Thank God – through Jesus
our King and Lord!
ROMANS 7:24-25a (KNT)

8. So, therefore, there is no condemnation
for those in the Messiah, Jesus. Why not?
Because the law of the spirit of life in the
Messiah, Jesus, released you from the law
of sin and death. For God has done what
the law (being weak because of human
flesh)*
was incapable of doing. God sent his own
son in the likeness* of sinful flesh, and as
a sin-offering*; and, right there in the flesh,
ROMANS 8:1-3 (KNT)

9. This was in order that the right and proper
verdict of the law could be fulfilled in us
as we live not according to the flesh but
according to the spirit. Look at it like this.
People whose lives are determined by
human flesh focus their minds on matters
to do with the flesh, but people whose
lives are determined by the spirit focus
their minds on matters to do with the
spirit.
ROMANS 8:4-5 (KNT)

10. Life determined
by s/Sin-ful flesh
Minds focused on
matters of s/Sin
Death
PAUL’S LINE of THINKING
Life determined
by the Spirit
Minds focused on
matters of Spirit
Life

11. Focus the mind on the flesh, and you’ll
die; but focus it on the spirit, and you’ll
have life, and peace. The mind focused on
the flesh, you see, is hostile to God. It
doesn’t submit to God’s law; in fact, it
can’t. Those who are determined by the
flesh can’t please God. But you’re not
people of flesh; you’re people of the spirit
(if indeed God’s spirit lives within you;
note that anyone who doesn’t have the
ROMANS 8:5-9 (KNT)

12. But if the Messiah is in you, the body
is indeed dead because of sin, but the
spirit is life because of covenant justice*.
So, then, if the spirit of the one who
raised Jesus from the dead lives within
you, the one who raised the Messiah
from the dead will give life to your
mortal bodies, too, through the
spirit who lives within you.
ROMANS 8:10-11 (KNT)

13. The Spirit raised
Jesus from death
Gave Jesus a new
resurrection body
Life
PAUL’S LINE of THINKING
The Spirit will raise
you from death
You will get a new
resurrection body
Life

14. What’s true of what God did
for Jesus is true of what God
has done and will do for you:
- Removed the sting of condemnation
- Defeated the power of s/Sin
- Triumphed over the power of death
- Made his spirit fully available for all
THOUGHT for the DAY

15. PAUL’S PERSPECTIVE
Present
Evil Age
Kingdom
of God
The Fall
Jesus
2nd Coming

17. So, therefore, there is no condemnation
for those in the Messiah, Jesus. Why not?
Because the law of the spirit of life in the
Messiah, Jesus, released you from the law
of sin and death.
ROMANS 8:1-3 (KNT)

18. Romans 8:1-11
the LIFE of the SPIRIT

19. Closing Prayer
O God of mercy,
in Jesus Christ you freed us
from sin and death,
and by your Holy Spirit
you nourish our mortal bodies with life.
Plant us now in good soil,
that our lives may flower
in righteousness and peace.
Amen.