{"id":1739,"date":"2023-09-20T06:14:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2023-09-20T06:14:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T11:14:06","slug":"romans-program-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"Romans (Program #15)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Romans (Program #15) – The Freedom of the Spirit in Our spirit (1)<\/p>\n

When we come to Romans chapter eight, we have to say \u201cHallelujah!\u201d because here, Romans 8 is not a refrigerator, but a dining table and the Lord is saying \u201cCome and dine!\u201d<\/p>\n

We have come to one of the landmark chapters in the entire divine revelation today; that is Romans 8. You will not want to miss this life-study.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no accident that Romans 8 follows Romans 7, both in the sequence of the Bible and more significantly in our experience. When you look at Romans 7, you say \u201cOh what a mess\u201d because it just ends with a wretched man – \u201cWretched man! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?\u201d\u00a0 We just see a person who is doing his best to respond to God\u2019s law.\u00a0 Romans 7 is really the experience we have in our Christian life, so it is\u00a0 good that it precedes Romans 8.\u00a0 After a believer is saved, a new convert or maybe we just had a turn back to the Lord, right away, our desire is \u201cI\u2019ll never do that again, Lord I want to be just like You.\u00a0 I want to be holy. I want to be righteous.\u201d\u00a0 We just make up our mind to go along with God\u2019s outward demand according to His law to be like Him, even trying to imitate Him which is an absolute impossibility.\u00a0 As we go along with the law of good in our mind to respond to God\u2019s demanding law, \u201cThou shalt not\u201d, we find out that there\u2019s another law that is operating in our flesh, in our members. What happens is that our life becomes just a mess and our life becomes one of bondage and condemnation.\u00a0 Eventually, we cry out like Paul did, \u201cI see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?\u201d (Rom. 7:24-25) This is the situation.\u00a0 We may pray \u201cLord, I\u2019m sorry for the way I live! From now on I want to be a good Christian. I don\u2019t want to do those things anymore\u201d And we just make up our mind to be a good Christian and what happens is we become totally defeated and condemned. So, we have to say, \u201cHallelujah for Romans 8!\u201d \u201cThere is now then no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.\u201d (Rom.8:1) Only in chapter eight do we see a freedom in our experience from the bondage that\u2019s in Romans 7.<\/p>\n

This is the mind we want to explore today, the freedom that presents itself in Romans 8.<\/p>\n

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Romans (Program #15) – The Freedom of the Spirit in Our spirit (1) When we come to Romans chapter eight, we have to say \u201cHallelujah!\u201d because here, Romans 8 is not a refrigerator, but a dining table and the Lord is saying \u201cCome and dine!\u201d We have come to one of the landmark chapters in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[321,4],"tags":[27,640,25,26,367,670,667,641,29,664,678,665,563,339,7807,666,7811,373,330,663],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10451,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/10451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}