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Weekly Devotional Guide

This week’s text is taken from what many have considered the “third” major section of the letter to the Romans.  A number of significant topics are covered in the 11 short verses: the status of the law, the essence of the incarnation, the baseness of humanity (but our aspiration for greater things), the presence of the Spirit, the miracle of the resurrection, inklings of Trinitarian theology and the gift of everlasting life. Paul manages to tack on some of the toughest and possibly the touchiest subjects in Christian theology.

In his letter to the Romans Paul uses this 8th chapter to speak of the miraculous things in a very positive manner.

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Answers from Sunday’s Message:

Two types of Journeys:

1)   A walk in the Spirit.
A Journey of life.
An Experience of peace.
A Friendship with God.
An Experience of the indwelling God.

2)   A walk in the Flesh.
A March of death.
Is Hostility to God.
Is Enmity with God.
Is the Futility of a Self-Filled life.
There is no Gimmick for this journey.
We must Focus on God!

“If the Spirit of Him (God) who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he (God) who raised Christ from the dead will give life to  your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you” (Romans 8:11).

Romans 8

1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.