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In this portion I will keep using the Hebrew names for continuity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We get to a verse now that is largely taken out of context. I don’t\u00a0know if you’ve heard it but it goes something like “A person who\u00a0doesn’t believe God can’t personally believe God and can’t even please\u00a0God because they are in the flesh. They are carnal and the carnal mind\u00a0is hostile toward God for it does not subject itself to the Law of God\u00a0(Rom 8:8).”\u00a0 Thing is, Sha’ul is still defending God’s righteousness in\u00a0the believer’s mind and is currently dealing with the death wrought by\u00a0sin through the power of the Law versus the newness of life found in\u00a0the Spirit. The carnality spoken of here is still in context of that\u00a0which is wrought through the law, which pertains to the flesh.<\/p>\n

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We left off thinking how a believer is now walking ‘according to the\u00a0Spirit’ instead of “according to the flesh’ (Rom 8:4, 5)–this distinction previously expanded by the fact that Law-keeping was done\u00a0in the flesh, but now we (though\u00a0admittedly, specifically the Jew) have died to that and been married to\u00a0another: yet still failing at the Law-keeping bit. Believers now in a\u00a0stance of No-Condemnation; how does God deal with their sin? Does He\u00a0simply soften His response to sin? (Rom 8:1)<\/p>\n

We should note that God’s response to sin in the believer is as radical\u00a0as his response to sin in the unbeliever. In the one case the believer\u00a0was positionally dead before God’s righteous judgment, but God sent His\u00a0Son while we were yet sinners to serve as a propitiation. In so doing,\u00a0sinful men who have placed faith on God would be saved from wrath.\u00a0Galatians would have us see the importance of our salvation in The\u00a0Spirit and our subsequent walk in The Spirit.<\/p>\n

So then, Chapter 8 aligns our thinking not on the flesh and the oldness\u00a0of the letter but on the Spirit and the newness of life. This is\u00a0fundamental because without this alignment we find that we cannot\u00a0please God. If anyone does not have The Spirit, they cannot be\u00a0rightly called to please God in The Spirit (Rom 8:9). This portion is\u00a0referring then to the believer’s wealth for pleasing God, not the\u00a0unbeliever’s drought. This wealth is not found in the Law but it is to\u00a0be found in The Spirit.<\/p>\n

But a believer, who awaits the life giving in our own mortal bodies,\u00a0can know that he is not obligated to live according to the flesh but\u00a0according to the Spirit by putting to death the deeds of the flesh (Rom\u00a08:12-13). Some of them? The bad ones? No, all of them perishing in the\u00a0flesh, note that context please. The believers who are being led are\u00a0being led by the Spirit are full grown sons of God (Galatians 4:1-7).\u00a0Not as slaves living in fear but as adopted sons crying out “Abba!\u00a0Father!” (Rom 8:15)<\/p>\n

There is no fear of God in the unbeliever. Fear of death?\u00a0Then why reference a slavery which leads to fear again? He is referring\u00a0to that fear that was found in Chapter 7 but disarmed by death and in\u00a0Messiah’s rescue (from condemnation) in Chapter 8.<\/p>\n

Now then, as free children of God, not slaves, but heirs of God and\u00a0even fellow heirs with Messiah we are glorified with Him eventually\u00a0seeing the very glorification ourselves.\u00a0 The Spirit in us bears\u00a0witness that we are his in the mutual internal groaning with that of\u00a0creation itself which awaiting the setting free from\u00a0 its slavery.<\/p>\n

Here a person can say “ah, you see, Sha’ul is referring to slavery to\u00a0sin not to the Law”. Partially true?but note what is groaning.\u00a0Creation, which is amoral in its actions, is groaning for the freedom\u00a0of its slavery. It was subjected to death brought by sin. Man’s slavery\u00a0is also wrought by sin and subjects Man to death. Here’s the crux for\u00a0Man: the Law entered in to make sin all the more sinful and therein\u00a0death all the more deadly. Creation groans for its freedom, as does\u00a0what we have in ourselves, the firstfruits of the Spirit. (Rom 8:20-23).<\/p>\n

Therefore, the Spirit gives a newness of Life, a walk without\u00a0condemnation, a mind for the pleasing of God, a coheirship with the\u00a0Son, a yearning for the redemption of our bodies, an eagerly waited for\u00a0hope (Rom 8:25), help in our weaknesses, teaching and interceding in\u00a0our prays and communicates with the searcher of hearts seeking His will\u00a0in our lives. This string of God provided benefits, without the old\u00a0fear and bondage, is so perfect that God sees those who are the\u00a0Respondents to the Call as not only justified but already perfected,\u00a0glorified and complete. (Rom 8:28-30)<\/p>\n

Who therefore can be against the believer as to bring a charge? If God\u00a0is for the believer, for us, who can possibly take the stand against\u00a0us? Who can bring a charge against God’s choice people if God is the\u00a0one who justifies? Who can condemn if Messiah is the one who condemns\u00a0but actually intercedes for us? The condemnation is removed. The\u00a0slavery leading to fear is nullified. The Believer is Justified\u00a0(declared righteous) and Glorified (made perfectly righteous) by the\u00a0working power of the Spirit and not the Law. (Rom 8:31-34)<\/p>\n

Sha’ul’s defense then of the Righteousness of God in the mind is this:\u00a0Man is sinful because of action by someone else, now man can be\u00a0perfected by the actions of someone else. Whereas Man would work in the\u00a0flesh resulting only in death, made all the more evident by God’s Law,\u00a0Messiah has died and the sinner who identifies with that death is freed\u00a0from death the penalty of God’s Law. Whereas Man constantly fell short\u00a0due to His own flesh, Man can now be renewed in the mind and eventually\u00a0the body by giving the Spirit to work within, alongside and as an\u00a0Intercessor. Whereas death was the ultimate end of Man, now those who\u00a0are in Messiah Yeshua are inseparable from His love; be it tribulation,\u00a0distress, persecution, powers, principalities, all things; nothing can\u00a0separate them from Messiah. (Rom 8:35-39).<\/p>\n


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Other articles in this series?specifically the second movement: God’s Righteousness Defended in The Believer’s Mind<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Justification’s Hole: God’s righteousness in the mind introduced (Rom 5b)<\/a><\/p>\n

Reckon Yourself Dead (Romans 6a<\/a><\/p>\n

Which Part Got Crucified (Romans 6b)<\/a>
\nThe Dilema of Law (Romans 7)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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