Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! He has given us the Holy Spirit to bear witness with our spirits that we are the children of God, so we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Holy Spirit also produces the early signs of the revelation of our adoption as God’s children and the redemption of […]
Romans 8 begins with the great declaration that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. It ends with another declaration that nothing will separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. And in the middle, this chapter guides us in the life of the Spirit. We are […]
We have already heard the devastating news that through sin death spread to all people because all have sinned. We know from experience the power of sin in our lives. Now we cry with the Apostle Paul, “Who will deliver us from this body of death?” The gospel tells us that God himself has done […]
Christ has made the way to God. He has brought us with him into God’s presence by his death on our behalf. Now Christ stands with us before God and over us as the people of God. We have come to Christ by faith as the Spirit of God has drawn us to him. There […]
Rob Tims preaches on Romans 7:7-24. When the law of God outside our hearts and the sin inside our hearts collide, an epic battle rages that we simply cannot win. God’s law exposes our sin, and sin exploits the law and stirs us up to sin all the more (7:7-13). Yet when the law of […]
Life in Christ is lived by the Spirit and not by the law. To live by the law is to have our old sinful nature aroused and exposed by the moral standard that we fail to keep. The result is sin and death. To live by the Spirit is to be raised with Christ as […]