PASTOR JOHN COWLES
BRIDGE CHURCH
THE CHOICE IS YOURS
Change is Possible – Week 4
Romans 8:1-17
Romans 8:1 ESV – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:2-4 ESV – 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, 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.
Romans 8:5-8 ESV – 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. 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.
Romans 8:5 NLT –Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.
“Is this what the Holy Spirit wants me to think about? Is my mind set on his desires? Am I focused on what he wants for my life?”
Romans 8:6 ESV – For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Life.
Peace.
GOD WANTS YOU
Romans 8:1 ESV – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
GOD GIVES YOU THE
Acts 1:8 ESV – But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.
Romans 8:9-11 ESV – 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. 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.
Romans 8:12-13 ESV – So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
GOD HAS GIVEN US THE
Romans 8:14-15 ESV – For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 8:15-16 ESV – For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Romans 8:17 ESV – And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Romans 8:16 - The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
Romans 8:10 ESV – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
It is Sins desire to STEAL life, Christ secures and Restores Life, and the Holy Spirit sustains life!
1. Identify ways you will live by the Spirit. You are free from guilt.
2. Rely on God’s Power, not your own.
3. Realize who your father is!