(Rom 8:5) “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.”  Those “after the Spirit” are led by Him to look at life entirely differently from the lost. The heart seeks to please Him. For example: Sunday becomes His; the life is separated more and more from things that displease Him; a thirst is found for the things of God including the Bible and prayer; a tithe is seen as His; and the souls of the lost become a burden to our soul.

(Rom 8:4) “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”  Since the context of the chapter is: unsaved – the flesh; saved – the Spirit; to walk means you are alive in and thus influenced by the Spirit of God, Who is directing your soul (mind, inner being) through your now alive spirit. That means you will manifest things the unsaved soul does not since He is influencing you.

(Rom 8:4) “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Having faith that we are now no longer under condemnation (v.1); faith that our sins against God’s laws have been paid by God’s Son (v.3); faith that the spirit-life we now walk in allows us to now please God (v.2); we now fulfill the law in our hearts by faith in Jesus’ life.

 (Rom 8:3) “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:”  How did the Lord Jesus condemn sin in the flesh? Answer: He loved His God and Father so much that He put God’s will before His Own in every way, every second of His earthly stay. Even the best of men do not do that and in comparison are thus condemned. In other words, Jesus lived as we should have lived.

(Rom 8:2)  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”  I draw your attention to the descripton of the Law of Moses, “the law of sin and death”. Why those words? Answer: (Gal 3:21b) “…. if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (22)  But the scripture hath concluded all under sin (sinful man could not keep it), that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.”

 (Rom 8:1) “There is therfore now no condemnation…..(2)  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”  The law of sin and death has been fulfilled by the sinless life of the Lord Jesus. Also, it’s penalty we deserved was carried to the cross by Jesus our Savior. Praise God I am free. I now live “in” Jesus’ life He led here on earth and “in” the life He now lives as the resurrected Savior! May I always be found seeking to please Him by my thoughts and actions. 

(Rom 8:1) “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”  As posted on Friday, in this chapter, those who walk in the Spirit is a reference to the saved. Thus, by implication, there is and remains condemnation upon the lost, for they are still walking in the flesh. If you cannot look upon a time when you know you was birthed spiritually evidenced by a change of desire for the spiritual – then you are still under condemnation awaiting judgment. Please turn from your sin and ask God for mercy, putting your faith in the blood of Jesus dying in your place.

 (Rom 8:1) “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”  I am no longer condemned to the sentence of death, for I have been placed “in” Christ Jesus! “But what if….? No condemnation. “What if” – no condemnation. This does not free my heart to sin! If anything, knowing what sin cost my Savior, it moves me to a deeper desire to please Him. 

(Rom 8:1) “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”  Key to Understanding this Chapter: “after the flesh” means unsaved; “after the Spirit” means saved, Verse Nine:  “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.”

(Rom 7:25) “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”  “I thank God….” is the response to the question, “…who shall deliver me from this body of death?” (v.24) This verse gives us the source of that deliverance: “…through Jesus Christ our Lord.”  Please remember and respond rightly: this requires a time and place: (Jesus’ Words) (John 3:5b) “…Except a man be born of water [physical birth] and of the Spirit [spiritual birth], he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (6)  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”