(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.”

(Rom 7:24) “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”  Voiced by a person enlightened to see oneself as they really are – condemned by their own sin nature without any hope in self or their fellowman. John the Baptist put it so well speaking of the Christ: (Lk 3:16) “… the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose:…” It is He alone Who is the deliverer, Who bore your sin on the cross and then rose again to save your eternal soul!

(Rom 7:23) “But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”  Seeing as it is pointed out plainly here that there is a battle taking place in our minds, shouldn’t it emphasis the great need of reprogramming it with the Word of God (Rom 12:1-2) and living by “every” Word that has come from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Do you desire and spend time in the Word of God daily?

(Rom 7:23) “But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.” The mind is the true battlefield for the Child of God. Living in this flesh among a majority of unsaved corrupted thinking individuals, we are constantly in contact with their thoughts and actions. Our only defense is whatever time we spend in and the pondering of the things of God.

(Rom 7:22) “For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (23)  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.” My new nature given at the time of my spiritual birth longs to please God. My spirit links me into fellowship with God Who is Spirit (Jn 4:24). Yet, my flesh is linked to my corrupt nature of the fallen soul. Thus, the battle to do and live right.

(Rom 7:21) “I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.”  This may very well be the first level of honesty and humility before God. To be saved, one must understand that their sin was the reason for Jesus’ sufferings and death. We then repent and by faith desire the gift of everlasting life.