No Condemnation: Adopted and Living by the Spirit

So Paul offers another conjunction, another joining word, another therefore or translated by the NLT here, so. In light of all of chapters one through seven, Paul says, there is therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. If you are in Christ today, there is no condemnation here. We were condemned to death. That's what he's talking about. Condemned to death, but now there is none of that anymore because Jesus sacrificed, satisfied the righteous requirements of the law and of god's judgment. So we belong to Christ. He is lord. [00:31:57] (37 seconds)  #NoCondemnationInChrist

And as we begin chapter eight, we see the incredible work of the holy spirit. Watch for the ministry of the holy spirit now in chapter eight and the rest of the book. The spirit gives us power to be free from sin. Today, friends, I wanna tell you if you are in Christ, you are, you have the power to be free from sin. God did what the law could not do. Okay? Jesus' death means that sin's control over us has ended and sin sin does not control the spirit freed believer. [00:32:34] (32 seconds)  #FreedomThroughTheSpirit

Do not get me wrong. We are not saved by our actions. Not at all what Paul is saying. But, certainly, when we are saved and transformed by the work of Jesus, our actions will change. Be there will be an evidence. Like like, faith without works is dead. Like, that kind of idea that that that if real faith, if real saving faith that you have been justified and transformed and renewed and redeemed and regenerated by Jesus, that life might look a little bit and ought to look a little bit different before you met Jesus. [00:47:43] (41 seconds)  #FaithProducesChange

The same spirit that lived in Jesus raised him from the dead now lives in us. See, Jesus in the is the template. He's the first fruits. He's the precedent for how we will experience resurrection. The disciples, sometimes with some delay, recognized Jesus, didn't they? He looked like himself. He walked around. He ate. He taught and he talked. And maybe, yes, he kind of teleported, but he he had a a physical body. His mortal body was raised to new life. And so we will have this this completely different but yet some kind of continuation from the total separation and yet some continuation in the life to come. [00:43:09] (43 seconds)  #JesusFirstFruits