You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit

By David Maby | July 14, 2018

Romans 8:9-11 9 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. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit…

According to the Spirit

By David Maby | July 13, 2018

Romans 8:4-8 4 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. 5 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…

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus

By David Maby | July 12, 2018

Romans 8:1-3 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 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…

Wretched man that I am!

By David Maby | July 11, 2018

Romans 7:24-25 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. – Romans 7:24-25 In the cry…

For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

By David Maby | July 10, 2018

Romans 7:21-23 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making…

I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

By David Maby | July 9, 2018

Romans 7:15-20 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who…

Did that which is good, then, bring death to me?

By David Maby | July 8, 2018

Romans 7:13-14 13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual,…

Commandment – under orders from the word of God.

By David Maby | July 7, 2018

Romans 7:9-12 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law…

You Shall not Covet

By David Maby | July 6, 2018

Romans 7:7-8 7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin,…