Romans 8 is so full of the promises of God that we could spend days on it and never get to another book! We will look at a few this time! Verses 1-2:
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus Has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Our acceptance of what Jesus provided for us with His death, burial and resurrection, causes this law of the Spirit of Life to be active in us! I like the Message Bible:
1 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ's being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. 2 A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.
As believers we should not lead sense-ruled lives! We really no longer have the right to do so! Remember 1 Corinthians 6:20 (Amplified):
20 You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]. So then honor God and bring glory to him in your body.
Then we have this promise in Romans 8:11:
11 And if the Spirit of him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.
The Message Bible says:
11 It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God Who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, He'll do the same thing in you that He did in Jesus, bringing you alive to Himself? When God lives and breathes in you, (and He does, as surely as He did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With His Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!
AMEN! There are so many more promises to look at just in this one chapter, but we will finish with this one in verses 37-39:
37 Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded beyond doubt ( I am sure) that neither death not life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, 39 Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Now THAT is powerful! We HAVE the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible living in us. Fear and doubt should have NO PLACE! AMEN!
Here's another older song some of you will remember!
Shalom in Him!
