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October 14 - Romans 8 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and it's Tuesday, it's the 14th
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  of October. Thank you for tapping on play
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  and inviting me into this very fast day.
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  You may not know, but this day, October 14 in 1947 was actually
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  the very first time that humans managed to break the sound
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  barrier. The first person in this in this
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  aeroplane called the glamorous Glenys.
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  Good for you Glenys. And then many years later,
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  actually remember this. In 2012, there was this guy
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  named Felix Baumgartner, what a last name, who jumped from space
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  39 kilometres above the surface of the Earth, and he skydived
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  all the way down and he actually broke the sound barrier with his
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  body, which is truly bananas to think that someone just flying
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  unsurrounded by any kind of technology went that fast.
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  But that's what happens when there's no oxygen or air around
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  you, I guess. So today, today is a day for
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  fast movement, right? And then you've taken this
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  moment to stop the fast movement of your day and come with me and
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  read God's words. So Holy Spirit, as we pause
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  still our hearts and open them to you and the gift of the life
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  that we have to live in you in the Spirit, and how different
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  that is from any other way of living.
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  So open our hearts and reveal yourself to us.
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  Alright friends, let's do it. Let us read together Romans
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  chapter 8. So now there is no condemnation
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  for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
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  And because you belong to him, the power of the life giving
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  Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to
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  death. The Law of Moses was unable to
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  save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature.
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  So God did what the Law could not do.
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  He sent His own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have.
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  And in that body God declared an end to sins control over us by
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  giving His Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
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  He did this so that the just requirements of the Law could be
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  fully satisfied for us who no longer follow our sinful nature,
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  but instead follow the Spirit. Those who are dominated by the
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  sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are
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  controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please
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  the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature
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  control your minds leads to death, but letting the Spirit
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  controlled your mind leads to life and peace.
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  For the sinful nature is always hostile to God.
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  It never did obey God's laws, and it never will.
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  That's why those who are still under the control of their
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  sinful nature can never please God.
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  But you are not controlled by your sinful nature.
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  You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God
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  living in you. And remember that those who do
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  not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to
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  him at all. And Christ lives within you.
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  So even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit
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  gives you life because you have been made right with God.
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  The Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in
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  you. And just as God raised Christ
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  Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies
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  by this same Spirit living within you.
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  Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation
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  to do what your sinful nature urges you to do.
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  For if you live by its dictates, you will die.
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  But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the
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  deeds of your sinful nature, you will live.
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  For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of
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  God. So you have not received a
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  spirit that makes you fearful slaves.
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  Instead, you receive God's Spirit when He adopted you as
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  His own children. Now we call him ABBA Father, for
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  his Spirit joins with our Spirit to affirm that we are God's
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  children. And since we are his children,
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  we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ,
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  we are heirs of God's glory. But if we are to share his
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  glory, we must also share his suffering.
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  Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he
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  will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting
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  eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children
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  really are against His will. All creation was subjected to
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  God's curse. But with eager hope the creation
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  looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in
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  glorious freedom from death and decay.
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  For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the
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  pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
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  And we believers also grown even though we have the Holy Spirit
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  within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for
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  our bodies to be released from sin and suffering.
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  We too wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us
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  our full rights as His adopted children, including the new
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  bodies He has promised us. We were given this hope when we
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  were saved. If we already have something, we
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  don't need to hope for it. But if we look forward to
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  something we don't yet have, we must wait patiently and
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  confidently. And the Holy Spirit helps us in
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  our weakness. For example, we don't know what
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  God wants us to pray, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with
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  groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
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  And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is
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  saying. For the Spirit pleads for us
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  believers in harmony with God's own will.
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  And we know that God causes everything to work together for
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  the good of those who love God and are called according to His
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  purpose for them. For God knew His people in
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  advance, and He chose them to become like His Son, so that His
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  Son would be the first born among many brothers and sisters.
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  And having chosen them, He called them to come to Him.
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  And having called them, He gave them right standing with
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  Himself. And having given them right
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  standing, He gave them His glory.
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  What shall we say about such wonderful things as these?
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  If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
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  Since He did not spare even His own Son, but gave Him up for us
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  all, won't He also give us everything else?
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  Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for His own?
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  No one, for God Himself has given us right standing with
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  Himself. Who will then condemn us?
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  No one for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for
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  us, and he is sitting in the place of honour at God's right
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  hand pleading for us. Can anything ever separate us
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  from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves
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  us? If we have trouble or calamity,
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  or a persecuted or hungry or destitute or in danger or
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  threatened with death, as the Scriptures say, for your sake,
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  we are killed every day. We are being slaughtered like
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  sheep. No, despite all these things,
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  overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us.
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  And I'm convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's
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  love. Neither death nor life, neither
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  angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries
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  about tomorrow, not even the powers of hell can separate us
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  from God's love. No power in the sky above or in
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  the earth below, indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be
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  able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in
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  Christ Jesus our Lord. Oh Jesus, in you we have this
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  rock solid assurance that our identity is absolutely ironclad,
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  that the God of the universe looks at us with favour and love
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  and his preference, and nothing can ever strip that away.
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  Nothing in that long list that Paul writes of these incredibly
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  scary things like death and demons or the worry about
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  tomorrow or the powers of hell. Nothing can ever separate us
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  from this incredibly transformative love that you
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  have for us. Oh man, what an incredible gift
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  you give us. As we go about our day to day,
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  Jesus, continue to remind us, continue to prompt us.
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  Holy Spirit, keep us ever in the sure knowledge of our firm
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  footing and our foundation in you and who we are and the
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  victory we already have in You, so that no challenge that is
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  thrown at us today will shake us.
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  That no criticism will make us doubt that.
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  That no challenge will make us despair because we are saved and
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  we stand in glory with You. Oh, what an incredible gift we
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  have. And you are our deposit, Jesus,
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  our deposit that says full payment is coming, full payment
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  when we stand beside you in glory.
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  Ah, we are so grateful for all of this and we love you.
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  And we pray all of this in your incredible name, Jesus, Amen.