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4.23.23 Romans 8:5-13 Pastor Danny Gardner · HBCWestminster

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  Romans chapter 8 and verses 5, verses 5 to 13. If you found it, if you're able to stand in honor of God's Word, I would ask you to stand now. As I read our text, we'll pray and begin. Romans 8 and verse 5, the Word of God says, 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 set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
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  For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law. Indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 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. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
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  He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Pray with me, Lord of heaven and earth, as we open your word, give us what is needful for our souls. To the praise and glory of your name. Amen.
• 1:32
  Amen. Thank you, church. Well, last Lord's Day, we discussed the spiritual shot heard around the world. We said that life in the Spirit liberates us. It gives us freedom. In our war against condemnation, the Holy Spirit gives liberty, true liberty, lasting liberty in Christ. And we introduced the Holy Spirit. Our helper is what Jesus called him.
• 1:59
  We began what will be a six-week study of the Holy Spirit, about who He is and what He does. And I know that the Holy Spirit is a doctrine shrouded in mystery, perhaps even a little trepidation. He's been called the forgotten God. He has, in many Christian churches, become like Bruno. And we don't talk about Bruno, right? Some chuckling this service, last service at 8 a.m., where...
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  not a single soul is below 40 years old there was no chuckling at all nobody had any idea what i was talking about i just plowed right through this morning let me take another minute to talk about bruno all right the spirit of god we said last week quickens us unto salvation that means gives us life he seals us guaranteeing our inheritance he enlightens us so that we can understand the word and will of god he convicts us of sin he gives gifts to be used for the good of the church
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  He produces character fruit in each of us, fruit like love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and gentleness and faithfulness and self-control. And now we read in verse 9 of our text this morning that the Holy Spirit indwells us permanently. He lives in us. The Holy Spirit, upon belief, takes up residence in each of us so that God can say in truth,
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  that he will never leave us nor forsake us. I was struck again in my Bible reading this week of Psalm 51. David had sinned against the Lord and he had sinned against his friend Uriah by stealing his wife and then stealing his life. And in brokenness and confession in Psalm 51 pours out his heart to God, pleading with him, pleading for mercy and forgiveness.
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  Perhaps you're familiar with Psalm 51. You're certainly familiar with verse 10. Keith Green put it into music and I'm thankful for it. Psalm 51 and verse 10, David crying out to the Lord in anguish, created me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence and take not your Holy Spirit from me. These words written during the Old Testament time.
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  Talk about the possibility, open the possibility of the Holy Spirit being removed from a genuine follower of God. And in the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit anointed people and filled people, but did not permanently indwell people. And so the Holy Spirit could come and go depending upon a person's obedience to the Lord. When Saul, David's predecessor, was anointed king over Israel, the scriptures say that the Holy Spirit anointed Saul and filled Saul.
• 4:59
  But when Saul disobeyed the Lord, the Spirit of God left Saul. And do you guys remember what happened to Saul when the Holy Spirit left? Saul went nuts. I mean, he pretty much lost his mind. He became murderously paranoid, angry, violent, would have these fits of rage, outbursts against his own servants, against the Lord's anointed David, trying many times, multiple times, even to put David...
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  to death he went crazy the spirit of god left saul and saul began to be tormented by his own flesh even by evil spirits as he began to seek after them king david had been witness to those events he'd watched the whole thing from beginning to end the king david had also been anointed and filled with the spirit of god
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  And King David also had sinned against God. The pattern of Saul's life, David followed. And so now in genuine angst and maybe possibly even a little bit of fear, David writes the words of Psalm 51. Please, Lord, don't take your spirit from me the way that you did Saul. That guy went crazy and he died in shame and that's not what I want.
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  So please, Lord, don't take your spirit away. Well, that was how the spirit worked in the Old Testament. He could leave even those who had put their trust in God for salvation. What's interesting is it was not a salvation issue. It had nothing to do with his eternal status. In fact, King David was indeed saved. The very next phrase, Psalm 51 and verse 11, King David in the next phrase says, Restore unto me.
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  The joy of my salvation. He was still saved. But even among those who were saved, the Holy Spirit of God could leave. But the role of the Holy Spirit is different in the New Testament. Upon belief, the Holy Spirit now permanently indwells every person who is in Christ. Listen, in fact, to 1 Corinthians 6 and verse 19. Do you not know?
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  That your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, who you have from God. The way that the Holy Spirit used to indwell the permanent structure, the temple on earth, now the Holy Spirit of God dwells in you. The Holy Spirit lives in you. You, we are now the temple.
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  the Holy Spirit and it is true in the New Testament the Holy Spirit can still fill a believer Ephesians 5 18 says don't be drunk or filled with wine which leads to debauchery but instead be filled with what the spirit don't be filled with wine rather be filled with the spirit the work of the spirit in the life of the believer can still be quenched because of sin Ephesians 4 30 says we're actually going to talk about that more next week but the Holy Spirit
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  unlike in the Old Testament, will never be taken from a true believer in Christ. The Holy Spirit really is in you and with you even to the end of the age. You pick up in verse 5 and notice the very first word of verse 5 is what little tiny three-letter word? For. In the Greek, it's the word gar, equally short, G-A-R.
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  It carries the meaning of because. In fact, it could be translated because. The point the author is making is that the believer does not have to live according to the flesh any longer because his new heart and his new mind are no longer ruled by sin. 2 Corinthians 5.17 says, If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come.
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  One commentator worded it well by saying that we are transformed when we become that new creation. When you are in Christ, when the old passes away and the new comes, we are transformed from flesh walkers to spirit walkers. Before we continue, I need to define a word. It's a word that is often used in the first half of Romans 8. It's the word flesh.
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  The Greek word sarx can be translated flesh, as the ESV has done. It can also be translated sinful nature, if you're holding an NIV. That word sarx, flesh, can refer to unregenerate, the unregenerate state of man, his sinful tendencies that human beings have. It means more than our physical bodies. And I know that in English, flesh and body are synonyms, but not this word in the Greek.
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  In fact, a little later on in verse 11, he uses a different Greek word for mortal bodies, the word soma, completely different. In this context, flesh encompasses the idea of sin. Everything in the unbelieving world, anything which opposes the Spirit of God. And so when it says they walk according to the flesh, that is not just saying they're walking around in mortal bodies. We all are. Rather, this is saying they continue to walk in their sin.
• 10:44
  We said last week that life in the Spirit gives us liberty, but not only that, this week we are going to talk about life in the Spirit giving us victory. We are a people who have won. Victory is really ours in Christ, and specifically victory over two things. Notice first, victory over our mindset. Victory over our mindset. In the following verses, Paul presents a series of contrasts.
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  between flesh and spirit, and his message is clear. Choosing to live in the flesh is death. You'll notice it does not say it leads to death. Walking in the flesh is death. Choosing to live in the spirit is life and peace. And as far as God is concerned, there are only two types of people, right? What are they? Living and dead? Saved and unsaved?
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  One lady in the 8 a.m. service sitting right down here said, in or out? Yeah, in or out. Sheep and goats. Those who are His and those who are not. Those who are friends of the Holy Spirit and those who are not. The Lord differentiates between these two types based solely on their relationship with Him. There is no middle ground. And according to verse 5, these two types of people,
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  can be determined by how they live. Verse five says, for those who live, and what does it say? According to the flesh, that's one type, set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit, set their minds on the things of the spirit, according to the flesh or according to the spirit, the ins, the outs.
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  The phrase in verse 5, according to, refers to that relationship to God. Those who are not gods will live as those who are spiritually dead because they are by their very nature bent and predisposed to sin. Those who are in Christ and therefore have that indwelling Holy Spirit, as we've talked about, will live as forgiven, regenerated, redeemed children of God.
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  Now, obviously, there can be variation in degrees in both of those categories. There may be unregenerate men and women, unsaved people who still live by a high moral standard. Isn't that true? People can still be nice and generous and charitable and giving and even loving. They can still believe in right and wrong. That can still happen and yet remain unregenerate. And there can be people who are genuinely saved and be jerks.
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  Isn't that true? Certainly not members of Highland, right? But I've heard tell at other churches, of course, right? Genuinely regenerate people who nevertheless do not live by the very word they claim to follow. That is true. But the general pattern of a person's life will reflect their spiritual nature over time. Given enough time...
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  The way that we live, either according to the flesh or according to the Spirit, will be shown for what it is. It will be manifest. Give it long enough, and the true believer in Christ will generally, as a rule, reflect the priorities, the passions, the heart, even the very mind of the Lord. That's not to say that he or she will never fail again, but the direction of their lives should arc.
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  toward Christ and conformity to the Scriptures and not away from Christ. If you want an easy way to remember it, it's direction, not perfection. It's not to say that we will all be perfect upon belief. There will be a day when we are made perfect. Amen, church? Can't wait for that day when we are translated from this life to the next.
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  But until that day, we still fail. We still fight against our own flesh. There are still trappings and vices and sin and temptation and all of that. But over the course of time, the direction of our life will bend, will arc toward Christlikeness and conformity to the Scriptures and not away from Christ. And so, friends, think back over the course of the last year. Think back to last Easter season. One year ago, are you arcing toward...
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  Christ-likeness, as you have in the last 12 months prayed against certain sins, certain vices, certain trappings, certain temptations, and you're like, Lord, I don't want to do those things anymore. I'm going to commit my way to a better road, to a better path. I'm going to make commitments to be in your word and to commune with your spirit in prayer. Lord, I want to be better at that, and I'm consistently praying for those things over the course of the last year. Have you seen growth?
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  It is the arc of your life bending toward Christ's likeness and conformity to the scriptures. And you may say, well, Danny, that year is not long enough. All right, it's not long enough. That's okay. Go back five years. Go back 10 years. Go back 30 years. Go back to the day that you were saved. The day that you committed your life to Christ. The very day that you fell on your knees and asked for forgiveness and repented of your sin. Consider the sins that you were praying against then compared to where you are now.
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  Is there growth? Or are you still dealing with those little, simple-minded, immature sins of your youth? Or are you not arcing, bending toward Christ-likeness? As you consider the growth, the spiritual growth, that spiritual arc in your life, is there movement? Or is that line flat? Because if it's flat, if it's flat-lined, what does that mean? Death.
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  The same way that they hook us up to all those machines, right? And the little green line bounces every time our heart beats, and we've got a pulse, and the pulse means that our heart is beating, and the heart beating means there is life. If you look backward over the course of your life, a year, five years, ten years, thirty years, and there's no life at all, if there's a flat line, then something is wrong. You may not be walking according to the Spirit.
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  And this says if you're not walking according to the Spirit, then you're walking according to the flesh. I continue, it says in verse 5, for those who live according to the flesh, notice this next phrase, set their minds, a mindset, a mindset. They set their minds on the things of the flesh. But those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit, for to set the mind of the flesh is death, but to set the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.
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  Here it says that both the friends of God and the friends of the flesh set their minds on either the spirit or the flesh. The believer, we read, sets his mind on spiritual things, but the unbeliever on fleshly things. The word for mind here is bigger than simply your brain or your intellect. Your intellect is your ability to think. It's not necessarily what you think about.
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  Your mind is what you think about. Your intellect is what you use to do the thinking. Does that make sense? And here he says, your mindset, the verb behind the phrase set their minds, refers to the thoughts, the concerns, the passions, even the likes and the dislikes of a person. It's everything about you. It's everything you think about. It's everything you want. It's everything you've desired. It's all of your dreams, your passions.
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  even getting down to your very personality, your likes and your dislikes. It includes a person's affections, what they love. It includes their will, what they desire. It includes their reasoning, even how they draw conclusions. And the one who has set their mind on the Spirit will literally begin to think differently. Those who are in Christ and those who now have the indwelling Holy Spirit will, over the course of time, be shaped by the Spirit's thoughts,
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  We'll even conform their pattern of thinking to His pattern of thinking. We will think like the Spirit thinks and draw the conclusions that the Spirit draws. Pastor Stephen Davey has worded it this way. He says, what you love, you think about. Isn't that true? What you love, you think about. I am in a fantasy baseball league with 11 other men here from church.
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  Okay, 12 guys, 12 Highland men. We do this every year. We do our draft in March, right? We choose all of our guys. We, over the course of six months, are tracking all of our players and making trades and dropping guys and adding guys and doing all of that. Every week, I am matched up against another guy from Highland. And so this week, I've been playing against another Highlander, my team against his. Right, I hope I'm going to win. I'm projected to win, but we'll see what happens this afternoon.
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  Sunday afternoons are the cutoff date. You're matched up against another guy for a week. It goes from Monday morning to Sunday evening. And so Sundays are always critical days. So when we walk in on Sunday mornings and we see the other 11 guys, it's typically the conversation revolves around fantasy baseball. I wish it were something more meaningful and significant. But that's typically what it boils down to. How are you guys doing? Are you projected to win?
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  Right? Why'd you pick up that picture? I don't think he's going to do well. Why did Isaac Olarte choose Drew Smiley? I still don't understand. Got him like 70 points. Why, Isaac? Why? Right? And so we're talking about all of these things. Like I said, I wish it was more spiritual than that. But it's something that we love. And because we love it, guess what? We think about it. And because we think about it, it affects who we are and what we say and our actions. What you think about, you do.
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  Your actions and your words are a result of what you think about and what you do, he says, you are. Francis Schaeffer wrote an excellent book in the 1970s entitled How Should We Then Live? Where he ponders the history of the world and traces the flow of theological thought through the ages. And in that book, he says this. He says there is a flow to history and culture.
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  This flow is rooted and has its wellspring in the thoughts of people. Culture is determined by how people think. That's what he's saying. People are unique in the inner life of the mind. Nobody else, in other words, think like we think. Animals don't think like we think. We are unique in creation that way. What they are in their thought world determines how they act.
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  What you think about determines your words and your actions. This is true of their value systems. What you are passionate about is determined by what you think about. It's true of your creativity. It's true of your corporate actions. Every time you get together in groups, society, culture, work, all of it is determined by your thoughts. Political decisions, how you vote is determined by how you think. It's true of your personal lives.
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  How you run your home, how you treat your spouse, how you parent your kids, the type of neighbor you are is determined by your thoughts, by your mindset. Proverbs chapter 23 and verse 7, as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. It's a good way to word it. This is why it is so important to have our mindset renewed in Christ. Romans chapter 12 and verse 2.
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  Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. You've got to think differently, newly. Philippians 4 and verse 8, whatever is true and honorable and just and pure and lovely and commendable, if there is any excellence, if anything is worthy of praise, think about these things. Dwell upon those things.
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  If your life, if what's coming out of your mouth and coming out of your actions is anti-to scriptures, anti-to Christ, anti-good, anti-kind, I mean, he says then you're dwelling on the wrong things. Our brains, our minds should be filled with true and honorable and just and pure and lovely things. Colossians chapter 3 and verse 2, set your minds on things that are above, not on things.
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  that are on earth and so let me ask you friends fellow believers church what are you setting your mind on what is your mindset perhaps a simpler way to ask that question would be what does your mind dwell on because what you dwell on you love and what you love you become the unbeliever is in love with the flesh the believer is in love with the spirit and the destinations of those love affairs is either death or life and peace
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  In verse 7, the author contrasts the mind that is peace with the mind that is hostile. Notice verse 7 says, For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law. Indeed, it cannot. Every unredeemed person, these flesh walkers, whether moral or amoral, whether they are religious or atheistic, because there are some very religious flesh walkers, they are nevertheless hostile to God.
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  That person cannot have a genuine love for God because they are still controlled by their own sinful nature. And this is why verse 8 says, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. They are governed by the flesh. They have a mindset that is opposed to God in every way and therefore cannot please God. They are like the living dead. They are headed for eternal death and separation from God. And church, this is the doctrine of depravity. This is what it means to be depraved.
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  It's more than just sinning. That's not what it means. The unconverted man is unable to change their own spiritual status. They're standing before God. Verse 8 doesn't say that the fleshly man does not please God. Verse 8 doesn't say that the fleshly man will not please God. Verse 8 says that the fleshly man, what does it say? Cannot please God. It's impossible.
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  It's not to say that there aren't some very nice, very generous, very charitable flesh walkers like we've talked about, but they lack the ability to please God because they have not yet been given that victory over their mindset. One seminary professor was asked, well, can't the unregenerate still do good things? I mean, can they not help the poor? Can they not give to charity? And this seminary professor said, well, yes, of course they can.
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  But then he pondered for a moment and he said, but they can only do bad good. He says, I suppose they could also do bad bad, right? Because there are some really bad, bad people. And we praise God for our policemen and we praise God for laws and courts and justice and judges. We praise God for all of that. Praise the Lord for them. So I suppose they could do bad bad or they could do...
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  bad, good, but you know what they can never do? Good, good. Verse nine, there's a transition. You, however, 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. And what a beautiful contrast it is. That is no longer you because of the quickening work, the indwelling work of the spirit, the follower of Christ can now do good, good.
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  Good good is not only good on a human level, it is also that which pleases God. We've been transformed by the Spirit. We've been given the mind of the Spirit, and so walk in the Spirit, and therefore bear the fruit of the Spirit and can give genuine glory to God. We are changed, it says, from a flesh walker to a spirit walker.
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  When the disciples of Jesus were sent out with miracle-working power to proclaim the good news of the kingdom. Do you remember that? Jesus sent them out in pairs all over northern Galilee. They all returned after having exercised that power to give their reports back to Christ. Do you remember their response? They come back. They're all excited. I mean, they are pumped up. And they say, even the demons obey us.
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  I mean, they've just seen things they'd never seen before. They never even pondered before. Even the demons obey us. And so there's just genuine enthusiasm, excitement among them. And do you remember Christ's response back? He says, don't be excited that the demons obey you. Rejoice rather that your names are written in the Lamb's book of life. Do you remember that? Apparently there exists a book.
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  where all of the names of all of the redeemed for all of time are written down. If you could have access to that book right now for five minutes, like you could check it out of the library in heaven for five minutes, whose name would you look up? Would you not be tempted to look up your own name? Like, Nance, Nance, Nance. There's no Scotts. There's a Tricia.
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  A few kids mentioned, right? Would you not be tempted to look up your own name? Like, is Scott Nance's name in the book? I want to know! Danny Gardner's name in the book? I mean, I'm checking, right? And I've got some other names after that, but I want to make sure that my name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Don't you wish there were some kind of test you could take that would confirm the genuineness of your salvation? Have you ever struggled with doubt about the genuineness of your own salvation? Certainly.
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  A son of God, a daughter of God would never have done that. And you just lay awake at night wondering, am I really, do I really belong to the king? Because certainly a son would never do that. Certainly a pastor would never do that. Talk that way. Think that way. Don't you wish there was some kind of test that would remove all doubt that you could go back to every time you felt discouraged or demoralized or felt like a spiritual failure? Church, there is. There is.
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  The test of genuine salvation is whether the Spirit of God dwells in you. If, in fact, it says, the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who doesn't have the Spirit of Christ doesn't belong to Him. But guess what? The reverse is also true. Anyone who does have the Spirit of God belongs to God. The test is not walking in sinless perfection, praise the Lord, because if it were, none of us would make it. We're no longer after the flesh, but that doesn't mean the flesh isn't after us.
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  As we've already discussed, our natures were changed the moment we believed, but our bodies didn't because of our new natures. Our desire to walk in obedient righteousness, and so many times, as is talked about in Romans 7, we end up doing the very things we hate but find ourselves powerless against. The Holy Spirit of God lives in and through those who are His, and He provides victory over the flesh by empowering us from the inside so that we can, although remaining in these sinful bodies,
• 31:51
  Obey and please the Lord. And the goal of the Christian life is to please the Lord. What test do we use? The indwelling Holy Spirit test. The most notable mark of salvation is the presence of the Holy Spirit who gives victory over our mindset. But not only that, he gives us victory over our mortal bodies. Another transition takes place in verse 10. You see the word but. But, a conjunction of contrast.
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  But, verse 10 says, if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness. The author said in verse 9 that if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, they do not belong to him. But if you do have the spirit of Christ, then you do belong to him. And if you belong to him, then you have victory not only over your mindset, but also over your mortal body. In fact, he uses that phrase in verse 11.
• 32:50
  if the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead dwells in you and think about that for a minute if the holy spirit of god dwells in you that is the same spirit that raised jesus from the dead it's the same one if he did that then he who raised christ jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you and church what a weird thing to say
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  The word mortal in English literally means dead or dying. He is going to give life to your dead and dying body. That word for mortal in Greek, the word phanatos. In reference to the body, it means the body is liable to death and decay. It could be understood or even translated as death doomed. Your death doomed bodies. You are on a path to death.
• 33:48
  and yet the Spirit of God can change the direction your feet are going, can take you off of that path and put you on the path to life. The Spirit raised Jesus' dead body. The Spirit will also raise our death-doomed bodies, is what he says. And for the believer, death will not have the final say. The moment we repent of our sin and turn to Christ for salvation, the moment we are filled with the Spirit, our final destination changes. We were hell-bound.
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  Now we are eternal life bound. At the conclusion of his book, Francis Schaeffer says this. He says, this book is written in the hope that this generation may turn from the greatest wickedness. That was in the 1970s, 50 years ago. The greatest wickedness of placing any created thing in the place of the creator and that this generation may get its feet out of the paths of death and may live.
• 34:53
  verses 12 and 13, give the same challenge. If all of these principles are true, if the Spirit of Christ does indeed indwell every believer, and if this indwelling presence gives them victory over not only their mindset, but also over their mortal bodies, then the question becomes, well, how should we then live? The answer is found in verse 12. So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
• 35:22
  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit, here's the key, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. In other words, he says, get your feet out of the paths of death and live. Verse 13 is a reminder of the magnificent victory that Christians have over sin. The victory over our death-bound flesh has been secured. It just remains up to us now to stamp.
• 35:55
  out what continues to smolder to as colossians chapter 3 and verse 5 states put to death what is earthly in us things like immorality impurity evil desires to put on rather holiness compassion kindness humility meekness patience and forgiveness we give colossians 3 and the final word above all of those things put on love it says which binds everything together in perfect harmony
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  And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body, and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, and here is the victory that has been secured for us, church. We can now fulfill these words. Whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
• 36:55
  amen amen and lord give us the strength and the courage to walk in the victory that your son and your spirit have provided in jesus name amen