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Bryon’s Favorites - Romans 8:1 - “No Condemnation In Christ” · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk. Tabernacle Talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD.
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  I'm your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word, and show his love to
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  others. Let's dive right in.
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  Hey, welcome back to Tabernacle Talk.
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  This week is a very special one week hiatus from our study in
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  Isaiah. I am very busy this particular
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  week, and so I'm recording a couple of shorter episodes that
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  are based on some of my favorite portions of Scripture.
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  And so starting off today with Romans chapter 8 and verse #1
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  this is a letter from the Apostle Paul.
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  He's writing it to the church at Rome.
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  He has not yet been there. The church at Rome was well,
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  churches in Rome were very interesting because one of the
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  Roman Empire, sorry, one of the Roman emperors had exiled a
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  bunch of Jewish individuals from the city.
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  So there were only Gentiles that were there.
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  The gospel came, several of the Gentiles believed in the Lord.
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  They became Christians. They started, if you will,
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  meeting together in in some small house churches, but
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  eventually the Jewish people were able to come back to Rome.
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  Some of those Jewish believers had become Christians.
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  And so now you have both a ethnic and religious divide in
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  some people that, if you will, do church very differently, but
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  they worship the same Jesus. And so they had some questions
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  about what it meant to be a Gentile or to be a Jew now that
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  they were Christians. And so that's what the book of
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  Romans is all about, is what does it mean to be a follower of
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  Jesus? What do we need to believe and
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  practice together as believers? And so, if you will, chapters
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  one through 3 of Romans are everyone was in trouble due to
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  sin, all of humanity, and that goes for the Gentiles and it
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  goes for the Jews. Everyone was in trouble.
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  Chapters four and five say Jesus was the solution, that through
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  faith in God, not through a keeping of all of the works of
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  the law, but through faith in Christ, we enter into salvation.
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  And Jesus died for all kinds of people, not just for the
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  Gentiles and not just for the Jews.
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  Just like as Adam sinned, everyone got in one boat of sin,
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  so through Jesus all of humanity can be saved as they place their
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  faith and trust in Him. So then chapters 6 and seven
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  talk about the practical outworking of that within
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  people's lives because some people thought, oh, OK, Jesus
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  saved us. He redeemed us from our sin.
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  So should we just like keep on sinning because then there's
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  like more grace and more forgiveness and so there's
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  there's no downside to the sinning.
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  And Paul goes, absolutely not. We have been made dead to sin.
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  That is the old way of living, not your new way of living.
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  He says that's actually where we read the verse for the wages of
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  sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through
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  Jesus Christ our Lord. Don't live in sin, which leads
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  to death. Live in Jesus, which results in
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  eternal life. But Romans Chapter 7, Paul goes
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  through and he's like, man, we all fail at this.
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  And he said, I fail at this, that what I want to do, I don't
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  do what I don't want to do. That's what I end up doing.
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  It was who in the world can rescue me from this body of
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  death? And this is what we read in
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  Romans chapter 8 and verse #1 He says, therefore there is now no
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  condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, because the law of
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  the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the
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  law of sin and death. I'm going to read those verses.
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  It's verses one and two one more time.
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  Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ
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  Jesus, because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ has set
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  you free from the law of sin and death.
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  What a joy, what a comfort when he says there's now no
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  condemnation. He is not saying this just in
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  our ultimate state, which is wonderfully true.
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  That is Christ proclaimed on the cross.
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  It is finished to Telestai. The debt is paid.
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  There is no more payment for sin that is needed.
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  God didn't say, all right, Jesus took 99.99% of the punishment
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  for sin and you listening or watching to Tabernacle talk, you
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  have to make up that last O point O 1%.
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  If that was the case, we might be like, wow, well, that was a
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  lot that Jesus did for me. And so I, I am grateful for
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  that. No, when it comes to our eternal
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  state, to be absent from the body is to be present with the
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  Lord or as Jesus said, He is going to prepare a place for us
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  so that where he is, there we may be also.
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  What a joy. There is eternally no
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  condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.
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  If you believe in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, He is, if you
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  will, the King of your life, that you have pledged your
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  loyalty, your allegiance to King Jesus.
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  You're not worshipping other gods.
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  You aren't on a journey of self determination of I decide my
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  life, I decide right and wrong, I decide what I'm going to do or
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  not do in regards to even morality.
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  And if you say Jesus is the one that I worship, that I follow,
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  that I praise, that I serve, that I love Jesus, those in
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  Christ Jesus are those who have no condemnation eternally.
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  You will never have to wonder about what your eternal
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  destination is if you have put your faith in Christ as Jesus
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  tells us in John 6 and in John 10.
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  Those that have believed in him truthfully putting, I like using
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  the illustration, you turn the keys of your life over to him,
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  you're still in the vehicle. It is if you will quote UN
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  quote, your vehicle, but Jesus is the one that's doing the
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  driving. He's the one that is dictating
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  those decisions and he's the one with his hands on the steering
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  wheel. As we have handed the keys of
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  our life over to Jesus. Scripture says that we are in
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  Jesus's hand. Jesus is in God the Father's
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  hand, and no one is able to pluck us out of God the Father's
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  hand. They would have to go through
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  both the Incarnate Son of God and God the Father in order to
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  RIP you away. And as we heard in a few
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  Ephesians chapter one among the other portions of Scripture, the
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  Holy Spirit lives inside of us, so we have God living within us.
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  We have, as in First Corinthians 12, been placed into the body of
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  Christ. And God the Father is the one
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  that planned all of this and ultimately protects us and if
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  you will, keeps us saved unto that day where we are glorified
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  and made like who we were always intended to be prior to sin
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  entering the world. So what a joy that no one is
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  more powerful than God. You are not more powerful than
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  God. The circumstances of life or
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  Satan himself are not more powerful than God.
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  So to those that have placed their faith in Christ Jesus for
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  their salvation that He is their Lord, there is no eternal
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  condemnation. But there was also no
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  condemnation from your God in the day today as you fall as as
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  you fail, as you want to do good and you don't follow through on
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  it, as you don't want to do sin or evil and you do fall into
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  those traps again and again. Paul here says there is no
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  condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
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  Why would this be? How can we be these Romans 7
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  believers that want to do good and fail and don't want to do
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  evil and yet keep doing it? How can we have no condemnation?
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  He says. Because the law of the Spirit of
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  life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and
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  death, that it's no longer the game of avoiding sin so that you
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  can be right with God. Or if you did sin, you have to
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  make a sacrifice so that God will forgive you and therefore
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  your slate can be wiped clean for a time again.
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  Instead, as Jesus took the punishment for all sin on
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  himself, there is literally no more punishment left to give,
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  left to give you. Any animosity that our God has
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  towards sin has been met out on Jesus in full.
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  He bore the full wrath, the just wrath of God on sin in His own
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  body on the tree, so that we being made dead to sin, might
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  live in Him. What a joy.
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  Now, as with Roman 60, does that mean I can just send all the
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  time? No, don't do that in Jesus is
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  life. Following His path means that
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  there is joy and even when we do sin, sometimes God will put us
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  back on the right path. He will correct us, He will
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  chasten us, He'll discipline us. But it is never punishment or
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  condemnation where God says if you will very literally damn you
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  to hell, that it will never occur from the mouth of God.
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  For those that have placed their faith in Christ Jesus.
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  Instead, when God looks at us, we are His children, His
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  children those and ones has adopted.
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  And So what he wants for our life is not to hurt you when you
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  make bad decisions. He wants to put you back on the
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  right path so that you choose the Jesus way freely,
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  volitionally. And so sometimes that means that
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  will we will encounter hardships in our life, but they are
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  intended to point us to Jesus and to his way, not to our own
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  way. This is such a life giving
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  verse. This was something that even
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  growing up as I struggled with sin and I went man, I just feel
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  like God is always angry with me.
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  How could he not be? I'm always angry with me and my
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  failures and this verse that this is the living word of God
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  speaking to my soul and to your soul, that there is therefore
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  now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
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  You are loved, you are forgiven, you are accepted in the beloved
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  1 You are declared holy and righteous and justified through
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  the finished work of Christ. And yes, we're still a work in
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  progress and yes, we fail one another and we fail our God in
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  what we do, but He does not look at us as the guilty.
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  He looks on us as his children. And because of his love for us,
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  sometimes he'll draw us back into relationship with himself.
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  And that might mean we give up some things that we have been
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  holding on to, but that does not mean that God is condemning you.
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  It, if you will let me try to make it really practical.
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  When you are going through that divorce and your spouse no
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  longer wants to be with you, it is not God punishing you or
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  hitting you or condemning you. God might be releasing some
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  things in your life so that you would put your focus and
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  attention on him instead of another person.
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  It could be that you lose your job and it is not God punishing
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  you for not always being perfect or being short with people or
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  failing in some way in your thought life, or whatever sins
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  you might be struggling with. It could simply be that God
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  wants you, your attention drawn back to Him, that He is the
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  provider of everything that you need, and that as you cry out to
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  Him in faith, you find over and over again that He is faithful,
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  that He takes care of his own. They're just 1000 circumstances
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  in life where you could think, I I bet God is really angry with
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  me my friend. There is therefore now no
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  condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
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  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us
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  free from the law of sin and death.
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  I'm no longer a slave to fear or to sin.
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  I am now a child of God. I hope that this verse has been
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  an encouragement to you as it's been to me.
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  Looking forward to next episode and going over a couple more of
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  some of my favorite verses or favorite passages in all of
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  scripture.