Taking People to Jesus: Surrender

Romans 8:1-13

 

Last week began to look at what it means to live, as disciples, by the Spirit.

Paul told us in chapter 7:6 - 

6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released (katergo) from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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Micah 7:19

You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.

Psalm 103:12

as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Isaiah 38:17 - King Hezekiah

Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.

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If any of us are still holding onto old baggage or we are still seeing ourselves as that person in sin - God does not. 

Isaiah 43:25

“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.

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Romans 8:12-13

12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

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Galatians 5:16; 

16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24

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“Let us keep in step” - stoicheó

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Romans 8:5-8

5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set (phronousin) on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 

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Phronéma- mindset

5minds set (phronéma: Mindset/inclination)on what the flesh desires

7 The mind governed by the flesh 

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Mark 8:33

33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

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Romans 8:14-15

14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.[f] And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 

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Mark 14:36

36 “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

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Romans 8:16-17

16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. What does that even mean? You are known. 

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