1. SPIRIT-FILLED LIVES: OPTIONAL UPGRADE OR KEY OPERATING SYSTEM Romans 8:1-13 30 June 2013

2. Role of good works in Christian life Legalism? Christianity is about keeping rules

3. Role of good works in Christian life Legalism? Christianity is about keeping rules Antinomianism? God’s grace means that no matter how I live, I will still go to heaven

5. The message of Romans so far

6. Romans 3:21-25 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

7. Romans 4:4-5 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,… Romans 5:15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.

8. Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? Romans 6:15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace?

9. Sequence of our salvation Justification Penalty of Sin removed (past) Sanctification Power of Sin removed (present) Glorification Presence of Sin removed (future)

10. Romans 6:1-7 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.

11. Romans 6:11-14 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

12. We are justified because the Spirit has sanctified us Romans 8:1-2

13. Romans 8:1-2 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

14. Romans 7:21-23 21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

15. Romans 8:1-2 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

16. JustificationSanctification Pronouncement of judicial verdict ‘not guilty’ Growth in holiness & obedience Change in our legal status/position Change in our ethical condition/nature InstantaneousGradual Christ’s righteousness imputed to us Personal righteousness imparted to us

17. Romans 8:1-2 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. Paraphrase: There is therefore now justification for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the Spirit of life has sanctified them from the principle of sin and death.

18. Matthew 7:21-23 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”

19. Romans 2:6-10 6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10 but glory and honour and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.

20. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

21. James 2:14-17 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

22. Hebrews 12:14 14 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. 1 John 3:6 6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

23. We are sanctified by the Spirit because of Jesus’ sacrifice Romans 8:3-4

24. Romans 8:3-4 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

25. Romans 7:10-12 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

26. Romans 8:3-4 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

27. Romans 8:3-4 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

28. Romans 8:1-2 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. Paraphrase: There is therefore now justification for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the Spirit of life has sanctified them from the principle of sin and death.

29. Sequence of our Salvation Justification Sanctification

30. Sequence of our Salvation Justification Sanctification Or is it: Sanctification Justification

31. Romans 2:13 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. Romans 6:16 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? James 2:24 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

32. Sequence of our Salvation Initial justification (at conversion, by faith, inward & invisible) Sanctification (throughout the Christian life) Final justification (on Judgment Day, by works, outward & visible) Glorification (eternal life in heaven)

33. Romans 8:30 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

34. There are only two kinds of people Romans 8:5-11

35. Romans 8:5-11 5 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. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 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. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 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. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

36. Romans 8:5-11 5 For those who live are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live are according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 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. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 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. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

37. Romans 8:5-11 5 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. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 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. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 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. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

38. Those according to the fleshThose according to the Spirit Set their minds on the things of the flesh (8:5) Set their minds on the things of the Spirit (8:5) Leads to death (8:6)Leads to life and peace (8:6) Mind is hostile to God (8:7)Mind is submissive to God Mind does not and cannot submit to God’s law (8:7) Mind can and does submit to God’s law Cannot please God (8:8)Can and does please God Subject to both physical and eternal death Subject to physical death, the Spirit gives eternal/resurrection life because of God’s gift of righteousness (8:10) Will not share in eternal resurrection life Will be resurrected by God through the Spirit just as Christ was resurrected (8:11)

39. Paul David Tripp “Since sin makes worship of yourself more natural than worship of God, grace must free you from your bondage to you.” Charles Spurgeon “It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ.”

41. Romans 8:5-11 5 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. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 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. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 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. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

42. There are only two ways to live Romans 8:12-13

43. Romans 8:12-13 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 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.

44. Colossians 1:29 29 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. Philippians 2:12-13 12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

45. Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

46. Ephesians 2:8-10 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

47. How then will you live?

48. Practical application 1.Never think that good works are optional for final salvation Practical application 1.Never think that good works are optional for final salvation

49. Practical application 1.Never think that good works are optional for final salvation 2.Never rely on good works for salvation Practical application 1.Never think that good works are optional for final salvation 2.Never rely on good works for salvation

50. Practical application 1.Never think that good works are optional for final salvation 2.Never rely on good works for salvation 3.Work hard to put sin to death Practical application 1.Never think that good works are optional for final salvation 2.Never rely on good works for salvation 3.Work hard to put sin to deat

51. Galatians 5:19-21 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

52. Practical application 1.Never think that good works are optional for final salvation 2.Never rely on good works for salvation 3.Work hard to put sin to death 4.Rest in God who works in us to produce holiness Practical application 1.Never think that good works are optional for final salvation 2.Never rely on good works for salvation 3.Work hard to put sin to death 4.Rest in God who works in us to produce holiness

53. Letter by John Newton “You say, you find it hard to believe it [is] compatible with the divine purity to embrace or employ such a monster as yourself. [In thinking this, you] express not only a low opinion of yourself, which is right, but too low an opinion of the person, work, and promises of the Redeemer; which is certainly wrong.”

54. Hebrews 7:25 25 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.