F O O T H O L D

READING

82 A NEW WAY OF LIVING

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PRAY Don't let me escape the power of the truths in this chapter

today, heavenly Father.

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READ Romans 8:1-17.

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THINK Who is free from condemnation?

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FOCUS Get ready. Here is another section of Romans which can set off an

explosion in your mind!

1. THE DEMANDS OF THE LAW SATISFIED (3,4). 'I'll go straight in

the future,' says the law-breaker. 'Good', the judge may say,

'but you still have to pay the penalty for the wrong you have

done.' Jesus does this for us. He has dealt with the problem of

our pst failures to obey God's law by offering his own perfect

life as a sacrifice for sin on the cross. If we turn from sin and

trust him, his obedience is credited to us.

2. A NEW WAY OF LIVING (5-8). Once the matter of our failure and

guilt is settled we are free to set out on a new way of living

'as the Spirit tells' us(5). This is not something unusual or

unnatural; it is what we were made for originally - to 'walk with

God'.

3. A NEW POWER FOR LIVING (9-11). Viewed from the outside,

Christians look just like other people . . . usually! But look

closer, there is a great difference between them and everybody

else. Living in them is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus (9-

11). For them the future means life, not death (11).

4. A NEW PATTERN FOR LIVING (12-17). We are debtors if we belong

to Jesus Christ. Before we knew him we thought we were free to go

our own way; actually we were slaves of sin (6:20). Now we are

truly free to be what we were made to be - the obedient children

of God our Creator; we owe him the debt of loving service.

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PRAY Start the revolution today! Ask the Holy Spirit to enable you to

live the way that God has planned.

 

 


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