 Okay welcome back everyone. Before we continue further in Romans 8 we are up on to verse 8 Romans 8 to verse 8. Are there any questions any thoughts any things you want to highlight? Anybody has any questions? Kahnan, do you have a question? No questions? Okay. Alright I'm seeing your responses in the chat. No questions so far. Okay. Alright so let's continue on from verse 9. Romans 8 to verse 9. So we've come to, we did to verse 8 which is very very sobering, very sobering that if believers are connolly minded this is what's going to happen and so you know many times when we pray and minister to people of course people want life, they want peace, they don't want death at work in their lives and we can pray for them. The anointing of God will you know take care of that particular situation but you know it's not a permanent solution. I mean thank God that at that moment because of the anointing of the Holy Spirit whatever is causing death in their situation or their life or whatever was you know depriving them of life and peace at that moment can be addressed by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It's not a permanent solution. Why? Because they may receive a miracle, they may receive a healing, they may receive a deliverance but at the same believer continues to living connolly minded. Things are going to repeat again because to be connolly minded is death. There is no life in peace. I mean there is no zoe, the abundant life, no peace. So they'll be back in that same situation. They've come for another prayer, another deliverance, another and so many believers are living like this. They live from one deliverance to the next. They need to go find somebody who is anointed to pray for them. That is not the answer. The answer is they need to know how to live in the Spirit. They need to know how to go from being connolly minded to being spiritually minded to walk in the Spirit. That's the real answer because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus sets every one of us free from the law of sin and death. Provided we walk according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh. Provided we live spiritually minded and not connolly minded. So that's the real answer. Then that's what we need to bring believers to. Now thank God for the anointing, thank God for healing and deliverance and miracles. We all need it and you know it will address the situation at that moment. The real solution is we have to move into being spiritually minded. So in verse 9 Paul writes, he says to the believers, but you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit. Those believers, you're not supposed to be living in the flesh. You're not supposed to be living according to the flesh. You're supposed to be in the Spirit. And why is that possible? Because the Spirit of God is dwelling in you. Now if anyone has, does not have the Spirit of Christ, he's not in the first place. So he says, this is verse 9. See, if you don't even have the Holy Spirit, you don't even belong to Jesus. But you're saying, believers, you have the Holy Spirit in you so you have no excuse to live in the flesh but you need to be in the Spirit, in the Spirit. So again, that phrase, you're not in the flesh but you are in the Spirit. So that's the life of a believer. It's a life in the Spirit, meaning you are living out of the Spirit. A nice analogy is that of a fish in water. The fish is living in the water. Believer, you are to live in the Spirit. So the fish is swimming but is fully surrounded by water. Its life comes through the water. I know in biology class we should study how the water comes through and that goes through the fins and it's able to breathe that way, literally. Take out the oxygen that's in the water. So the transfer of oxygen from the water goes into the fish. Just like the human beings, we breathe air and air goes from oxygen into our body. When the fish is swimming in the water, that's what happens. So its source of life is from the water. It's fully surrounded by water. So that's how a believer is supposed to live. We are supposed to be fish in the Spirit, so to speak. He says, you are not on the flesh. You are in the Spirit. You are living in the Spirit. You are surrounded by the Spirit and your life is originating from the Holy Spirit. That's a believer. And why is it possible? Because the Spirit of God is in you. He says, in verse 9, the Spirit of God dwells in you. So he's dwelling in me. So my life is coming from him. I'm in the Spirit. Verse 10, now, if Christ is in you, now it's very interesting. He says, in verse 9, the Spirit of Christ is in you. Verse 10, Christ is in you. So here's a new title for the Holy Spirit. We see he's called the Spirit of Christ. In verse 2, he was called the Spirit of life. In verse 9, he's called the Spirit of Christ. Of course, we know Spirit of God. We know that title for the Holy Spirit, Spirit of God. But very interesting. In verse 9, he's a Spirit of Christ. That means all who Christ is, the Holy Spirit is to you and me. That's why he's called the Spirit of Christ. And remember Jesus said, you know, in John 16, John 14, 15, 16, he said, you know, I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. I will send the Holy Spirit another comforter. So he's a Spirit of Christ. He brings Jesus to you and me. So that's why he says, the Spirit of Christ, and then in verse 10, he says, and Christ is in you. So how is Christ in you and me? By his Spirit. So Christ in you. If Christ is in you, he says, the body is dead because of sin. The body is dead because of sin. That means my body, because of sin, has death working in it. Now, this is what he said in Romans 7. Death has been produced, has been produced in my body because sin has been there. And sin has caused death to work in my body. But the Spirit is life because of righteousness. So in my spirit, I have received righteousness. Therefore, I have life in my spirit from the Holy Spirit. But look at verse 11. So it doesn't stop with verse 10. Verse 11, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead, that the Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal body, give life to your mortal body through his spirit who dwells in you. So think of what he's saying in verse 10 and 11. They're connected. He says Christ is in you because the Spirit of Christ is in you. Now, sin has been working in your body. So the body is dead or is dying. I mean, not dead in the sense it's lifeless, but death has been at work in the body. That's why the body is dead. Spirit is life. But in your spirit, you have life. Your body, because of sin at work, it has death in you. But because the Spirit of God is in you, God gives life to your mortal body by his spirit. God gives life to your mortal body, your death doomed body. So this body offers us mortal. It's death doomed, meaning eventually it's going to die. But while I'm here on this earth, because the Spirit of God is living in me, the Spirit of life is in me. God is giving life to my body, my death doomed body. So this connects back to Romans 8 verse 2. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death and death. Here's how we are free from the death that is produced by sin. So sin has been producing death in our body, talking about the physical body. Pollock knowledge that in Romans 8 ends. Christ is in you, but the body is having death at work because of sin. But there is an answer. Even though your body is mortal, it will die one day. But until it dies, the Holy Spirit is giving life to your body. So this is very powerful. It's really a scripture for healing for our physical bodies. The Spirit of God who lives in me gives life to my mortal body. It's giving life to my mortal. My body is mortal. Yes, of course it's mortal. It's gonna die. And because of sin that has been working in this body for so long, but yet because the Spirit of life is in me, He is giving life to my body. That means every cell, every single cell in my body is well because the Spirit of life is giving life to every cell in my body. We need to acknowledge that. The Spirit of life sets me free from the law of sin and death. Because sin was working death. Now the Holy Spirit is reversing even that. It's giving life. So you and I should expect that until our dying moments, we want the life that is coming from the Holy Spirit to fill our bodies. Reflect our bodies. Keep us in good health. Touch every cell in my body and keep every cell in my body in good health. Now does that mean we'll never grow old? No. Paul did right in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 that the outward man is decaying. So that's that's and we will come to it a little later in Romans 8 itself that he goes he talks about that that you know the outward man is perishing but while there is this natural process of decay and corruption which he addresses in Romans 8 a little later on, I can expect God to give life to my body. Keep me in good health till the last moment. Is this real? Yeah, it's real. Why? Because the Holy Spirit is dwelling in me and he's the spirit of life and verse 11 says he gives life to my mortal body. We can choose to believe it or we can say well I don't want it. Well that's your choice but I want to believe it. I want to believe that the spirit of life gives life to my mortal body that God quickens my mortal body through his spirit who dwells in me. Now I just want to go on a little side journey. We'll come back here but I want us to look at two references. If you go with me to second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 10 and 11, we'll come back to Romans 8. Okay, this is a little side journey and then we'll come back. Let's go to second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 10 and 11. Can we read it please? Can somebody read it for us? Second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 10 and 11. We always carry around the death of Jesus in our bodies in that way the life of Jesus can be shown in our bodies. We who are alive are always in the danger of death because we are serving Jesus so his life can be shown in our earthly bodies. Okay, how did your last part read of verse 11 so his life can be shown in our? In our earthly bodies? In our earthly bodies. Okay, in our earthly bodies. Okay, okay. So both in thank you. In verses 10 and 11 notice what Paul is saying. The life of Jesus is manifested in our body. Again in verse 11 the life of Jesus is manifested in our mortal or earthly bodies. The life of Jesus. Now the same chapter he does go on to say that our outward man is perishing. Okay, I understand that but while that is happening at the same time he says the life of Jesus is made visible in our mortal bodies. So you and I must expect that Lord Jesus let your life be made visible in my body. And Paul is saying look why we are suffering in our body. In the midst of that the life of Jesus is made visible. Let's look at one example in Acts chapter 14 of what Paul is referring to. Acts 14 can we read verses 19 to 21 please. Acts 14 19 to 21 please. Then Jew from Antioch and icon name came there and having persuaded the multitudes this told Paul and dragged him out of the city supposing him to be dead. However when the disciples gathered around him he rose up and went into the city and the next day he departed with Varanavas to Derby and when they had preached the gospel to the city and made many disciples they returned to this crown icon and Antioch. Thank you. So Paul is traveling through the district of Galatia and in the southern part of the district of Galatia which is today in modern-day Turkey it's on the eastern part or central eastern part of Turkey southern part district of Galatia and there were many cities there was the city of Antioch, Lystra, Derby and Iconium. So they're going on that journey there and they've preached in Antioch they've come to Lystra they're preaching in Lystra and what happens some people from Lystra from Antioch and also some from Iconium they've come over to Lystra and they attack Paul and here it says there they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city supposing him to be dead. Now when they stoned Paul it wasn't like they threw one stone one small stone at him when they stoned people they meant to kill some kill that person Paul himself had Stephen stoned Stephen died it's now the same thing is happening to him they dragged him his body out of the city and left him as dead I mean it must have been terrible so Paul wrote 2nd Corinthians 4 10 and 11 we are bearing in our body the marks of the Lord Jesus he said there in 2nd Corinthians 4 10 he said we are we are delivered to death for Jesus sake delivered to death for Jesus sake that's what's happening here but then something very interesting happens it says in verse 20 when the disciples so the disciples from Lystra they came the believers they gathered around him acts 14 verse 20 it says he rose up and went into the city if a man had been stoned and dragged out of the city and left for dead he won't be able to rise up like this and he won't be able to walk into the city back into the city he will have to be bandaged and carried in a stretcher to the city he was saying he rose up and he walked into the city and the next day not next year but next day he and Barnabas it says they've left to Derby and they went preaching they made many disciples and they came back to the same cities where people had stoned they came back to Lystra Derby Iconium Antioch now humanly speaking this is not possible if a man is stoned he cannot get up and walk and he cannot travel the next day and go preach and he probably be bandaged for the next six months Paul is saying in our body we are delivered to death we are bearing the marks of the Lord Jesus but the life of Jesus is manifested in our body that means the life of God the spirit of life had supernaturally healed him and the disciples gathered around him there could be no other way no other explanation how can a man who's been stoned and left for dead get up and walk back in the city and travel the next day to go preach if they said he had given him one caning okay we can understand maybe they just give him one cane and left him here it's saying they stoned him and they took his body out of the city and left it as though it was dead so it only had to be the life of God that changed his body I don't know how it must have happened whatever God did enabled Paul to stand up on the street go back and then start traveling the next day so going back to Romans 8 11 and Paul writes God quickens our mortal body by his spirit who lives in us he's speaking from experience he knows what he's talking about that though there is all these things affecting the body God is giving life to our mortal body our earthly body for his spirit was living in us so I want to encourage us based on Romans 8 11 to expect that life of God to touch our physical bodies so when people are sick and you're ministering to them you know you you encourage them hey the holy spirit is in you for a reason of course there are many things he does but one of the things he does is he gives life to your mortal body he quickens your body through his spirit so you begin to acknowledge that you begin to say God touch my body with the life of your spirit and give life to my body you know whether it's whatever sickness disease that the body to see life from the Holy Spirit okay so that's Romans 8 1 to 11 let's jump now to Romans chapter 8 let's go forward from verses 12 let's read all the way to verse 17 Romans 8 12 to 17 you're continuing now please somebody could read this Romans 8 20 to 12 we are dipters not to the flesh to live according to the flesh for if live according to the flesh you will die but if by the spirit put the date the dates of the body you will live for as many as are lead by the spirit of God these are sons of God for you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear but you receive the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba father the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God and if children then heirs heirs of God and join ears with the Christ if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together yeah thank you thank you so what's the conclusion of what he has spoken to us so far so he says verse 12 therefore brethren okay I've told you all this therefore meaning let's sum it up therefore brethren I remember he's speaking to brethren he's speaking to believers it says okay believers I've told you all this I've told you how to live therefore we are not deaders to the flesh to live according to the flesh so this is it believers we don't owe the flesh anything you're not a debtor to the flesh so when your flesh cries out for attention tell the flesh I don't owe you anything I don't need to pay attention I don't have to pay anything not even attention I owe you nothing we are deaders not to the flesh to live according to the flesh we don't have to give in to the dictates the desires and the drives of the flesh no verse 13 I remember he's talking to believers again he says for if you live if so it's not needed but if you do if you live according to the flesh you will die once again he's repeating that same warning he had spoken about earlier to be carnally minded his death same thing again if you live according to the flesh you will die believers if you live according to the flesh you'll have debt that work in you both natural and spiritual you will die but if by the spirits you put to death the deeds of the body you will live so what must the believer do how is what is the life of the believer by the spirit with the help of the Holy Spirit be put to death the deeds of the body that means referring of course to the sinful evil deeds of the body the works of the flesh so with the help of the Holy Spirit I'm putting to death when I'm bringing to an end the sinful evil desires of my body means with the help of the Holy Spirit I'm saying no to the desires of the flesh and what's going to be the result I will live I will have life in peace is what Paul is saying so this sums it up this is the way a believer lives a life of victory over the flesh by the spirit by the spirit because the law of the spirit of life sets us free from the law of sin and death so he says in verse 14 look all all of us sons of God we are people who are led by the spirit of God so we are not people who are led by the flesh we are led by the spirit if you're led by the flesh what are the flesh says we do then you're being led by the flesh we're not led by the flesh we are led by the spirit that means what the Holy Spirit says we do he leads we follow so he says verse 14 as led by the spirit they are the sons of God the Holy Spirit how can you tell you know who are the children of the true sons of God they are led by the spirit the Holy Spirit is at work the Holy Spirit is directing them moving them and they are following the Holy Spirit they are walking according to the spirit they are led by the spirit these are the children of God now verse 15 he says you did not receive the spirit of bondage but you receive the spirit of adoption so contrast contrast also a new title for the Holy Spirit spirit of adoption so we see him he's a spirit of life he's a spirit of Christ he's a spirit of adoption so he says you didn't receive the spirit of bondage meaning something that puts you in captivity but you receive the spirit of adoption that brings us into sonship and we can call God our Father so we are led by the spirit and this spirit is not a spirit means the Holy Spirit is not the spirit who puts us in slavery and keeps us in fear now that's not what God is doing that's not the work of the Holy Spirit to keep us in bondage and fear the spirit of God he's a spirit of adoption he brings us into this wonderful place of liberated sons and daughters of God he says we cry out Abba Father so contrast one is putting people in bondage and fear so that's not the kind of spirit they receive so anything that is bringing people into bondage and fear is not the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit the spirit of adoption releases us to be children of God says that because we have this spirit of adoption by which we can cry out Abba Father instead of being fearful slaves we are liberated sons and daughters so this helps us understand what is the work of the spirit what is the work of a spirit that is not the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit is put on adoption liberates us something that's opposite puts us in bondage and fear and then he says thus verse 16 the spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God and how do we cry out Abba Father because the spirit bears witness with our spirit bears witness with our spirit so he's unveiling to us different aspects of the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer he's saying we are led by the spirit and now he's saying the spirit bears witness with our spirit and now he's saying the spirit bears witness with our spirit different facets of how he works he's a spirit of adoption he brings us into this place where we can call God Father but he also bear and he's a spirit of bears witness with our spirit very interesting spirit Holy Spirit bears witness it means to testify to bear witness means to testify to speak affirmingly to speak convincingly the spirit bears witness bear with our spirit so this is unveiling to us that there is communication between Holy Spirit and my spirit Holy Spirit and my spirit Holy Spirit is speaking to my spirit the Holy Spirit is giving a testimony is giving conviction is giving you know he's speaking to my spirit he's bearing witness it's unveiling to us hey interesting the Holy Spirit is in me he does a lot of things he's a law of the spirit of life who helps me overcome the flesh he's a spirit of life who gives life to my mortal body he's a spirit of life who leads me he's a spirit of life who speaks to me he bears witness to my spirit so Romans 8 is unveiling to us many different facets of the work of the Holy Spirit and one of that we see in verse 16 he bears witness with our spirit that means he is testifying he's speaking he's giving evidence he is giving conviction he bears witness with our spirit and in this particular case the witness or the conviction that he gives us is we are children of God so this is your birth certificate how do you know you're a child of God show me your birth certificate where the Holy Spirit bears witness with my spirit that I am a child of God I know I'm a child of God why Holy Spirit bears witness with my spirit and if we are children verse 17 if we are children it puts us in this place this esteemed honorable place that we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ now this is something because he's now using you know kingdom terminology to be an heir of God a successor so to speak here you're an heir next in line and you're a joint heir with Christ co-heir you share with Christ this is amazing this is who we are as children of God we are heirs and co-heirs we share in everything that Christ has of course we are not deity Christ is deity we are not but in the context of all that he has already spoken to us in Romans 5 Romans 6 we are heirs we share in all that Christ accomplished we share in all that Christ has at the right hand of the Father we are co-heirs with Christ because he has become all of this to us we share in his righteousness because he has become righteousness to us we share in his authority because he has raised us up and made us sit together so we are co-heirs and so he says you know so continue verse 17 so we can suffer with him because you know we'll be glorified together so even if we suffer we know we're going to be glorified because we're heirs of God we're joint heirs with Christ the suffering here he has mentioned in verse 13 you put to death the deeds of your body so there are many kinds of suffering that people face as people on the earth whether it's persecution of friction all those things because there is also the suffering that is already mentioned in verse 13 we put to death the deeds of the body and that's not easy it's not easy just as a cross reference I'll just do this quickly as a cross reference you go to first Peter chapter four first Peter chapter four verses one and two please first Peter four one and two please somebody could read it therefore since Christ suffered for us in the flesh arm yourselves also with the same mind for he who has suffered in the flesh has seen this from sin that he no longer should leave the rest of his time in the flesh for the lust of men but for the will of God yeah thank you so first Peter four one and two he's talking about a different kind of suffering he's talking about suffering in the flesh that causes us to seize from sin so let's look at Jesus how he suffered so you also suffer be willing to suffer in this case you're suffering because you are seizing from sin so going back to Romans 8 and verse 17 says look be a children of God be heirs of God they joined us with Christ and if we suffer and one of the aspects of suffering is in putting to death the flesh so that we can seize from sin and if we suffer we know you'll be glorified together so this putting to death the deeds of the body is going to only cause us to be glorified together that means to walk in glory together to walk in the glory of being an heir of God and a jointer with Christ so how do we walk in this glory so by now it's wonderful the Bible says we are heirs of God we jointers with Christ it's wonderful wow but how do you walk in that glory because it's a very glorious position heir of God jointer with Christ how do you walk in that glory if we suffer we will be glorified together we can walk in this glory together I'm putting it in the context of Romans 8 of course there's a future glory and you know we will be enthroned with and we will rule and reign with Christ in the millennium all of that is there that's I'm not denying that I'm putting it in the context so what he has just written for us if we suffer we will walk in glory together as heirs of God what is the glorious mention as an heir of God as a jointer with Christ so for us to walk in the glory of being heirs and jointers we must be willing to suffer the putting to death of the sinful deeds of our body by the spirit that's a key so why I just want to close now so why is it that we are not seeing believers walk as heirs jointers right here that we are not willing to suffer the putting to death of the deeds of our body we will pause here any questions so far I know we just a few more minutes but any questions till this verse verse 17 okay seeing your responses anyone any questions anybody no but it's clear okay thanks okay okay yeah I see your responses good let's just pray together and then we will dismiss can somebody lead us in prayer as we close off this class please great father in Jesus name we thank you daddy you've lost your whole name thank you for this wonderful time especially the deeper revolutions from the chapter Romans chapter 8 father thank you dad help us to lead by the spirit help us to walk in the spirit of God we thank you praise you for the Holy Spirit thank you Jesus you paid the price and you given your spirit to live according to the spirit not according to the flesh help us to live according to the spirit of God we thank you for this wonderful revolutions bless each and everyone let these words will be manifest in our spiritual walk and spiritual journey for we thank you please you we give you glory and honor in Jesus thank you thank you everyone I'll take a good break I'll see you later thanks bye now thank you thank you thank you everyone