We need to develop, Paul is saying, a response to the gospel, a response to Jesus, a response to justification by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone, a pattern of peace that is spiritual,

spiritual in the sense that we are defaulting into the very pattern of thought that the Holy Spirit has.

Those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit.

That's what Paul tells us in Romans 8.

Is that true of your mind? Is it true of mine?

Today on renewing her mind, Derek Thomas will help us understand what Paul means here in Romans 8

as we continue the study of a gospel rich chapter of the Bible.

Dr Thomas calls Romans 8 the best chapter in the Bible and if you listened yesterday

you'll know why he does.

And while there is so much good news, as it were in this chapter,

there are portions that are convicting,

as Paul describes our new life in Christ. If you have your Bible with you, open it to Romans

chapter 8. Here's Dr Thomas.

We're going to look at verses five six and seven 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. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the flesh is death but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace.

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.

And the question that's being asked here as a consequence of where this chapter began with a statement that we are no longer condemned,

being justified by faith, we have peace with God and there is therefore now no condemnation

for those who are in Christ Jesus.

The question now arises and Paul has already hinted at it by referring to the law of the spirit of life having

set us free in Jesus Christ from the law of sin and death and in verse four suggested that

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