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🗓️ 9 December 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Today opens with one of the most powerful dense chapters in the whole Bible, |
0:16.7 | Romans 8. This is a crowd favorite. It opens by saying there is therefore now no |
0:22.0 | condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. |
0:24.7 | So of course we love it already. |
0:26.6 | One important thing to do anytime you see a connecting word in your Bible is to see what it's |
0:30.8 | connecting you too. Words like, so, because, since, therefore, |
0:36.0 | these words point us to cause and meaning and motive. |
0:39.0 | For instance, this verse has the word therefore right at the beginning, which means it's connecting |
0:44.6 | us back to the end of chapter 7, where Paul was talking about Jesus delivering us from ourselves. |
0:50.1 | The way this connects is, Jesus delivers us from ourselves, |
0:53.6 | Therefore, there is no condemnation for anyone who is in Christ. |
0:57.7 | Even though the individual sentences make total sense on their own, |
1:01.2 | context and connection can really help us see more of the big picture. |
1:06.1 | Paul revisits themes from yesterday, the juxtaposition of the spirit and the flesh and |
1:10.0 | how Christ traded his life for hours. |
1:12.6 | He tells us to set our minds on the things of the Spirit. |
1:15.8 | Paul encourages us to choose wisely what we think about, |
1:18.6 | because our thoughts will become our actions. |
1:21.2 | He says we have the power to do this because we have the spirit, |
1:24.0 | whereas the lost are helpless to fight sin with anything other than another type of sin. |
1:28.8 | For instance, they might fight gluttony with vanity or fear with control. But either way, sin still wins. That is not victory and it is not freedom. |
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