Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today opens with one of the most powerful dense chapters in the whole Bible,

Romans 8, this is a crowd favorite. It opens by saying there is therefore now no

condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

So of course we love it already.

One important thing to do anytime you see a connecting word in your Bible is to see what it's

connecting you too. Words like, so, because, since, therefore,

these words point us to cause and meaning and motive.

For instance, this verse has the word therefore right at the beginning, which means it's connecting

us back to the end of chapter 7, where Paul was talking about Jesus delivering us from ourselves.

The way this connects is, Jesus delivers us from ourselves,

Therefore, there is no condemnation for anyone who is in Christ.

Even though the individual sentences make total sense on their own,

context and connection can really help us see more of the big picture.

Paul revisits themes from yesterday, the juxtaposition of the spirit and the flesh and how Christ

traded his life for hours.

He tells us to set our minds on the things of the Spirit.

Paul encourages us to choose wisely what we think about,

because our thoughts will become our actions.

He says we have the power to do this because we have the spirit,

whereas the lost are helpless to fight sin with anything other than another type of sin.

For instance, they might bite gluttony with vanity or fear with control.

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