Well, we love Romans 8, and last time Pastor John, you called it a mammothly glorious chapter.

Amen, mammothly glorious in celebrating that those who are in Christ are freed from condemnation.

They are empowered by the spirit.

They are adopted as God's children and utterly secure in his unbreakable love.

No surprise. You have this whole chapter memorized and you recited it in a recent prison visit

this spring, which came with an opportunity for you to also preach your highlights from the

chapter, too. We got that story from you and your local prison trip on

Monday last time. So if you're not caught up on the listening, that story is in the previous

episode. But Romans 8 is a glorious chapter that emphasizes the believers union with Christ

in that beautiful phrase, in Christ, in Christ. As in Romans 8 versus 1 and 2, it's a union that represents freedom from condemnation,

deliverance from sin, and God's inseparable love to us. And the chapter speaks of Christ

dwelling in the believer in Romans 8, 10, in the Spirit 2 in Romans 8, 9, verse 11. I mean,

Romans 8 is a rich picture of our union. But the question we almost resolved in the end is this one.

How do we know, how can I know, know for absolute certain that I am personally in Christ? How did you answer that question?

Right. That is the bottom line, existential, frightening, glorious question.

Yeah. When I went to preach to the 120 inmates at Lionel Lakes prison a few months ago,

I assumed that they needed to hear and would

want to hear. Not only that Christ died to take away God's condemnation, but also that there is a

way for them to know that this applies to them personally, individually. In other words,

there is a way to know that they are in Christ, that they are really Christians, really saved,

that they will never come into condemnation. They could know this. So that was the

final thing that I addressed in those 30 minutes. I felt impelled to address it, this issue of

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