Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, President of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. Okay I want you to turn to Romans chapter 8.

And as we turn to Romans 8, we're starting a brand new chapter.

And I'm entitling this message, life in the spirit.

And the focus now is upon the ministry

of the Holy Spirit and the life of the Christian to enable us to live the Christian life.

So I have notes for verses one through four. I hope we can get through this.

If not, we'll pick it up next week. But I want to begin by

reading the first four verses and these verses are so profound. Beginning in verse one, therefore there is now no condemnation

for those who are in Christ Jesus.

For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus

has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the

flesh, God did. Sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin he

condemned sin in the flesh so that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the

flesh but according to the spirit. you can tell as I read these verses that it does

require some explanation to really sort out what all Paul is saying. It's profound. It's simple, yet it's deep. These

verses start Romans 8, which many people have called the greatest chapter in the Bible and it

would be hard to argue against that. It's been said that if the book of Romans is

a ring, the diamond on that ring is the book of

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