Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it.

Hey, everyone. This is the Year in the Bible podcast. I am Beth, and I am here with my co-host, Alexa.

Hi, friends. Today we're going to be bringing together the two passages that we have studied

this week, Ezekiel 36, 26, 27, and Romans 8, 1 through 4. And we will be looking at how

these two passages connect to each other and point us to Christ. So, Beth, how do these

passages connect? Yeah, I think the best way to make this connection is by going back to something we talked about on Monday.

And that is that God doesn't want to just medicate the problem of sin. He wants to cure it and eradicate it.

So in Romans, we see that Paul is talking about the law. He says that God is doing what the law could not do.

And so using the same analogy that we started with, we can say that the law functioned kind of

like a band-aid. It didn't provide a cure for the problem of sin, but it really just showed us,

show God's people specifically where that problem was. So it showed them that there was a problem

and that it needed to be solved and it

needed to be cured. In other words, it highlighted how disobedient and hard-hearted God's people actually

were. But then the spirit does what the law could not do. The spirit actually changes the hearts of

the people. It cures them of their sin and leads them to walk in obedience.

You know, I mentioned earlier this week how it's encouraging to see God and the Spirit at work in Ezekiel 36, 26, through 27.

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