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Romans chapter 7, verse 6, but now we are released from the law having died to that which held us captive

so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

What a verse this building, crescendo in the book of Romans talking about the power of the

gospel to save us by grace through faith in Christ, to cause us to be justified and have peace

with God. Romans chapter 5, Romans chapter 6, and by the power of the Spirit in us to live in righteousness

before God, which then leads to this picture in Romans 7. We're released from the law. We've

died to that which held us captive so that we now follow the language here. We serve in the new

way of the Spirit, capital S spirit and not in the old way of the written code. And I want to

lead us to pray according to this verse because I'm convinced many, maybe most Christians at least

in the church culture around me are missing this. And I'm prone to miss it. Most Christians, I think

it's most are trying to live the Christian life in the flesh and get our own power in our own

strength instead of in the new way of the Holy Spirit. And even as I say that there's so many

different directions this could go and we could spend hours right now talking about this and

thinking about this together and challenging one another when it comes to the role of the Holy

Spirit. But let me just summarize by saying when you put your faith in Jesus, you weren't just

forgiven of your sins. So you can go to heaven in eternity. Yes, that breaks God for that. But

you weren't just forgiven of your sins in that moment. You were filled with the Holy Spirit.

And you have the supernatural Holy Spirit of God living in you right now if you're a follower

of Jesus. That changes everything. You don't live in the flesh anymore. You don't do anything in

your own strength in your own power. You don't fight against sin in the flesh. You prayed about

that according to Romans chapter six yesterday. And you don't walk through trials and tribulations

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