It would be a good.

It would be easier to interest certain people in the gospel if we could tell them

something like, becoming a Christian will halt the aging process. But the truth is, believers

face the same realities of aging and death as everyone else.

What's different is our mindset.

And today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg explains how it's different and why.

Well, we continue our studies in Romans chapter 8, and there is quite a shift between verse 8, where we were last Sunday evening, and verse 9 where we find ourselves this morning.

There is a grammatical shift insofar as Paul now moves from addressing his readers in the third person. So in verse 8, those controlled by the sinful

nature cannot please God, to addressing his readers in the second person. You, however, are different.

And he is making this move. He's addressing those who read directly and emphatically.

And the distinction is not simply grammatical, but it is theological, it is absolutely foundational.

And he is moving from the statement that he has made in verse 8, those controlled by the flesh or by the

sinful nature cannot please God. And in verse 7, he has pointed out that the underlying

feature here is that the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

This does not mean that every attempt by people to do nice and good things is wrong or incapacitated,

but it means that at the very core of humanity, there is an anti-god bias.

And that anti-God bias is as a result of sin and infects us at the level of our understanding

and the level of our intellect. When we think in terms of

the impact of sin, if we even are prepared to have a category for it, and some of us may want

to debate that, we tend to think of it in terms of actions, what we're doing, or what we're

failing to do. But it is a far

more endemic situation than that. And what the Bible actually says is that no area of our lives

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