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Messages by Desiring God

The Life of God in the Soul of Man

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality, Preaching, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Sermons, Messages, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 1987

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

God lives in the soul of man by the indwelling of his Spirit.

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Romans 8, verses 1 through 17.

0:05.0

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

0:11.0

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the

0:16.8

law of sin and death. For God has done what the law weakened by the flesh could not do.

0:24.2

Sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh

0:27.7

and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.

0:32.3

In order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who

0:37.0

walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. For those who live according to the spirit.

0:42.6

For those who live according to the flesh set their mind on things of the flesh.

0:48.2

But those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit.

0:54.0

To set the mind on the flesh is death,

0:58.0

but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace.

1:03.0

For the mind that is said on the flesh is hostile to God,

1:07.0

it does not submit to God's law.

1:10.0

Indeed, it cannot.

1:12.0

And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

1:15.0

But you are not in the flesh.

1:19.0

You are in the spirit, if in fact the spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.

1:30.0

But if Christ is in you, although your bodies are dead because of sin, your spirits are alive because of righteousness.

1:38.0

If the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you. He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give

1:47.0

life to your mortal bodies also through his spirit which dwells in you.

1:53.0

So then, brethren, we are deaders, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh,

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