Our text for today is found in Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapter 8,

verses 1 through 11.

And if you'd like to follow along with me as I read the text, you'll find a Bible in the pew in front of you in that

little shelf, or use your own Bible.

Romans 8, 1 through 12.

There is therefore 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 condemns sin in the flesh in order that the requirement

of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according

to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

For those who are accorded to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those

who are according to the spirit, the things of the spirit.

For the mindset on the flesh is death, but the mindset on the spirit is life and peace,

because the mindset on the flesh is hostile toward God.

For it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

However, you are not in the flesh but in the spirit.

If indeed the spirit of God dwells in you, but if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

But if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ

Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies

through his spirit who indwells you.

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