So church, I'm going to ask you to stand and open your Bibles. We are in the book of Romans back in the book of Romans

It's been some weeks Romans chapter 8 verses 9 through 11 and

Frank Turek last week made that little jab about

How long it's going to take us to get through the book of Romans?

What's the hurry? It's good doctrine. It's essential doctrine. It's what we need and

and

Frankly, uh

We need to know doctrine more than never and it needs to happen in a Sunday setting. See isn't that what small groups are for? No

Church services are for doctrine

I'm not going to teach you today the five steps of feeling happy about yourself. You can watch that on YouTube somewhere

And there's a lot of other things you can get off of YouTube

But what we're talking about right now what we'll always talk about here on Sundays is

Treating you the way God would have you be treated and that is immersing you in the doctrine of God's word

That's how we grow and become disciples in Romans 8 is a great picture of this and before we read it the title is what spirit lives in you

That's a very important question. What spirit lives in you

Because there is a spirit

Listen, there is a spirit that lives within you by default and that's the spirit of who you are

God made you body soul and spirit

But outside of that listen the Bible is very clear that there is going to be one of two powers that

Occupy and drive your body soul and spirit

I'm not talking about your spirit in the question here. I'm talking about are you being

Empowered and operated by the spirit of God or not and the not is terrifying

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