Amen and amen. How we doing, church? Everybody good? Hope you were ready for today. If you got your

Bible and I hope you do, grab it, Romans chapter 8. If you're new with us, we are in Romans, the book of

Romans for nine months. This is our 18th week in a row. We're doing about 34 or so, and we're doing a month

just in this chapter,

just in Romans chapter 8. And so we're just going to pick it up from there, Romans chapter 8,

beginning of verse 12, so then. So the so then is there because of what comes before it. And so that

so then is really about what we talked about last week. So then, since therefore now, there is no

condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Remember that? So then, since therefore now, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ

Jesus. Remember that? So then, since God has done for you what you and I could not do, that God

has sent his son as the propitiation for our sin, to live the perfect life to be the just and

justifier, and so then, since the Spirit of God dwells inside of you with resurrection power, that's

the so then.

Remember, the enemy whispers to you condemnation.

Condemnation or condemned is a building term.

It means unfit for use.

The enemy wants you to be

focused on the mistakes that you've made, the sins that you've committed, on your past and on your

activity, and says, see, God is done with you. You are unfit for use. And then Romans 8-1 tells us,

therefore now there is no condemnation that God looks at you, not because of what you have done, but because

what Christ has done for you at the cross. And he says, take the condemned sign on and hang a

sold sticker there. Because you are not your own. You are bought at a price. And the spirit of

God, God literally dwells within us. That you are not your own, you are bought at a price.

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