WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.179 Romans 8, starting from chapter 1. 00:00:08.179 --> 00:00:14.220 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:20.879 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:26.580 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. 00:00:26.579 --> 00:00:35.799 By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, he condemns sin in the flesh, 00:00:36.259 --> 00:00:41.219 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:45.739 who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 00:00:47.099 --> 00:00:51.799 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:56.839 but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 00:00:57.739 --> 00:01:05.399 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:12.939 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law. 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:15.359 Indeed, it cannot. 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.799 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:24.099 You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.099 If in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you, 00:01:27.980 --> 00:01:32.259 anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:38.099 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:41.599 the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:48.439 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, 00:01:49.099 --> 00:01:54.019 he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies 00:01:54.019 --> 00:01:56.500 through his Spirit who dwells in you. 00:02:00.899 --> 00:02:01.939 Good morning. 00:02:01.939 --> 00:02:02.000 Good morning. 00:02:04.679 --> 00:02:10.439 We will mostly be focusing on Romans 8 verses 5 to 11, 00:02:10.859 --> 00:02:16.020 but we will be starting with a slight recap, particularly looking at verse 4. 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:20.099 So if you have that passage open, Romans chapter 8, that would be fantastic. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.659 Let's pray and ask for the Lord's help. 00:02:24.500 --> 00:02:28.800 Heavenly Father, we thank you for our freedom to gather this morning 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:35.880 to sing your praises, to bring our requests before you in prayer, 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:39.800 to hear your word read and to meditate on it together. 00:02:40.700 --> 00:02:44.500 Please enable me to speak clearly and truthfully this morning 00:02:44.500 --> 00:02:50.780 and may this passage of your word resonate in our hearts and encourage us. 00:02:51.240 --> 00:02:52.420 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:02:52.419 --> 00:03:00.579 Well, Australians cannot stand people who think they're better than everyone else. 00:03:01.899 --> 00:03:06.299 We value having a highly egalitarian society. 00:03:07.060 --> 00:03:08.519 Everyone gets an education. 00:03:09.019 --> 00:03:10.419 Everyone has access to healthcare. 00:03:11.239 --> 00:03:12.259 Everyone can vote. 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:13.659 We're all equal. 00:03:13.659 --> 00:03:20.219 And when individuals succeed, whether it's in business, whether it's in politics or sport, 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:22.680 in whatever field it is, when individuals succeed, 00:03:22.900 --> 00:03:26.000 we expect them to be humble in victory. 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:31.500 We despise arrogance and elitism. 00:03:33.939 --> 00:03:37.259 We have what we call the tall poppy syndrome, 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.579 that if anyone kind of rises up a bit too high, 00:03:40.580 --> 00:03:43.800 they're a bit too successful and especially if they let it get to their heads, 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:45.200 we want to cut them down. 00:03:47.380 --> 00:03:56.620 Now, this love of equality and kind of opposition to anyone 00:03:56.620 --> 00:03:58.900 who gets a bit too big for their own boots, 00:03:59.260 --> 00:04:00.780 all of this, I want to suggest, 00:04:00.900 --> 00:04:05.260 is part of Christianity's legacy on Australian society, 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:08.439 part of the legacy of Christianity's influence. 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:14.740 Australia owes its egalitarian impulse to Christianity 00:04:14.740 --> 00:04:26.319 because the Bible contains incredible boundary-breaking declarations and ideas. 00:04:29.220 --> 00:04:31.819 Famously, Galatians 3, verse 28, 00:04:31.819 --> 00:04:34.680 There is neither Jew nor Greek. 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:37.019 There is neither slave nor free. 00:04:37.459 --> 00:04:39.079 There is no male and female, 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:42.240 for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:44.319 Breaking down boundaries. 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:48.839 Matthew 23, verse 8, the words of Jesus, 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:51.199 But you are not to be called rabbi, 00:04:51.620 --> 00:04:53.279 for you have one teacher, 00:04:54.039 --> 00:04:55.620 and you are all brothers. 00:04:56.819 --> 00:04:57.980 There's one Lord, 00:04:58.120 --> 00:04:59.399 one teacher, one Father, 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:00.539 and we're all brothers. 00:05:00.540 --> 00:05:02.540 We're all the same. 00:05:03.980 --> 00:05:06.900 Or think of Paul's appeal to Philemon 00:05:06.900 --> 00:05:08.580 on behalf of his runaway slave, 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:09.200 Onesimus. 00:05:10.220 --> 00:05:11.140 And Paul writes, 00:05:11.220 --> 00:05:15.080 For perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.300 that you might have him back forever, 00:05:18.640 --> 00:05:20.040 no longer as a slave, 00:05:20.180 --> 00:05:21.439 but as more than a slave, 00:05:21.580 --> 00:05:24.220 as a beloved brother. 00:05:24.220 --> 00:05:29.920 See, Christianity breaks down those boundaries, 00:05:30.580 --> 00:05:32.380 and says we're all equal, 00:05:32.440 --> 00:05:35.380 we're all on the same level before God. 00:05:36.980 --> 00:05:41.640 And the Apostle Paul's great Christian manifesto, 00:05:42.180 --> 00:05:43.440 his epistle to the Romans, 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:48.199 it also contains some boundary-breaking declarations. 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:51.079 From Romans chapter 3, 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.019 I'll read a few verses from Romans chapter 3. 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:54.199 What then? 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:56.360 Are Jews any better off? 00:05:56.920 --> 00:05:57.899 Not at all. 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:00.060 For we've already charged that, 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:01.899 that all, 00:06:02.180 --> 00:06:04.120 both Jews and Gentiles, 00:06:04.120 --> 00:06:05.519 are under sin. 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:07.879 But there's no distinction, 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.860 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 00:06:11.899 --> 00:06:14.560 and are justified by his grace as a gift, 00:06:14.980 --> 00:06:16.740 through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus. 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:18.759 Then what becomes of boasting? 00:06:19.740 --> 00:06:20.759 It's excluded. 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.600 For we hold that one is justified by faith, 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:26.019 apart from the works of the law, 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:27.899 or is God the God of the Jews only? 00:06:27.899 --> 00:06:30.220 Is he not the God of the Gentiles also? 00:06:31.060 --> 00:06:33.139 Yes, of Gentiles also, 00:06:33.139 --> 00:06:37.500 since God is one who will circumcise the justified by faith, 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:38.079 I'm sorry, 00:06:38.139 --> 00:06:40.360 who will justify the circumcised by faith, 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.000 who will justify the circumcised by faith, 00:06:43.060 --> 00:06:45.240 and the uncircumcised through faith. 00:06:46.159 --> 00:06:49.899 The Apostle Paul tore down the law of Moses 00:06:49.899 --> 00:06:53.039 as a boundary separating Jew and Gentile 00:06:53.039 --> 00:06:55.159 by demonstrating that no one's justified 00:06:55.159 --> 00:06:56.539 by works of the law. 00:06:57.319 --> 00:06:58.819 We're all in the same boat. 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.959 We're all sinners condemned by the law, 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:06.120 and yet justified freely by faith in Christ. 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:09.859 Now, against that backdrop, 00:07:10.899 --> 00:07:13.039 I want to suggest that Romans 8 verse 4 00:07:13.039 --> 00:07:15.039 comes as a great surprise. 00:07:16.099 --> 00:07:18.719 Romans 8 verse 4 comes as a great surprise. 00:07:19.299 --> 00:07:21.959 Both halves of the verse are surprising. 00:07:22.859 --> 00:07:24.740 Let's look at this verse, Romans 8 verse 4. 00:07:24.740 --> 00:07:27.900 In order that the righteous requirement of the law 00:07:27.900 --> 00:07:29.259 might be fulfilled in us 00:07:29.259 --> 00:07:31.300 who walk not according to the flesh, 00:07:31.400 --> 00:07:32.660 but according to the spirit. 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.360 Both halves of this verse are surprising. 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:36.379 It's surprising that, 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:38.480 having stated so emphatically 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:41.879 that none of us are able to obey the law, 00:07:43.180 --> 00:07:45.860 Paul now speaks of the righteous requirement 00:07:45.860 --> 00:07:48.360 of the law being fulfilled in us. 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.560 Now, as I mentioned last week, 00:07:51.620 --> 00:07:55.520 it's possible this statement is about imputed righteousness. 00:07:55.520 --> 00:07:58.759 That is, it's possible this statement is about 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:01.500 how the law's demand for righteousness 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:03.500 is satisfied for us 00:08:03.500 --> 00:08:06.600 by the perfect righteousness of Christ 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:08.860 being credited to our account. 00:08:09.520 --> 00:08:11.060 Now, that is wonderful. 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:12.439 It's certainly true. 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.319 And it's a cause of great assurance. 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:21.920 But verse 4 is especially surprising 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:23.759 if, as I suggested last week, 00:08:23.980 --> 00:08:25.340 what this statement might mean 00:08:25.340 --> 00:08:27.000 that the righteous requirement of the law 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:28.000 is fulfilled in us 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:33.639 is that the law's overall purpose of love 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.200 comes to be expressed and fulfilled 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.100 in the lives of Christians. 00:08:41.059 --> 00:08:43.399 How is it possible that people 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:46.379 who have once been condemned by the law 00:08:46.379 --> 00:08:47.579 because of our sins 00:08:47.579 --> 00:08:52.039 might now fulfil the law through love? 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.079 Isn't that claim hopelessly optimistic? 00:08:57.419 --> 00:08:58.979 Well, Jesus didn't think so. 00:09:00.459 --> 00:09:03.159 By this, all people will know 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.239 that you're my disciples, Jesus said, 00:09:05.699 --> 00:09:07.559 if you have love for one another. 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.579 But that's surprising. 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:13.599 But the second half of the verse is surprising too 00:09:13.599 --> 00:09:15.419 because in the second half of the verse 4, 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.819 having so emphatically broken down the law 00:09:18.819 --> 00:09:21.459 as a boundary dividing Jew and Gentile 00:09:21.459 --> 00:09:23.119 for all alike are under sin, 00:09:23.419 --> 00:09:24.959 in the second half of verse 4, 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:29.559 another great division in humanity is established. 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:33.919 There are those who walk according to the flesh 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.919 and there are those who walk according to the spirit. 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.779 See, it turns out, in the Bible's view, 00:09:43.899 --> 00:09:45.799 there is a great division in humanity. 00:09:46.619 --> 00:09:49.299 But it's not the divide between Jew and Gentile. 00:09:49.379 --> 00:09:51.439 It's not the divide between slave and free. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:55.040 It's not between law and not law. 00:09:56.400 --> 00:10:00.300 The division is between flesh and spirit. 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:04.700 And it's this division 00:10:04.700 --> 00:10:07.800 which explains how it is 00:10:07.800 --> 00:10:10.360 that the righteous requirement of the law 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:13.540 might be fulfilled in believers. 00:10:14.400 --> 00:10:15.960 Verse 5 and 6. 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:40.320 In these verses, flesh and spirit represent two opposing dominions, 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:46.660 to realms, to powers, to spheres of influence, 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.120 to opposing dominions, 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:51.900 someone can walk according to the flesh 00:10:51.900 --> 00:10:54.340 and be according to the flesh 00:10:54.340 --> 00:10:58.000 or they can walk and be according to the spirit. 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:03.100 Every one of us belongs to one or other of those dominions. 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.560 We either belong to the flesh or we belong to the spirit. 00:11:06.940 --> 00:11:08.920 One or the other is the sphere 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:10.439 in which we exist and operate. 00:11:10.620 --> 00:11:14.199 One or the other is the power which defines our lives. 00:11:16.599 --> 00:11:18.599 Now, incidentally, this is an aside here, 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.919 the word spirit occurs 17 times in Romans, 00:11:23.659 --> 00:11:25.379 the first 17 verses of Romans 8, 00:11:25.579 --> 00:11:26.179 verses 1 to 7. 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:27.379 It's 17 times, 00:11:27.839 --> 00:11:30.919 which makes it not just the greatest concentration 00:11:31.459 --> 00:11:34.819 of spirit language in Romans, 00:11:35.259 --> 00:11:38.339 it's the greatest concentration of spirit language 00:11:38.340 --> 00:11:39.600 anywhere in the Bible. 00:11:41.180 --> 00:11:44.500 What we have here is a passage that is describing to us, 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:47.460 teaching us about life in the spirit. 00:11:49.100 --> 00:11:51.200 And each dominion, flesh and spirit, 00:11:51.340 --> 00:11:52.540 has its own mindset. 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:55.600 There is a mind set on the things of the flesh 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.540 and there is the mind set on things of the spirit. 00:11:58.680 --> 00:12:01.080 And those two mindsets are completely different. 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:03.940 Let me suggest three differences. 00:12:05.860 --> 00:12:06.960 First difference, 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.700 the mind set on the flesh is earthbound, 00:12:11.700 --> 00:12:15.160 whereas the mind set on the spirit is heavenly, 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:16.500 transcendent. 00:12:17.160 --> 00:12:20.040 The mind of the flesh is occupied with things here below 00:12:20.040 --> 00:12:26.840 and either denies or at least disregards heaven above. 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:31.060 You found the mind set of the flesh 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:34.600 whenever you find someone who is consumed by money. 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:37.759 They live for, 00:12:37.860 --> 00:12:38.580 they pursue, 00:12:38.759 --> 00:12:41.139 what they want is possessions and money and wealth. 00:12:41.139 --> 00:12:50.360 I was running with a friend, 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:53.819 I just met the friend, 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:54.580 a Christian brother, 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:55.319 he was, 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:55.740 he is, 00:12:55.899 --> 00:12:58.519 and he was talking about someone in his family 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:03.240 who just spends most of his day just examining, 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:05.080 just watching his share portfolio. 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:09.159 That's what's on his mind all the time, 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:09.840 money. 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:12.480 You found the mind set of the flesh 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.440 when you find someone consumed by their career. 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.700 All they think about is how they can advance 00:13:18.700 --> 00:13:21.600 and that getting to the next step in their profession. 00:13:22.300 --> 00:13:24.379 Or someone consumed by entertainment, 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:28.280 they just think about the movies or the music 00:13:28.280 --> 00:13:30.720 or the video games or whatever it is 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.480 that just occupies their thoughts constantly. 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:36.920 Or by pleasure or by body image or by reputation, 00:13:37.100 --> 00:13:37.980 whatever it is. 00:13:37.980 --> 00:13:41.100 When it's just their thoughts, 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:42.000 their thinking, 00:13:42.860 --> 00:13:44.560 their preoccupation 00:13:44.560 --> 00:13:46.300 is with 00:13:46.300 --> 00:13:48.560 things of earth below. 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:50.940 Now, 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:52.519 God created all things good. 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:55.879 Everything that God has made in this world is good 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:57.539 and to be received with thanksgiving. 00:13:57.539 --> 00:14:04.419 But he created everything good so that we might lift our eyes 00:14:04.419 --> 00:14:07.240 from the gifts while enjoying the gifts he's given 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:09.879 to the giver, 00:14:10.219 --> 00:14:11.860 the God himself who has given them. 00:14:13.579 --> 00:14:16.659 Not so that we'd enjoy the gift and ignore the giver. 00:14:16.659 --> 00:14:23.240 One of the sports I've enjoyed is playing ultimate frisbee. 00:14:24.740 --> 00:14:29.219 And I love playing frisbee. 00:14:29.419 --> 00:14:30.339 If you don't know the sports, 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:31.740 it's a lot of running, a lot of jumping, 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:32.779 throwing a frisbee around, 00:14:32.860 --> 00:14:35.019 trying to catch it and pass it between your teammates. 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:36.419 An energetic sport. 00:14:36.419 --> 00:14:40.959 And I've had opportunity to sort of play in clubs and so on 00:14:40.959 --> 00:14:43.679 with some of the players in Newcastle 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.059 who are like the top players in Newcastle. 00:14:46.139 --> 00:14:47.659 Some of them have played for Australia and so on. 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.259 And I mean, 00:14:51.299 --> 00:14:53.199 there are people who live for ultimate frisbee. 00:14:54.479 --> 00:14:54.719 You know, 00:14:54.740 --> 00:14:55.919 that's what their life's about. 00:14:55.919 --> 00:15:01.899 And that's all their ambitions, 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:04.639 all their goals revolve around that sport. 00:15:05.179 --> 00:15:06.339 It's not even in the Olympics. 00:15:07.579 --> 00:15:07.719 Right? 00:15:07.860 --> 00:15:07.979 You know, 00:15:08.259 --> 00:15:08.500 I mean, 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:11.120 maybe there's a few American players that earn a living, 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:12.240 get sponsorship off it, 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:13.759 but you're not going to do that in Australia. 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:16.339 And yet that's what their life's for. 00:15:19.599 --> 00:15:20.839 That's the mind of the flesh. 00:15:20.839 --> 00:15:23.139 It's just fixed on something, 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:24.799 whatever it is here below. 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:27.679 With no regard for God above. 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:29.879 Second difference, 00:15:30.620 --> 00:15:31.879 that the mindset of the flesh, 00:15:32.620 --> 00:15:34.000 likewise the gaze of the flesh, 00:15:34.059 --> 00:15:36.439 is fixed here and now. 00:15:37.599 --> 00:15:38.679 It never looks forward. 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:42.319 Just the present, 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:44.459 never the future, 00:15:44.539 --> 00:15:45.979 or never the eternal future, 00:15:46.479 --> 00:15:47.159 in any case. 00:15:48.079 --> 00:15:50.240 The mind of the flesh forgets 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:51.500 that there is a day of judgment. 00:15:52.740 --> 00:15:54.719 That people will render account, 00:15:55.179 --> 00:15:55.839 will give an account, 00:15:55.919 --> 00:15:57.799 for the lives we've lived here. 00:15:59.179 --> 00:16:00.699 The mind of the flesh forgets 00:16:00.699 --> 00:16:01.879 that there's a resurrection, 00:16:02.099 --> 00:16:04.659 that there is a life beyond the grave. 00:16:07.500 --> 00:16:08.839 The mind of the flesh forgets 00:16:08.839 --> 00:16:10.799 that there is a coming kingdom of God. 00:16:10.899 --> 00:16:11.019 No, 00:16:11.079 --> 00:16:12.379 the way things are now, 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:13.399 in the mind of the flesh, 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:15.000 is the way things will always be. 00:16:19.199 --> 00:16:19.599 Temporary, 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:20.399 rather than eternal. 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:23.220 That's the second difference. 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:24.919 The third difference is that the mind of the flesh, 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:26.100 there's a difference of character. 00:16:26.959 --> 00:16:27.799 A difference of character. 00:16:28.259 --> 00:16:31.259 Paul writes in Galatians that the fruit of the spirit is love, 00:16:31.659 --> 00:16:32.000 joy, 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:32.799 peace, 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:33.600 patience, 00:16:34.139 --> 00:16:34.480 kindness, 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:35.059 goodness, 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:35.879 faithfulness, 00:16:36.019 --> 00:16:36.419 gentleness, 00:16:36.419 --> 00:16:37.459 self-control. 00:16:39.459 --> 00:16:40.779 Whereas the flesh, 00:16:41.199 --> 00:16:43.139 well, the flesh is filled with anger, 00:16:44.299 --> 00:16:44.699 jealousy, 00:16:45.819 --> 00:16:46.339 impurity, 00:16:47.439 --> 00:16:47.919 greed, 00:16:48.139 --> 00:16:48.539 malice, 00:16:48.740 --> 00:16:49.120 hatred, 00:16:49.479 --> 00:16:50.259 selfish ambition. 00:16:50.259 --> 00:16:55.860 There's a difference in character between flesh and spirit. 00:16:56.500 --> 00:17:00.580 The example from the previous chapter of the flesh, 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:03.379 of the sin operating in our lives is coveting. 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:05.519 You might remember Paul talked about when, 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:07.119 as soon as he hears the law, 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:08.019 you shall not covet. 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:12.559 Sin arouses all kinds of covetous desires within him. 00:17:14.900 --> 00:17:16.259 There's a difference of character. 00:17:18.299 --> 00:17:20.220 So there's a different mind. 00:17:20.259 --> 00:17:21.379 Each of these dominions, 00:17:21.660 --> 00:17:22.359 spirit and flesh, 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:23.799 has a different mind. 00:17:26.539 --> 00:17:28.400 And each also has its own destiny. 00:17:29.539 --> 00:17:32.240 You'll see there in verse 6, 00:17:32.379 --> 00:17:34.759 to set the mind on the flesh is death. 00:17:35.660 --> 00:17:37.519 That's the destiny of the flesh, 00:17:37.940 --> 00:17:38.240 death. 00:17:39.099 --> 00:17:41.980 But to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace. 00:17:42.059 --> 00:17:43.920 There's the destiny of those who are in the spirit. 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:45.480 Life and peace. 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:46.579 Peace with God, that is. 00:17:46.579 --> 00:17:51.539 So two dominions, 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:52.799 two minds, 00:17:53.299 --> 00:17:54.399 two destinies. 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:00.099 And in verses 7 and 8, 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:02.079 Paul goes on to unpack a bit more 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:04.939 the mind of the flesh, 00:18:05.699 --> 00:18:08.460 what it's like to live under the power of the flesh. 00:18:08.460 --> 00:18:10.960 Verse 7, 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:14.680 for the mind that's set on the flesh is hostile to God, 00:18:14.740 --> 00:18:16.660 for it does not submit to God's law. 00:18:16.779 --> 00:18:17.039 Indeed, 00:18:17.140 --> 00:18:17.660 it cannot. 00:18:18.860 --> 00:18:21.680 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:29.500 The mind of the flesh is in enmity to God. 00:18:29.580 --> 00:18:34.100 This is the opposite of the peace of the mind of the spirit there in verse 6. 00:18:34.340 --> 00:18:35.480 Here there's enmity, 00:18:35.600 --> 00:18:36.460 there's hostility. 00:18:38.220 --> 00:18:40.860 And these verses 7 and 8 unpack that enmity, 00:18:41.120 --> 00:18:42.680 which is the reason that there's death. 00:18:44.019 --> 00:18:45.460 Hostility towards God. 00:18:45.460 --> 00:18:50.140 Not only this refusal to submit to God's law, 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:53.700 but an inability to submit to God's law. 00:18:57.120 --> 00:18:58.539 I hate God, 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:00.660 and I disregard God. 00:19:01.160 --> 00:19:04.019 They're equally expressions of the flesh. 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:07.019 They're equally hostility towards God. 00:19:07.019 --> 00:19:07.579 God, 00:19:07.579 --> 00:19:09.079 God, 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:09.440 it's just, 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:10.879 God, 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:11.779 I won't submit to you. 00:19:11.819 --> 00:19:12.680 I won't listen to you. 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:16.319 I don't care for what you want. 00:19:19.099 --> 00:19:20.079 Those who are in the flesh, 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:20.379 verse 8, 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:21.339 cannot please God. 00:19:21.379 --> 00:19:22.299 Now that sounds extreme, 00:19:22.379 --> 00:19:22.740 doesn't it? 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:24.480 Someone who's in the flesh 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:26.599 can't please God. 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:30.799 Few people would think of themselves in these kind of terms. 00:19:31.859 --> 00:19:34.319 This isn't how people think about themselves. 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:40.220 But that's because people have so thoroughly expunged the idea of God from their thoughts 00:19:40.220 --> 00:19:42.899 that they don't think there's any need to please God. 00:19:45.779 --> 00:19:49.299 They imagine they can live lives that are good without God. 00:19:51.399 --> 00:19:52.539 But that's madness. 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:55.220 People who live according to the flesh, 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:59.000 who are just bound by the things of this world, 00:19:59.779 --> 00:20:00.659 and of the present, 00:20:01.339 --> 00:20:03.679 and of the attitudes and desires of the flesh, 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:05.799 people who live that way, 00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:09.019 they may go on to do all sorts of impressive and noteworthy things. 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:12.779 But a car's not a good car 00:20:12.779 --> 00:20:15.720 if it doesn't go where the driver steers it. 00:20:17.819 --> 00:20:20.619 And a dog's not a good pet if it bites its master 00:20:20.619 --> 00:20:24.299 and doesn't come when called and go when sent. 00:20:24.700 --> 00:20:27.399 And humans aren't good humans when we ignore our creator. 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:33.640 Without faith, it's impossible to please God. 00:20:33.740 --> 00:20:35.120 And that's the mind of the flesh. 00:20:36.060 --> 00:20:37.040 Hostility to God. 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:38.280 Disregarding God. 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:43.920 But then Paul says, 00:20:44.540 --> 00:20:46.640 in verse 9, 00:20:49.460 --> 00:20:50.840 you, however, 00:20:51.840 --> 00:20:55.000 you, however, are not in the flesh, 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.420 but in the spirit. 00:20:59.259 --> 00:21:00.359 If, in fact, 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:02.700 the spirit of God dwells in you. 00:21:04.380 --> 00:21:06.539 Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ 00:21:06.539 --> 00:21:07.500 does not belong to him. 00:21:07.579 --> 00:21:08.619 Let's unpack this a little bit. 00:21:09.180 --> 00:21:09.880 You, however, 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.839 Paul is convinced that those he's writing to 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:15.099 are not in the flesh, 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:16.319 but in the spirit. 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:17.519 He makes a contrast here. 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:18.359 You, however, 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:19.759 are not in the flesh, 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:20.940 but in the spirit. 00:21:20.940 --> 00:21:24.580 You don't belong to the dominion of the flesh. 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:26.820 You belong to the dominion of the spirit. 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:31.720 The power of the flesh does not dominate your life. 00:21:32.140 --> 00:21:32.440 Rather, 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:34.720 you are controlled and governed and ruled 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:36.100 by the power of God's spirit. 00:21:39.779 --> 00:21:40.779 You, however, 00:21:40.960 --> 00:21:41.759 are not in the flesh, 00:21:41.820 --> 00:21:42.420 but in the spirit, 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:43.140 if, in fact, 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:44.940 the spirit of God dwells in you. 00:21:44.980 --> 00:21:45.120 Now, 00:21:45.180 --> 00:21:47.100 that sounds a bit uncertain in our ears 00:21:47.100 --> 00:21:47.860 as we read it. 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:48.720 No, 00:21:48.820 --> 00:21:49.320 like Paul's saying, 00:21:49.420 --> 00:21:49.539 well, 00:21:49.539 --> 00:21:50.140 you belong with the spirit. 00:21:50.140 --> 00:21:51.720 If the spirit dwells in you. 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:53.880 You know, 00:21:53.900 --> 00:21:55.320 maybe the spirit dwells in you. 00:21:55.380 --> 00:21:56.840 Maybe the spirit doesn't dwell in you. 00:21:57.420 --> 00:21:59.420 But I don't think it's supposed to sound uncertain, 00:21:59.560 --> 00:21:59.800 actually. 00:22:00.180 --> 00:22:01.960 I don't think it's supposed to sound uncertain here. 00:22:03.180 --> 00:22:03.840 The word, 00:22:03.900 --> 00:22:05.860 the Greek word that's translated as, 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:06.560 if, 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:07.300 in fact, 00:22:07.780 --> 00:22:09.360 it can also be translated as, 00:22:09.780 --> 00:22:10.180 since, 00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:13.620 which is exactly how ESV translates it 00:22:13.620 --> 00:22:14.820 in Romans 3, 00:22:14.920 --> 00:22:15.320 verse 30, 00:22:15.360 --> 00:22:16.320 which I read a little bit earlier. 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:17.320 There it is. 00:22:17.740 --> 00:22:18.060 Yes, 00:22:18.420 --> 00:22:20.080 God is the God of the Gentiles, 00:22:20.140 --> 00:22:20.840 also, 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:22.920 since God is one. 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:24.620 You know, 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:25.860 there are points being made. 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:27.200 God's not just the God of the Jews. 00:22:27.300 --> 00:22:28.360 He's the God of Jews and Gentiles. 00:22:28.420 --> 00:22:29.200 He's the God of all people. 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:30.200 Because God's one, 00:22:30.280 --> 00:22:30.980 there's one God. 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:33.060 They're the same word as translated as since. 00:22:33.100 --> 00:22:34.740 And I think it's got that sense here too. 00:22:35.620 --> 00:22:35.780 You know, 00:22:35.820 --> 00:22:36.759 it's sort of context 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:37.840 that determines 00:22:37.840 --> 00:22:39.420 whether we should translate this word 00:22:39.420 --> 00:22:40.400 as if indeed, 00:22:40.520 --> 00:22:41.540 or since indeed. 00:22:41.539 --> 00:22:44.420 And one thing you notice here 00:22:44.420 --> 00:22:47.359 is that when Paul switches, 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:49.119 like from verse 8 to verse 9, 00:22:49.259 --> 00:22:51.879 he switches from speaking in the third person 00:22:51.879 --> 00:22:53.200 to the second person. 00:22:54.339 --> 00:22:55.960 So verses 5 and 6, 00:22:56.019 --> 00:22:57.359 he sets up the two categories, 00:22:57.980 --> 00:22:58.680 flesh and spirit. 00:22:59.879 --> 00:23:01.240 Verses 7 and 8, 00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:03.639 he then elaborates on the flesh 00:23:03.639 --> 00:23:04.960 in the third person, 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:08.299 that is speaking about they, 00:23:08.620 --> 00:23:08.880 them, 00:23:09.059 --> 00:23:09.819 those people 00:23:09.819 --> 00:23:10.900 who are in the flesh. 00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:13.259 But then verses 9 to 11, 00:23:13.360 --> 00:23:14.539 as he elaborates on the spirit, 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:16.059 he switches to the second person, 00:23:16.460 --> 00:23:16.759 you. 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:20.059 He speaks about those 00:23:20.059 --> 00:23:21.120 who are in the flesh, 00:23:21.460 --> 00:23:23.120 but you who are in the spirit. 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:23.920 So Paul, 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:25.740 as he's addressing the Roman Christians 00:23:25.740 --> 00:23:26.480 to whom he's writing, 00:23:28.120 --> 00:23:30.160 he's not trying to make them 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:31.059 kind of wonder 00:23:31.059 --> 00:23:32.960 whether they might be in the spirit. 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:36.640 He is assuring them 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:38.460 that they are in the spirit. 00:23:39.259 --> 00:23:41.519 Since the spirit of God dwells in you, 00:23:42.360 --> 00:23:42.920 Paul says. 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:44.840 And he reinforces that assurance 00:23:44.840 --> 00:23:45.600 with the negative 00:23:45.600 --> 00:23:46.700 at the end of verse 8, 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:49.259 anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ 00:23:49.259 --> 00:23:51.519 does not belong to Christ. 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:55.160 To put that around the other way, 00:23:55.700 --> 00:23:57.519 if you do belong to Christ, 00:23:58.299 --> 00:24:00.860 then you do have the spirit of Christ. 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:04.860 If anyone who doesn't have the spirit 00:24:04.860 --> 00:24:05.819 doesn't belong to Christ, 00:24:05.900 --> 00:24:06.980 then if you do belong to Christ, 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:08.019 you must have the spirit. 00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:11.740 It's impossible to belong to Christ 00:24:11.740 --> 00:24:13.740 and not have the spirit dwelling in you. 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:18.100 There are no spiritless Christians. 00:24:19.420 --> 00:24:20.700 If you have Jesus, 00:24:20.940 --> 00:24:22.140 you have God's spirit. 00:24:23.340 --> 00:24:24.480 It's both or nothing. 00:24:24.579 --> 00:24:25.019 Or rather, 00:24:25.019 --> 00:24:28.279 it's all three persons of the Trinity 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:29.019 or nothing. 00:24:30.500 --> 00:24:31.559 For in verse 9, 00:24:31.639 --> 00:24:33.099 he's both the spirit of Christ 00:24:33.099 --> 00:24:34.420 and the spirit of God. 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:36.500 To have the spirit 00:24:36.500 --> 00:24:37.460 is to be united 00:24:37.460 --> 00:24:39.440 with the Father and the Son. 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:42.200 And Paul reassures 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:43.480 the Roman Christians here 00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:45.660 of their present union 00:24:45.660 --> 00:24:47.200 with God's spirit. 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:49.240 That God's spirit 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:50.619 indwells in them. 00:24:50.619 --> 00:24:55.359 And notice how he convinces them. 00:24:56.779 --> 00:24:58.939 He doesn't call on them 00:24:58.939 --> 00:25:01.279 to analyse their performance. 00:25:02.779 --> 00:25:04.279 He doesn't tell them 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:05.759 to conduct an experiment. 00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:08.579 He doesn't say, 00:25:09.179 --> 00:25:10.719 you have the spirit in you 00:25:10.719 --> 00:25:12.859 if you can speak in tongues. 00:25:13.859 --> 00:25:14.979 He doesn't say, 00:25:15.479 --> 00:25:17.039 you have the spirit in you 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:18.240 if you've attained 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.000 a certain level of holiness 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:21.000 or godliness. 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:24.879 The thrust of verses 9 to 10 00:25:24.879 --> 00:25:26.720 is if you have Christ, 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:28.599 you have the spirit. 00:25:29.940 --> 00:25:32.740 The spirit is the present possession 00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:35.079 of every single Christian. 00:25:36.879 --> 00:25:39.159 Now you might feel yourself 00:25:39.159 --> 00:25:40.379 to be unspiritual. 00:25:40.380 --> 00:25:45.380 You might think 00:25:45.380 --> 00:25:46.580 there's nothing special 00:25:46.580 --> 00:25:47.300 about you. 00:25:52.540 --> 00:25:53.860 You might feel like 00:25:53.860 --> 00:25:55.600 sin has the upper hand 00:25:55.600 --> 00:25:56.380 in your life. 00:26:00.580 --> 00:26:02.980 But God doesn't justify you 00:26:02.980 --> 00:26:03.660 on the basis 00:26:03.660 --> 00:26:04.880 of your own goodness. 00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:07.380 God doesn't justify you 00:26:07.380 --> 00:26:07.860 on the basis 00:26:07.860 --> 00:26:09.000 of your moral achievement. 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:10.859 and neither does 00:26:10.859 --> 00:26:11.920 God's spirit 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:13.339 indwell you 00:26:13.339 --> 00:26:14.279 on the basis 00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:15.380 of your goodness. 00:26:16.920 --> 00:26:18.759 The spirit comes to us 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:20.180 as Christ comes to us 00:26:20.180 --> 00:26:22.180 on the basis 00:26:22.180 --> 00:26:23.960 of God's abundant grace 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:25.980 and infinite mercy. 00:26:27.500 --> 00:26:28.279 So brothers, 00:26:29.059 --> 00:26:29.380 sisters, 00:26:29.539 --> 00:26:30.759 you don't need to worry 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:32.680 that you haven't received 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:33.519 God's spirit. 00:26:35.079 --> 00:26:36.059 Receiving God's spirit 00:26:36.059 --> 00:26:36.880 isn't a separate, 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:37.960 additional step 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:39.340 after receiving Christ. 00:26:39.500 --> 00:26:40.620 We received Christ, 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:41.340 the spirit, 00:26:41.500 --> 00:26:42.779 when we received Christ. 00:26:46.279 --> 00:26:48.039 If you belong to Christ, 00:26:48.140 --> 00:26:49.299 if you believe in Jesus, 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:50.720 if you're one of Jesus' followers, 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:52.500 you have God's spirit 00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:53.700 dwelling in you. 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:55.620 And verses 10 and 11 00:26:55.620 --> 00:26:56.740 go on to two 00:26:56.740 --> 00:26:58.700 inestimable benefits 00:26:58.700 --> 00:26:59.779 of being indwelt 00:26:59.779 --> 00:27:00.740 by God's spirit. 00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:03.620 first, 00:27:03.819 --> 00:27:05.039 Paul speaks of present 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:06.640 spiritual life 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:07.500 in verse 10. 00:27:08.620 --> 00:27:09.259 But if Christ 00:27:09.259 --> 00:27:09.880 is in you, 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:12.180 although the body 00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:12.640 is dead 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:13.420 because of sin, 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:15.359 the spirit 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:16.120 is life 00:27:16.120 --> 00:27:18.000 because of righteousness. 00:27:21.380 --> 00:27:21.900 Now, 00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:23.660 I enjoy 00:27:23.660 --> 00:27:24.579 frisbee, 00:27:24.700 --> 00:27:25.359 I enjoy running, 00:27:25.460 --> 00:27:26.180 I've mentioned both 00:27:26.180 --> 00:27:26.779 already. 00:27:26.779 --> 00:27:28.480 I try to keep myself 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:29.700 in pretty decent 00:27:29.700 --> 00:27:30.579 physical condition, 00:27:31.319 --> 00:27:33.720 but the clock 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:34.660 keeps ticking. 00:27:37.139 --> 00:27:37.960 I remember 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:39.619 as a, 00:27:39.619 --> 00:27:40.259 I think it was like 00:27:40.259 --> 00:27:41.160 as a late teenager 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:41.759 sitting down 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:42.720 with my godfather 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:44.920 and I was a young man 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:46.200 and I was a bit aimless 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:46.779 in life 00:27:46.779 --> 00:27:47.500 and I remember him 00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:48.559 asking me like, 00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:51.000 what was my goal 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:51.579 in life? 00:27:51.660 --> 00:27:51.859 Like, 00:27:51.899 --> 00:27:52.799 what did I want 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:53.440 to achieve? 00:27:54.299 --> 00:27:55.420 And the only thing 00:27:55.420 --> 00:27:56.140 I came up with 00:27:56.140 --> 00:27:57.600 that I wanted 00:27:57.600 --> 00:27:59.240 to run 800 metres 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:00.420 faster than two minutes. 00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:02.080 Like, 00:28:02.180 --> 00:28:02.340 now, 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:04.559 running 800 metres, 00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:05.480 let me just be clear, 00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:06.180 faster than two minutes, 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:06.299 yeah, 00:28:06.320 --> 00:28:07.059 that'd be pretty quick, 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:08.180 but that's not even 00:28:08.180 --> 00:28:08.559 going to get you 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:09.039 into the Olympics, 00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:09.420 right? 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:11.360 It's not that quick. 00:28:11.700 --> 00:28:12.559 But that was my goal, 00:28:12.620 --> 00:28:12.740 right? 00:28:12.740 --> 00:28:13.279 That's all I could 00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:13.720 come up with 00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:14.480 at that point in time. 00:28:14.980 --> 00:28:15.220 And, 00:28:15.259 --> 00:28:17.240 it's a pretty pathetic goal 00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:18.080 and, 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:19.200 you know, 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:20.080 I'm happy to say 00:28:20.080 --> 00:28:20.539 I've discovered 00:28:20.539 --> 00:28:21.620 some better goals since. 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:23.799 You know, 00:28:23.840 --> 00:28:24.279 but still, 00:28:24.440 --> 00:28:25.480 I would kind of like 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:26.580 to run 800 metres 00:28:26.580 --> 00:28:27.480 that fast 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:29.660 and yet it's not 00:28:29.660 --> 00:28:30.160 going to happen, 00:28:30.360 --> 00:28:30.620 right? 00:28:31.420 --> 00:28:33.120 I've missed my opportunity 00:28:33.120 --> 00:28:36.059 and it's not just 00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:36.460 because I've got 00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:37.620 other priorities in life, 00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:38.920 it's also just because 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:40.380 I keep getting older. 00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:41.200 It's just the effects 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:42.640 of age setting in. 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:42.960 First, 00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:43.799 it was my knees 00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:45.120 and then it was 00:28:45.120 --> 00:28:45.980 my hamstrings 00:28:45.980 --> 00:28:47.420 and then it's 00:28:47.420 --> 00:28:48.059 my Achilles 00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:49.440 and what's going 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:49.860 to be next? 00:28:49.900 --> 00:28:50.200 I don't know 00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:50.480 what's going 00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:50.820 to be next, 00:28:51.120 --> 00:28:51.279 but, 00:28:51.340 --> 00:28:51.480 you know, 00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:52.460 I've reached the age 00:28:52.460 --> 00:28:54.000 that whenever I 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:55.039 book an appointment 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:55.900 to see my GP, 00:28:56.140 --> 00:28:57.019 I make sure I book 00:28:57.019 --> 00:28:58.000 a double appointment 00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:59.079 because I've never 00:28:59.079 --> 00:28:59.900 got just one thing 00:28:59.900 --> 00:29:00.779 I need to talk about. 00:29:01.840 --> 00:29:02.480 But still, 00:29:02.579 --> 00:29:02.700 like, 00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:03.640 I'm only 47, 00:29:03.779 --> 00:29:04.039 right? 00:29:05.720 --> 00:29:06.120 And, 00:29:06.340 --> 00:29:08.220 I'm healthy 00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:10.039 and God willing, 00:29:10.460 --> 00:29:11.840 I have many more years 00:29:11.840 --> 00:29:13.039 of decline ahead of me. 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:18.299 but, 00:29:18.379 --> 00:29:18.519 you know, 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:19.980 even though my body 00:29:19.980 --> 00:29:20.779 is dead 00:29:20.779 --> 00:29:21.619 or dying, 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:21.920 right, 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:22.319 you know, 00:29:22.379 --> 00:29:23.159 whichever word 00:29:23.159 --> 00:29:23.899 you want to use, 00:29:25.299 --> 00:29:26.279 there is dwelling 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:26.839 in me 00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:27.700 the Spirit 00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:28.819 who gives life. 00:29:30.099 --> 00:29:30.920 The Spirit 00:29:30.920 --> 00:29:31.680 who gives life. 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:32.899 As Paul says 00:29:32.899 --> 00:29:33.299 elsewhere, 00:29:33.779 --> 00:29:34.720 outwardly we're 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:35.559 wasting away, 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:38.000 but inwardly 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:38.480 we're being 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:39.200 renewed 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:40.079 day by day. 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:43.759 And this means, 00:29:43.859 --> 00:29:44.619 verse 10 means here, 00:29:44.699 --> 00:29:46.779 that the 95-year-old 00:29:46.779 --> 00:29:47.359 invalid 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:48.699 who is 00:29:48.699 --> 00:29:49.599 bed-bound 00:29:49.599 --> 00:29:51.019 in a nursing home 00:29:51.019 --> 00:29:52.740 but has the 00:29:52.740 --> 00:29:53.460 Spirit of God 00:29:53.460 --> 00:29:54.179 dwelling in them, 00:29:55.619 --> 00:29:56.759 that person 00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:57.699 has more life 00:29:57.699 --> 00:29:58.939 than the 23-year-old 00:29:58.939 --> 00:29:59.359 Olympia. 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.740 the Spirit 00:30:02.740 --> 00:30:04.299 who gives life 00:30:04.299 --> 00:30:05.439 is dwelling 00:30:05.439 --> 00:30:05.899 in them. 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:08.559 Present 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:10.479 spiritual life 00:30:10.479 --> 00:30:13.319 is the first 00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:13.939 benefit 00:30:13.939 --> 00:30:14.559 of the Spirit. 00:30:15.659 --> 00:30:16.439 The second benefit 00:30:16.439 --> 00:30:17.519 is in verse 11, 00:30:18.139 --> 00:30:19.279 verse 10 speaks 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:19.699 of present 00:30:19.699 --> 00:30:20.359 spiritual life, 00:30:20.439 --> 00:30:21.059 verse 11 speaks 00:30:21.059 --> 00:30:21.819 of future 00:30:21.819 --> 00:30:23.259 bodily life. 00:30:24.399 --> 00:30:25.199 Verse 11, 00:30:25.299 --> 00:30:25.959 if the Spirit 00:30:25.959 --> 00:30:26.500 of Him 00:30:26.500 --> 00:30:27.779 who raised 00:30:27.779 --> 00:30:28.859 Jesus from the dead 00:30:28.859 --> 00:30:29.740 dwells in you, 00:30:30.879 --> 00:30:31.819 He who raised 00:30:31.819 --> 00:30:32.639 Christ Jesus 00:30:32.639 --> 00:30:33.379 from the dead 00:30:33.379 --> 00:30:35.219 will also 00:30:35.219 --> 00:30:35.879 give life 00:30:35.879 --> 00:30:36.759 to your 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:37.839 mortal bodies 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:39.079 through His 00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:39.500 Spirit 00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:40.539 who dwells 00:30:40.539 --> 00:30:40.979 in you. 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:42.659 Now just notice 00:30:42.659 --> 00:30:44.039 how beautifully 00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:44.799 Trinitarian 00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:45.779 this verse is. 00:30:46.339 --> 00:30:47.459 We see twice 00:30:47.459 --> 00:30:48.599 right there 00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:49.139 in this verse 00:30:49.139 --> 00:30:49.659 we have 00:30:49.659 --> 00:30:50.959 the Father, 00:30:51.179 --> 00:30:51.579 the Spirit 00:30:51.579 --> 00:30:52.179 and the Son. 00:30:53.459 --> 00:30:54.240 The Spirit 00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:55.799 of Him 00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:56.679 who raised 00:30:56.679 --> 00:30:56.979 Jesus, 00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:57.779 the Father 00:30:57.779 --> 00:30:58.199 who raised 00:30:58.200 --> 00:30:58.640 Jesus, 00:30:58.940 --> 00:30:59.779 Jesus the Son 00:30:59.779 --> 00:31:00.200 from the dead 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:00.620 the Trinity 00:31:00.620 --> 00:31:01.319 and then we 00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:01.920 get it again. 00:31:03.600 --> 00:31:04.340 He who raised 00:31:04.340 --> 00:31:05.039 Christ as the 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:05.759 Father who raised 00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:06.180 the Son 00:31:06.180 --> 00:31:06.640 from the dead 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:07.340 will give life 00:31:07.340 --> 00:31:08.039 to your mortal 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:08.279 bodies 00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:08.759 through His 00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:09.080 Spirit 00:31:09.080 --> 00:31:09.539 who dwells 00:31:09.539 --> 00:31:09.680 in you. 00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:09.980 This is the 00:31:09.980 --> 00:31:10.660 Trinity again. 00:31:12.259 --> 00:31:12.819 The Father, 00:31:13.779 --> 00:31:14.380 the Spirit 00:31:14.380 --> 00:31:15.640 and the Son 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:17.100 working together 00:31:17.100 --> 00:31:17.980 to do what? 00:31:18.660 --> 00:31:19.799 With what goal? 00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:20.600 With what effect? 00:31:20.700 --> 00:31:21.480 With what outcome? 00:31:22.539 --> 00:31:23.660 To give life 00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:24.779 to your mortal 00:31:24.779 --> 00:31:25.299 bodies. 00:31:25.299 --> 00:31:27.359 Paul is 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:27.779 speaking of 00:31:27.779 --> 00:31:28.460 the future 00:31:28.460 --> 00:31:29.559 bodily 00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:30.379 resurrection 00:31:30.379 --> 00:31:31.180 of beliefs. 00:31:31.879 --> 00:31:32.279 Bodily 00:31:32.279 --> 00:31:32.779 resurrection. 00:31:34.419 --> 00:31:35.319 The resurrection 00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:36.000 of Jesus 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.139 from the dead, 00:31:38.539 --> 00:31:39.159 bodily from the 00:31:39.159 --> 00:31:39.359 grave, 00:31:39.419 --> 00:31:39.759 that's the 00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:40.779 pattern for 00:31:40.779 --> 00:31:41.139 us, 00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:42.000 the pattern 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:42.399 for our 00:31:42.399 --> 00:31:42.740 future. 00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:43.599 He's the 00:31:43.599 --> 00:31:44.139 first fruits, 00:31:44.259 --> 00:31:44.599 where the 00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:45.220 harvest that 00:31:45.220 --> 00:31:45.799 is to come. 00:31:46.159 --> 00:31:46.659 What God 00:31:46.659 --> 00:31:47.180 has already 00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:47.700 done in the 00:31:47.700 --> 00:31:48.099 case of 00:31:48.099 --> 00:31:48.359 Jesus, 00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:49.039 He will 00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:50.180 do in the 00:31:50.180 --> 00:31:50.539 case of 00:31:50.539 --> 00:31:51.019 everyone who 00:31:51.019 --> 00:31:51.500 belongs to 00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:51.839 Jesus, 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:53.339 through His 00:31:53.339 --> 00:31:53.879 Spirit who 00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:54.380 dwells in. 00:31:56.080 --> 00:31:56.480 So if you 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:57.360 have God's 00:31:57.360 --> 00:31:57.780 Spirit in 00:31:57.780 --> 00:31:57.860 you, 00:31:57.900 --> 00:31:58.080 and you 00:31:58.080 --> 00:31:58.540 have God's 00:31:58.540 --> 00:31:58.860 Spirit if 00:31:58.860 --> 00:31:59.200 you believe 00:31:59.200 --> 00:31:59.680 in Jesus, 00:32:00.980 --> 00:32:01.380 then as 00:32:01.380 --> 00:32:02.160 your body 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:03.440 fails and 00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:04.060 wastes away, 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:04.900 what a hope 00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:05.540 we have 00:32:05.540 --> 00:32:07.580 that God 00:32:07.580 --> 00:32:08.260 will restore, 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:09.760 God will 00:32:09.760 --> 00:32:10.480 raise up, 00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:11.380 God will 00:32:11.380 --> 00:32:12.080 bring life. 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:14.400 Everything 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:15.440 God's created 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:16.160 is good and 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:16.700 that includes 00:32:16.700 --> 00:32:17.240 our bodies. 00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:20.539 and it's 00:32:20.539 --> 00:32:21.059 not God's 00:32:21.059 --> 00:32:21.579 will that 00:32:21.579 --> 00:32:22.920 our bodies 00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:24.000 should rot 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:24.279 in the 00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:24.859 ground and 00:32:24.859 --> 00:32:25.220 just our 00:32:25.220 --> 00:32:25.900 spirits depart 00:32:25.900 --> 00:32:26.460 to heaven and 00:32:26.460 --> 00:32:26.819 that's our 00:32:26.819 --> 00:32:27.559 eternal future, 00:32:27.660 --> 00:32:28.359 but rather that 00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:29.059 spirit and body 00:32:29.059 --> 00:32:29.940 be reunited and 00:32:29.940 --> 00:32:30.940 He raise us up 00:32:30.940 --> 00:32:31.720 in perishable 00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:32.819 and in glory 00:32:32.819 --> 00:32:34.019 as Jesus has 00:32:34.019 --> 00:32:34.680 been raised. 00:32:36.019 --> 00:32:37.579 Future bodily 00:32:37.579 --> 00:32:38.460 life, 00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:39.819 life now 00:32:39.819 --> 00:32:40.779 in God's 00:32:40.779 --> 00:32:41.759 Spirit and 00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:42.720 a future where 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:43.640 even our bodies, 00:32:43.900 --> 00:32:44.700 though they perish 00:32:44.700 --> 00:32:45.000 and die, 00:32:45.120 --> 00:32:45.620 will be raised 00:32:45.620 --> 00:32:46.019 from the dead. 00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:50.480 Why is it 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:51.019 that we have, 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:51.539 I mean we've 00:32:51.539 --> 00:32:52.660 seen two 00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:53.359 dominions, 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:56.000 two minds, 00:32:57.779 --> 00:32:58.859 two destinies, 00:32:59.859 --> 00:33:02.120 why is it 00:33:02.120 --> 00:33:02.400 that we have 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:02.720 a different 00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:03.160 destiny? 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:06.140 Because we 00:33:06.140 --> 00:33:06.579 have a different 00:33:06.579 --> 00:33:07.039 dominion, 00:33:07.660 --> 00:33:09.599 because it 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:10.460 is the 00:33:10.460 --> 00:33:11.559 Spirit dwelling 00:33:11.559 --> 00:33:12.079 in us 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:13.079 who determines, 00:33:13.620 --> 00:33:14.539 by God, 00:33:15.059 --> 00:33:16.220 who determines 00:33:16.220 --> 00:33:17.440 our future. 00:33:19.380 --> 00:33:20.579 And why is it 00:33:20.579 --> 00:33:21.019 that the 00:33:21.019 --> 00:33:21.519 righteous 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.600 requirement of 00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:24.160 the law 00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:24.839 might be 00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:25.440 fulfilled in 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:25.779 us? 00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:27.980 Because we 00:33:27.980 --> 00:33:28.480 live under a 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:29.100 different dominion. 00:33:30.500 --> 00:33:31.400 We have the 00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:32.519 mind of God's 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:33.180 Spirit dwelling 00:33:33.180 --> 00:33:33.740 in us, 00:33:34.660 --> 00:33:35.779 a mind that 00:33:35.779 --> 00:33:36.559 is life and 00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:37.039 peace, 00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:38.740 a mind of 00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:39.160 God's Spirit 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:39.700 dwelling in us, 00:33:39.819 --> 00:33:40.480 enabling the 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:41.860 renewing of 00:33:41.860 --> 00:33:42.600 our minds, 00:33:43.380 --> 00:33:44.220 which Paul will 00:33:44.220 --> 00:33:44.720 speak of in 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:45.339 Romans 12. 00:33:45.860 --> 00:33:46.319 Don't be 00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:46.960 conformed to 00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:47.400 this world, 00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:47.799 but be 00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:48.920 transformed by 00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:49.519 the renewal 00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:49.920 of your 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:50.259 mind, 00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:51.559 that you 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:52.259 may discern 00:33:52.259 --> 00:33:52.880 what is the 00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:53.220 will of 00:33:53.220 --> 00:33:53.519 God, 00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:54.299 what is good 00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:55.259 and acceptable 00:33:55.259 --> 00:33:55.960 and perfect. 00:33:58.860 --> 00:33:59.339 Now if you 00:33:59.339 --> 00:33:59.660 feel, 00:33:59.779 --> 00:34:01.160 if you feel 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:01.960 yourself trapped 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:02.880 in patterns of 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:05.240 thought that 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:05.880 belong not to 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:06.559 the Spirit but 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:07.240 to the flesh, 00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:09.920 feel trapped 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:10.420 in those patterns. 00:34:10.420 --> 00:34:13.400 I want you 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:13.800 to know, 00:34:14.579 --> 00:34:15.280 God wants us 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:15.680 to know, 00:34:16.619 --> 00:34:17.480 there is hope, 00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:19.300 there is 00:34:19.300 --> 00:34:19.900 freedom. 00:34:21.900 --> 00:34:22.579 If you're 00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:25.780 a greedy 00:34:25.780 --> 00:34:28.760 person and 00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:29.119 you find 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:29.599 yourself just 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:30.320 always wanting 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:31.420 more for 00:34:31.420 --> 00:34:31.820 yourself, 00:34:33.260 --> 00:34:36.639 you don't 00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:37.200 need to be 00:34:37.200 --> 00:34:37.420 that. 00:34:37.420 --> 00:34:39.840 you don't 00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:40.519 have to keep 00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:40.980 living that 00:34:40.980 --> 00:34:41.260 way. 00:34:43.659 --> 00:34:44.260 You can 00:34:44.260 --> 00:34:44.519 let it 00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:44.820 go. 00:34:46.940 --> 00:34:47.320 God's 00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:47.960 Spirit dwells 00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:49.920 in you and 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:50.720 he desires 00:34:50.720 --> 00:34:51.500 something else. 00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:54.119 If you're an 00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:54.900 angry person, 00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:55.460 if you're, 00:34:57.300 --> 00:34:57.519 you know, 00:34:57.599 --> 00:34:57.900 you're just, 00:34:58.019 --> 00:34:58.260 there's a, 00:34:58.920 --> 00:34:59.579 there's an 00:34:59.579 --> 00:35:00.320 anger in you 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:00.820 that's just 00:35:00.820 --> 00:35:01.380 always there 00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:01.920 sort of below 00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:02.500 the surface, 00:35:02.700 --> 00:35:03.420 seething away. 00:35:03.420 --> 00:35:06.139 every now 00:35:06.139 --> 00:35:06.340 and then 00:35:06.340 --> 00:35:06.900 it erupts. 00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:10.019 You don't 00:35:10.019 --> 00:35:10.460 need to hold 00:35:10.460 --> 00:35:10.840 on to that, 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:11.240 whatever it 00:35:11.240 --> 00:35:11.539 is that's 00:35:11.539 --> 00:35:12.019 causing that 00:35:12.019 --> 00:35:12.300 anger. 00:35:13.260 --> 00:35:13.940 You can 00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:15.220 let it 00:35:15.220 --> 00:35:15.519 go. 00:35:18.200 --> 00:35:18.619 Those 00:35:18.619 --> 00:35:19.039 things, 00:35:19.180 --> 00:35:19.579 greed, 00:35:20.300 --> 00:35:20.760 anger, 00:35:21.579 --> 00:35:22.139 impurity, 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:24.019 whatever the 00:35:24.019 --> 00:35:24.559 pattern of 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:25.180 thought is 00:35:25.180 --> 00:35:26.960 that you're 00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:27.460 stuck in, 00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:28.440 it belongs 00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:28.760 to the 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:29.200 flesh. 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:32.320 But you, 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:34.700 you belong 00:35:34.700 --> 00:35:34.960 to the 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:35.200 Spirit. 00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:37.620 You belong 00:35:37.620 --> 00:35:37.900 to the 00:35:37.900 --> 00:35:38.100 Spirit. 00:35:42.059 --> 00:35:42.539 So, 00:35:43.380 --> 00:35:45.019 live 00:35:45.019 --> 00:35:46.580 in the 00:35:46.580 --> 00:35:46.960 freedom 00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:48.559 of the 00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:48.980 Spirit of 00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:49.280 God. 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:53.039 Let's 00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:53.280 pray. 00:35:58.800 --> 00:35:59.240 Heavenly 00:35:59.240 --> 00:35:59.640 Father, 00:35:59.780 --> 00:36:00.960 we thank 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:01.880 you that 00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:07.220 when we 00:36:07.220 --> 00:36:08.480 believe and 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:08.780 when we 00:36:08.780 --> 00:36:09.019 have 00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:09.599 believed in 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:09.780 your 00:36:09.780 --> 00:36:10.000 Son, 00:36:10.099 --> 00:36:10.360 Jesus, 00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:12.019 you've 00:36:12.019 --> 00:36:12.579 not only 00:36:12.579 --> 00:36:13.700 forgiven 00:36:13.700 --> 00:36:14.160 us all 00:36:14.160 --> 00:36:14.660 our sins 00:36:14.660 --> 00:36:15.420 and justified 00:36:15.420 --> 00:36:15.960 us, 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:18.280 counted us 00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:18.780 as righteous, 00:36:19.980 --> 00:36:20.440 but you've 00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:20.840 come to 00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:21.920 live in 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:22.420 us in 00:36:22.420 --> 00:36:22.820 the person 00:36:22.820 --> 00:36:23.099 of your 00:36:23.099 --> 00:36:23.480 Spirit. 00:36:24.380 --> 00:36:24.660 You've 00:36:24.660 --> 00:36:25.519 united us 00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:26.099 with 00:36:26.099 --> 00:36:26.880 yourself, 00:36:27.059 --> 00:36:27.380 with your 00:36:27.380 --> 00:36:27.740 Son. 00:36:29.340 --> 00:36:30.000 Thank you 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:30.400 for your 00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:30.820 Spirit 00:36:30.820 --> 00:36:32.139 already 00:36:32.139 --> 00:36:32.619 dwelling 00:36:32.619 --> 00:36:33.219 in us 00:36:33.219 --> 00:36:33.639 and with 00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:34.059 us, 00:36:35.059 --> 00:36:35.340 filling 00:36:35.340 --> 00:36:35.840 us with 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:36.420 spiritual 00:36:36.420 --> 00:36:36.940 life. 00:36:38.579 --> 00:36:39.280 Thank you 00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:39.699 for the 00:36:39.699 --> 00:36:40.260 mind of 00:36:40.260 --> 00:36:40.440 the 00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:40.840 Spirit 00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:41.960 dwelling 00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:42.539 in us, 00:36:43.219 --> 00:36:43.920 that he 00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:44.179 can 00:36:44.179 --> 00:36:44.960 transform 00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:45.340 our 00:36:45.340 --> 00:36:45.820 minds. 00:36:48.019 --> 00:36:48.679 Thank you 00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:49.159 that you, 00:36:49.780 --> 00:36:50.119 by your 00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:50.420 Spirit, 00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:50.980 can free 00:36:50.980 --> 00:36:52.699 us from 00:36:52.699 --> 00:36:53.159 every 00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:53.900 pattern of 00:36:53.900 --> 00:36:54.460 thought and 00:36:54.460 --> 00:36:55.219 behaviour that 00:36:55.219 --> 00:36:56.420 belongs to 00:36:56.420 --> 00:36:56.980 the flesh. 00:36:56.980 --> 00:36:59.980 so please 00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:00.400 Lord God, 00:37:00.500 --> 00:37:01.179 continue that 00:37:01.179 --> 00:37:01.719 good work 00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:02.219 in us. 00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:04.480 Change 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:05.139 our minds, 00:37:05.820 --> 00:37:06.199 transform 00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:07.679 us so 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:08.059 that we 00:37:08.059 --> 00:37:08.480 might 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:10.360 desire 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:10.760 what 00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:11.639 brings you 00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:12.139 delight. 00:37:13.900 --> 00:37:14.240 Assure it 00:37:14.240 --> 00:37:14.840 wholeheartedly. 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:15.980 In Jesus' 00:37:16.139 --> 00:37:16.300 name. 00:37:16.300 --> 00:37:16.360 Amen. 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:16.420 Amen. 00:37:16.420 --> 00:37:18.360 Amen. 00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:18.920 Amen. 00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:18.940 Amen. 00:37:18.940 --> 00:37:20.920 Amen. 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:21.000 Amen. 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:21.019 Amen. 00:37:21.019 --> 00:37:21.039 Amen. 00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:21.059 Amen. 00:37:21.059 --> 00:37:21.079 Amen. 00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:21.099 Amen. 00:37:21.099 --> 00:37:21.159 Amen. 00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:21.199 Amen. 00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:23.099 Amen. 00:37:23.099 --> 00:37:23.119 Amen. 00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:23.159 Amen. 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:25.159 Amen. 00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:25.199 Amen. 00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:25.219 Amen. 00:37:25.219 --> 00:37:26.960 Amen.