F O O T H O L D
READING
82 A NEW WAY OF LIVING
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PRAY Don't let me escape the
power of the truths in this chapter
today, heavenly Father.
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READ Romans 8:1-17.
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THINK Who is free from
condemnation?
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FOCUS Get ready. Here is
another section of Romans which can set off an
explosion in your mind!
1. THE DEMANDS OF THE LAW
SATISFIED (3,4). 'I'll go straight in
the future,' says the law-breaker.
'Good', the judge may say,
'but you still have to pay
the penalty for the wrong you have
done.' Jesus does this for
us. He has dealt with the problem of
our pst failures to obey
God's law by offering his own perfect
life as a sacrifice for sin
on the cross. If we turn from sin and
trust him, his obedience is
credited to us.
2. A NEW WAY OF LIVING (5-8).
Once the matter of our failure and
guilt is settled we are free
to set out on a new way of living
'as the Spirit tells' us(5).
This is not something unusual or
unnatural; it is what we
were made for originally - to 'walk with
God'.
3. A NEW POWER FOR LIVING (9-11).
Viewed from the outside,
Christians look just like
other people . . . usually! But look
closer, there is a great
difference between them and everybody
else. Living in them is the
Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus (9-
11). For them the future
means life, not death (11).
4. A NEW PATTERN FOR LIVING
(12-17). We are debtors if we belong
to Jesus Christ. Before we
knew him we thought we were free to go
our own way; actually we
were slaves of sin (6:20). Now we are
truly free to be what we
were made to be - the obedient children
of God our Creator; we owe
him the debt of loving service.
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PRAY Start the revolution
today! Ask the Holy Spirit to enable you to
live the way that God has
planned.
