Please allow me to share with you the truths found in The Holy Bible, Romans, Chapter 8. It
has been a great blessing to me because it has shown me how to live in the Holy
Spirit. It provides us, also, with
assurance of salvation and an understanding of the intercessory work of the
Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ, which they provide on our behalf. I hope you are as blessed as I am every time I
read these words.
So, please pray for the Holy Spirit to guide you, and then
read:
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who
are in Christ Jesus, 2 because
through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set me free from
the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it
was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so, he condemned sin in sinful
man, 4 in
order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us,
who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
5 Those who live according to the sinful nature have their
minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance
with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind of sinful man is
death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The sinful mind is
hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are controlled
by the sinful nature cannot please God.
9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but
by the Spirit., if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not
have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in
you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of
righteousness. 11 And
if the Spirit of him who raised Christ from the dead is living in you, he
who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through
his Spirit, who lives in you.
12 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation - but
it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. 13 For if you live
according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put
to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are
led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to
fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And
by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself
testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children,
then we are heirs - heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share
in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth
comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits
in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was
subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who
subjected it, in hope 21 that the
creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought
into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as
in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we
ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as
we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were
saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what
they already have? 25 But
if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do
not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for
us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind
of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance
with the God’s will.
28 And we know that in all things God works for the
good of those who love him, who have been called according to
his purpose. 29 For
those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness
of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.30 And those he
predestined, he also called; those he called, he also
justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31 What, then, shall we say
in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his
own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with
him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom
God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ
Jesus who died - more than that, who was raised to life - is at the right hand
of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or
danger or sword? 36 As
it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor
any powers,39 neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
