GOD'S NEW WORLD, DAY 14 (life in the Spirit, part 1)
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” (Rom. 8.1-4) As he begins the eighth chapter of his letter to the Christians of Rome, Paul has reached the beating heart of what has proved to be his most important epistle. After demonstrating that the God of Israel has fulfilled his promised to Abraham to create a family composed of both Jews and Gentiles (chapters 1—4; cf. Gn. 12.1-3), Paul has continued to tell Israel’s story as the “controlling narrative” of the Christian life. ...