Prepare: When God saved you, He gave you a new life, not a new law.
Read: Romans 8:1-8
People attend church for many reasons. Some seek social status or companionship; some go out of habit or a sense of duty. Some go to worship God with other people. God is pleased when His people get together and worship Him. Still, many people leave a service with the same burden of sin and despair they hoped to leave behind. Believers sometimes feel unfulfilled. We should remember Paul's words about the tug-of-war that goes on between the flesh and the Spirit.
Those who live in accordance with the Spirit keep their mind centered on the things of the Lord and seek to please God in all things. The words No condemnation means, that the gospel does not pronounce condemnation like the Law; the object of the gospel is to free a person from condemnation, and to set the soul at liberty. The reason is this: that Christ hath undergone the penalty, and satisfied the Law in their stead.
A man whose purpose in life is to gratify his corrupt desires, cannot be a Christian. Unless he refuses to gratify his flesh, he can have no evidence of piety. If a man has the fruit of the Spirit, as seen in Gal. 5:22-23, he is a Christian; if not, he is a stranger to religion, whatever else he may possess. For to possess and cultivate the graces of the Spirit, to be led where he would guide us, is the design of our existence, and is the only path of happiness.
Respond: You can't please God if you are not renewed.
Read: Romans 8:1-8
People attend church for many reasons. Some seek social status or companionship; some go out of habit or a sense of duty. Some go to worship God with other people. God is pleased when His people get together and worship Him. Still, many people leave a service with the same burden of sin and despair they hoped to leave behind. Believers sometimes feel unfulfilled. We should remember Paul's words about the tug-of-war that goes on between the flesh and the Spirit.
Those who live in accordance with the Spirit keep their mind centered on the things of the Lord and seek to please God in all things. The words No condemnation means, that the gospel does not pronounce condemnation like the Law; the object of the gospel is to free a person from condemnation, and to set the soul at liberty. The reason is this: that Christ hath undergone the penalty, and satisfied the Law in their stead.
A man whose purpose in life is to gratify his corrupt desires, cannot be a Christian. Unless he refuses to gratify his flesh, he can have no evidence of piety. If a man has the fruit of the Spirit, as seen in Gal. 5:22-23, he is a Christian; if not, he is a stranger to religion, whatever else he may possess. For to possess and cultivate the graces of the Spirit, to be led where he would guide us, is the design of our existence, and is the only path of happiness.
Respond: You can't please God if you are not renewed.
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