BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD

BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD

Romans 6:17-18,20,22-23 

BUT GOD BE THANKED, THAT YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN, BUT YE HAVE OBEYED FROM THE HEART THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE WHICH WAS DELIVERED YOU. BEING THEN MADE FREE FROM SIN, YE BECAME THE SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

[20] For When Ye Were The Servants Of Sin, Ye Were Free From Righteousness. 

[22] But Now Being Made Free From Sin, And Become Servants To God, Ye Have Your Fruit Unto Holiness, And The End Everlasting Life. For The Wages Of Sin Is Death; But The Gift Of God Is Eternal Life Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.

Romans 7:4-25,8:1-16

Wherefore, My Brethren, Ye Also Are Become Dead To The Law By The Body Of Christ; That Ye Should Be Married To Another, Even To Him Who Is Raised From The Dead, That We Should Bring Forth Fruit Unto God. For When We Were In The Flesh, The Motions Of Sins, Which Were By The Law, Did Work In Our Members To Bring Forth Fruit Unto Death. But Now We Are Delivered From The Law, That Being Dead Wherein We Were Held; That We Should Serve In Newness Of Spirit, And Not In The Oldness Of The Letter. What Shall We Say Then? Is The Law Sin? God Forbid. Nay, I Had Not Known Sin, But By The Law: For I Had Not Known Lust, Except The Law Had Said, Thou Shalt Not Covet. But Sin, Taking Occasion By The Commandment, Wrought In Me All Manner Of Concupiscence. For Without The Law Sin Was Dead. For I Was Alive Without The Law Once: But When The Commandment Came, Sin Revived, And I Died. And The Commandment, Which Was Ordained To Life, I Found To Be Unto Death. For Sin, Taking Occasion By The Commandment, Deceived Me, And By It Slew Me. Wherefore The Law Is Holy, And The Commandment Holy, And Just, And Good. Was Then That Which Is Good Made Death Unto Me? God Forbid. But Sin, That It Might Appear Sin, Working Death In Me By That Which Is Good; That Sin By The Commandment Might Become Exceeding Sinful.  For We Know That The Law Is Spiritual: But I Am Carnal, Sold Under Sin. For That Which I Do I Allow Not: For What I Would, That Do I Not; But What I Hate, That Do I. If Then I Do That Which I Would Not, I Consent Unto The Law That It Is Good. Now Then It Is No More I That Do It, But Sin That Dwelleth In Me. For I Know That In Me (That Is, In My Flesh,) Dwelleth No Good Thing: For To Will Is Present With Me; But How To Perform That Which Is Good I Find Not. For The Good That I Would I Do Not: But The Evil Which I Would Not, That I Do. Now If I Do That I Would Not, It Is No More I That Do It, But Sin That Dwelleth In Me. I Find Then A Law, That, When I Would Do Good, Evil Is Present With Me. For I Delight In The Law Of God After The Inward Man: But I See Another Law In My Members, Warring Against The Law Of My Mind, And Bringing Me Into Captivity To The Law Of Sin Which Is In My Members. O Wretched Man That I Am! Who Shall Deliver Me From The Body Of This Death? I Thank God Through Jesus Christ Our Lord. So Then With The Mind I Myself Serve The Law Of God; But With The Flesh The Law Of Sin. There Is Therefore Now No Condemnation To Them Which Are In Christ Jesus, Who Walk Not After The Flesh, But After The Spirit. For The Law Of The Spirit Of Life In Christ Jesus Hath Made Me Free From The Law Of Sin And Death. For What The Law Could Not Do, In That It Was Weak Through The Flesh, God Sending His Own Son In The Likeness Of Sinful Flesh, And For Sin, Condemned Sin In The Flesh: That The Righteousness Of The Law Might Be Fulfilled In Us, Who Walk Not After The Flesh, But After The Spirit. For They That Are After The Flesh Do Mind The Things Of The Flesh; But They That Are After The Spirit The Things Of The Spirit. For To Be Carnally Minded Is Death; But To Be Spiritually Minded Is Life And Peace. Because The Carnal Mind Is Enmity Against God: For It Is Not Subject To The Law Of God, Neither Indeed Can Be. So Then They That Are In The Flesh Cannot Please God. But Ye Are Not In The Flesh, But In The Spirit, If So Be That The Spirit Of God Dwell In You. Now If Any Man Have Not The Spirit Of Christ, He Is None Of His. And If Christ Be In You, The Body Is Dead Because Of Sin; But The Spirit Is Life Because Of Righteousness. But If The Spirit Of Him That Raised Up Jesus From The Dead Dwell In You, He That Raised Up Christ From The Dead Shall Also Quicken Your Mortal Bodies By His Spirit That Dwelleth In You. Therefore, Brethren, We Are Debtors, Not To The Flesh, To Live After The Flesh. For If Ye Live After The Flesh, Ye Shall Die: But If Ye Through The Spirit Do Mortify The Deeds Of The Body, Ye Shall Live. For As Many As Are Led By The Spirit Of God, They Are The Sons Of God. For Ye Have Not Received The Spirit Of Bondage Again To Fear; But Ye Have Received The Spirit Of Adoption, Whereby We Cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit Itself Beareth Witness With Our Spirit, That We Are The Children Of God:

What These Scriptures Are Saying Is That Sin Had Me Enslaved. Sin Had Me So Confined That Even When I Wanted To Do Good, I Wouldn't.  I Was Such A Slave Because Of The Weakness Of My Flesh.  We Are All Fleshly Sinners When We Are Born. 

This Is Where Jesus Christ And His Salvation Comes In. 

When We Have Faith In Christ Jesus That He Kept The Whole Law Perfectly, We Are Saying That He Did It For Us. Where I Am Weak In My Flesh Jesus Christ Is Strong. Where I Could Not Keep The Law Because Of The Sinfulness Of My Flesh, Jesus Christ Came In Human Flesh And Was Without Sin And Kept The Law For Me. Keeping The Law Is What Would Make Us Righteous Enough To Come Before The Holy God And Have A Relationship With Him. Since Sin Had Me Enslaved I Would Not Keep The Law. But Read These Scriptures That Say We Are Not In The Flesh, But In The Spirit, If So Be That The Spirit Of God Dwell In Us.  God Sent His Own Son In The Likeness Of Sinful Flesh, And For Sin, Condemned Sin In The Flesh. The Law Of The Spirit Of Life In Christ Jesus Hath Made Me Free From The Law Of Sin And Death. God Be Thanked, That We Were The Servants Of Sin, But We Have Obeyed From The Heart That Form Of Doctrine Which Was Delivered Us. Making Us Free From Sin, We Became The Servants Of Righteousness. When We Were The Servants Of Sin, We Were Free From Righteousness But Now Being Made Free From Sin, And Become Servants To God. Sin Brings Condemnation And Death, But The Spirit Is Life Because Of Righteousness. We Have Not Received The Spirit Of Bondage Again To Fear; But We Have Received The Spirit Of Adoption, Whereby We Cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit Itself Bears Witness With Our Spirit, That We Are The Children Of God. No Longer Are We Servants Of Sin, But Free Children Of The Holy God. 

NO LONGER SINNERS, BUT WE ARE WASHED, BUT WE ARE SANCTIFIED, BUT WE ARE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD. 

1 Corinthians 6:11

And Such Were Some Of You: But Ye Are Washed, But Ye Are Sanctified, But Ye Are Justified In The Name Of The Lord Jesus, And By The Spirit Of Our God.

Free: Liberty, Not Under The Control Or In The Power Of, Not Or No Longer Confined Or Imprisoned, Without Cost Or Payment, Release From Captivity, Confinement, Or Slavery. 

Donna K Purifoy

5/8/2023