Spirit People
Paul lays unique emphasis on life being the Spirit in us. Nowhere else in the New Testament is this said in such plainness. There are 15 mentions of the Spirit in Romans 8, in place of those many “I’s” in the previous chapter.
Paul says, “Get this clear: we are now Spirit people. Christ is living our life. We are walking His way (Rom. 8:3). We think His thoughts (Rom. 8:5-6). He in us counteracts those former self-for-self thought patterns, which set us at enmity with God.
“If you walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh , Paul begins, for he could not speak our word for us. But speaking for ourselves we say, “Since we walk that way ” Again, when Paul says in 8:11, “If the Spirit dwells in you ” we say, “He does dwell in us. And the Spirit puts those old body habits to death (Rom. 8:13).
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- Into Deep Waters
- The Great Deception
- Under New Management
- The Basis of the Solution–Only Containers
- A Frustrating Complication
- Paul’s Answer
- Back to His Beginning
- Trouble with “I”
- Self-Effort is Satan-Effort
- Slain by the Delusion
- A Desperate Discovery
- A Big Difference
- Free at Last
- The Lost Secret
- Coming Honest
- A Crisis Moment
- The Change
- Spirit People
- Daily Living
- Permanent Tension
- Unshakeable Confidence
- Training Years
- Pointing Fingers
- “Mt. Everest” Scaled
- “Come On Up”
- To Sum Up
