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The struggle from Chapter 7 is over. The desperate question: “O wretched man that I am! who will deliver me out of this body of death?” (Romans 7:24) has been answered.
The speaker is no longer looking within himself for evidence of his salvation, but trusts in what God has done.
Please read Romans Chapter 8 now.
What glorious conclusion does the writer draw in the first verse for those "in Christ Jesus"?
Your response:
How were we set free (verse 2)?
The law (of Moses) is holy (Chapter 7,12), but ...
... it was unable to help, because it was because of the flesh.
But God his own in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, and in Him has sin in the flesh.
When we contemplate the act of God on the cross, when He gave His own Son for us, our hearts are filled with a love that expresses itself in a consistent obedience to the Word of God. This Christian obedience goes further than the demands of the law. The believer obeys God out of love and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
The law is not the believer's rule of life, but ...
... its righteous requirement is fulfilled by a life ("walk") according to the (verse 4).
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