Romans 3:19-20 speaks this morning. “Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall be no flesh justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” I sit here rejoicing this morning, that what the law could not do, Jesus Christ did. as we read in Romans 7:24-8:8 “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.” What a glorious provision we have in Christ. By the law comes the knowledge of sin, and we read in Romans 7:1 that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he lives. Chapter 7 is glorious and we see that in verse 4. “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. Might be good to read John 15. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our mortal 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.” We have been baptized into Christ Hallelujah! Paul in verse 7 asks, “Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not know sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet, But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought all manner of concupiscence, (Strong desire, lust) for with the law sin was dead.” Why the law? “But sin, taking occasion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.” The strong desires of the flesh is what concupiscence is all about. Romans 7:6 is all about “For now ye 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. Romans 6:7-9 says, “For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.” Romans 15:56. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.”

I love it this morning, after all that Paul by inspiration wrote in Romans 7, he says in Romans 8:1 “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 set 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.” Romans 8:8 says very powerfully. “They that are in the flesh, cannot please God.” I rejoice this morning that in Romans 8:9 there is a powerful provision for us. “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any 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. Two critical verses this morning. “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.” vs14-15 Then we have this also. “The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heir, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with together.” 16-17 Are you listening this morning? Do you have assurance this morning that ye are in Christ and Christ is in you.?

In humility this morning I write, thankful and rejoicing in the fact that God’s Son, Jesus Christ was sacrificed on the cross for my sin. By the law no flesh is justified, but by the hearing by faith, righteousness is imputed unto me, and please listen to these verses. “What shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him, also freely (not something you earn) give us all things. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or peril, or sword?” In verse 37 we are told, “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Now Paul makes it personal. “I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separated us from the love of God, (I love how he says us, not just himself), which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Have a glorious day today, and rejoice if you name is written down in heaven Jesus did not come to condemn us, but by the sacrifice of Himself, he made a way for all of us sinners to come to God by faith, which imputed to us by God because His Son died in our place, but death could not hold Him. I am so thankful for grace today! Do you or have you accepted the grace of God through His Son, Jesus Christ! Do it today, and then tell someone.