Romans 8: Nothing can separate us from Gods Love pt 3

³⁸ And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. ³⁹ No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• nothing can separate us from Gods love...
• not even hell nor death
• its so amazing how God can love us so much when we dont deserve it.
• thank you father

Romans 8: nothing can separate us from Gods love pt 1

³¹ What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? ³² Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? ³³ Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. ³⁴Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

• out God is so mighty that he is willing to give us everything
• He gave let us stand right with him
• no one will condemn us, because christ has died and risen for us

Romans 8: The Future glory pt 2

²⁶ And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. ²⁷ And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will. ²⁸ And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. ²⁹ For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory.

• holy spirit is what helps us
• the holy spirit wants us to be with God
• God makes everything work together/ out
• he knows us so well that he is able to do that
• those who were standing right with God are given his glory

Romans 8: The Future Glory pt 1

¹⁸ Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. ¹⁹ For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. ²⁰ Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, ²¹ the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. ²² For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. ²⁴ We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. ²⁵ But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

• our sufferings now is nothing compared to the prized ahead
• we wait eagerly for the day when we are released from the sin and suffering of the world to join our father in heaven
• we were given this hope when Jesus saved us
• we dont need to hope for something we already have...Jesus has already saved us
• so we must wait patiently and confidently until that day

Romans 8: Life in the spirit pt 3

¹⁵ So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”¹⁶ For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. ¹⁷ And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

• no spirit= slaves
• we have obtained Gods spirit when he took us in
• he is our father
• because we our his children we are also his heirs in his glory
• if we share in Christ glory we must also share his suffering

living in the spirit frees lets us live in the light. we are able to become everything that our wants for us. we go through suffering only because we must just as christ did. Living in the spirit is what frees us from living in our sin.

Romans 8: Life in the spirit pt 2

⁹ But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.) ¹⁰ And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. ¹¹ The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

• we are not controlled by our sinful nature
• the spirit controls us
• even though our bodies die with sin we live eternally because the spirit has made us right with God
• the spirit who raised Jesus from the grave lives in us
• God will raise us from the dead just as he did for Jesus

¹² Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. ¹³ For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. ¹⁴ For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.

• we have no obligation to our sinful nature
• if we live by sin we will die
• if we live by the spirit we will live and our sinful nature will die
• anyone who lives by the spirit are children of the Lord

Romans 8: Life in the spirit pt 1

¹ So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. ² And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. ³ The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. ⁴ He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.

• those who believe in Jesus will not be condemned
• because we belong to him the spirit has free ed us from sin
• because of our sinful nature we are not saved by laws
• God in his might did what needed to be done to ends sins grasps over our lives( sounds like a love story :))
• Jesus dying on the cross fulfilled the requirement that we were law bounded to

⁵ Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. ⁶ So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. ⁷ For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will. ⁸ That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

• those who are dominated (strong word) by their sinfulness think about sinful things and those who are under the holy spirit only think about pleasing God
• letting sin take over us leads to death
• letting the spirit leads to life
• sinful nature is AlWAYS hostile to God
• and those who follow it can never please God

romans 7: Struggling with Sin

¹⁴ So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. ¹⁵ I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. ¹⁶ But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. ¹⁷ So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

• vs 15 is so true
• it is sin inside of me that is making me do wrong

¹⁸ And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. ¹⁹ I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. ²⁰ But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

• paul keep talking about he knows what is right yet he does wrong
• this part of the passage seems redundant
• paul still talks about his struggles and how it is sin inside of him that is making us do wrong and not us.

²¹ I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. ²² I love God’s law with all my heart. ²³ But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. ²⁴ Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? ²⁵ Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

• the war in our mind with sin is what makes us a slave to sin
• only Jesus can free us of this sin
• Paul couldn't be so true, I want to obey god but because of our sinful nature we are still slaves to sin
• Pauls struggles seems like a struggle every Christian would have. I know I do...

Romans 7: Gods Laws reveal our sins

7 Well then, am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? Of course not! In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, “You must not covet.” ⁸ But sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, sin would not have that power.⁹ At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life,¹⁰ and I died. So I discovered that the law’s commands, which were supposed to bring life, brought spiritual death instead. ¹¹ Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me. ¹² But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.

• The Law is not sinful, it is holy right and good.
• it helps us to know what sin is
• before learning and understanding the law we dont really know what sin is
• but when we learn of the law sin, like paul says, comes into our lives
• sin takes advantage of the commands of the Law and leads us astray.
• it stirs in us unholy desires
• the Laws commands brought death instead of life
• sin takes advantage of them and decieves us
• it kills us

¹³ But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.

• sin used what was good to kill us
• sin is so evil that it would taint something so good for its own evil desires.

Romans 7: No longer Bound to the Law

¹ Now, dear brothers and sisters—you who are familiar with the law—don’t you know that the law applies only while a person is living? ² For example, when a woman marries, the law binds her to her husband as long as he is alive. But if he dies, the laws of marriage no longer apply to her. ³ So while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery if she married another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and does not commit adultery when she remarries.

• the law only applies for when a person is alive
• ex. woman and her husband are bound by law until death do they part
• so law applies until a person has died

⁴ So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God. ⁵ When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.

• we died to the law when we died with jesus
• because we died we are free from the law and raised again==> results in good deeds for God
• the Law brought up evil natures that we were once bound to.
• but because we are free ed from the law it no longer has power on us
• we are free to serve God by living in the spirit than by obeying the law

Romans 6:Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ pt 6

²⁰ When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. ²¹ And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom. ²² But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

• we were free from an obligation to do right
• we are obligated to do right
• since christ paid for our sins we have become slaves to God
• now we are held to a standard to live in holiness
• what pays from sin is death, but with god we are given eternal life for free
• this is all made possible throught Christ

The one thing I think is super important is when paul says that we are obligated to do right. that we can no longer be like children and have a duty to do what is right.

Romans 6:Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ pt 5

¹⁹ Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.

• Paul relate us to slaves because we are human and weak
• we were once slaves to the sins of the earth
• we are now called to become slaves of God
• to live righteously so that we may become holy

Romans 6:Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ pt 4

¹⁵ Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! ¹⁶ Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. ¹⁷ Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. ¹⁸ Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.

• just because we are free ed from the law we still shouldn't break it
• we become slaves to whom ever we obey
• if we become a slave to sin we become a slave to death
• if we choose to obey christ it will lead to living a life worth living
• the romans chose this new life which allowed them to be free from sin and live a righteous life.

Being free from sin is about making the choice to whom we want to obey. If we choose to obey God we will be free'd from death and eternal life awaits, but if we choose sin only death awaits.

Just because God shows us grace doesn't mean that we can take advantage of it. we should commit ourlives to his ways and choose him as our master.

Romans 6:Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ pt 3

¹² Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. ¹³ Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. ¹⁴ Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.(NLT)

• Dont give into sin
• Dont let yourself become something for sin
• Only give youself to God, we owe him everything
• God gave us new life, and we should serve him with that life
• Use the body God gave you for his kingdom
• Sin no longer rules over us, we dont need to live under the law(Abraham law?)
• we are free to live because of his grace

so far it seems pretty straight forward. God gave us new life and we should live for him with that life. Its like if someone saved you from getting hit by a car wouldnt you feel indebted or want to serve that person? well same goes for God. He saved us from a major life of pain and suffering so we should live a life to serve and honor him.

Romans 6:Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ pt 2

⁵ Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. ⁶ We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. ⁷ For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. ⁸ And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. ⁹ We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.¹⁰ When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. ¹¹ So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.(NLT)

• since we were tied with Jesus when he died, we are also tied with him when he was given life
• sin was taken and put to the cross so that sin wont hold us down
• when Jesus died we were set free
• our sins and our past lives died with him we were also born anew
• we know that sin has lost its power because Jesus overcame death(death= sin) and rose from the dead
• we should consider ourselves to be dead to sin and alive to god
• we are able to be free from sin because of the love that Jesus and God had for us.