The Law of the Spirit of Life, Romans 8:1-14

Chapter 4

In Romans 7 we saw that the law could not deliver us from the law of sin which it discovered in our members. We saw also that all we could expect from the law was condemnation, judgment, and death. But the chapter ended on a note of triumph, when the writer cried out, “Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me?” and answered his own question with that beautiful word, “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!” So now we are to learn of the Deliverance that is to be found in Him. Let us, then, look at the passage.

No Adverse Judgment, Romans 8:1

In Romans 8:1 we read: “There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” We saw how we had been born into Adam, and how also we had come into Christ, being associated with Him in His death and burial and resurrection. The apostle reminds us again that our old man having been