Romans 8 is packed with good stuff, whoa! Here are some of the verses that stuck out to me. What did you notice?
2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
The Spirit of life...wow.
7-8. ...because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
This seems to explain a bit the reasoning behind the defensiveness you can face when people get angry about your beliefs. Have you ever had anyone judge you, saying "how can you be Christian? It's so judgmental." It may be ironic, but I have faced this. If one is living out of the flesh, opposed to the Spirit, of course they will be defensive and hostile! They aren't even able to recognize the law of God and of life.
15. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!"
We continually cry out to God now instead of fearing.
20-21. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
The problem of evil explained here: how can there be an all-good God and still be evil? The creation was brought into a state of what is known as "natural evil" as a mercy to us to remind us and call us back...bringing us to salvation.
24. For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?
Hope explained, what it is and what it's not.
29-30. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
God foreknew only some.
38-39. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
NOTHING can separate you from the love Jesus has for you.
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