The Holy Spirit
Paul talks lot about the Holy Spirit and the role that He plays in peoples lives in Romans 8:3-17. His main point though, is that there is a very distinct difference between people of the flesh and people of the Spirit. If the Spirit of God is alive in a person, then that person is alive because they died to sin. However, if the Spirit is not in a person then they are dead. The people of the Spirit and the people of the Flesh are completely opposite from one another, according to Paul in this passage. In verse 4 Paul talks about how before we came to know Christ, we were continually defeated by sin. "When we came to know Him and to receive the indwelling Holy Spirit, we were able to attain a standard we could never reach in our own strength, (Morris, 304)." The Holy Spirit lives among people and enables them to live on something that they could never reach by themselves. That is a difference from those who live in the flesh. People who live in the flesh don't have help from the Spirit, therefore they cannot have the Spirit enable them for anything. In verse 5, Paul is saying that the people of the flesh may have good intentions but the things of the world bound their lives. Morris talks about how the peopl
" The fleshy people are so focused on themselves that they don't have time to look at the things around them and be thankful. " The Spirit will come to the believer and raise them up with Christ. This is not an option for believers, (Morris, 311). In verse 17, according to Morris, Paul doesn't lead the believers to believe that they will have an easy path. Morris says that, "Paul is still concerned that those whose interests are earth-bound cut themselves off from fellowship with God and the blessings that follow. Morris talks about how when anyone is in Christ that their body is not supreme and it is possible to take the words in this passage to mean that their body is dead, completely overcome. One question that I would have for Paul in this passage would be to ask him if Living in the Spirit requires all worldly desires and possessions to be gone in you life? Will I be able to live in the Spirit while I still might desire to do something that I should not? ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. It is by God's grace that we are saved; we suffer because we are human, not because Christ suffered. " Morris is right, Christians don't have any options. According to Morris, "the Spirit doesn't play a fleeting visit, but has its home in them, (Morris, 310). In verse 15, Paul is saying that the Spirit does not make people slaves but sons. Morris defines "In the Spirit" as the "means of how a believer lives a bodily life as all people do, but they aren't characterized by it and they don't belong to it". to be wholly involved in this life is to make it impossible to please God, (Morris, 308). In verse 6, Paul talks about the flesh bringing death and the Spirit bringing life. Morris makes a good point when he says, "Because they are concentrating on this fleshly life, they cut themselves off from the blessings that Christ offers, (Morris 305).
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