| I. The Statement |
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VERSE 8:1 |
| A. The Condition: |
Therefore there is now no condemnation |
(1a) |
| B. The Qualification: |
for those who are in Christ Jesus. |
(1b) |
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| II. The Reason |
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VERSES 8:2-11 |
| A. The Reason Stated: |
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| 1. Freedom from Sin and Death: |
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| a. The Subject: |
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus |
(2a) |
| b. The Action: |
has set you free from the law of sin and of death. |
(2b) |
| 2. Righteousness Fulfilled: |
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| a. The Failure: |
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| (1) What: |
For what the Law could not do, |
(3a) |
| (2) Why: |
weak as it was through the flesh, |
(3b) |
| b. The Success: |
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| (1) What: |
God did: |
(3c) |
| (2) How: |
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| (a) The Agent: |
sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh |
(3d) |
| (b) The Means: |
and as an offering for sin, |
(3e) |
| (3) What: |
He condemned sin in the flesh, |
(3f) |
| (4) Why: |
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| (a) The Law: |
so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, |
(4a) |
| (b) The Life: |
who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. |
(4b) |
| B. The Reason Expanded: |
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| 1. The Contrast – FLESH and SPIRIT: |
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| a. Their Orientation: |
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| (1) The Flesh: |
For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, |
(5a) |
| (2) The Spirit: |
but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. |
(5b) |
| b. Their Results: |
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| (1) The Flesh: |
For the mind set on the flesh is death, |
(6a) |
| (2) The Spirit: |
but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, |
(6b) |
| 2. The Explanation: |
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| a. The Failure of the Flesh: |
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| (1) Toward God: |
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; |
(7a) |
| (2) Toward the Law: |
for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, |
(7b) |
| (3) Conclusion: |
and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. |
(8) |
| b. The Success of the Spirit |
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| (1) The Qualification: |
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| (a) Positively: |
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. |
(9a) |
| (b) Negatively |
But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. |
(9b) |
| (2) The Results: |
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| (a) Spiritual Life: |
If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. |
(10) |
| (b) Physical Life: |
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. |
(11) |
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| III. The Conclusion |
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VERSES 8:12-13 |
| A. The Statement: |
So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— |
(12) |
| B. Reason: |
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| 1. Stated Negatively: |
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| a. If: |
for if you are living according to the flesh, |
(13a) |
| b. Then: |
you must die; |
(13b) |
| 2. Stated Positively: |
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| a. If: |
but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, |
(13c) |
| b. Then: |
you will live. |
(13d) |