20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. -Romans 3:20 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. - Romans 8:3-4 Jesus fulfilled the righteous requirement of the law for us. 9 if we confess with our mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.’ - Romans 10:9 The Christian Life is the Process of Becoming We Already Are. God views us as through Christ. How do we live our lives in a way that matches how God views us? 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. -Romans 8:7-8 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 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. -Romans 8:9-11 The Life of A Christian is an Empowered ‘Life in the Spirit.’ You are no longer obligated to sin. We Remain In Bondage to Sin Because Our Mind Is Still Set On the Flesh 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. -Romans 12:2 We Remain in Bondage to Sin Because We Don’t Believe it’s That Big of a Deal "Be killing sin or it will be killing you.” - John Owens We Remain in Bondage to Sin Because We Try 20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. -Romans 3:20 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. -Romans 8:13 We’ll Find Freedom From Sin When We Trust the Spirit to Give us: A new 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. -Galatians 5:22-23 We’ll Find Freedom From Sin When We Trust the Spirit to Give us: A new We’ll Find Freedom From Sin When We Trust the Spirit to Give us: A new 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. -Acts1:8