Framework of Faith: Romans

Romans: Framework of Faith – No Condemnation 

Theme—Romans 1:16-17
Sin—Romans 1:18-3:20
Salvation—Romans 3:21-5:21
Spiritual Growth (Sanctification) Romans 6-8

Romans 7:15-18
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

Romans 7:25
Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

The potential or possibility to win every spiritual battle comes through Jesus Christ—his work on the cross and his Spirit that lives within me.

Romans 8:1-3
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man.

• Declared Not Guilty!
• Declared Righteous!

Romans 8:4-8
in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

Apart from Christ:

• Mind set on desires of the sinful nature (8:5a)
• Mind is death (8:6a)
• The non-believer is hostile toward God (8:7a)
• The non-believer does not submit to God (8:7b)
• Non-believers are unable to please God (8:8)

Romans 8:8
Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

A believer who gives in to his sin nature is acting like an unbeliever.

1 Corinthians 3:1-3
Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly —mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?

Romans 8:9
You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

Romans 8:5-6
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace;

John 14:25
All this I have spoken while still with you.

Romans 8:10-15
But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Mark 14:36
“Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Galatians 4:6
Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”

Romans 8:16
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

How does the Spirit testify with our spirit that we belong to God?

• He says, “You are mine.”
• He convicts me when I sin.
• He gives me an aspiration to follow hard after Christ.
• He gives me an understanding of the importance of Christian community.
• He put in me a craving for God’s word.
• He gives me a desire to tell others about Jesus.
• He gives me a heart for Christian sacrificial giving.

Romans 8:17-18
Now if we are children, then we are heirs —heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.