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May 11, 2004
The Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ is the same Spirit that lives in the hearts of believers. Jesus has given us His closest companion—His best friend, the person who knows everything about Him—to dwell within us and make us more like Him. Pastor Sinclair Ferguson draws out the implications of this marvelous thought, examining the Holy Spirit’s distinctive, transforming power in our lives.
1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.1 2For the law of hthe Spirit of life ihas set you2 free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3For jGod has done what the law, kweakened by the flesh, lcould not do. mBy sending his own Son nin the likeness of sinful flesh and ofor sin,3 he condemned sin in the flesh, 4in order that pthe righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, qwho walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5For rthose who live according to the flesh set their minds on sthe things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on tthe things of the Spirit. 6For to set uthe mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7For the mind that is set on the flesh is vhostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; windeed, it cannot. 8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact xthe Spirit of God dwells in you. yAnyone who does not have zthe Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of ahim who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus4 from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies bthrough his Spirit who dwells in you.
12So then, brothers,5 we are debtors, cnot to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you dput to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14For all who are eled by the Spirit of God are fsons6 of God. 15For gyou did not receive hthe spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of iadoption as sons, by whom we cry, j“Abba! Father!” 16kThe Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then lheirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, mprovided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time nare not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19For the creation waits with eager longing for othe revealing of the sons of God. 20For the creation pwas subjected to futility, not willingly, but qbecause of him who subjected it, in hope 21that rthe creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22For we know that sthe whole creation thas been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have uthe firstfruits of the Spirit, vgroan inwardly as wwe wait eagerly for adoption as sons, xthe redemption of our bodies. 24For yin this hope we were saved. Now zhope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we await for it with patience.
26Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For bwe do not know what to pray for as we ought, but cthe Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27And dhe who searches hearts knows what is ethe mind of the Spirit, because7 the Spirit fintercedes for the saints gaccording to the will of God. 28And we know that for those who love God all things work together hfor good,8 for ithose who are called according to his purpose. 29For those whom he jforeknew he also kpredestined lto be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be mthe firstborn among many brothers. 30And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also njustified, and those whom he justified he also oglorified.
31What then shall we say to these things? pIf God is for us, who can be9 against us? 32qHe who did not spare his own Son but rgave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? sIt is God who justifies. 34tWho is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—uwho is at the right hand of God, vwho indeed is interceding for us.10 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36As it is written,
w“For your sake xwe are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than yconquerors through zhim who loved us. 38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.
