Our subject is life because of
righteousness. Life because of righteousness.
Let's look at Romans 8 verse 10. Romans 8 verse 10. And if Christ be in you, the
body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because
of righteousness. You know, truly good writing is writing that declares the
greatest truth with the least amount of words. That's why God's
Word excels every other man-made piece of writing. He says the
grandest, most profound truth in the fewest words. And that's
what we have here. If Christ be in you, the body
is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. Now, we're going to just divide,
just look at the division that this is already in, the three
parts that's in this one verse. First, we'll look at what it
means, if Christ be in you, and then secondly, the body is dead
because of sin. And then lastly we'll see, but
the spirit is life because of righteousness. And then we'll
see the point. There's a point, the Spirit of
God, why He's telling us this. Very important to understand
what He's teaching. If Christ be in you, if Christ
be in you, this is essential for a sinner to be saved. Christ
must be in you. It's essential for a sinner to
even know Christ or to believe on Christ, to be granted repentance
from trusting anything about ourselves or about this world.
Christ must be in you. Christ must be in you. It's how
we're made to know, how we're made to know in our conscience
that we're sinners, It's how we're made to know our need for
Christ. It's how we're made to know who
He is, what He's accomplished. Everything that God has to reveal
about Himself is declared and revealed in His Son. And the
only way we know the Son is if Christ be in you. If Christ be
in you. No sinner comes into this world
born the first time with Christ in you. No sinner comes into
this world with Christ abiding in us. We come into this world dead.
Spiritually dead. Spiritually dead. We don't know
God and we're unable to know God, cannot know God in that
spiritually dead state. And here's the thing, no sinner,
no other sinner, no other person can make Christ be in you. The
preacher cannot form Christ in you. Paul told the Galatians,
I travail. He travailed like a woman in
childbirth till Christ be formed in you. He had no ability to
do that. No preacher has the ability to
make Christ be in you. No parent has the ability to
make Christ be in their child. None whatsoever. And no sinner
No sinner can make Christ be in himself or herself. This is absolutely something
that none of us can do. We cannot make Christ be in us. Now while we were dead in sins,
if we were religious while we were dead in sins, we vainly
imagined that we could make Christ be in us. That's what false religion
is. Sin has made us to think we can
be as God. It made us think we can do things
only God can do. When we were in our sins and
we were dead, we thought we could make ourselves be born again
by something we did. We thought we could make ourselves
be righteous by obeying the law. We thought we could make ourselves
be holy by our deeds, by what we did, by abstaining from this
thing and that thing. And that's primarily what Paul
is talking about right here in verse 5. In Romans 8 verse 5
he says, They that are after the flesh, that's how we're born
the first time, after the flesh. They that are after the flesh
do mind the things of the flesh. And primarily, yes, that includes
all the sinful things, all the just lust after worldly things, wanting
money and stuff, and you know, and then there's sins that sinners
love to go after. But here in the context, and
what he's been talking about up to this point, he's primarily
speaking about religious folks who are minding what they touch,
what they don't touch, what they eat, what they don't eat, what
they wear, minding the things of the flesh to try to make themselves
accepted of God. That's primarily what he's speaking
about here. That's why he says in verse 6 to be carnally minded
is death. It says in verse 7, because the
carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to
the law of God. That includes the whole word.
Nothing in this book can a carnal mind submit to. Not the Ten Commandments,
not any commandment, not the gospel, not anything in this
book can a carnal mind make himself receive. carnal minds enmity
against God, for it's not subject to the law of God, neither indeed
can be. So then, they that are in the
flesh cannot please God. Just look at that now. They that
are in the flesh, that's how we all come into the world. They
that are in the flesh, it's said before that they cannot be subject
to any word of God, can't submit to any word of God, and they
there in the flesh cannot please God. That is depravity. That's what depravity is. Cannot
do, cannot receive God's Word, believe God's Word, submit to
God's Word, obey God's Word, and cannot in any way please
God. Now that's how we all came into
the world. That's what we are as we're born
the first time. Verse 9 says, now if any man,
second part says, now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ,
He is none of his. You know what Jeremiah says,
Jeremiah 13, 23 says, Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then
may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil. We come
into this world and we're only accustomed to do evil. That's
all we can do. That's all we can do. That's
the same as saying the court of mine is not subject to the
law of God, neither indeed can be. Same statement. We cannot
do good that are accustomed to do evil. We can't, we cannot. We're talking about what God
calls good. We have a bad tendency of wanting to discern what's
good by comparing ourselves with ourselves, by looking at others
and thinking, well, that's good, that's better than that. No,
we're talking about the standard is God, Christ Jesus, the righteousness
of God. We cannot do good. We can't change our nature. We can't change ourselves. Now
think about it. We cannot make Christ be in us. Only God makes Christ be in you. Only God. Only God does that. It's only by God's free and sovereign
electing Grace. It's only by the Holy Spirit
of God. It's only by Christ Himself. It's only by God's mercy. Only
by God's mercy. We have to be born of Christ. Born of the Spirit of our Lord.
We have to be born of the water of the Word. And we cannot do
that, nor can any man do that for us. Look at John chapter
1. John chapter 1. And look at verse
11. John 1.11 It says, The Lord Jesus came
unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received
Him, why did they? He says, To them He gave the
power, the privilege to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on His name. How were they born again? How
did they do that? Verse 13, which were born, not
of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of God. It's not ancestry, it's not who
mom and daddy was, who grandparents were, it's not of blood, it's
not of the will of the flesh, it's not others wanting Christ
to be in you, it's not our own personal will, it's only of God. It's only of God. You see, we're
proud sinners by nature. And we think we can do these
things that God says only He can do. And a man can hear what
I just read to you, he can read these scriptures and see them
right there on the page, but he cannot submit to the law of
God. He can't. He's not in submission
to what God says and he can't be. I have had people, I've shown
them in the scriptures, they read it, they looked at it, they
read it out loud and turn right around and say, well, I don't
care if it says that. I don't believe that. A man cannot
make himself submit to the Word of God. Cannot do it. We're only
born again by God. We're at the mercy of God. We're
at the mercy of God. See, that's what's going to be
humbling when he does give a new spirit, just to find out We're
at the mercy of God. God saves whom He will. So then it's not of Him that
willeth, nor of Him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. When God forms Christ in you,
that's when the believer, for the first time, submits to God's
Word and gives God all the glory. Because then we see, then we
hear, then we really know. Listen, we were sometimes foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living
in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But after
that, the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared,
not by works of righteousness we've done, but according to
His mercy He saved us by the washing of regeneration. and the renewing of the Holy
Ghost which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
This is God's purpose to save the way He saves. We saw it Sunday,
so no flesh glories in His presence but all who are saved glory only
in the Lord. Peter said, you're a chosen generation,
you're a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people that
you should show forth the praises of Him who called you out of
darkness into His marvelous light. In time past we were not a people,
but now we are the people of God, which had not obtained mercy,
but now have obtained mercy. We're at the mercy of God. If
Christ is in you, it will be because God had mercy on you. Alright, Romans 8, 10, let's
see this second part. And if Christ be in you, the
body is dead because of sin. When a sinner's born again of
the Spirit of God, when the Spirit of Christ is in you, the body
is still dead because of sin. The body is still dead because
of sin. Dead because of Adam's sin. Dead because of Adam's sin, due
to Adam's one transgression. All mankind was in Adam, and
when he sinned, we all sinned. When his sin made him guilty
before God, his sin made all his children be guilty before
God. And Adam's nature became corrupt. He became spiritually
dead in his nature. So when he had a son, by Adam's
corrupt seed, that son was dead in sin. And on and on it went
down to me and you. And that's how it is. Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin,
and so death passed upon all men, all men for that in Adam
all have sinned. When a sinner is born again,
look with me at John chapter 3. When a sinner is born again, that which is of Adam stays of
Adam. It remains so, and that which
is of Christ is of Christ. Look here, John 3, 6. That which
is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit. Now that's so for a believer,
chosen, redeemed, called, when you're born of God, born of the
Spirit of God, that which is flesh is still flesh. That which
is of the Spirit is spirit. For all God's elect, for every
one of us, our body was redeemed by Christ's blood, the same as
our soul and our spirit. Our body was. He redeemed us,
body, soul, and spirit. He bought us. The Holy Ghost
is in you. Your body is the temple of the
Lord, and so we're to glorify God in our body, soul, and spirit.
Your body is His. He bought it. And the Spirit
of Christ one day is going to quicken that body and raise it
immortal, incorruptible, like His glorious body. That's what
He says there in Romans 8, 11. If the Spirit of Him that raised
up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ
from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit
that dwelleth in you. He shall do that. But for now,
right now, even when we're born again of God, even when Christ
is in you, the body is still dead. due to sin. The body's
dead due to sin. It's dead because of Adam's original
sin. It's dead because of indwelling
sin that's in us. Therefore, our body is dead because
of sin. Sin is why our body is so weak
and so full of infirmities. Infirmities is just weakness.
Our body's full of that. This is why we age. It's why
we get sick. It's why one day our body is
going to go back to the dust from which God made the first
man. Our body is dead. It's dead. Our body will not
be renewed until Christ raises us by His Spirit. So that's so. Even though we have Christ and
He's in you, It's by his mercy that that's so. You're born again
of his mercy, but even when you're born again of his mercy, the
body is dead because of sin. All right, look now at this next
thing. But the spirit is life because of righteousness. The spirit is life because of
righteousness. If we have spiritual life within
us, if you right now believe in God, You can understand what
he teaches and you submit to him and you trust him and he's
all your salvation. You have spiritual life in you. If you do, here's why. It's because of righteousness.
Righteousness and life are one and the same. If somebody is
righteous, there's no degrees of righteousness. You're righteous
or not righteous. And there's no degrees of life.
You're either alive or you're dead. When sin entered, death
entered by sin. When we're righteous, we're gonna
be alive. When we're alive, we're righteous. If Christ be in you, the body's
dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. It's not a righteousness that's
of us. It's not a righteousness that
we earned or obtained by something we did. Christ is righteousness. I say it that way because, you
know, people want to debate about the doctrine of righteousness
and a system of righteousness, a theological system and all
these things. But brethren, Christ is righteousness. He wasn't striving to be righteous. He is righteousness. He is righteousness. And he is the righteousness we
must have. And he brought in for his people an everlasting
righteousness. He did that. Our Lord Jesus came
down and took flesh like us so that righteousness would be fulfilled
in us, in our nature, in the nature of a man. A man sinned,
a man had to do the saving. A man disobeyed, a man had to
obey. And he's the last Adam who came
to represent all his people. And Christ Jesus is that righteousness
we must have. He perfectly fulfilled all righteousness,
and he honored the law perfectly, went to the cross, took the sin
of his people, and bore justice, and put all the sin of his people
away. Now sin produced death. Righteousness produced life.
That's what he produced. Christ is righteousness. Christ
is the life. But look back now. There's two
things Christ did for us. There were two things Adam did.
He disobeyed God and made us guilty before the law, then we
were conceived of his corrupt seed and so we're dead in sin. Two things he did. One Adam did
for us, one Adam did within us. There's two things Christ did.
Something he did for us, something he did within us. Look here now,
he's going to first tell us what he did within us. He says verse
1, There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are
in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the
Spirit. Here it is. Because the law of the Spirit
of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of
sin and death. That's the first work this passage
gives in order. He puts it in that order. This
is our first experience in it. The Spirit entered in. Christ
entered into us. and He's the life, He's the righteousness,
and when He entered in, that's when we were born again. That's
when the Spirit of Christ entered into us, and the law of the Spirit
of life in Christ Jesus made us free from the law of sin and
death. The law of sin and death will
never, ever, ever, ever, ever have dominion over us again.
When you're born again, when He says, The Spirit is life because
of righteousness. That means the law of sin and
death will no more have dominion over you again. No more, ever. Not over one in whom Christ abides. That's what He worked in us.
Now here's what He did for us. We didn't make ourselves be born
again. He came and He abode in us. The Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus did that. If Christ be in you, the body's
dead because of sin, but the Spirit's alive because of Christ,
our righteousness, who took up His abode within us. But now
look, here's the second work, mention second, because when
you're born of Him, that's when you finally see this and understand
this. Verse 3, this is what He did
for us. For what the law could not do,
and that it was weak through the flesh, we could not come
to God by the works of the law. Our flesh was dead. We couldn't
do it. So God sending his own son in
the likeness of sinful flesh. That's what he's talking about
when he says here that the righteous of the law might be fulfilled
in us. He came in the likeness of our
sinful flesh. He took a body, became the God-man,
and for sin, he came, he sent his own son in the likeness of
sinful flesh and for sin, and he condemned sin in the flesh. that the righteousness of the
law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh
but after the spirit. Now, that doesn't mean that you
and me fulfill the righteousness of the law. Some people teach
that that means once you're born of God, now you can keep all
the law of God. Well, didn't he say, I'll write
my law in their hearts and they'll obey me? Yes, he writes the spirit
of life in Christ Jesus, the law of righteousness, the law
of faith, the law of love. It's the everlasting covenant.
It's the gospel. He makes you understand the gospel.
He makes you understand what we're seeing here. And when he
did this, it means that the God-man, Christ Jesus, in the likeness
of our flesh, as a man, like representing all his people,
he fulfilled all righteousness for us, for all his people. Now,
compare the work of Adam to the work of Christ. Compare their
work. By Adam's disobedience, he made
all who were in him guilty, And then He made us all to be conceived
of sin. So that we were sinned the moment
we were conceived. Our bodies dead because of Adam's
sin. Well, by Christ's obedience,
He made all God's select righteousness in Him. And the Spirit of Christ
enters in, and He makes us be born again and have life because
of His righteousness. If Christ be in you, the Spirit
is life. Don't you find it interesting
that he doesn't say the Spirit is alive? He says the Spirit
is life. What did he say our carnal mind
was? He didn't say it was at enmity.
He said the carnal mind is enmity. Well, now the Spirit is life. Why? Because of righteousness.
There is a new man created in us by the Spirit of Christ, and
it's all of Christ, and that new man is created in the in
Christ's righteousness and Christ's holiness. Can't sin, the incorruptible
seed abides in you. Peter called it the hidden man
of the heart, which is not corruptible. There's a new spirit, a holy
spirit, separate from what we are of Adam. In Adam, all died,
and in Adam, because of Adam, the body's dead. But the spirit,
there's a new spirit. With the spirit of God in you,
the spirit of Christ in you, there's a new spirit, and that
spirit is life, because by Christ, that spirit is righteous. Righteous
and holy. Go over to 1 Peter 2 with me,
1 Peter 2. Just look at what he says here. 1 Peter 2.23. I'm sorry, 1 Peter
1.23. 1 Peter 1.23, being born again,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word
of God, which liveth and abideth forever. For all flesh is as
grass, there's the body now. All flesh is as grass, all the
glory of man is the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and
the flower thereof falleth away, but the word of the Lord endureth
forever, and this is the word which by the gospel is preached
unto you. Wherefore, laying aside all malice,
and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking.
He's saying, wherefore, laying aside this body of death, laying
aside this flesh, everything it is. as newborn babes desire
the censure milk of the word that you may grow thereby, if
so be you've tasted the Lord is gracious. Now, let's go back
to our text in Romans eight. Why is the spirit of God teaching
us this? Why is he making this profound,
all important statement? If Christ be in you, the body
is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. People accuse us of saying, you
speak about the believer like he's a puppet. A puppet is a
very good example, actually. You take a hand puppet, all right? It looks like a whatever it is,
a little person, and you put your hand in that puppet. And
that, when your hand moves, that body moves. Our body, is like
that puppet. Our body is like that. It's a
dead thing. But the life of Christ enters
into us. And when Christ moves, we move. When Christ goes forward, we
go forward. When he stops, we stop. When
he goes right, we go right. Whatever Christ does, that's
what his people do. Isn't that what Paul said? I
am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I. Christ liveth
in me. In the life I now live, I live
by the faithfulness of the Son of God. He moves. He leads me. I do what I do by
Him. Paul at the end of Romans 7 said,
he said, I'm carrying around a body of death. I'm carrying
around a dead body. Who's going to deliver me from
it? Who's going to deliver me from sin today? Who's going to
deliver me from temptation today, this hour, next hour, tomorrow? And who's going to eventually
deliver me from it eternally? Who's going to save that body? How's that body going to be raised
from the dust and be incorruptible and immortal? Christ does it
all. God, by His Son, does it all. And that's what He's teaching
us. When we were dead, we minded the things of the flesh. We were
looking at ourselves constantly, trying to look to the letter
of the law, trying to dot every I and cross every T, and trying
to do, and Paul said when he did that, he said, it worked
in me all manner of sin. Because everything he did was
sin. Men could have looked at him outwardly and thought he
was holy and a righteous man, but Paul said every bit of it
was sin. Because he wasn't trusting Christ,
and it wasn't of Christ, and it wasn't of God. It was just
His flesh. And those that are after the
flesh only mind the things of the flesh. But look back at verse
5. But they that are after the Spirit, we mind the things of
the Spirit now. How come? The Spirit makes you
mind things of the Spirit. To be carnally minded is death,
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. We seek Christ
our life and Christ our peace with God. He's made us life and
He's made us have peace with God. Look at verse 9. You're not in the flesh, but
in the Spirit, if so be the Spirit of God dwell in you. Well, I
see I'm in the flesh. I see I'm nothing but sin. That
ain't how God says it. God said, you're not in the flesh
now. You're in the spirit. The spirit
of God dwells in you. We're not looking at this body
anymore and the deeds of our flesh. We're not looking at it
for righteousness and for holiness. We look to Christ for everything.
We mind Christ. We have Christ. Now look, knowing
all this is of God and knowing that it's of of Christ our righteousness,
and it's by the Spirit of Christ dwelling in us, and it's by Him,
He's the life and He's the righteousness in us. Verse 12 says, Therefore
brethren, we're debtors not to this flesh, to live after this
flesh, for if you live after the flesh you'll die, you shall
die, but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body,
you shall live. Go back to that hand puppet.
How are we going to mortify this flesh through the Spirit turning
you to go the way you ought to go? We don't mortify the flesh
by our strength. We don't have any of ourselves. We have none. Yeah, you're going
to stop whatever the Lord stops you from doing. If there's some
outward sin or some inward sin and thought and he's going to
stop you, you're going to stop it. You will stop. But you're
not going to go away from that because it's only going to be
by the Spirit of the Lord that you do it. And you really haven't
stopped something if you just stop something outwardly and
start boasting how you did it and how you did it by your strength.
And look what I did. You hadn't stopped it. That's
just worse sin. Do you get what I'm saying? It's the Spirit of the Lord that
does this. making us mind the things of the Spirit. That's
how He does it. I'm gonna preach this same message again to you
in another service or two from Colossians 3 because we've been
looking at it and I just wanted to show it to you here. This
is the same message throughout the Scriptures. The Holy Spirit
leads us to Christ, to know we're sons of God. Look at verse 14.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God. Led, like a child
being led. The Spirit's leading us. And
if you're led of the Spirit of God, they're the sons of God.
For you've not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but
you've received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba,
Father. The Spirit leads us to behold
Christ, He sets our affection on Christ, our mind on Christ,
and we see that His righteousness and God's grace by all of what
God's done for us in Christ, God's our Father. And he didn't
give you that spirit to make you fearful. He didn't give you
that spirit to bring you back into that bondage of fear that
you were in. He gave that spirit of adoption
so you know you're not a servant, you're a son. You can come to
your father. You can call on your father.
So brethren, when that old legal Pharisee raises his head and
starts trying to bring you into fear and bondage, making you
think you need to do this or that, call on your father in
heaven. That's why He's given us access. Having brethren boldness to enter
the holiest by the blood of Jesus. By a new and living way which
He's made for us through the veil, consecrated for us. His
flesh. We have a high priest over the
house of God. We have full assurance of faith
because He's given you a true heart and given you that faith.
So He says, come now in the full assurance that you're going to
be accepted of God and heard by God. You've been washed by
the water of the word and washed in regeneration. So come to him
with boldness now, knowing Christ is our advocate. He's our righteousness.
He's our propitiation. He's our peace. He's our life.
And God will hear you and God will help you. How does He strengthen
us to mortify the deeds of the body? Look at verse 16. He renews
you inwardly and He bears witness with that new spirit He's put
in you. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that
we're the children of God. What's going to take away that
fear? Nothing but God making you know, you're my child. Nothing's
going to change that. You're my child. Come to me, son. Come to me,
daughter. That's what the Father's going to do. That's the only
thing that's going to clear that convicted conscience. That's
the only thing that's going to let you truly serve God in love
and gratitude and faith is when you know it's already finished. Christ, I'm righteous in Christ.
I'm accepted in Christ. God is my Father. That's how
we're going to keep Keep following it. And the Spirit makes you
know this, you're an heir of God. He said, verse 17, if children,
then heirs, heirs of God, joiners with Christ, if so be that we
suffer with him that we may be glorified together. Now read
that again. If you're a child, then you're
heirs. What's the inheritance? You're heirs of God. Your inheritance is God. You're
heirs of God. Not just somebody he's going
to give something to, but what he's going to give to you is
himself. You're inheriting God, who is all, who is life, who
is everything. We're joiners with Christ. He
said, Father, I will that they be with me where I am. Those
you've given me, that they might behold my glory. That's his will,
and that's what we're going to have. And when He renews you,
you might be suffering something really bad. But when He renews
you and He makes you mortify that sinful flesh that's causing
you to fear and be in bondage and think you need to be doing
this and that to make yourself whatever. When He renews you,
settles you down, looking to Christ, He makes you see that
whatever it is you're suffering is not worthy to be compared
with what He will give you in glory. Look, verse 18, I reckon
that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Next time you
suffer something really bad and the Lord begins to renew you
in spirit and settle you at Christ's feet, you take that bad suffering,
whatever it was that you suffered, and you just start thinking,
now the Lord told me This, as bad as it seems to me, as hard
as it seems to me, the Lord tells me this is not even worthy to
be compared to the glory that I have with Him, with Christ.
And what about this? Our sinful flesh is so weak sometimes
we don't even know what to pray. That puppet has a spirit, a new
spirit in him. the Spirit of Christ in him.
And look down at verse 26, Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities,
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought. But the
Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot
be uttered. And he that searches the heart
knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession
for the saints according to the will of God. Listen, if Christ
is in you, your body is dead because of sin. It's just going
to get weaker and weaker and weaker until it goes back to
the dust. But that spirit is in you. The Holy Spirit of our Lord is
life. There's a new spirit in you that's
life because of righteousness. If you believe God, just know
it's because there's a new man created in the righteousness
and holiness of Christ or you wouldn't have life. You wouldn't
even be able to call on God if that wasn't so. That is all of
the Lord. And the same one that made you
to have that spirit is going to keep renewing you and keep
helping you to mortify your flesh. Treat your flesh like a dead
thing. That's what mortify means. Don't look to it for assurance
and don't look for it to be discouraged. It's dead. It's dead. Do you
expect anything out of that pew? Do you expect that pew to do
anything? It's dead. It's just a dead piece of wood.
Don't expect anything from your body of death. And he died in
Christ already. So we're accepted in Christ. Look to Christ. Look to Christ. Trust Him. I pray to the Lord.
I can't say that like it should be said but it's just so that
first I'm discovering lately that I always tell you this is
my favorite verse in the scripture. I'll tell you what my favorite
verse in the scripture is, whichever one I'm studying right now. That's
the ones that's my favorite. So right now, that's my favorite,
Romans 8, 10. Let's go to you. Father, thank
you for this word. Lord, help us to really truly
enter into this. By your spirit, Lord, fill us
with your grace and your mercy and your love and make us see
Make us see we have life and we're righteous in Christ by
Him abiding in us. Oh Lord, make this soul, make
us know the depth and the breadth and the length and the height.
Thank you, Lord, for everything. In Christ's name, amen.