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Let’s all unite our hearts together in prayer: Our God and Father, we commend ourselves to You today as we now come to the time of the preaching of the Word of God.
Let us know our hearts, let us know our needs.
We pray Lord for wisdom and for the power of the Holy Spirit.
We pray for words that will be directly from You, the Lord Himself.
And we pray that in everything, Your great name will be glorified.
Oh Lord abide with us now, bless us Lord.
Grant us a great sense of Your presence and moved among us we pray in Jesus name and for His sake, AMEN.
5 "For those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their minds set on the things of the Spirit.
6 "Now the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.
7 "The mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit to God’s law.
Indeed, it is unable to do so.
8 "Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” ()
The twentieth-century Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple once said:
“Your religion is what you do with your solitude.”
In other words, wherever your mind goes most naturally and freely when there is nothing else to distract it—that is what you really live for.
That is your religion.
Your life is shaped by whatever preoccupies your mind.
The overcoming of sin in our lives begins in our minds; and victory over sin is only ever the result of having minds set on the Spirit.
So to win against the struggle of sin, begins by having our “minds set on the things of the Spirit.”
This is not the same thing as simply thinking about religion all the time, or theology in general.
The “things” of the Spirit would be those things to which
the Spirit draws attention; to “mind” the Spirit
would be to be preoccupied by the things that preoccupy the Spirit.
What are those things?
In the rest of chapter 8, we will see that the Spirit comes to show us that we are sons and daughters of the Lord.
We will explore this at a later time but it is worth seeing here
what the “things” or truths the Spirit wants us to “mind” are:
■ Verse 14 will tell us that: “those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.”
■ Verses 15–16 will tell us that the Spirit removes a fear of rejection and assures us that we are God’s beloved children.
■ Verses 15–16 will tell us that the Spirit removes a fear of rejection and assures us that we are God’s beloved children.
■ Verses 26–27 will tell us that the Spirit gives us confidence to approach God in prayer.
■ Verses 26–27 will tell us that the Spirit gives us confidence to approach God in prayer.
In other words, the rest of tells us what the Spirit is preoccupied with: how in Christ we are
adopted,
loved and
welcomed.
We are to be preoccupied with our standing in Christ.
We are to drill into our minds and hearts his love and adoption of us.
To “mind … the things of the Spirit” () means never to forget our
privileged standing or the fact that
we are loved, and to
let this dominate our
thinking, our
perspectives, and therefore our
words and
actions.
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The passage under consideration this morning is of most importance when we look at it
from the perspective of the weakness and need of the church of Jesus Christ at this present time.
It actually serves to correct a mistake that is very popular in Christian circles today:
It corrects everyone’s understanding of what it means to even be a Christian.
There is a teaching (an error) in many popular Christian circles today that divides people up in three classes:
(1) those who are not Christians,
(2) those who are Christians, and
(3) those who are Christians but who are living in an “unsaved” manner.
Which are often called “carnal Christians.”
Let me read to you a line or two out of a book entitled: “Layman, Look Up! God Has a Place for You”
Which was a book with very good intentions.
Which was to help laymen to function as leaders in the local church.
It encouraged them to move beyond being mere “Christians” to being “disciples” of Jesus Christ.
Boice, J. M. (1991–).
Romans: The Reign of Grace (Vol.
2).
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
At one point it said, “All followers of [Christ] are his sheep, but not all sheep are his disciples.”
With statements like this we are led to believe this morning that there are lost people, sheep, and disciples.
The author is right in wanting laymen to assume their proper role in the church’s life.
But the problem lies in their procedure.
The book has adopted the three-category view, and this, I am convinced, inevitably leads the reader to think that
—although it may be wise and perhaps even beneficial to become serious about the Christian life
—becoming a “disciple” of Jesus Christ is, in the final analysis, merely optional.
This conclusion is fatal, because it encourages us to suppose that we can be careless about our Christianity,
doing little and
achieving nothing, and
yet go to heaven securely when we die.
It’s a problem that inevitably lead to the thinking that a man can live as the world lives and still go to heaven.
If the this popular teaching in Christianity today, the teaching of this book is true, it is comfortable teaching.
We are to have the best of both worlds, sin here and heaven to follow.
But if it is not true, those who teach it are encouraging people to believe that all is well with them when they are, in fact, not even saved.
They are crying, “Peace!” when there is no peace.
They are doing damage to their souls.
Think of the parables of Jesus:
Good fish and bad.
Good fish and bad.
Tares or Wheat
Tares or Wheat
You’re either in the banquet or out of the banquet.
You were a lost sheep, coin, son but you’ve been found.
Two doors, two ways, and only the narrow road leads to life.
You’re either in the banquet or out of the banquet.
Two builders (wise and foolish).
You were a lost sheep, coin, son but you’ve been found.
Pharisee and tax collector
Two doors, two ways, and only the narrow road leads to life.
Wise virgins and foolish virgins
Two builders (wise and foolish).
Pharisee and tax collector
Wise virgins and foolish virgins
The good Samaritan and the others who wouldn’t help.
The good Samaritan and the others who wouldn’t help.
The bible is black and white.
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