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8 this morning as we resume our study of Paul's very intricate Treatise in Romans 8 you're looking at verses 3 and 4 going to read
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uh verses 1- 4 I'd like to ask Josh if you'd pray for the ministry of the word this morning Romans chapter 8 beginning in verse
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one there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of
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death for what the law could not do weak as it was through the flesh God did sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin
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he condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but
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according to the spirit let us pray dear Lord I Thank you for this day and I thank for all your many blessings
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one blessing on this day is that we are able to gather together to hear your word presented to us that we might sing your songs as we have done today and sing praises to you Lord as one body in
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Christ raise our voices together in glory to your name I pray Lord as we hear the message
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as it's as it's presented that the Holy Spirit would prompt our minds de thought and consider these deep things that are presented to us that we might hold and understand and
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know Lord about your goodness and your grace Lord that we might live in a way that reflects what is
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amen one of the most influential reformed preachers and commentators of the 20th century was David Martin Lloyd Jones an interesting um enjoyable character to listen to his sermons were
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largely recorded on cassette tapes if you want to know what that is look up smithsonian.com uh but you can still find his sermons
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and his deep Welsh brogue his ex aesus was usually excellent and very thorough and as a reformed Theologian he didn't follow a
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party line he called himself a Biblical calvinist when the Bible was calvinistic he was with Calvin otherwise he was not some people suspected him actually of
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being a charismatic which from anybody from Great Britain that is saying something but one thing he consistently did in his sermons and his commentaries that if you listen to them and read them
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you you notice that he has a very frequent refrain where he says and I'm not going to try to imitate the brogue this is the most important thing sometimes he said it too often
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somewhat like the boy who cried wolf it's the preacher who cried this is the most important most important thing but you could understand it coming from him because of his enthusiasm for
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the word that he was presenting especially in his commentary on Romans you can't imagine how many most important things there are in the in the epistle to the Romans and yet it that
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came to my mind as I'm trying to guide us through this important letter perhaps the most important letter in the New Testament and as I said when we were
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last together verse one of chapter 8 is probably the most concise summary of The Gospel that you'll find anywhere in scripture there is therefore now no
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condemnation for those who are Christ Jesus that's the Pinnacle of Romans and from which we are not planning on descending it is from this point that we can look back over the path that we've
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taken and also look forward and and even through those very difficult chapters 9 10 and 11 where Paul deals with God's relationship with Israel are not a
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parenthesis that were added later or or a a rabbit trail that Paul goes down but rather actually fit very concisely and can be
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can be seen clearly from the Pinnacle of Romans 8 verse1 but we get to Romans 8 verse one and we hear that we there is there for no condemnation for the and we
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rejoice in that verse two tells us the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and of death and these are wonderful
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things surely the most important point but we're still left with the question how would was this all done how did God remain faithful both to his
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righteousness and to his Covenant a holy God redeeming an Unholy and rebellious people how does this all work well Paul is going to explain it in
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the next two verses 3 and four as he transitions his entire thought from the law to the spirit from the flesh to the
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spirit from sin and death to the spirit of life so we're at a turning point now in his letter he has led up to it inexorably and everything that has gone
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before has before has contributed to our Ascent to this point those who think the theme of Romans is justified by justification by
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faith they stopped at the way station back in chapter 4 and they've not ascended since ascended since it is very much a Biblical truth brought
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out in Romans and Galatians that we are justified by grace through faith that's actually Ephesians but that is not the sole theme of Pauline theology or of the
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scriptures and least of all of Romans it's very sad to read commentators who are stuck at that point when they get further on they have to orient everything to that one point that
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was so crucial to Luther and to the Reformation that we feel like we can't let go of it well we don't have to let go of it we just have to take in other things as we go there's more to it than
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just our own individual salvation as wonderful as that is the glory of God is much more wonderful at least it was to Paul and so it is important for us to
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try to understand in this book which is acknowledged to acknowledged to be one of the most difficult to understand in all of scripture perhaps not including Revelation and
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Ezekiel but theologically speaking Romans is a is a deep deep book so what is the most important thing can we can we put our finger on something that is
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really truly the most important thing well I hope to do that today at least my opinion of what is the most important thing but what we're dealing with here I
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think is important to remind ourselves is that in r Romans we are not dealing with a letter written to a Pauline church but rather an introduction by Paul to a church to
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which he hopes to go and visit and to use as a missionary base for further Evangelistic work in Europe especially
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hopefully to Spain okay I think I think we've established that the purpose of this letter is to introduce not only himself because he was a very controversial figure both among Jews and
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among Greeks but also to introduce his gospel as I've mentioned many times this is the only letter in which he refers to the gospel as my gospel meaning the
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gospel I gospel I preach and he does point out in other letters that he received that gospel not from the other Apostles but directly from the Lord here in Romans where his
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apostleship is not being threatened he finds it important to lay out his gospel and his gospel centers around the faithfulness of God how has
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God remained faithful to his promises and yet true to his holy nature now that is a question that man-made
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religions have never been able to answer one of those two the Holiness and righteousness of God or the salvation of
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man one of them has to yield in every other religion and in every religion made from man it is God who yields he is no longer righteous he is no longer holy
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he can be appeased by our measly and feeble efforts at religious ritual God doesn't do that he doesn't as
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I've said before he doesn't grade on a curve he doesn't bend the rules he doesn't wink at sin but he will will repay every offense committed by man against his holy nature
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so the faithfulness of Israel's God to his Covenant promises is is one of the threads that holds Romans together and what I find very interesting in
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Paul is as a Jew he of course goes back to Abraham Romans 4 and he shows that God is faithful to the Covenant promise he
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made with Abraham but he also goes back to Adam and shows that God is faithful through the second and the last Adam
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Jesus Christ to undo the sin that Adam brought in the race in other words it's not just the Covenant with Abraham that is important but also the Covenant promised that the seed of
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woman would come and crush the Serpent's head he actually uses that phrase in Romans 16 saying God will soon Crush Satan's head under your feet so his mind is on a
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double track a parallel track or per a concurrent track the Jewish mind will go back to Abraham and stop there as if that's where God's Redemptive purpose
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began but no it began in the garden immediately after the fall it began in eternity but as far as human history is concerned it began with the promise of
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the seed of woman and so Paul incorporates both Adam and Abraham to show that God is remaining faithful not just to his promises to Israel but to
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his promise to the human race that he would raise up a redeemer who would undo the curse that Adam brought upon this race and so
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ultimately God's Victory and God's glory revealed through Jesus Christ is the theme of all of Paul's theology really
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all of his letters but here in chapter 8 as I said we we are reaching a transition the heart of the matter of
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Romans is in Romans chapter 8 not only that succinct statement of the effects of the Gospel there is
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therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus but he is now going to expand on the Redemption of creation he's going to show that not only is it just the Jews it's the
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Gentiles too not only Abraham but Adam too but not only man but the Earth as well that groans waiting for the revelation of the sons of God showing
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that God's intention is not just to save individual Sinners but rather to restore his good Creation in the new Heaven and the new Earth and that is Romans 8 if
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there is a most important thing to Paul then we have arrived at it here in Romans chapter 8 and it really is
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twofold and twofold and Paul's entire theological perspective is always bifurcated there are two events that for Paul meant that the age of
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Promise had arrived that all of the prophecies and all of the promises that God has made to Israel have come the first of course is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ without
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which nothing without the resurrection of Jesus Christ and he his body defeating death then there is no hope but he really leaves that Doctrine for First
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Corinthians most of the time Paul treats the resurrection as a historical event not a theological argument the tomb is empty Christ is raised and therefore
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death has been defeated the Messiah has come but that in itself would not be enough for the fery Paul it should not
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be enough for us either because there is another promise without which nothing and that is the outpouring and the indwelling of the
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Holy Spirit you think Paul doesn't say much about the Holy Spirit and people have argued over the time that Paul was really dealing throughout his ministry wrestling with
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the law and what to do with the law now that he was a Christian no longer a Pharisee but now a Christian how does he handle the law well every time he handles the law he handles it by
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bringing in the spirit and really that's how he doesn't have a chapter on the spirit you look up a table of contents of Paul's letter and go to Ephesians chapter three and no it
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doesn't work that way the spirit is woven into everything that he says and does does and writes but in Romans we now meet the spirit full bore after
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verse 7 we're not going to hear about the law anymore not until we get on into discussion of Israel and then chapter 13 but that even those references will
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now have to be seen from that Pinnacle of the mountain there is therefore now no condemnation and verse Two for the law of the spirit of life in Christ
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Jesus this is where he has been heading all along bringing us through to the spirit and in the spirit
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Paul transforms Paul transforms Judaism from another moralistic religion to a faith and a
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hope and the power of God Romans 8 is one of Paul's most penetrating treatises on the Holy Spirit and I think it's easy to
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recognize in history and in our own day that the role of the holy spirit in Believers lives and in the Christian church is not universally agreed
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upon that it has been argued and debated hotly for 2,000 years and so I think it is important maybe the most important thing that we come to an understanding
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of what God has done in Christ and by the Holy Spirit to understand what Paul understood about the role of the Holy Spirit not just in our regeneration
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we're all good with that not just in our s uh Salvation we're all good with that but in our sanctification in our life in this body
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Paul is going to point out that the holy spirit is truly without which nothing the first point I think as we try to grasp Paul's mind and perhaps the most
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important thing is to realize that God has introduced a new age a new creation through the death and resurrection of
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they were they seem Peter points this out that the scoffers from the beginning have said where where is the promise of his coming for everything seems the same
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yes it seems that way to the eye but to the eye of faith and the understanding of scripture we know as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5 that if any man be in
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Christ he is a new creation behold all things have passed away all things have become new and that is a theme that runs through Paul's
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through Paul's letters often very subtly but very powerfully that if you don't catch it you'll come away from Paul with all sorts of different theologies and
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doctrines and emphases that were never on his mind at all or you'll pick on one justification by faith and Camp there and never allow any movement from that
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camp even though the cloud and the fire have long gone you're still there in Romans chapter 4 or Galatians chapter 3 you're you're still there saying it's
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justification by faith well yes and a whole lot more and the spirit Jesus said will guide us into all truth but Paul is
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telling us that unless we walk by the spirit we will succumb to the evils of the Flesh and so the spirit becomes perhaps the most important thing one
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writer says Paul is speaking from the perspective of a new era of Salvation history inaugurated by Christ death and Resurrection yes that's what brought it about Christ death to death death and
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death of death in his death if you can follow that his victory over death in his resurrection that's what started everything new but what is the living
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principle of this new creation it's the spirit who has been given and has been placed within Believers and within the church and so
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he says a new era of Salvation history inaugurated by Christ's death and resurrection and introduced ing a new era of the
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spirit okay so Paul in Romans and Galatians and Ephesians and in both letters to the Corinthians and in Thessalonians the most important thing is the gift of the Holy Spirit of life
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in Christ Jesus that is what sustains each and every child of God that is what enervates and sustains the church the body of Jesus
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Christ Paul says here in chapter 8 if anyone does does not have the spirit of Christ he does not belong to him he is not a Believer he is not a
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Christian who has only a notion of Jesus Christ but no presence and indwelling of the holy the holy spirit so this has been a long road to
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this point in Romans 8 and it really began in Romans 1 verse 16 for I am not ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone
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who believes to the Jew first and also to the Greek that is where Paul sets forth the purpose of his letter he is coming to
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Rome by means that he is not yet aware in Chains but chains for the Gospel of Jesus Christ of which he is not ashamed
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and so he begins from that point on to lay out his gospel and to show what that gospel is the phrase power of God that he uses there the the gospel is the
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power of God for salvation it means of course omnipotence it means absolute ability the Greek word power is dunamis again
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I've mentioned before it's where we get the word the word Dynamite but Paul did not view the power of God into blowing things up the word simply means the ability to do things
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but implies but implies inability and this is where we can tie the beginning of his discussion to his climax here in chapter 8 because as he
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speaks in chapter one of ability he speaks in chapter 8 of inability the inability the law the law was unable for what the law could not do
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weak as it was through the flesh God did so what the law could not do what the law was unable to do was to say
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save okay that ties back to what the gospel can do the gospel is the power of God to do what the law could not do weak as it was through the flesh well
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that's the realm of inability our flesh Paul just laid that out in detail in Romans 7 that the law Not only was weakened by our flesh but sin in our
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flesh took the law and killed us with it condemned us with it so the law is unable but God did here is that power of
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God in verse three God did now I want you to notice what Paul does not say in verse three he does not say that we
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could not do it through the law now that's very subtle but that is the most common reading among modern evangelicals that we were supposed to
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obey the law and we couldn't do it but that is not what he says he says the law could not do it weak as it was because of our flesh
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the law was not given to us to do the law was given to us Paul says so that transgression might abound the law was given to us so that
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sin might be made manifest even more powerful y leading us to despair if not to
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Faith the law is what was unable it was unable not due to anything wrong with itself the law is Holy it's righteous it's good the law was unable because of
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our flesh there that's the root of the problem is the weakness of our flesh because of sin however we we must get past this modern
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notion that God gave us Grace because we could not obey the law that God is somehow responding graciously to our
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inability rather we should understand that God is doing what he always intended to do that's coming out in Deuteronomy and will come out even more in Deuteronomy that God has not yet
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given you a heart to obey ears to hear eyes to see but he will circumcise your heart we've seen that in Ezekiel and Jeremiah that God promised to do what
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the law could not do because it was weak through our flesh so the flesh is not only not able to keep the law that's never been any
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different since the fall but through the law sin becomes alive and brings death the law which says obey and live is used by sin in the flesh to bring forth all
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manner of sin and consequen consequently not life but death how this seems counter and this is where
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dispensationalism has picked up and said okay the law was one dispensation one era God gave it a try he gave the law to Moses on SI and made a big show of it
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you know pyrot Technics and all of that so that the people would be a into believing but they failed like he didn't know they were going to fail now never mind the fact that Moses prophesied that
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they were going to fail but since they failed God gave it I mean he gave them like 1500 years talk about patience but he finally
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said forget it we're going to destroy the temple and now we're going to give these stupid Gentiles Grace okay fine just Believe come on just believe and everything's
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fine funny thing is we haven't managed to do that either see this whole notion that God is trying different things is really blasphemous that that he's responding to
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us and saying well let's like we might do with our children let's try this let's try that well maybe they have a righteousness in tolerance you know they're allergic to Holiness okay let's go with the low
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Holiness gospel okay can I have that righteousness free please you know no that's really when you when you I know I'm I'm satirizing it I understand that but but I'm doing that because it is
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ludicrous to think that a holy God should ever B the rules for sinful man he must both be faithful to his promises and to his nature and that is what only
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the gospel has the power to do which is why we are an exclusive religion that welcomes Any Nation tongue tribe color or sex an exclusive religion that is
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entirely inclusive for anyone who believes and we can't yield that we can't become woke we can't become tolerant we can't
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become soft on Holiness and let God fulfill his promise to save but sacrifice his holy nature in the process that is blasphemy and so what we read here the
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law was never able which is the literal meaning again of power it never had the power and its presence was always intended to manifest
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sin more profoundly Paul says that back in Romans 5:20 and the law came in that transgression might transgression might increase so it's not what I could not do
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by following the law but rather what the law could not do because of the sin in my flesh salvation was never by the law
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that was never an option in Zechariah we read not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the Lord that is how he was going to rebuild
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the Temple not by the might and the power of zerubabel and that weak band of Jews that had come back from Babylon but rather by my spirit says the
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Lord here Lord here finally in what God's power did we did we see the power of my salvation but also
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our sanctification so he establishes the gospel in verse three in terms of our Salvation what the law could not do weak as it was through the flesh God did
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sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin he condemned sin in the
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flesh theologically that last phrase is the core I won't say it's the most important thing but it it's the core of the mechanics of God's Redemptive
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plan very briefly it was man who introduced sin into the world and into the human race we understand from scripture that sin
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became almost a a part of our genetic coding it became part of our flesh it handed down we were conceived in iniquity we were born in sin the
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doctrine of original sin I think is bib biblically undeniable and every parent knows it from the behavior of Their Own Child there is sin there even when there's no
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willfulness even when there's no wickedness or Rebellion there is still Disobedience there is still selfishness there is still the manifestation of
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manifestation of sin in an infant in a toddler In the In the Flesh and so what God did throughout Redemptive history in calling to himself
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a person a person Abraham and in that person creating a nation Israel and through that nation and its covenants bringing another person the Messiah the
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Christ adding to that the law God is concentrating sin Upon Our People and then upon a
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person he who knew no sin became sin that we might become the righteousness of God in him in the flesh the
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Incarnation God placed sin in in fact it's almost as if he lured it on to Jesus bringing him to the cross in spite
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of his absolutely manifest sinless and righteousness so much that pilate recognized there was nothing faulty about this man the Roman Centurion
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recognized that this man was the son of God God lured sin just as he lured the devil through the through the death of Jesus he lured them into a perfect
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trap in which the sinless one would not only condemn sin in the flesh but defeat death through the grave
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a powerful Redemptive powerful Redemptive strategy that Paul lays out for us here in Romans that he brought in just one verse took me five minutes to say what
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Paul wrote in one verse he brought sin down on Christ and in killing him Isaiah 53 for delighted
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him to crush him because he knew that in crushing him he was was defeating and condemning sin in the in the flesh but what
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then that seems like the gospel if you believe then your sins are forgiven John beron writes Christ became God's way of
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striking a decisive blow against both sin and the flesh which the law was incapable of overcoming so much of modern Christianity is is this this kind
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of weak loving forgiving God trying to figure out a way to save as many people
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possible what we have in scripture is a powerful omnipotent powerful omnipotent God who is luring wickedness and sin and the devil into his own purpose to crush
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them and for his glory to redeem a people in his name
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that is our Salvation the power of God we see that the cross but then we think well we're supposed to take it from here and this is where the law comes in and reformed theology yeah we're saved by
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grace through faith but then once we're saved we can take it from here God has given us a new heart and he's written the law upon our heart so therefore we must obey the law and the law becomes
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our moral our moral guide no we're still in the body of this death the flesh is still with us and any
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attempt to obey the law through the flesh will lead to our failure and condemnation it will either lead to despair or Pride but not to righteousness Paul will not allow us to
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go there and yet he will not allow us to forget the forget the law so we see the connection now not only from verse 16 of chapter 1 but also
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verse 17 for in it the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed from Faith to Faith as it is written but the righteous man shall live by faith it was
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never intended that we should live as Believers in any other way than we became Believers in the first place that's what Paul says to the foolish Galatians you who began how in the
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spirit are you now working it out through the foolish Galatians if you began in the spirit you
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keep in the spirit because if you walk by the flesh sin will come alive and kill you and we'll get into that later because it
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sounds like you can lose your salvation so we'll we'll deal with that later just hold on don't don't don't draw your conclusions yet but verse three is an explanation by Paul of the Gospel of the
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as the power of God into salvation but verse four is the explanation of the Gospel of the power as the power of God unto sanctification listen to what he says in
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order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in Us and how is this to be accomplished who do not walk according to the flesh
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but according to the spirit live by faith is the same from verse 17 of chapter 1 the righteous shall live by his faith that
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is the same as chapter 8:4 walking by the spirit those are the same things they're just different phrases to explain the same thing but notice he
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does not does not say that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled by us
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we do not get Sanctified any differently than we get saved we do not work out our salvation by the
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by the flesh we work out our salvation by the spirit the spirit that brought that
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salvation I want to conclude just this section is it's there's so much in Romans that we could go on all afternoon well no we couldn't but yeah there's enough there but I want to point out
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another innocent phrase that I believe has misled many and that phrase and when you hear it you're going to think okay here we go heresy on the
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menu that phrase is the Christ centered life now what could possibly be wrong with that phrase How could a Believer have anything other than a Christ
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life well it's a matter of geometry a a circle has one focal focal point right in the center and we say my Christ is the center of my life well
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that's not that's not good that sounds good but it leads to moralism a Christ centered life leads to the attitude what would Jesus do or what
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would Jesus drink or what would Jesus drive or whatever that's moralism trying to make our life patterned after what we read about Jesus it focuses on the
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gospels thinking that now that we are saved we can somehow live the way Jesus lived and some people take it pretty far and and remember if you're you know
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you're you're going voting what would Jesus do well what would Jesus do is different than what you do you take a life vest okay we don't live our life pretending to be
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Jesus but a Jesus centered life that phrase tends towards W moralism that he he becomes and he has through the history of the church he's become a
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moral teacher an example a great man that we are to emulate in loving other people well he didn't always love other people we just heard today what he did
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in the temple lovingly whipping the money changers and overturning the temples you know very lovingly though so the Jesus centered life the
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Christ centered life has been a deception because it because it neglects the Holy Spirit our life in
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Christ is Christ is elliptical I was pointing this out to my chemistry class an ellipse has two focal points and its geometry is such that
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wherever you are on the ellipse if you add up the distance between you and both of the focal points you will always get a constant number
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God's universe is full of such uniformity and Beauty but there is that relationship between those two focal points now I find it fascinating and I
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find it very very little spoken of that the Earth's orbit around the Sun is elliptical and we know that one of the focal points is the sun the physical
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celestial object that exists but there is another focal point that be mathematically deduced and when you go through
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telescopes to that point there's nothing there there's no physical second focal point to the elliptical orbit of the Earth how does that
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work well to me it is a massive proclamation of God's glory his trinitarian nature and his orientation not only of the universe but of our own
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lives that our lives in Christ are in Christ by the Holy Spirit and therefore we are elliptical our orbit as it were our walk
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is oriented around the visible focal point of the Son of God and the invisible focal point of the holy spirit that indwells us if we do not have the
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spirit we do not belong to Jesus if we do not walk according to the Holy Spirit we do not have life and so we have
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here in this passage verse four the answer to that question what do we do with the with the law what what do we now do as Believers well we recognize that the law
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has been written Upon Our Hearts by the Holy Spirit who will guide us into all truth and keep us from error and if we walk according to the spirit we will not
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fulfill the the desires of the flesh now we'll get into the fact that that doesn't all happen immediately that we do yet sin but sinning is not the same as
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walking according to the flesh because we still live in the body of this death we do not fulfill the law it is fulfilled in us we do not obey it
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according to our flesh the spirit writes it on our hearts and then guides us into it for those Paul writes for those who are
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according to the flesh set their minds on the S things of the flesh but those who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit let us
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pray father we do glory in you in The Marvelous the incredible salvation that you have worked out
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throughout history whereby not only are you true to your holy nature but you are true to your Covenant promises that you Encompass all great virtues mercy and
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Grace among them but Justice no less and righteousness you have accomplished it and we ask that by the light of your
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spirit we might see how you've accomplished it and glory in that and be grateful for we know that we could not have accomplished it even remotely by our flesh nor do we
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have any desire to do so and so father we ask that you grant us a desire to Glory your glorify your name through Conformity to the mind and
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the person of Jesus Christ by the power of the holy spirit that you have poured out in our hearts we give you all the glory and the honor forever and ever
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amen please stand for the benediction from 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 now may the God of Peace himself sanctify you
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sanctify you entirely and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ Faithful is he who calls you and
