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Are You a Romans 7, or a Romans 8 Christian?

Are you a Romans 7, or a Romans 8 Christian? That is the question addressed


in the most recent readings from our Daily Scripture Reading Bible Study Christian
Podcasts.

As we continued our readings from Paul's letter to the Romans, we saw Paul
teaching about the new man and the new creation. Previously in Romans we saw him
teaching that these new men literally die as they go under the waters of baptism, and
are born again as new creatures upon their coming up from these same waters.

What we learn from this is simple yet powerful. In essence, chapter 7 saw Paul
speaking of the life of man before choosing faith in Jesus Christ and becoming a new
creature through that faith—chapter 8 saw Paul speaking of the life of a man after
becoming a new creation. In other words, for believers, chapter 7 is not what we have
to look forward to, it is instead what we can remember back to—chapter 8 is what we
have to look forward to, and, what we will see more and more of in our own lives as
we fall more and more in love with God through Jesus Christ, the visible
manifestation of the everlasting triune God of Scripture.

So indeed the way out of the agony spoken of in chapter 7 is found in chapter
8, and described such that we can come to understand that, even during our life here
on planet earth, we are new creatures living in a new creation. Christ has mortified the
deeds of the flesh and through the Spirit of Christ living in us, we can and do live as
totally saved spiritual beings, not as totally depraved sinners. Chapter 8 is one of the
greatest chapters of Scripture—as through it shines the glorious nature of the sons of
God! You see, once you understand the incredible victory won by Christ directly after
the cross in the depths of Hell, this overwhelming victorious heaven view enables you
to understand this overwhelmingly victorious and powerful worldview of the Apostle
Paul—and your part in this already won victory lived out in your daily walk with the
Lord.

Further, he confirms that the Spirit will provide the means, it is not up to us—
hear the words of the Lord when He said “all things are possible with God.” Then, to
remind us that while we will live this new life as new creatures of a new creation, there
will remain all the earthly trials and tribulations natural to this created world, Paul goes
on to make the point that these trials are nothing compared to the magnificent future
God has planned for us. And that “hope” of our magnificent future is the blessing
that gives us the grace to see the big picture. Our worldly lives are but the birthing
center for our newly born spirit’s which, upon being translated from this life to the
next, then obtain in fully realized form all those promises of that life lived beyond the
bounds of time in the spiritual realm of the Kingdom of Heaven.

As you continue through your days, never forget that we are indeed rescued
from the tyranny of destruction from sin. Our victorious heaven view confirms that.
Our understanding of Christ’s work in Hell after the cross proves that. Our faith in
the resurrection proclaims that. So while we may, from time to time, groan in a sort of
universal travail over the tragedies that sometimes accompany this earthly life, it is
with patient hope that we make our way through, knowing full well the already won
victory, and the glorious life awaiting us if we can just finish our race here in faithful
triumph.

Over and over, we see Paul making plain how the Spirit will indeed make us
capable of such a high calling. The Spirit ever reminds us how glorious is our total
salvation, and how completely we have left behind that total depravity still clung to by
some. In Christ, we are made wholly perfect. Let no one therefore accuse you—only
Christ can accuse you, but He died for you, gained the victory over death for you in
Hell, rose again for you from the dead, and reigns in power for you even now. As a
believer, the Spirit of the Christ lives in you, literally providing you the means to live
the life we are called unto in chapter 8 of this marvelous book of Romans. So live it!
Proclaim the victory! You need not be a chapter 7 man, but instead, fulfill your calling
and be a Romans chapter 8 Christian. And build up fellow believers in this word, that
all might then see the means to build Christendom wherever we are, and wherever we
go.

Truly we are already victorious. We are more than conquerors. As believers, we


already have the Kingdom of Heaven within us, and will, upon our translation as our
spirits leave this material world for the spiritual, fully receive all the blessings
promised in that life beyond the bounds of time. This is the glorious victory of the
sons of God made plain to all who see the glorious victory already won in Heaven by
Christ directly after the cross. Indeed, we are more than conquerors.

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