The Freedom Of The Spirit In Our Spirit
THE FREEDOM OF THE SPIRIT
IN OUR SPIRIT
Romans 8 is a sharp contrast to Romans 7. In Romans 7 we see the bondage of the law in our flesh, and in Romans 8 we see the freedom of the Spirit in our spirit. As we come to chap ter eight, we turn from bondage in the flesh to freedom in the Spirit.
NO CONDEMNATION
At the end of Romans 7 Paul cried out, "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?" (v. 24). Paul opened chapter eight by saying, "There is now then no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus" (v. 1). In the book of Romans there are two kinds of condemnation: the outward, ob jective condemnation and the inward, subjec tive condemnation. The outward condemnation comes from God, and the inward condemna tion comes from ourselves. We see the objective condemnation of God in the early chapters of Romans, for example in 3:19 which says, "That every mouth may be stopped and all the world