(*According to James Boice)
I have mentioned in other places that one way I study the Bible is to outline a passage. Even If I'm preaching on a few verses I look at the whole context and at least outline the chapter where the verses are set. You may outline it differently, but the goal is to understand the flow of the argument, the story, the illustration, or the worship better.
Its been said that the whole Bible is a ring, the New Testament the setting, Romans the jewel, and Romans 8 the shining point on the brightest facet of the gem.
It's also been said that whatever chapter the preacher is preaching from is the Greatest Chapter in the Bible!
WHY there is NO Condemnation:
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no
condemnation [C1]
2 For the law of
the Spirit of life has set you free in
Christ Jesus
from the law of sin and death.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened
by flesh, couldn't do.
By
sending his own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh and for sin,
he condemned sin- [C3] in the flesh,
4 in order that the righteous
requirement of the law [C4]
might
be fulfilled in us, who walk
not according to the
flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the
flesh
set their minds on the things of the flesh,
but
those who live according to the Spirit
set their minds on the things of the
Spirit.
6 For to set the mind on the
flesh is death, but
to
set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is
hostile to God,
for
it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God[C5] .
How we live with No Condemnation:
9 You, however,
are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,
if
in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Anyone who does not have the Spirit of
Christ
does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you,
although the body is dead because of sin,
the
Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, he
who raised Christ Jesus from the dead
will
also give life to your mortal bodies
through
his Spirit who dwells in you.
not
to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13 For if you live according to
the flesh you will die,
but
if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,
you will live.
14
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
15 For you did not receive the spirit of
slavery
to fall back into fear,
but you have received the Spirit of
adoption as sons,
by
whom we cry "Abba! Father!"
16
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
that we are children of God,
17
and if children, then heirs—
heirs
of God and fellow heirs with Christ,
provided we suffer with him in order that
we may also be glorified with him.
How No Condemnation affects us Now in this world:
18 For I consider
that the sufferings of this present time are
not worth
comparing with the glory that
is to be revealed to us.
19
For the creation waits with eager longing for
the revealing of the sons of God.
20
For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly,
but
because of him who subjected it, in hope
21
that the creation itself will be set free from
its bondage to corruption
and
obtain the freedom
of the glory of the children of God.
22
For we know that the whole creation
has been groaning together
in
the pains of childbirth until now.
23
And not only the creation, but we ourselves,
who
have the firstfruits of the Spirit,
groan
inwardly as we wait eagerly
for adoption as sons,
the redemption of our bodies.
24
For in this hope we were saved.
Now hope that is seen is not hope.
For who hopes for what he sees?
25
But if we hope for what we do not see,
we
wait for it with patience.
26
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness.
For
we do not know what to pray for as we ought,
but
the Spirit himself intercedes for us
with
groaning(s) too deep for words.
27
And he who searches hearts knows
what is the mind of the Spirit,
because
the Spirit intercedes for the saints according
to the will of God.
Why God called us to be with No Condemnation:
28 And we know
that for those who love God all things
work together [C7] for
good,
for
those who are called according to his purpose.
he also predestined to be conformed
in order that he [Jesus] might be the
firstborn
among many brothers.
30
And those whom he
predestined he also called[C10] ,
and
those whom he called he also justified,
What else does it mean to Have No Condemnation?
(More Questions!)
31 What then shall
we say to these things?
If
God is for us, who can be against us?
but gave him up for us all,
how
will he not also with him graciously
give us all things?
33 Who shall bring
any charge against God's elect?
It is God who justifies.
34 Who is to
condemn?
more than that, who was raised—
who is at the right hand of God,
who indeed is interceding for us.
35 Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36
As it is written,
"For
your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we
are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
37 No, in all
these things we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us.
What does No Condemnation Mean for our Eternity?
38 For I am sure that neither
death nor life,
nor angels nor
rulers,
nor things present
nor things to come,
nor powers,
39 nor height nor
depth,
nor anything else
in all creation,
will be able to
separate us from the love of God
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