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NASB | Romans 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 8:1 Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior]. [John 3:18] |
Subject: tortoise, How does Rom 8:1 relate to OT |
Bible Note: friend, Is 2 pet 2:2 describing a Christian? 1 John 1: 5-10 is talking to Christians whoever. There is a deep consciousness of sin for the believer. And a struggle to walk with God because of the forces that would pull us down. But, if you are not standing securely in the Father's love for you, you have no chance to survive. Please take a look with me at Romans chapter 7. Paul uses an illustration because sometimes they are easier to get our hands around. v1 "the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives", (go back in your mind to Rom 6:3-10, rememember we died with Christ), v2 "for the woman who has a husband is BOUND by the law to her husband as long as he lives." There is our word bound that we are discussing. v3 "...but if her husband dies, she is free from that law". v4 "Therefore, my bretheren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, ...". The law no longer holds you in its sway. Good thing too, see what v5 says. "For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death." See, this freedom from the law is a good thing to enable us to serve Christ. v6 "But now we have been delivered form the law, having died to what we were held by...so that we should should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter". Our esential relationship to the law has changed wouldn't you say? Remember we are saved by grace alone, but saving grace is never alone. I am not under the law, but I am free to serve God instead. tortoise |