Romans 8 and verse 1 reads.
Rom.8:1] There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Those of us that walk in spirit are his elect. Why no condemnation? We have been justified already.
Rom.8:2] For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
We are freed from death by repentance.
Rom.8:3] For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
By his stripes we are healed.
Rom.8:4] That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
In spirit we fulfill righteousness.
Rom.8:5] For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
[6] For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Of the flesh we die in our sins, but of the spirit we are lifted by the Holy Spirit into life everlasting.
Rom.8:7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Enmity, we have heard this one before. Genesis 3:14-15.
Gen.3:14] And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
[15] And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Satan nailed his heels to the cross, but Christ shall bruise his head at the 7th trump. Back to Romans and verse 8 reads.
Rom.8:8] So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
[9] But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
[10] And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
[11] But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Quicken means “to make alive”. Mortal is “liable to die”. And pertains to your soul. John 14 explained how if we are in Christ then the Father is in us, that would be his Holy Spirit.
Rom.8:12] Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Notice to live after the flesh is our goal. Talking about eternal life.
Rom.8:13] For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
When we repent the sins do not exist and we live.
Rom.8:14] For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
[15] For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Talking about our inheritance. Abba is Father. But I want to go to Eze.18:4 and read.
Eze.18:4] Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
All souls belong to the Father, and he will do with them as he pleases. Back to Romans and verse 16 reads.
Rom.8:16] The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
[17] And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Heirs again, what is our inheritance? Life everlasting. But where is our inheritance? For that let’s go to Psalms 37 and read.
Psa.37:8] Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
[9] For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Back to Romans and verse 18 reads.
Rom.8:18] For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
The glory that awaits us is more than any tribulation that we must go through in the flesh.
Rom.8:19] For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Creature is creation, man.
Rom.8:20] For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
[21] Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
[22] For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
This creation is all of nature now. Even nature waits for the third earth age patiently.
Rom.8:23] And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Even as God’s elect (first fruits), we wait patiently for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom.8:24] For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Hope in what we cannot see is Faith.
Rom.8:25] But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Very important, we wait for the true Christ, knowing the antichrist comes first. Now closely read these next verses.
Rom.8:26] Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
[27] And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
[28] And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
[29] For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
[30] Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
So much information was just given here. When we are working for the Lord, and it seems that we don’t even know what to pray for, the Lord himself intervenes for us. Saints are set aside one’s, God’s Elect, for his will he does this. His Elect are called, are you called, have you been chosen. Has he opened your eyes to his word lately that some things you never knew before now makes sense? The elect were chosen in the first earth age, they were justified (judged). This is why it is so important to understand the three earth ages in Genesis. You cannot understand the end without the beginning. The elect stood with the Lord in the first earth age and he uses them in this age. They have already been justified and glorified.
Rom.8:31] What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
[32] He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Freely given to us is the understanding of his word.
Rom.8:33] Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
God only will judge.
Rom.8:34] Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
[35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
[36] As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Written in Psalms 44 and it reads.
Psa.44:22] Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Killed for his names’ sake, as Christ men, as Christians.
Rom.8:37] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
[38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
[39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Nothing can separate us from God. Fear not for he loves us, and if he be for us who can be against us. Let’s go to his throne.
Father, we thank you for your word and ask that you bless all that love you in Jesus’s precious name, Amen.
KJV along with The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible