Colossians 1:20 and
through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or
things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Acts 17:28 For in
him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said,
'We are his offspring.'
Romans 8: 5 - 7 …5
For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the
flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life
and peace,7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it
does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so,…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 8:1-9 Believers may be chastened of the
Lord, but will not be condemned with the world. By their union with Christ
through faith, they are thus secured. What is the principle of their walk; the
flesh or the Spirit, the old or the new nature, corruption or grace? For which
of these do we make provision, by which are we governed? The unrenewed will is
unable to keep any commandment fully. And the law, besides outward duties,
requires inward obedience. God showed abhorrence of sin by the sufferings of
his Son in the flesh, that the believer's person might be pardoned and
justified. Thus satisfaction was made to Divine justice, and the way of
salvation opened for the sinner. By the Spirit the law of love is written upon
the heart, and though the righteousness of the law is not fulfilled by us, yet,
blessed be God, it is fulfilled in us; there is that in all true believers,
which answers the intention of the law. The favor of God, the welfare of the
soul, the concerns of eternity, are the things of the Spirit, which those that
are after the Spirit do mind. Which way do our thoughts move with most
pleasure? Which way go our plans and contrivances? Are we most wise for the
world, or for our souls? Those that live in pleasure are dead, 1 Timothy 5:6. A
sanctified soul is a living soul; and that life is peace. The carnal mind is
not only an enemy to God, but enmity itself. The carnal man may, by the power
of Divine grace, be made subject to the law of God, but the carnal mind never
can; that must be broken and driven out. We may know our real state and
character by inquiring whether we have the Spirit of God and Christ, or not,
verse 9. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. Having the Spirit of
Christ, means having a turn of mind in some degree like the mind that was in Christ
Jesus, and is to be shown by a life and conversation suitable to his precepts
and example.
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