Intro: Romans 8:5-8 (Unregenerate man)
• Live according to the flesh
• Let minds on the things of the flesh
• Death
• Hostile to God, does not submit to God’s law, cannot
v.9
• You however - indicates change
contrast
• “Are” - present reality
Paul describes 6 changes

1. New position
1. Not in the flesh but in the Spirit
2. Translated to a totally new realm
3. Fish in the water to Bird in the air
4. Apply - old pleasures will not satisfy us now. (changes from within)
2. New Possession - New relationship with God
1. John 14:16-17
2. Galatians 4:6
3. John 15:4
4. I Corinthians 6:19-20
v.9b
• Anyone - indicates “no exceptions”
• Spirit of Christ = Spirit of God
• v.11 Spirit of the Father
3. New Belonging (4 other references)
1. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (Apply)
- We are able to glorify God
2. 1 Corinthians 7:22-23
- Slave of Christ
- Apply - Do not becomes slaves of anything/anyone else
3. Galatians 5:24
- Sinful passions and desires
- lost the ruling power
- Apply - No longer doomed to be controlled
4. Galatians 3:29 - Abraham offspring
- What all? I Corinthians 3:21-23
4. Made Alive
- Regeneration (Ephesians 2:1-5)
- Body is dead, Spirit made Alive
- “Because of Sin” - root cause
- New Future - Final Salvation - Glorification of body
- “Who” - indicated person-hood (Mind, Emotion, Will)
5. ?
6. New Pursuit
v.12
“so then” - indicates conclusion as a result (truth of future resurrection)
• Debtors
1. We are the flesh, nothing
- Killed uscorrupted us
- Still dwells in us and kills our joy
2. We are everything to Holy Spirit
- done everything needed for our salvation
1. Made us free v.2-3
2. No condemnation v.1
3. Fulfill God's law in us v.4
4. Changes our nature v.5-11
5. Empowers us to fight sin (v.12-13)
6. Confirms adoption (v.14-16)
7. Guarantees our glory (v.17-30)
- Live according to the Spirit (implied)
v.13
Reasons for v.12 (For)
• Sin is a soul killer and so we don't live according to the flesh
• John Owen - Mortification of Sin in believers (86 page book)
• Be killing sin or it will be killing you

Does the threat of death in v.13 imply that we can lose our salvation
Ans: NO!

1. Why? Romans 8:30 - Golden Chain
2. So then why v.13?
V.13b; the daily/continual practice of killing sin is the result of our regenration and justification and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (and hence the evide of those)

On the other hand, if I live according to the flesh, at peace with sin, then it indicates the absence of God’s saving work in us.

- Our profession of faith is false
- Our church memberhip means nothing (is a shame)
- Our baptism is a fraud
- We were never Christians

Killing sin is the effect and not hte cause of Justification and Regeneration.
Romans 1-5 (justification)
Romans 6-7 Justified person cannot live at peace with sin

How to kill sin? A wartime mindset
1. Realize and believe that our way of dealing with sin has to be war, anything short of that is lethal
- Matthew 11;12, Matthew 18-8
A picture of the most radical kind of assault on sin – our own sin

John Piper - “Stop making peace with ears, eyes and tongues and hands and feet that betray you like Judans and go over to the side of the enemy and becomes instruments of sin and make war on your soul. Put to death the deeds of our body”

We need to be violent, we need to everything in our flesh, that will cause us to sin.
The slightest desire that can cause us to sin

2. By the Spirit – The only way possible
​Ephesians 6:16-17 – Take up the only killing weapon; ward of God
​How? By Faith​​
-2 Thesslonians 2:13 – Sanctification – by the Spirit and belief in the truth

Demostration – Hebrews 13:5-6
The root (Heart)- greed coventousness replaced by contentment
How? Kowing and trusting God’s promisse

Trusting what the Word offers as good and satisfying and supereior to the effect of the sin

Conclusion
1. Am I having this wartime mindset
2. New position/new possession/new bulging/ New life made this, New future/New pursuit