Romans 8

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Those of us who are believers are marked differently by God. Having the Holy Spirit in us frees us from sin and death. We, as humans, cannot live up to God's standards because of the way our nature is. The only way to reconcile this was for God to send Jesus to Earth as a human and take our corruption as His own. God condemned our corrupt and sinful nature without having to condemn us; therefore we do not live by the corrupt nature but by the spiritual nature. When we live in our Spiritual nature, we can meet God's standards because God's Spirit cannot go against God. People who live by the corrupt nature have that attitude because they cannot accept what God tells them. They cannot live in the way in which He has called them. This life ultimately leads to death. Those who live in the Spiritual nature will find life and peace. If the Holy Spirit lives in you, you live under the Spiritual nature. If you find your desires line up more and more with what you know God wants for you instead of what the world says is okay or what you want for you, the Holy Spirit lives in you. If you struggle with sin instead of coming to terms with what you're doing remorselessly, then the Holy Spirit is in you. It is possible for you to cast out the Holy Spirit and once again live by your corrupt nature, but if you do, you head back down the path that leads to death. Remember, it is not by force we have the Holy Spirit, like a slave might receive a sentence. We received it as an adoption by God to be His children. As His children, we will share the same inheritance that Christ received, everlasting life.

Any afflictions you suffer from now, you will consider insignificant when you finally get to see the glory of God. We wait for Him to reveal who His children are. This implies that some who claim to be His children do not have the faith they claim to have. In these cases, God does not accept them as His children. Ever since Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, all creation has groaned with the pain sin has cast down upon it. Even we believers continue to groan as we eagerly anticipate Heaven and the time when we will finally be freed from our Earthly bodies. We were saved thinking of this hope. It's not only acceptable but common to accept Christ because you want to go to Heaven. It is later that you find even more reasons to follow Him. You must grow in your faith and not stagnate at that stage. We must keep our hope forward on the things we have yet to see because how can you hope for something you've already seen? The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness because we don't know what to pray for. We don't know what's best for us, but the Holy Spirit is God's Spirit and therefore knows the things God knows. God knows what's best for us. The Holy Spirit intercedes inside of us the way God wants Him to.

All things work together for the good of those who love God. It is a fact that almost all believers know that God has the perfect plan for our lives. His Son is the firstborn among many. If God is for us, nothing can ever stand against us. God could have stopped Jesus from being killed, but He handed Him over to death in order to save all of us. Christ also intercedes for us from the highest position in Heaven, that is why He said that if we ask anything in His name, it shall be done for us. Christ died and came back to life for us. Nothing can separate us from His love.