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Question how does faith uphold

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the law? Answer by

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the spirit from the Moody Bible

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Institute. This is today in the word.

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And I'm John Gager. Always glad to have your

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company. In Romans eight, verse two,

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Paul says, the spirit who gives

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life has set you free from the law

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of sin and death. This

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is a contrast between two laws

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or controlling principles that

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shape behavior. One operates

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in the realm of flesh which cannot please

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God. The other is the rule

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of the spirit who gives life because of

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righteousness. Those who are

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in Christ are still subject to mortality.

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We're going to die every one of us. However,

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however, when we are indwelt by the same

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powerful spirit who raised Christ

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from the dead. Well, death

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is not our ultimate destiny. How

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do we know today, in the word we read

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in Romans eight verse 11, If the Spirit

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of him who raised Jesus from the dead

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is living in you, he who

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raised Christ Jesus from the dead will

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also give life to your mortal bodies

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because of His Spirit who lives in

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you. The hope of resurrection

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lies in the future, but its

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power is something that believers have already

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begun to experience. The reality

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of the indwelling presence of the spirit

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obligates those who belong to Christ

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to live out of the realm of the spirit.

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The law, even though it is holy, righteous,

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and good, can only operate externally.

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It reveals the standard but does

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not enable us to meet it. Its

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weakness is the flesh, which does

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not submit to God's law, nor can

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it do so well.

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Lots of deep truth there, and it might be

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a good idea to review all of this. You can do that when

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you head to our website. We're at today

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in the word. That's

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today in the word.org. Thank

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you for passing the word along about today and

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the word. Org.