Resurrection Through The Spirit Romans 8_10-23

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the All Things Fulfilled broadcast. I'm William Bell and we are delighted to be with you today looking forward to a great study. We're going to be talking about the Holy Spirit's work in resurrection continuing on the studies that we began in Romans chapter 8 looking at verses 10 and 11. Today we're going to sort of finish up verse 11 and we're going to move on to several of the other verses in the context. And so we invite you to bring an open Bible, an open heart that loves the Word of God and loves to study the Word of God, and an open mind so that God can teach you the things that he has revealed in his Word. And when you do those three things I believe that God will open your understanding to a better knowledge of the Word of God. And so we'll be getting started just All right. Well, everybody should have their Bibles, perhaps a pen and paper, open mind, open heart. And let's see if we can open our understanding to another study of God's Word. Welcome to the All Bible Prophecy Fulfilled podcast where we talk about things that pertain to the end time as well as other subjects in the Bible. And today we are continuing a series of studies which we have been doing on the Holy Spirit. We're looking at Romans chapter 8 and verses 10 and 11 where the text says, And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. Now when we look at these passages as we have begun to study before, we demonstrated that the body that formed the subject matter for the text in Romans chapter 8 is the body that Paul mentions in Romans 7 that is connected with sin and the law of sin and death in his members from Romans 7 and verse 23. He says, But I see another law in my mind or in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. And then to express what that means, he tells us in verse 24, O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death? Now when he says the body of this death, he's talking about the death that came as a result of the law in his members that was warring against the law in his mind and was bringing him into captivity to the law of sin which was in his members. And we demonstrated from Romans chapter 7 verses 7 through 12 or actually through verse 11 that this had to do with the law or the commandment that came which he thought was to bring life that was to bring death. And so therefore the commandment came and he died and that's what he teaches in the in that section of Romans. So this is the death that's being spoken of and this death is a covenantal body in which the Jews found themselves and from which they were desiring to be delivered much like the Israelites of old were desiring to be delivered from the bondage of Egypt. And this period took or this event took a process of about 40 years in order for them to make the complete transition and transformation from the old covenant to the new. Now he says when he answers the question who's going to do this, he says I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of sin but with the flesh or the law of God and with the flesh the law of sin. So what was this flesh and this spirit dichotomy that we found in Romans chapter 8 when in verse 9 or verse 8 he says so then those who are in the flesh cannot please God. We identify that as the being outside of the ram of Christ being outside of the ram of the spirit in that realm where man depends upon his own strength where he has no power through the law to overcome his own strength his own failure and own shortcomings of the glory of God and therefore the realm of the flesh. It is a covenantal mode it stands over against the spiritual mode or the mode of the spirit and so we're talking about two covenantal states one kills and the other gives life but neither is talking about physical death nor physical life this is the life that is in relationship to God through Jesus Christ our Lord and as a result of the work of that Holy Spirit the earnest of the Spirit that was poured out in that first century generation in the last days. Now we have some who will try to develop or argue that the body in Romans 8 10 and 11 is the physical body of man that these are individual bodies but that violates the context and we're going to show you as we move further through the text how Paul continues to talk about the covenantal body that is found in Christ and that those who are in the flesh not in their individual physical fleshly bodies. I mean how much sense as we said before would it make to say that those who are in the physical body cannot please God why we might as well pack up our bags and go home there's nothing we can do about our condition in sin and in need for salvation because as long as we are physically in the flesh according to the interpretation of many then we might as well give up but when he says those who are in the flesh cannot please God he is not talking about a physical body he's not talking about you in your skin rather he's talking about you in your sin that's the realm of the flesh that's the realm where the flesh has no power and therefore what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God did in sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin on account of sin he condemned sin in the flesh that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit now the last time i checked i haven't noticed any spirits floating around as opposed to people walking around in fleshly bodies the realm of the spirit is the realm of God Christ and the Holy Spirit for example in John chapter 4 when Jesus made the statement that God is a spirit and he seeks true worshipers to worship him and therefore said God is a spirit and those who worship him must worship where in spirit and in truth those allocations those allocatives in they demonstrate the sphere in which God desires service and it is in the realm of the spirit those outside of God and Christ are in the realm of the flesh and you cannot please God being outside of the realm of the spirit outside of the realm of Jesus Christ and outside of the realm of the father there is no pleasing him outside of Christ and so those who are in the flesh cannot please God that is their covenantal standing that is their relationship with God but also he says you are not in the flesh so he's writing to some people at Rome and saying to those people you are not in the flesh now imagine if we sat beside somebody who has skin on their body and we told now it could be that for some reason they may not be quite totally present but that's beside the point it doesn't mean that they are not yet alive and human and have their flesh as as far as their physical bodies are concerned so this text is not talking about physical bodies and it's not talking about flesh as a manner of life in terms of doing carnal things that we you know typically would characterize as carnal things filled with you know lust and immorality and various other things that's not the context here it's the flesh as a realm as a covenantal mode and then one within that mode may choose to do those things but the point is that is not what this text is discussing and so he says you are not in the flesh but where in the spirit if indeed the spirit of god dwells in you so the reason you're in the spirit and not in the flesh is because the spirit of god dwells in you that's what was stated to those in the first century when the holy spirit had been poured out it was god's means of sealing them and setting them apart from those who did not have the spirit and therefore were not his children that's why the text says if any man does not have the spirit of christ he does not belong to christ he is not his and you see god did not give the spirit to those under the law he did not give the spirit to those who rejected jesus as the messiah and wanted to continue following torah as though it was their means of salvation to them he did not give the spirit and that is one of the ways he was able to distinguish what the church was able to distinguish that these people under the law did not belong to jesus the messiah and that's why they met their fate in 70 a.d when the temple was destroyed and 1.1 million of them were killed and another almost 100 000 were carried off into captivity and put into slavery so that's what he means they didn't belong to christ because they were not in the realm of the spirit now he says and if christ is in you the body is dead so because christ was in them the body was dead what body was that that was the body where death worked that was the body of sin that was the body that they put off in baptism and were continually trying to throw off as you read about it in romans chapter 6 where the verse says our old man was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be done away those are subjunctives there and it says that our old man was crucified with him in order that that's the meaning of the word that as a conjunction of purpose in order that the body of sin might be destroyed it didn't say that it was destroyed at the point of baptism it was going to be destroyed at some point in the future and that was the work of the holy spirit that's why he told them in and the verse is 12 therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey it in the lusts thereof he wasn't talking about their physical body he was talking about that body that had been put to death that old man that was going to be destroyed and so if christ is in you the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of righteousness so they weren't going to die with the body the spirit was going to raise them up out of that body into righteousness into a new life that was the work of the spirit and hence if the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead dwells that's a present tense dwelling dwells in you he who raised christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you so we're talking about the body of christ and members within that body being raised up out of the body of sin and death now notice verse 12 therefore brethren we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh now show me a man who is not going to eat to feed his body who is not going to work to clothe his body who is not going to rest to recreate his body who is not going to love his body as the bible says in ephesians chapter 5 nourishes and cherishes it even as the lord does the church we love the bodies that we're in so much so that we're not going to go out and take our own lives and we're not going to allow anybody else to do it if we can help that and so to tell someone therefore brethren we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh means they were not to continue to live as though that old covenant was not going to come to an end and that life under that old covenant would not come to an end but to express their hope in the new life that the spirit was bringing about and so he says for if you live according to the flesh you will die well now suppose a person never becomes a christian suppose they never accept jesus christ as their lord do you suppose they're going to live forever physically no they're still going to die but you see with this situation of being in the spirit if they accepted the spirit they would never die that's the message of resurrection which jesus taught in john 8 51 and 52 he said to those jews if you continue in my word you will never see death whoever keeps my word shall never see death well the jews thought that he had a demon and they said that they said now we know that you've got a demon because you're saying if a man keep my saying he'll never see death he says what they said what about the prophets what about abraham abraham and the prophets are dead so what is this that you're talking about you see they were in the wrong ballpark they were trying to play football and jesus was talking about baseball he was talking about death that results from sin the same one that paul was talking about and he said if a man keep my saying he will never see death he will never be separated from god on the other hand they were thinking it was physical death and that's why they brought up abraham and the prophets who all were dead physically speaking and so he says if you live according to the flesh you will die but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live and thus as they are living in the spirit they are losing their reflection affection for that old covenant mode unlike a lot of people can you believe that after the temple has been destroyed for almost two thousand years the priesthood has been destroyed all the genealogical tables that or tap you know records that were used to verify a person as a priest and as an authentic priest with a pure pedigree have been destroyed so that it's not possible to even determine who is according to the genealogical records after all the sacrifices have ceased that there are people who still claim they are following the law they are people of god according to the law of moses and by the way these people when you mention that we are no longer under the law the first argument they want to throw out is well does that mean that we can practice a life of sin and the answer to that is no paul even said what should we say then shall we continue in the sin that the grace might abound god forbid how should we who died to the sin live any longer in it if you die to sin you don't live in what you died to he made the same argument again the law has dominion over a man so long as he lives but if death occurs he's no longer under it and that was the net effect of being baptized into christ they died to the law and to sin and therefore were no longer to live in what they died to i can assure you of this when you die to this world and when i die to this world we will not come back and have to pay taxes have to have a driver's license have to pay mortgages we won't have to do any of that because we will have died to this life and if we get over on the other side saying look i gotta go pay my mortgage i gotta go file my income taxes or i've got to do something else that pertains to this life they might send you back because they would probably think that you're not but that just doesn't happen you're not coming back that's what god told david through nathan when the child died you can go to him but he's not coming back here and so there is no such thing if you die to it it's done and so the scripture says for as many now let me get this again for if you live according to the flesh you will die but if by the spirit you put to deeds or put to death the deeds of the body you will live now that live and is is the inheritance that is the life the resurrection the righteousness and the promise that we've looked at before so when the bible talks about living here we're still in the context of resurrection now they're already physically alive so what is how are we going to make this life of the body and this was taking place through the active ongoing present at that time work of the holy spirit now here's the other side of that another term for resurrection is son of god the bible says for as many as are led by the spirit these are the sons of god these are sons of god because the spirit was leading them to the consummation when they would be considered as full-grown perfected sons of god at the time paul wrote they were babes they were adolescents if you please growing and that's why the holy spirit was given to bring them to perfection so they would no longer be children what the bible calls the nepeoi underage children who could not inherit and hence the spirit was given to lead them until they reached full-grown age where they could inherit the blessings of god and a part or one aspect or facet of that inheritance was being a son of god because being a son of god is equivalent to being raised from the dead they had that in pledge now someone will say well weren't people under the old testament sons of god they were sons of god in the realm of the flesh in the realm of the law but remember he said those who are under the law and who are in the flesh cannot please god so they had to be born again to become sons in the spirit but they had to grow to maturity because you don't give a baby an inheritance that is illegal and you can see galatians 4 1 and 2 for that but notice in galatians 3 26 and 27 he says for you all the sons of god by faith in christ jesus for as many of you as were baptized into christ have put on christ there is neither june or greek there is neither bond or free there is neither male nor female for you all one in christ jesus now what was the commonality in all of those before jew and gentile male and female bond or free none of them could receive the inheritance here's why the jews could not receive it because under the law they were under age the gentile could not receive it because they had no hope they were outside of the covenants of promise the women could not receive it because the inheritance was passed down through the males unless there were an exception such as in the daughters of zalafa had numbers 34 and thus they had no inheritance under law the male the same as the jew because they were under age and the slave had no inheritance under the law because he was a slave and slaves do not inherit and if they were free in other words having purchased their freedom or been released as a slave they still had no inheritance if they were under age or and or outside of the realm of israel but when they entered into christ those distinctions all left and now they have become sons where they are eligible for the inheritance and hence he says and if you belong to christ then are you abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise well if you do not belong to christ you are not abraham's seed and you are not an heir according to the promise and those who want to advocate the law only need to get that message but let's look at luke chapter 21 when we talk about uh the sons of god or luke chapter 20 excuse me luke 20 beginning at verse 34 jesus answered and said to them the sons of this age marry and are given in marriage but those who are counted worthy to attain that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage nor can they die anymore see there's that same language they cannot die anymore for they are equal to the angels and are sons of god being sons of the resurrection that was the of the spirit to lead them to that point where they could be sons of god and sons of the resurrection now i have a video on youtube called no marrying in the resurrection and um it's been well received and you might go to youtube look up all things fulfilled and you can pull up that video no marrying in the resurrection there are also some additional studies uh being done on the topic but the point being was that there could be no dying in this new age but they had to be counted worthy in order to get there and he says those who are counted worthy to attain that age being counted worthy means that those could not marry nor given in marriage he can't be talking about physical marriage can he because he says you have to be counted worthy and those who are counted worthy do not marry so if you're married and you're talking about you want to make this physical marriage it means you are not worthy but see the age was the christian age and he's talking about the leveret law of marriage which is not practiced in christianity and therefore we have to understand that distinction but they would become sons of god and that's why in romans chapter 8 he says they would be the sons of god next he says you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear see there's the bondage paul talked about but you receive the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out abba father the adoption is the resurrection romans 8 23 not only that but we also have the first fruits of the spirit even we ourselves grown within ourselves eagerly waiting for the adoption the redemption of the body so the adoption is the redemption it's the resurrection and then finally we have the glory because he says if the children if children then heirs heirs of god join heirs with christ if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together and even backing up one verse the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of god and so as sons of god we cry out abba father that's the work of the holy spirit in bringing about resurrection in the body of christ well that's all the time that we have for today it's been a pleasure being with you we look forward to being back with you again in our next study and we want to share with you more about the word of god always bring an open bible an open mind and open heart to receive the things so that god can open your understanding we encourage you to get a copy of our book which is have you spoken in tongues it will give you more information on the holy spirit as you study once again i'm william bell with all bible prophecy fulfills saying have a very pleasant afternoon