Read Romans 8 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
The Greek Testament has no Hebrew paragraph divisions. This is my outline of of Romans so far:
1:1-7, Greeting and benediction;
1:8-15, Desire to visit Rome;
1:16-17, Theme of the letter: the Gospel reveals the righteousness of God;
1:18-5:21, Justification and the righteousness of God;
6:1-8:39, Sanctification and the righteousness of God;
6:1-23, Do not continue in sin;
7:1-6, Dead to the Law written without/ alive to the Spirit written within;
7:7-14, The Law is holy, but in my flesh sin through the Law works to bring death;
7:14-22, I do what I will not to do through sin dwelling within me;
7:23-25, Jesus Christ has delivered me from this state, that is, my flesh serving the law of sin;
8:1-39, We are not condemned when we walk according to the Spirit;
9:1-11:36, God’s righteousness and Israel;
12:1-15:13, Practical application of God’s righteousness;
15:14-16:27, Conclusion.
Romans 8:1-39 Chiastic Structure:
What does it mean to walk according to the Spirit so that we are not condemned?
When we walk according to the Spirit, we are living in such a way that we are allowing the Spirit to have dominion over us. The Scriptures teach that when the Spirit has dominion over us, we will walk in God’s statutes, and we will keep His judgments and do them:
“Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, I will cleanse you. A new heart also I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall keep My judgments, and do them.” Eze 36:25-27
His statutes and judgments are explained in Torah and have not changed. But instead of trying to walk in His statutes from the flesh, that is, trying to obey commandments written on tablets of stone outside of us, while we still have the sin nature inherited from Adam within us, now we are walking in His statutes from the Spirit. We have have a new nature after the Spirit of God within us, and His statutes have been written on our hearts, because we have the new nature inherited from Messiah Yeshua within us. It is now our nature to obey His commandments, written on the tablets of our hearts. It is the Spirit who causes us to walk in them.
If there are questions, this is a good resource:
Romans 8, Conviction and condemnation – Christine Miller
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