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Our empowerment comes with a proper sense of indebtedness.

The flesh, our members, the body are all identified in Romans 6,7 and 8 at vessels of sin and death that are to be overcome by living in the Spirit. But is there no hope for our bodies-- Is the best we can hope for to be released one day from those bodies altogether-- Consider here in short... God's plan for your sinful bodies.

The clear declaration over the Christian is 'you are no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.' This declaration entails the believers security in Salvation. But then Paul says, -if the Spirit dwells in you.- And there we learn that this security is confirmed in the believers 'assurance' of the Spirit's indwelling. Consider here what constitutes that assurance.

Consider these four points of our positional sanctification- The work of Christ to deal with sin and condemn it in His flesh has set a foundation for holy living. That foundation is fourfold. 1st vs. 1 we are not under condemnation. 2nd vs 2 we are set free to realize our purpose in the law. 3rd and 4th as considered in this message the full requirement of the law is accomplished in us from the start. And we are set beyond the restrictions of the flesh to live in the domain -range- of the Spirit of Life. The believer begins their life in the wide open place of the Spirit.

Romans 8-3 tells us that Jesus, who had a body after the likeness of our sinful bodies, condemned sin in the flesh. What does that mean-- How-- In what way was this done by our Savior and what does this mean for the believer. Here is the work by which we are not under condemnation, we are free in the law and we are released into the domain of the Spirit of LIfe.

From Romans 8-2 consider the freedom Christ, the freest man who ever lived, brings to the believer. It is not a freedom outside of the law but a freedom within in it.