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Monday, July 16, 2012

The law cannot condemn you.

Christ has already suffered that condemnation for you on the cross.  Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 

Without the Spirit of God, the unsaved person's mind is centered in the things that satisfy the flesh. But the Christian has the Spirit of God within, and his mind is fixed on the things of the Spirit. That doesn't mean that the unsaved person never does anything good or that the believer never does anything bad. It means that their lives are different. One lives for the flesh, the other lives for the Spirit. 

The unsaved person is alive physically, but dead spiritually. He may be moral and even religious, but he lacks spiritual life. He needs "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus". He needs peace with God. He needs salvation.

The evidence of conversion is the presence of the Holy Spirit within, witnessing that you are a child of God. (Romans 8:16)

When we allow the Holy Spirit to work within us, then we have an abundant, victorious life in Christ.