NO CONDEMNATION - ROMANS 8 : 1 - 27

 

“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,” - Romans 8: 1

Why is there no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus? It is because now   “In Christ” you have died to the old man in Adam and you are now released from the condemnation of the law. Your first marriage partner has died and you are now married to Christ. In Christ, you have found love, intimacy, beauty, and new life. All the voices of condemnation have died and are silenced. A dead person cannot raise there voice to condemn, the voice that now speaks to you tells you that you are now loved forever and you can never be separated from this love.

Now you are birthed by the spirit of Christ, you are a new creation in Christ. You are no longer a child of the flesh, birthed in Adam, in the flesh. Paul picks up the revelation he started with a few chapters earlier in Romans 5 where he declares that you were once born in flesh in Adam and this meant that you inherited a sin nature, but now you are born in Christ, by the spirit and now you have inherited his righteousness. You are now holy and righteous in Christ, so don’t slip back into living by the flesh, your old and dead nature in Adam.

Unfortunately, many teacher’s think it is essential to teach a little condemnation because they feel that it is the solution for getting Christians not to sin again. But as we have seen Romans 8 clearly states that for the Christian there is now no condemnation.

Now we are free to live our lives from this revelation or go back to the law and condemnation or we can live from the spirit and live in grace constantly.

The key to understanding Romans 8 is that walking after or being in the flesh refers to being in Adam and walking in the spirit refers to being in Christ. If you are born again then the spirit of God dwells in you and you are in Christ. Therefore it is about living out your life, in your body, in Christ through the Spirit in you.

Once again the Church has taught condemnation into this passage, it has said, “When you are not sinning then you are walking in the spirit, but when you are sinning you are walking in the flesh!”  We need to understand that we could do fleshy things but that does not take us back to “being in the flesh.” Just like you cannot be in the flesh, and do spiritual things that could take you “bring in the spirit.” You have died to your old Adam nature birthed in the flesh and now you are raised to new life in Christ, in the spirit.