WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.890 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.988 --> 00:00:03.518 Day 30. 00:00:04.228 --> 00:00:07.048 when Adam sinned, sin entered the world. 00:00:07.918 --> 00:00:09.478 Adam's sin brought death. 00:00:10.018 --> 00:00:11.788 So death spread to everyone. 00:00:12.418 --> 00:00:13.558 For everyone sinned. 00:00:14.518 --> 00:00:18.988 Yes, people sinned even before the law was given, but it was 00:00:18.988 --> 00:00:22.588 not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. 00:00:23.368 --> 00:00:25.498 Still, everyone died. 00:00:26.098 --> 00:00:28.588 From the time of Adam to the time of Moses. 00:00:29.308 --> 00:00:33.928 Even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God as Adam did. 00:00:35.638 --> 00:00:40.768 Now, Adam is a symbol, a representation of Christ who was yet to come. 00:00:41.608 --> 00:00:48.058 But there is a great difference between Adam's sin and God's gracious gift for the 00:00:48.058 --> 00:00:55.168 sin of this one man, Adam brought death to many, but even greater is God's wonderful 00:00:55.168 --> 00:00:57.898 grace and his gift of forgiveness to many. 00:00:58.558 --> 00:01:03.808 Through this other man, Jesus Christ, and the result of God's gracious gift 00:01:03.808 --> 00:01:09.418 is very different from the result of that one man's sin for Adam's sin led 00:01:09.423 --> 00:01:15.508 to condemnation, but God's free gift leads to our being made right with God, 00:01:16.198 --> 00:01:18.268 even though we are guilty of many sins. 00:01:19.138 --> 00:01:23.188 For the sin of this one man, Adam caused death to rule over many. 00:01:24.178 --> 00:01:28.618 But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness 00:01:29.398 --> 00:01:33.208 for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death 00:01:33.538 --> 00:01:36.268 through this one man, Jesus Christ. 00:01:37.678 --> 00:01:43.558 Yes, Adam's one Sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ's one act of 00:01:43.558 --> 00:01:49.378 righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone. 00:01:50.233 --> 00:01:52.423 Because one person disobeyed God. 00:01:52.633 --> 00:01:57.073 Many became sinners, but because one other person obeyed God, 00:01:57.673 --> 00:01:59.233 many will be made righteous. 00:02:00.613 --> 00:02:04.723 God's law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. 00:02:05.533 --> 00:02:10.093 But as people sinned more and more, God's wonderful grace became more abundant. 00:02:10.843 --> 00:02:15.763 So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now 00:02:15.763 --> 00:02:18.223 God's wonderful grace rules instead. 00:02:18.853 --> 00:02:23.173 Giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life 00:02:23.533 --> 00:02:25.213 through Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:02:27.193 --> 00:02:31.753 Well then should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more 00:02:31.753 --> 00:02:33.343 and more of his wonderful grace? 00:02:34.213 --> 00:02:35.053 Of course not. 00:02:35.983 --> 00:02:39.943 Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? 00:02:40.873 --> 00:02:42.373 Or have you forgotten that? 00:02:42.373 --> 00:02:45.523 When we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined 00:02:45.523 --> 00:02:48.193 him in his death for we died. 00:02:48.613 --> 00:02:53.743 And were buried with Christ by baptism and just as Christ was raised from the 00:02:53.743 --> 00:02:56.053 dead by the glorious power of the Father. 00:02:56.743 --> 00:03:03.433 Now, we also may live new lives since we have been united with him in his death. 00:03:03.883 --> 00:03:06.553 We will also be raised to life as he was. 00:03:07.543 --> 00:03:11.953 We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that 00:03:11.953 --> 00:03:14.113 sin might lose its power in our lives. 00:03:14.983 --> 00:03:17.023 We are no longer slaves to sin. 00:03:17.818 --> 00:03:21.988 For when we died with Christ, we were set free from the power of sin. 00:03:22.528 --> 00:03:26.488 And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. 00:03:27.538 --> 00:03:31.348 We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead 00:03:31.438 --> 00:03:33.268 and he will never die again. 00:03:33.508 --> 00:03:36.478 Death no longer has any power over him. 00:03:37.198 --> 00:03:42.238 When he died, he died once to break the power of sin, but now that he 00:03:42.238 --> 00:03:44.578 lives, he lives for the glory of God. 00:03:45.958 --> 00:03:51.058 So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and 00:03:51.058 --> 00:03:53.728 alive to God through Christ Jesus. 00:03:55.048 --> 00:03:57.208 Do not let sin control the way you live. 00:03:57.778 --> 00:03:59.758 Do not give in to sinful desires. 00:04:00.478 --> 00:04:05.068 Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. 00:04:06.058 --> 00:04:10.528 Instead, give yourselves completely to God for you were 00:04:10.528 --> 00:04:13.738 dead, but now you have new life. 00:04:14.788 --> 00:04:19.198 So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. 00:04:19.918 --> 00:04:23.098 Sin is no longer your master for you. 00:04:23.098 --> 00:04:25.948 No longer live under the requirements of the law. 00:04:26.848 --> 00:04:30.118 Instead, you live under the freedom of God's grace. 00:04:32.218 --> 00:04:36.508 Well then since God's grace has set us free from the law, does 00:04:36.508 --> 00:04:38.068 that mean we can go on sinning? 00:04:39.058 --> 00:04:39.868 Of course not. 00:04:41.023 --> 00:04:45.433 Don't you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey. 00:04:46.363 --> 00:04:51.523 You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey 00:04:51.523 --> 00:04:54.283 God, which leads to righteous living. 00:04:55.063 --> 00:05:00.613 Thank God once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey 00:05:00.613 --> 00:05:01.993 this teaching we have given you. 00:05:02.743 --> 00:05:06.283 Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become 00:05:06.283 --> 00:05:07.993 slaves to righteous living. 00:05:09.583 --> 00:05:13.693 Because of the weakness of your human nature, I'm using the illustration of 00:05:13.693 --> 00:05:15.913 slavery to help you understand all this. 00:05:16.933 --> 00:05:21.793 Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, 00:05:22.183 --> 00:05:24.163 which led ever deeper into sin. 00:05:25.153 --> 00:05:29.083 Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living 00:05:29.593 --> 00:05:31.033 so that you will become holy. 00:05:32.083 --> 00:05:35.323 When you are slaves to sin, you are free from the obligation to 00:05:35.323 --> 00:05:37.813 do right, and what was the result? 00:05:38.908 --> 00:05:43.408 You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal 00:05:43.413 --> 00:05:49.558 doom, but now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. 00:05:50.428 --> 00:05:54.898 Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. 00:05:55.708 --> 00:06:01.888 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal 00:06:01.888 --> 00:06:04.378 life through Christ Jesus our Lord. 00:06:06.193 --> 00:06:10.063 Now, dear brothers and sisters, you who are familiar with the law, 00:06:11.053 --> 00:06:14.773 don't you know that the law applies only while a person is living? 00:06:16.153 --> 00:06:20.353 For example, when a woman marries the law, binds her to her 00:06:20.353 --> 00:06:22.483 husband as long as he is alive. 00:06:23.143 --> 00:06:26.623 But if he dies, the laws of marriage no longer apply to her. 00:06:27.343 --> 00:06:30.823 So while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery 00:06:31.033 --> 00:06:32.263 if she married another man. 00:06:33.163 --> 00:06:37.273 But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and does not 00:06:37.273 --> 00:06:39.013 commit adultery when she remarries. 00:06:40.063 --> 00:06:42.793 So my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point. 00:06:43.843 --> 00:06:50.893 You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ, and now you are united 00:06:50.898 --> 00:06:52.783 with the one who was raised from the dead. 00:06:53.683 --> 00:06:58.573 As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God when 00:06:58.573 --> 00:07:00.223 we were controlled by our old nature. 00:07:00.853 --> 00:07:06.013 Sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil 00:07:06.018 --> 00:07:10.933 desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds resulting in death. 00:07:12.133 --> 00:07:16.903 But now we have been released from the law for we died to it and are 00:07:16.903 --> 00:07:18.853 no longer captive to its power. 00:07:19.633 --> 00:07:25.363 Now we can servee God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but 00:07:25.363 --> 00:07:28.033 in the new way of living in the spirit. 00:07:29.788 --> 00:07:33.748 Well then am I suggesting that the law of God is sinful? 00:07:34.558 --> 00:07:35.518 Of course not. 00:07:36.418 --> 00:07:39.358 In fact, it was the law that showed me my sin. 00:07:40.438 --> 00:07:43.228 I would never have known that coveting is wrong. 00:07:43.738 --> 00:07:50.128 If the law had not said, you must not covet, but sin used this command to arouse 00:07:50.128 --> 00:07:52.558 all kinds of covetous desires within me. 00:07:53.608 --> 00:07:56.668 If there were no law, sin would not have that power. 00:07:57.973 --> 00:08:02.353 At one time I lived without understanding the law, but when I learned the 00:08:02.353 --> 00:08:08.893 command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life and I died. 00:08:09.823 --> 00:08:13.093 So I discovered that the law's commands, which were supposed to bring 00:08:13.093 --> 00:08:15.403 life, brought sp spiritual death. 00:08:15.613 --> 00:08:20.353 Instead, sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me. 00:08:20.683 --> 00:08:27.013 It used the commands to kill me, but still, The law itself is holy 00:08:27.583 --> 00:08:33.493 and its commands are holy and right and good, but how can that be? 00:08:34.453 --> 00:08:42.823 Did the law, which is good cause my death, of course not sin used what was good to 00:08:42.823 --> 00:08:44.803 bring about my condemnation to death. 00:08:45.913 --> 00:08:48.613 So we can see how terrible sin really is. 00:08:49.363 --> 00:08:53.983 It uses God's good commands for its own evil purposes. 00:08:55.018 --> 00:08:59.398 So the trouble is not with the law for it is spiritual and good. 00:08:59.908 --> 00:09:05.608 The trouble is with me for I am all too human, a slave to sin. 00:09:06.508 --> 00:09:10.198 I don't really understand myself for I want to do what 00:09:10.198 --> 00:09:12.538 is right, but I don't do it. 00:09:13.408 --> 00:09:15.508 Instead, I do what I hate. 00:09:16.558 --> 00:09:20.548 But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that 00:09:20.548 --> 00:09:22.378 I agree that the law is good. 00:09:23.278 --> 00:09:25.048 So I am not the one doing wrong. 00:09:25.258 --> 00:09:27.718 It is sin living in me that does it. 00:09:29.038 --> 00:09:31.438 And I know that nothing good lives in me. 00:09:32.098 --> 00:09:33.628 That is in my sinful nature. 00:09:34.438 --> 00:09:37.018 I want to do what is right, but I can't. 00:09:37.948 --> 00:09:42.898 I want to do what is good, but I don't, I don't wanna do what 00:09:42.898 --> 00:09:45.388 is wrong, but I do it anyway. 00:09:46.228 --> 00:09:50.938 But if I do what I don't wanna do, I am not really the one doing wrong. 00:09:51.433 --> 00:09:53.623 It is sin living in me that does it. 00:09:54.943 --> 00:09:58.873 I've discovered this principle of life that when I want to do what is 00:09:58.873 --> 00:10:01.633 right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 00:10:02.743 --> 00:10:07.273 I love God's law with all my heart, but there is another power within 00:10:07.273 --> 00:10:09.673 me that is at war with my mind. 00:10:10.543 --> 00:10:14.233 This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 00:10:15.733 --> 00:10:18.253 Oh, what a miserable person I am. 00:10:19.108 --> 00:10:22.948 Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 00:10:24.208 --> 00:10:29.068 Thank God the answer is in Jesus Christ, our Lord. 00:10:30.388 --> 00:10:33.418 So you see how it is in my mind. 00:10:33.718 --> 00:10:38.158 I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful 00:10:38.158 --> 00:10:40.858 nature, I am a slave to sin. 00:10:43.018 --> 00:10:47.518 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 00:10:48.298 --> 00:10:54.328 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving spirit has freed you 00:10:54.328 --> 00:10:56.698 from the power of sin that leads to death. 00:10:57.838 --> 00:11:01.288 The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the 00:11:01.293 --> 00:11:02.878 weakness of our sinful nature. 00:11:02.878 --> 00:11:06.688 The so God did what the law could not do. 00:11:07.318 --> 00:11:12.268 He sent his own son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. 00:11:12.913 --> 00:11:19.183 And in that body, God declared an end to sins control over us by giving 00:11:19.183 --> 00:11:21.493 his son as a sacrifice for our sins. 00:11:22.423 --> 00:11:27.283 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied 00:11:27.283 --> 00:11:33.373 for us who no longer follow our sinful nature, but instead follow the spirit. 00:11:34.963 --> 00:11:38.053 Those who are dominated by the sinful nature, think about 00:11:38.053 --> 00:11:42.043 sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit. 00:11:42.598 --> 00:11:44.608 Think about things that please the spirit. 00:11:45.538 --> 00:11:50.398 So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death, but letting 00:11:50.403 --> 00:11:56.158 the spirit control your mind leads to life and peace for the sinful 00:11:56.158 --> 00:11:58.078 nature is always hostile to God. 00:11:58.678 --> 00:12:02.128 It never did obey God's law and it never will. 00:12:03.298 --> 00:12:06.028 That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful 00:12:06.028 --> 00:12:08.548 nature can never please God. 00:12:09.703 --> 00:12:12.223 But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. 00:12:12.853 --> 00:12:14.353 You are controlled by the spirit. 00:12:14.923 --> 00:12:16.933 If you have the spirit of God living in you. 00:12:17.683 --> 00:12:21.493 And remember that those who do not have the spirit of Christ living in 00:12:21.493 --> 00:12:23.233 them do not belong to him at all. 00:12:24.253 --> 00:12:26.353 And Christ lives within you. 00:12:26.983 --> 00:12:31.393 So even though your body will die because of sin, the spirit gives 00:12:31.393 --> 00:12:36.433 you life because you have been made right with God, the Spirit of God 00:12:36.523 --> 00:12:38.203 who raised Jesus from the dead. 00:12:38.563 --> 00:12:39.463 Lives in you. 00:12:40.303 --> 00:12:44.383 And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give 00:12:44.383 --> 00:12:48.343 life to your mortal bodies by this same spirit living within you. 00:12:49.843 --> 00:12:53.653 Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what 00:12:53.658 --> 00:12:55.633 your sinful nature urges you to do. 00:12:56.413 --> 00:12:59.593 For if you live by, its dictates you will die. 00:13:00.523 --> 00:13:05.053 But if through the power of the spirit you put to death the deeds of 00:13:05.053 --> 00:13:07.543 your sinful nature, you will live. 00:13:08.263 --> 00:13:11.983 For all who are led by the spirit of God are children of God. 00:13:13.393 --> 00:13:16.873 So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. 00:13:17.653 --> 00:13:22.753 Instead, you received God's spirit when he adopted you as his own children. 00:13:23.653 --> 00:13:30.313 Now we call him Abba Father for his spirit, joins with our spirit to affirm 00:13:30.313 --> 00:13:35.953 that we are God's children and since we are his children, we are his heirs. 00:13:36.673 --> 00:13:40.813 In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God's glory. 00:13:41.593 --> 00:13:45.673 But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. 00:13:47.263 --> 00:13:53.233 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 00:13:54.073 --> 00:13:59.143 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal 00:13:59.143 --> 00:14:01.903 who his children really are against. 00:14:01.903 --> 00:14:02.533 Its will. 00:14:02.683 --> 00:14:05.203 All creation was subjected to God's curse. 00:14:06.118 --> 00:14:10.708 But with Eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it 00:14:10.708 --> 00:14:15.148 will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 00:14:16.108 --> 00:14:19.738 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of 00:14:19.738 --> 00:14:24.898 childbirth, right up to the present time, and we believers also groan 00:14:25.558 --> 00:14:29.398 even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future 00:14:29.398 --> 00:14:34.498 glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. 00:14:35.308 --> 00:14:40.828 We too wait with Eager Hope for the day when God will give us our full rights 00:14:40.918 --> 00:14:45.178 as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. 00:14:46.018 --> 00:14:48.118 We were given this hope when we were saved. 00:14:48.868 --> 00:14:52.768 If we already have something, we don't need to hope for it, but if we 00:14:52.768 --> 00:14:56.458 look forward to something we don't yet have, we must wait patiently 00:14:56.788 --> 00:15:03.778 and confidently, and the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness, for example. 00:15:04.483 --> 00:15:08.563 We don't know what God wants us to pray for, but the Holy Spirit 00:15:08.593 --> 00:15:12.523 prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. 00:15:13.393 --> 00:15:17.623 And the Father who knows all hearts, knows what the Spirit is saying. 00:15:18.253 --> 00:15:23.893 For the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will, and 00:15:23.893 --> 00:15:28.003 we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of 00:15:28.003 --> 00:15:32.023 those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them. 00:15:33.013 --> 00:15:38.143 For God knew his people in advance and he chose them to become like his son, 00:15:38.803 --> 00:15:42.733 so that his son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 00:15:43.453 --> 00:15:47.023 And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. 00:15:47.653 --> 00:15:51.943 And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself 00:15:52.783 --> 00:15:57.193 and having given them right standing, he gave them his glory. 00:15:59.413 --> 00:16:02.263 This concludes today's Immerse Reading experience. 00:16:02.383 --> 00:16:03.613 Thank you for joining us.