A.W. Tozer's materials are a mainstay in Evangelical churches in our day and he is one of the most quoted authors. He was a prophet in his day and his writings are even more influential in our day. One of his books: The Pursuit of God, has had over 1 million copies sold world-wide.

Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer

Man - The Dwelling Place of God - How to Try the Spirits

For Reading and Meditation:      John 8:21-36We saw yesterday that the phenomenon of catharsis comes about not simply through telling someone else our troubles, but when that other person is a warm, accepting and understanding individual. Psychologists believe the explanation for this to be the fact that the warm, accepting manner of the helper is so directly opposite to the harsh, judgmental attitudes of those who caused the hurts that repressed feelings easily surface and are released. What has this law of the personality to do with the subject now under discussion? A great deal, I believe. In Jesus Christ we find Someone who not only yearns for our trust, but is worthy of our trust. To sit in His presence is to hear words similar to those He spoke to the woman caught in adultery: "Neither do I condemn you ' go now, and leave your life of sin" (John 8:11). Such acceptance, such compassion, such concern, cannot fail to produce within every heart a willingness to open up those hurts and fears which have been so deeply repressed. As I said yesterday, I have witnessed on countless occasions this strange and mysterious phenomenon of catharsis take place as, in the presence of love and acceptance, repressed hurts and ideas are discharged from the personality. But beautiful and wondrous as this natural phenomenon is, it is as nothing compared to the glory and radiance that a person shows when they stand in the presence of Jesus Christ, the Wonderful Counsellor, and experience a catharsis that reaches, not merely into the outer regions of the heart, but to its greatest depths. To have such an experience is not just to be free - it is to be free indeed. My Father and my God, slowly things are coming into focus. I am beginning to understand what You mean when You say: "If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." Purge me to the depths of my being. In Jesus' Name. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>John 3:1-18</li><li>John 5:24</li><li>Romans 8:1</li><li>Romans 8:34</li><li>Revelation 12:10</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>Who brings condemnation?</li><li>What is the promise to the believer?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." (v. 36)

For Reading and Meditation:      Romans 7:14-8:4Yesterday we ended by saying that God can impart purity as well as impute it, and He then helps us apply it in our daily life and experience. Permit me to share my own personal experience in this connection, not as a model for you to follow, but simply to illustrate how God revealed Himself to me. Following my conversion in my mid-teens, friends assured me that I ought to ask God to baptise me in His Holy Spirit. This, they told me, would give me the power I needed to become an effective witness for Him. I asked God to do this - and in a remarkable encounter with Him, I found the power I sought. But although this experience transformed me overnight from a shy, timid follower of Christ into a fearless witness for Him, I still felt deeply troubled by sinful forces. I fought hard with such things as lust and sensuality until one night, worn down by the inner conflict, I got down on my knees and prayed: "Lord, reach deep inside me and make me truly clean." Again, something wonderful took place - not so much an invasion of power as an invasion of purity. It did not result, I found, in placing me beyond the possibility of a carnal thought, a stab of pride, a trace of envy, but it meant that from that moment to this, I have been more conscious of the Holy Spirit's presence than I have been of sin's presence. Evil was not eradicated in me, as some proponents of imparted holiness believe, but I found that the eagerness for it had gone, and the hunger for it was no longer a clamour. Now, fifty years later, I never cease to thank God for His Spirit's cooling and cleansing touch. My Father and my God, although I realise I have to walk my own personal path to holiness and inner cleansing, help me to know at last that same cooling, cleansing touch in the depths of my heart. I ask this for Your own dear Name's sake. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>Galatians 5:1-26</li><li>Matthew 5:29</li><li>Romans 6:6</li><li>Romans 13:14</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>How did Paul exhort the Galatians?</li><li>How drastically did Jesus put it?</li></ul></div></div>

"' through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." (8:2)

For Reading and Meditation:      Acts 15:1-21Salvation is the word Christians use to describe the experience of sins being forgiven and receiving the gift of eternal life. Conversion is the word to describe the way we enter into that experience. Other religions also use the word conversion, but usually what they mean by it is the act of changing from one religion to another. Nothing is known of a deep inward spiritual change, which is what happens in the Christian faith when we are saved or converted. In the book Mirrors of Downing Street the author finishes the characterization of Winston Churchill, one of Britain's most famous prime ministers: "General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, once told Mr. Churchill that he stood in need of conversion. That old man was a notable judge of character." But Winston Churchill was not alone in his need of conversion. Everyone, says Scripture, has to experience it in order to enter into the kingdom of God. Sometimes non-Christian religions use the word conversion to describe a change of attitude in one of their adherents, but the change is always on the horizontal level rather than a vertical one. By a change "on the horizontal" I mean a change on the human level, a change of thinking or approach, but not a change in relation to God - the vertical level. In Madras once, I read in a local newspaper about a group of Hindus who were ready to fight a court case over the conversion to Islam of a hotel maid. That was a horizontal conversion. The Bible knows nothing of horizontal conversions. Conversion in Scripture is always vertical. O God my Father, is there anything more wonderful in heaven or earth than to be vertically converted - changed by You? I know of nothing. I can do no other than gratefully accept. And am I grateful? I most surely am. Thank You, my Father. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>John 15:19-24</li><li>John 3:17-18</li><li>Romans 8:1</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>How does Jesus describe conversion?</li><li>What does this remove?</li></ul></div></div>

"... they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the brothers very glad." (v. 3) 

For Reading and Meditation:      Philippians 2:1-11We are reflecting on the fact that the Christian faith is not just a little better than other faiths but radically different. Religion is mankind's search for God; Christianity, however, is God's search for man. Therefore there are many religions, but only one gospel. Religion is the word become word; the gospel is the Word become flesh. The commentator William Barclay, when writing on the verse "And the Word became flesh" which we looked at yesterday, said that this phrase explains why John wrote his Gospel. John apparently could not get over the fact that God had become man in the Person of His Son, and he sustained that thought throughout the whole of his writings. Augustine, the great saint of the fourth and fifth centuries, remarked that in his pre-Christian days he had never read anything comparable to that phrase: "And the Word became flesh." One thing the ancient Greeks could never contemplate was that God could reveal Himself in bodily form. To the Greeks the body was a prison in which the soul was shackled, a tomb in which the spirit was confined. Plutarch, the wise old Greek, believed it was nothing short of blasphemy to expect God to involve Himself in the affairs of the world. Yet in the face of this, the highest thought of the New Testament world, the gospel unfolded the thrilling truth that the Son of God became the Son of Man in order that the sons of men might become sons of God. Could anything in heaven or earth be more wonderful than that? If so, I have yet to hear it. Blessed Lord Jesus, how can we thank You enough for taking on Yourself a human form and showing us what God is really like? For we could never have known unless we had seen. Having seen, it is sufficient. We want no other. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>1 John 4:1-2</li><li>Romans 1:1-4</li><li>Romans 8:1-4</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What does a true believer always acknowledge?</li><li>How did Paul put it?</li></ul></div></div>

"... but made himself nothing ... being made in human likeness ..." (v. 7)

For Reading and Meditation:      Micah 4:6-13Yesterday we ended with the statement: "Ultimately, the problems and difficulties of life are all spiritual." What exactly does this mean? Reflect again on the psalmist's problem. He says to himself: "Why does God allow the ungodly to prosper and the godly to go through great trials and tribulations?" He has trouble as he tries to understand God's ways. Now there is really only one answer to this problem, and it is found in Isaiah 55:8: " 'My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord." Whatever we might think about the ways of God, these words give us the ultimate answer - the Almighty acts in ways that are above and beyond our comprehension. It is as if God is saying: "When you look at My ways you must not approach them on a natural level, because if you do you will be baffled and overwhelmed. I act on a higher level than the natural, and if you want to understand Me, then you must come up on this level too." How often, however, we persist in thinking naturally about life's situations - even those of us who have been in the Christian life for many years. The difference between natural thinking and spiritual thinking is the difference between heaven and earth. The very first thing we must do when we are baffled by some circumstance in our lives, is say to ourselves: "Am I approaching this on a natural level or a spiritual level? Have I reverted unconsciously to my natural way of thinking about these things." The more we learn to think spiritually about life's problems, the less perplexed we will be. Father, I need to adopt and practise many spiritual methods, but none is as important as that which aligns me to Your thoughts and purposes. Help me come up higher - to Your level of thinking. In Jesus' Name. Amen.<div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>Romans 8:1-6</li><li>Proverbs 12:5</li><li>Philippians 4:8</li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What does a mind controlled by the Spirit bring?</li><li>What things are we to think about?</li></ul></div></div>

"But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord" (v. 12)

Come, my soul, think thou of this. Believing in Jesus, thou art actually and effectually cleared from guilt; thou art led out of thy prison. Thou art no more in fetters as a bond-slave; thou art delivered now from the bondage of the law; thou art freed from sin, and canst walk at large as a freeman, thy Saviour's blood has procured thy full discharge. Thou hast a right now to approach thy Father's throne. No flames of vengeance are there to scare thee now; no fiery sword; justice cannot smite the innocent. Thy disabilities are taken away: thou wast once unable to see thy Father's face: thou canst see it now. Thou couldst not speak with him: but now thou hast access with boldness. Once there was a fear of hell upon thee; but thou hast no fear of it now, for how can there be punishment for the guiltless? He who believeth is not condemned, and cannot be punished. And more than all, the privileges thou mightst have enjoyed, if thou hadst never sinned, are thine now that thou art justified. All the blessings which thou wouldst have had if thou hadst kept the law, and more, are thine, because Christ has kept it for thee. All the love and the acceptance which perfect obedience could have obtained of God, belong to thee, because Christ was perfectly obedient on thy behalf, and hath imputed all his merits to thy account, that thou mightst be exceeding rich through him, who for thy sake became exceeding poor. Oh! how great the debt of love and gratitude thou owest to thy Saviour! "A debtor to mercy alone, Of covenant mercy I sing; Nor fear with thy righteousness on, My person and offerings to bring: The terrors of law and of God, With me can have nothing to do; My Saviour's obedience and blood Hide all my transgressions from view."

This timeless classic from Charles Spurgeon will help to both start and end your day with wonderful insight into God's Word.

Charles Spurgeon's Morning & Evening

"There is therefore now no condemnation." - Romans 8:1

Evening Devotional

To them which are in Christ Jesus. Think it not a strange expression. It is well chosen. Faith in Christ, union to Christ, and similar expressions, mean much more than can easily be comprehended. The expression "them which are in Christ" is added, that we may not too soon think we understand the others. In Christ, as Noah was in the ark. Without, the besom of condemnation swept the universal face of things; but there was no condemnation to him who had fled for refuge to that sanctuary. In the ark with Noah was all that had life, and all that could nourish life. Abundance of blessing within, desolation without. How terrible a venture would it have been to go forth of that ark. There is now no deluge to them that are in the ark; no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Estimate then these words: - Condemnation. - In Christ. - No condemnation. Think not that " no condemnation" is a merely negative thing. The revoking of a sentence of condemnation, even in the case of an earthly prisoner, gives him to enjoy the blessings that descend in such profusion in the beams of the sun, spring up in the abundant crops and the manifold fruits, blow in the breeze, and murmur in the stream; restores him to the society of many loved ones, and affords him the opportunity of rising to wealth and distinction. And the words " no condemnation," in the case of the spiritual captive, removes the veil that hindered him from meeting the reconciled face of Him whose name is Love. The words not only liberate him, but liberate ten thousand ministers of God, celestial and terrestrial, who spring forth to wait upon him, and will never leave him till they have brought him, victorious, radiant, pure and blessed, to the company of Gabriel, and of Michael, and of all the saints in light.

A daily devotional written by a Baptist Missionary to India, Reverend George Bowen (1816-1888) over 150 years ago.

Bowen's Daily Meditations

" There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." - Romans 8:1. 

Romans 8:1-14Someone says that if the Bible is compared to a ring, and the Epistle to the Romans be it precious stone, the eighth chapter would be the sparkling point of the jewel. It is one of the most precious chapters in all the Scriptures. It begins with no condemnation, and ends with no separation .The very first verse tells us "There is therefore now no condemnation." This is a great word. They are not condemned, are not guilty, have nothing charged against them. How does this come? Are these people holy ones who never have sinned? If so, it can be no comfort to us, for we all have sinned. It is a word only for angels. But this is not what it means. It is not the sinless ones who are thus free from condemnation. The reference is to those who have sinned - but have been forgiven .Those "who are in Christ Jesus" are the people who are free from condemnation. They have sinned, many of them very grievously. But when they accepted Christ as their Savior - all their sins were put away, blotted out. To be in Christ Jesus means to be in Him by faith and love. Then He takes away all our guilt, and when He does this, it is as if we never had sinned. Our sins are remembered no more forever. Their crimson red becomes whiter than snow. The divine forgiveness is so full, so complete, so thorough, that we are restored to our place in fellowship with God - as if we never had gone astray.Those who are in Christ, have a new life in them. Christ Himself lives in them by the Holy Spirit. They are filled with the Spirit and are lifted out of the old life and thus are made free from its power. Elsewhere Paul said, "Walk by the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." If the Spirit lives in us and rules us - we shall no longer be under the influence of the old nature - but will rise into a new life, as when one carries a plant from a cold arctic winter into a tropical summer. One writer compares this "law of life" to the antidote, which counteracts a deadly poison and frees one from its "law of death." Another illustrates it by the coming of relief to a beleaguered city. The deliverer frees the people from prison and gives them a friendly government. Another uses the illustration of a balloon, which overcomes the attraction of gravitation and lifts its passengers upward. To be living under the power of the Holy Spirit, is to be free from sin's terrible bondage.Those who are still living the old life, ruled by natural desires, have no care for spiritual things. Men who live only a worldly life, a life of self-indulgence and of sin, would find no comfort in a prayer meeting or at a church service; while you, if you are a true Christian, sitting in the same pew, would find great pleasure in the worship. Those who have the Spirit love spiritual things, while those who have not the Spirit are made unhappy in the presence of these heavenly enjoyments.Only those who have received the Holy Spirit, are really spiritually alive. There are men who are as dead to the things of God and heaven - as is the man in his coffin to the things about him. Friends sob out their sorrow beside him - but he is not disturbed by it. There are people who never think of God or of heaven. Alive to this world, they are dead to all the things of the heavenly world and to the spiritual life - the love of God, the divine grace, the beauty of holiness, the promise of God - as dead as if their bodies were stone! One tells of seeing a retarded child growing up in a home. All the wealth of holy affection was poured out on it. Loving parents watched with intense eagerness for some response to their great love. But no response came. The child never became conscious of the tender love about it. So those who are devoted only to this world live amid the manifestations of the love of God, under the very shadow of the cross of Christ - and yet are dead to all this wonderful affection, utterly unmoved by it!Those who are ruled by the Spirit - have the mind of the Spirit. That is, the Spirit dwells in their hearts and they are spiritually alive. They love God and love their fellow men. They commune with God in this world. They and Christ are close personal friends. They are alive to all the things of divine grace. In their hearts they have the divine peace, which is one of the fruits of the Spirit."If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ - he does not belong to Christ ." It does not make one a Christian to have a correct creed, or to be a member of a church. We are Christians only when we have the Holy Spirit in our hearts. If the Spirit is in us, we shall have the marks of His indwelling in our life and character. One of these marks is love, another joy, another patience, another meekness, another gentleness, another self-control. No one can see the Spirit in us - no one can see God - but people soon know if the Spirit is in us - by the way we live, by our disposition and conduct.Jesus once said to one of His disciples, "If I wash you not, you have no part with me." Not unless we are cleansed by Christ - can we really claim to be His. The words here are quite as strong - " If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ - he does not belong to Christ ."If we would have the Spirit of God, we must "put to death the deeds of the body." Out hearts are great battle fields where destinies are decided. Two forces are ever contending for the mastery: the flesh - the old nature; and the Spirit - the new life of God in our souls. If the old nature conquers, we have lost all and must perish. But if the new nature, the Spirit, conquers, then we enter life. Without Christ we can only be defeated; through Christ's help we can be victorious. We must be careful not to make this simply a human struggle, for alone we never can contend with the power of evil. But there is a beautiful promise in this same chapter, which says that we can be more than conquerors through Him who loved us. We must make sure to have Christ with us in the battle.Those who are led by the Spirit are the sons of God. It is a wonderful thought that we can be led by the divine Spirit Himself. The Spirits leads us not from without, as in old times the pillar of cloud led the people - but by living in us and filling our hearts with right motives, feelings, desires, affections. We must open our hearts to the Spirit, for He never will force His way in. He stands at the door and knocks, and if we open to Him, He enters and becomes our guide. It is a glorious privilege to be a child of God. Here we are told how we can enter this relation. In John's Gospel it is said that as many as receive Christ, to them He gives the right to become God's children. It is very plain, therefore - the door stands wide open into the household of the heavenly Father. All who submit themselves to the divine life and love and rule, become children of God.

A unique type of devotional from the writings of James Russell Miller, published between 1908 and 1913.

Devotional Hours Within the Bible

Romans 8:1-14

The Life-Giving Spirit

The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me 
free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)

We speak about natural laws.
What are natural laws? Take the law of nourishment. Provided that
law is complied with, honored; and at the right time the body is
given what it needs, not more, not less; the law of nourishment
deals with that and quite spontaneously works out in development,
growth, to express itself in various ways. It is the working of a
natural law spontaneously. You do not sit down with the law, and
watch it, and worry about it. What you do is to feed yourself,
and leave all the rest to the law. If you violate the law you
know all about it, but acting rightly in relation to the law you
will not be fretting all day long about the law of nourishment,
you will simply be taking your meals and getting on with your
work. The result is that you are able to work, able to go on; you
are nourished. 

The law of the Spirit of Life in
Christ is like that. It is a law of Life, and it works out in a
practical way when respected and honored. It works out
spontaneously in certain directions. It has its own results quite
naturally. The law of the Spirit of Life in Christ is that law by
which we become aware. That is the simplest way of putting
things. The Lord Jesus knew that at a certain time He could not
act, could not speak; He had no movement of the Spirit in
quickening, no Life to do so at that time; in His spirit there
was no movement of Life; the law was not active in the positive
way. But when the Father, Who knew what was required in speech or
action, saw that the time had come, He did not bend down and
speak with an audible voice into His ear, and say, "Now is the
time! Say this! Do that!" He simply quickened Him inwardly. The
law of Life became active in that direction, and He knew by an
inward quickening what the mind of God was. That is what Paul
means when he says, "The mind of the Spirit is Life."

This devotional contains short daily portions from a selection of Mr. Austin-Sparks' messages. In his own words, “Perhaps this is just like a window opened into heaven. If you get the right window you can see quite a lot. You can see great things and you can see far things. But the best that I can hope is that this has just opened a window, and that as you look through it you are seeing one thing - how superior is Jesus Christ to all else, and how superior is the dispensation into which we have come, and how superior are all the resources at our disposal to all that ever was before!” Open Windows messages have been selected and compiled by Austin-Sparks.Net from the works of T. Austin-Sparks. In some cases they appear in abridged form. The introductory verse and its associated Bible version have been selected by the editor and did not always appear within the original message.

Open Windows

The Risen Lord and the Things Which Cannot be Shaken - Chapter 6

 The Law Of The Spirit 

The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)

Let any 
of our old man, whether of our old temper, our old way of judging, our old 
disposition, any of it come up at all, if we are children of God, we know quite 
well that at that point a barrier is set up and we cannot get past, we are held 
up in our spiritual life and we have to go back and have that thing cleared up. 
It is as real as any other thing in the universe to us. At that moment we stand 
still spiritually, and the flaming sword is across our path. There is no way for 
that here. Bring that here and you will be judged. You will meet the judgment of 
God. You will be broken. It is coming up against the fact that God finished with 
all that long ago and we have to accept God’s standpoint. When we have accepted 
it then the thing works out, it continually works out. We take that position, we 
accept the truth. 

We cannot bring an actual end
to the old creation ourselves, but we say in a positive way: "I
reckon as God reckons." Well then we shall find as we go on that
God, having put all that under death, death rests upon it and if
ever it shows its head again, the sentence of death is met. If we
begin to work for the Lord with our own natural strength we meet
death and before long our natural strength will come under death.
If we begin to use our natural judgment in the things of God we
shall meet an arrest and before long we shall come to a deadlock,
unable to get through. Anything which we bring of nature into the
things of God will bring us up against – not some new issue, 
but the old issue – death which was made to rest upon the old
creation. In so far as we move in the newness of Life, work by
the Spirit of God, and walk after the Spirit, death is done away and
we are in Life and we can go on and can get through, no matter
how much there may be of handicap and weakness in nature, we can
get through as we go on in the Spirit. "The law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin
and death." We are free!

Foundations - Chapter 4

 Foundations 

But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderers’ soap.I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands … “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb …They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” There is … no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. § Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free.

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 Who is able to stand? 

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! § My brethren, you … have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. § Not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ. § The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. § Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

 Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 

The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. § [He] Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. § As by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. § There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. THE LORD OUR RIGHTOUSNESS.

 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 

We know that the judgment of God is according to truth. § When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. § Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. § There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. We are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Evening Daily Light

 The judgment seat. 

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? § Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. Dead in trespasses and sins … by nature children of wrath, just as the others. § I am carnal, sold under sin … What I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do … For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells. Through one man sin entered the world … by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners. § If by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 Adam . . . begot a son in his own likeness. 

Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” § The Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. § Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. § That He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

 Who knows the power of Your anger? 

Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died. § The blood … makes atonement for the soul. § I am the Lord… The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. There is . . . no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from? . . . These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

 They overcame . . . by the blood of the Lamb. 

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free … Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin … Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage … For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” § Having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. § For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. § I will walk at liberty, for I seek Your precepts.

 The perfect law of liberty. 

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. § The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. § If the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. Brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free. § Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. He who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. § Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

 You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 

<blockquote>
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God" (<a id="verse_1632879378416414" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/14">Rom. 8:14</a>).
</blockquote>It takes a good many years of sin and failure in order to see through our own motives. The growing believer finally learns to trust but one source of motivation: "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" (<a id="verse_1632879378666011" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>)."All of our motives will be tested by fire. Are we seeking personal influence, popularity, reputation, prestige, acceptableness, success? We may think our motives to be perfectly pure; but not until we pass into daily death, death to any or all of the above, and find ourselves despised and rejected of men,' our names cast out as evil, and a real hold-up (seemingly) of our work, do we really come to face the true purpose and motive of our having any place in the service of God. The Cross separating us from everything Adamic both within and without is a good test of motives."Men of God who have been truly used by Him have gone this way. Not upon our flesh - whether it be the gross flesh or the refined, soulish, educated flesh - will God allow His Spirit to come. Before there can be life for others there must be death for us (<a id="verse_1632879378333159" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Corinthians/4/12">2 Cor. 4:12</a>). Before there can be the fire of God there must be an altar and a sacrifice; and it must be the burnt offering." -T. A-S."Present your bodies a living sacrifice. . . which is your reasonable service" (<a id="verse_1632879378379091" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/12/1">Rom. 12:1</a>).

A 365 day devotional that will help you in your Christian growth and walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.  This devotional is a collection of quotes from some of the best authors in the realm of Christian growth that has been organized by Miles J Stanford.  This devotional study is divided into 12 sections each containing 31 daily portions.

None but the Hungry Heart

 Life's Motivation 

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Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (<a id="verse_1632879613828801" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/3/24">Rom. 3:24</a>).
</blockquote>Are we aware of the importance of a personal assurance of salvation? Healthy spiritual growth is founded upon it. Many Christians seem unable to enter Romans Six and Eight simply because they are not truly established in Romans Three, Four and Five. Full assurance as to our eternal security in the Lord Jesus is the basis for the ever-deepening experience of our identification with Him."The defect in souls in general is the incompleteness of their conversion. It is pardon that is apprehended and not acceptance. Acceptance embraces God's side - how He feels, and this should be chief, for we as sinners have offended Him. The offender has been removed from His eye by a Man - the Lord Jesus Christ, and He can receive us on the ground of the Man who glorified Him in bearing our judgment."We cannot enjoy acceptance but in the way in which it was acquired or effected for us, and if we are in the acceptance we know that no improvement of the flesh could commend us to God, and that we cannot be before Him but in Christ. But if we are in any degree dark as to the crucifixion of the old man, we are not in acceptance experientially, we are not in the daily benefit of it, and our liberty by the Spirit can never go beyond our conscious acceptance." -J.B.S."For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" (<a id="verse_1632879613879329" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>).

 Defective Beginning 

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And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts" (<a id="verse_1632879685800564" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/4/6">Gal. 4:6</a>).
</blockquote>When the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin, it is to remove self from the throne of our hearts. When the Holy Spirit fills us, it is to place the Lord Jesus on the throne of our hearts. Ours is the choice - "not I, but Christ" (<a id="verse_1632879685771500" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/2/20">Gal. 2:20</a>); His is the work, for He is "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" (<a id="verse_1632879685404337" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>)."The great secret of the Christian life is found in ceasing from self, in which the power of the Cross manifests itself in us. We all know how our Lord Jesus, ere He could receive the new life from the Father in glory, and the gift of the Holy Spirit through whom He could impart His life to His people, had first to give up the life He lived upon earth. He had to take His place among the dead in utter weakness and helplessness before He could live again by the power of God. His death on the Cross was indispensable to the life of the Spirit."And as it was with Christ, so it must be with us. As we yield ourselves to be united with Him in the likeness of His death, we can share with Him in the glory and power of the life of the Spirit. To know what the Holy Spirit means, implies the knowing of what death means. The Cross and the Spirit are inseparable. The soul that understands that the death to self is in Christ the gate to true life, is in the right way to learn what and who the Holy Spirit is." -A.M."If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit" (<a id="verse_1632879685528163" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/25">Gal. 5:25</a>).

 Convicted, Or Filled? 

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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free" (<a id="verse_1632879925669404" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>).
</blockquote>The more fully the Lord Jesus controls within, the less we will be influenced by externals. The more we are affected by externals, the less freedom He will have within."The Lord Jesus' miracles did not have a character changing effect upon the people who saw them or participated in them. They were but for a testimony to who He was. With all His miracles, in the end the principle of unbelief has not been rooted out of a single individual! Though they saw all that He did, the deep-rooted unbelief was untouched. The amazing thing - even with the disciples themselves - was that they were still capable of deep-seated unbelief. O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe....' He upbraided them with their unbelief....' With all they saw, it did not touch character, it did not touch their nature." -T. A-S."As in the apostolic days so now the desire exists for the manifestation of the Spirit in marvelous ways; but a life sober, righteous, holy, lived in the hope of the glory to come, is the more excellent way of the Spirit's manifestation and undeniable proof of His indwelling. The prayer should not be so much for this or that gift, or this or that result, as for Christ Himself to be made manifest to us and through us. The Apostle who was most filled with the Spirit sums all up in that one great word, For to me to live is Christ.'" -W.F.E."It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me" (<a id="verse_1632879925383896" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/2/20">Gal. 2:20</a>).

 Not Influence, But Life 

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But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy" (<a id="verse_1632879987689183" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/6/22">Rom. 6:22</a>, Wey.).
</blockquote>When the believer truly sees Calvary he says, "There, through the work of the Cross, I died with the Lord Jesus unto sin." When the believer truly sees Pentecost he says, "There, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, I was baptized into the risen Lord Jesus." Here are the two mighty pillars of our freedom from the power and domination of sin."The believer is to rejoice in the double blessing of Calvary and Pentecost. He is freed from condemnation because of the Blood shed, and he is set free from the law of sin and death by the indwelling Spirit that he received when he came to the Lord Jesus. It is not only that there is no condemnation, but there is liberty."The law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death' (<a id="verse_1632879987588693" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>). ...hath made me free....' Let me walk in it; let me enjoy it, and I am free. I am not struggling to get free; I have been set free in the Spirit, and I am bidden to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made me free (<a id="verse_1632879987973324" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/1">Gal. 5:1</a>). I am not struggling for victory; I am standing in victory. I have not to struggle to get out of the horrible pit. He lifted me out; set my feet on the Rock and established my goings; and He bids me, Stand fast in the victory that I have gained for you.' Believe and rejoice in it, and you will know what it is to be free." -G.G."Walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit" (<a id="verse_1632879987992320" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/4">Rom. 8:4</a>)

 Calvary And Pentecost 

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But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members" (<a id="verse_1632880082951654" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/7/23">Rom. 7:23</a>).
</blockquote>Self is the believer's indwelling enemy; its degrading bondage is his deepest heartache. However, the reign of self is overthrown by its own enmity, since it creates the needs that cause us to hunger for and appropriate Christ's life and liberty."A sense of spiritual poverty is necessary to spiritual growth. This awareness of failure becomes acute to the believer during those days when he is attempting to attain holiness of heart through self-effort. Knowing what he ought to be and do, he proceeds to try to reach those goals. He purposes, resolves, promises, struggles, weeps, and fails again. His testimony, with Paul, is, The things that I want to do, I do not do, and the things that I do not want to do, I do' (<a id="verse_1632880082498728" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/7/15">Rom. 7:15</a>)."What a delightful day it is for him when he realizes that in him, that is, in his flesh, dwelleth no good thing' (<a id="verse_1632880082557931" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/7/18">Rom. 7:18</a>). Only then does he, in his failure, cry out, Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?' I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord' (<a id="verse_1632880082621170" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/7/24">Rom. 7:24</a>; <a id="verse_1632880082767820244" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/7/25">25</a>) comes back the reply. He begins to recognize that God expects only failure from the flesh, never success, but that in Christ' is his sanctification, his growth. Thus it is that freedom comes through bondage, life through death." -W.W."For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" (<a id="verse_1632880082273732" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>).

 Rags To Riches 

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For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" (<a id="verse_1632880174745507" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/John/1/17">John 1:17</a>).
</blockquote>We need not submit to the law, nor do we need to struggle against it. It is now a matter of our standing on heavenly ground in our risen Lord, free from the influence and demands of the entire principle of law. In Christ Jesus we are motivated by a higher law, the law of the Spirit of life' (<a id="verse_1632880174215515" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>)."There is no way of deliverance from the law and its bondage, into that liberty for which Christ set us free except to believe, and to keep reckoning, that we died to the law with Him, and are now risen, and joined to Another, the Risen One - even as <a id="verse_1632880174441493" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/7/4">Romans 7:4</a> asserts: Ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even Him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.'" -W.R.N."In man the law and the flesh always go together. The Cross was the end for both in the sight of God. The flesh was judged and condemned there; it was treated as a dead thing before God - dead and buried; and the law which deals with the flesh we are dead to. We have passed out of both; we are not in the flesh (<a id="verse_1632880174370996" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/9">Rom. 8:9</a>), and we are not under the law (<a id="verse_1632880174253219" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/2/19">Gal. 2:19</a>). -W.K."But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you - directs and controls you" (<a id="verse_1632880174779917" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/9">Rom. 8:9</a>, Amp.).

 Law Of Life 

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The God of peace . . . working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ" (<a id="verse_1632880309658240" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/13/20">Heb. 13:20</a>; <a id="verse_1632880309276258880" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/13/21">21</a>).
</blockquote>Abiding involves a dual choice. We can abide in the old nature and thereby become the victims of the internal civil war as depicted in Romans Seven. Or, we can abide (rest) in the risen Lord Jesus, the Source of our new nature, and thereby become the glad recipients of His life and liberty, as depicted in Romans Eight. "The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" (<a id="verse_1632880309357821" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>)."How do we abide? Of God are ye in Christ Jesus' (<a id="verse_1632880309976006" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Corinthians/1/30">1 Cor. 1:30</a>). It is all the work of God to place you there, and He has done it. Now stay there! Do not be moved back onto the ground of the old nature. Never look at yourself as though you were not in the risen Lord Jesus Christ. Look at Him and see yourself a new creation in Him. Look at Him as the very source of your Christian life. Abide in Him. Rest in the fact that God has placed you in eternal union with His Son, and let the Holy Spirit take care of His work in you. It is for Him to make good the glorious promise that sin shall not have dominion over you' (<a id="verse_1632880309218128" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/6/14">Rom. 6:14</a>).""We should be spared years of struggle and failure if we learned at once - as the converts did in the days of Paul - that we ourselves were taken through the death of the Lord Jesus. The past blotted out, the pardoned sinner accounted crucified with the crucified Lord, henceforth joined as a new creation to the risen Lord and now sharing His life (<a id="verse_1632880309553539" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/5/10">Rom. 5:10</a>).""The Lord Jesus is all that we need for all that we are.""Your life is hidden with Christ in God" (<a id="verse_1632880309634454" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Colossians/3/3">Col. 3:3</a>).

 Position Possessed 

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Rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh" (<a id="verse_1632880316367257" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Philippians/3/3">Phil. 3:3</a>).
</blockquote>There are two ways in which God reveals to us the true condition of the natural man. The first is via the Word: "In me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing" (<a id="verse_1632880316372456" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/7/18">Rom. 7:18</a>). The second is via experience: years of struggle with the constant sinfulness and failure of that old nature. If we were more willing to face up to the incorrigibility of the Adamic life within, it might not take us so long to be freed from its domination."It is quite possible for every one of us to have a perfectly good conscience. A happy state to be in! Have you a good conscience? Are you under accusation, under condemnation? Are you fretting and worrying about the badness of your own heart? That means that you have not the answer of a good conscience to God. What is the matter? You are still looking for something from nature, from the old man. You had better give it up, as that is the only way out; repudiate it."Tell yourself and tell the accuser once for all that in you, that is, in your flesh, dwelleth no good thing, and you never expect to find anything. The enemy knows it, and yet he is trying to get you on an impossible quest for something he knows you will never find, and that is how he worries you. Years of it! Then why not come onto the Lord's ground and out-maneuver him? Let us settle it that we can never expect to find any good in our old nature. All our good is in another, even our Lord Jesus. It is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (<a id="verse_1632880316154661" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>)." -T. A-S."Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty with which Christ hath made us free" (<a id="verse_1632880316752097" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/1">Gal. 5:1</a>).

 Wrong Source 

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And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God" (<a id="verse_1632880464555593" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Ephesians/3/19">Eph 3:19</a>).
</blockquote>God led the children of Israel into the desert with its thirst, that He might bless them. "For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ" (<a id="verse_1632880464632816" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Corinthians/10/4">1 Cor. 10:4</a>). It is for no less a reason that He takes us into the desert at times. "How shall He not with Him [Christ] also freely give us all things?" (<a id="verse_1632880464998499" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>)."Our Father disciplines us that we may be more fully free from the old nature, and find everything in the Lord Jesus. But He begins the lesson with the assurance, I love you perfectly.'"I bring you into the desert to learn what you are, and what I am; but it is as those I have brought to Myself!' He gives us a place with the Lord Jesus, but then shows us what He is and what we are. The discipline of the way teaches this; but if He, in His love, strikes the furrows in the heart, it is that He may sow the seed which shall ripen in glory.""Those who receive deliverance from their troubles never, grow like those who get strengthened in the difficulties.""How slowly one learns that His sympathy is not expressed in removing the affliction but in raising one above it to Himself, so that He becomes so endeared to the heart that He is more an object to the heart than oneself." -J.B.S."The hand of God never deals but in concert with His heart of infinite love towards us." -J.N.D."Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them who are exercised by it" (<a id="verse_1632880464321991" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/12/11">Heb. 12:11</a>).

 "Love Never Faileth" 

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There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus" (<a id="verse_1632880793257419" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/1">Rom. 8:1</a>).
</blockquote>Until the believer realizes that his life is safely hid with Christ in God, he will never get free from the harassment of the enemy. "When He giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?" (<a id="verse_1632880793728642" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Job/34/29">Job 34:29</a>)."If the Lord Jesus is not positively before the soul, it is enough: the enemy's work is done!" -F.W.G."There is a world of difference between the nagging, corroding condemnations of the devil, and the clear convictions of the Holy Spirit. The enemy speaks in generalities, seeking to smear us by a vague sense of failure, uncleanness, confusion, heaviness of spirit. The answer to that is there is now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus.'"The Holy Spirit speaks specifically, and His convicting, although rebuking us, is sweet and clean and true and acceptable. He points out some exact and immediate action by which we have temporarily given in to sin. Satan points downward to despair, but the Spirit points upward to cleansing.""The tempter's suggestions are apt to make one feverish. There is a sure test for ambitious plans. Any trace or taint of fever produced is a pretty sure indication of the enemy's influence. In sharp contrast with this, the Holy Spirit's work always makes us quiet and clear and deliberate. Our Master's touch still has the same power and effect as when He touched the hand of Peter's wife's mother; the fever leaves.""In nothing terrified by your adversaries" (<a id="verse_1632880793540043" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Philippians/1/28">Phil. 1:28</a>).

 Passive Resistance 

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Partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world" (<a id="verse_1632877218281602" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Peter/1/4">2 Pet. 1:4</a>).
</blockquote>We are to find out in Romans 6, through the gracious teaching of the Spirit of truth, all that happened to the Lord Jesus there on the Cross. Then we will know our own position and standing, since we were judicially in Him there."Have you ever thought about God's thought about you, that you are to be conformed to the image of His Son'? It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him' (<a id="verse_1632877218745736" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/29">Rom. 8:29</a>; <a id="verse_163287721814392537" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/1">1</a> <a id="verse_1632877218703709" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/John/3/2">John 3:2</a>)."This cannot fail. The Lord Jesus presses on our hearts that He brings us into association with Himself. He hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus' (<a id="verse_1632877218265727" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Ephesians/1/3">Eph. 1:3</a>). He puts us in this position answering perfectly to His nature, and with a nature to enjoy it.""He imparts to us of Himself in order to qualify us for Himself.""Not only is my blessing in heaven, but I need the Lord Jesus' power to enable me to rise above the sense of my infirmity down here; for this world, instead of contributing to me, makes me feel my weakness and need, and that I must rise out of it to find and enjoy my blessing."The very infirmity which this evil age makes me conscious of makes me draw upon the power of Christ, as the One outside it, passing into the heavens, so that I take pleasure in the very infirmity which is exposed here, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." -J.B.S."God forbid that I should glory, except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ" (<a id="verse_1632877218733266" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/6/14">Gal. 6:14</a>).

 Calvary's Secret 

<blockquote>
Ye have put off the old man with his deeds" (<a id="verse_1632877248738500" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Colossians/3/9">Col. 3:9</a>).
</blockquote>Sometimes our Christian life and love are divided between the two Adams. It may be 60-40 in favor of the Last Adam, still it is shared. But the Lord Jesus paid it all, gave His all, deserves our all, requires all, because He is our ALL. Ours is to be total separation - death to the old, life in the New."Our Father has removed everything to His own satisfaction, and you learn in the first eleven verses of Romans 5 the terms He is on with you. It means much to the heart of the believer to know that he is received on the ground of another Man who perfectly glorified God."We are accepted in Him, the Beloved. God has changed His man, and you are never happy until you believe that and are able to say, I have, too. If you do not see that God has changed His man you will never change your man.""The only way to freedom is to leave Adam for Christ - to change your man; then it is not I, but Christ liveth in me' (<a id="verse_1632877248590798" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/2/20">Gal. 2:20</a>). There are two sides; one, that you are cleared from the old in the eye of God in the Cross; the other, that you are now new in Christ risen. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death' (<a id="verse_1632877248890899" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>). The old is held in the place of death as you walk in newness of life in the Spirit.""And have put on the new man, that is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him" (<a id="verse_1632877248700508" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Colossians/3/10">Col. 3:10</a>)

 Terminal Condition - Eternal Position 

<blockquote>This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (<a id="verse_1632877338312711" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/16">Gal. 5:16</a>).</blockquote>As we walk in the Spirit, worship in the Spirit, and pray in the Spirit, we shall come to know, not the Spirit, but the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus explicitly said, "He (the Comforter) shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine; therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you" (<a id="verse_1632877338965902" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/John/16/14">John 16:14</a>; <a id="verse_1632877338984066427" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/John/16/15">15</a>)"What is it to walk in the Spirit' (<a id="verse_1632877338802167" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/16">Gal. 5:16</a>)? It is to walk in communion with the Father, in dependence upon the Spirit, having the Lord Jesus as my one object. What held the attention of Stephen, full of faith and of the Holy Spirit' (<a id="verse_1632877338536098" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Acts/6/5">Acts 6:5</a>)? Two things: the Word of God on earth, and the Christ of God in heaven (<a id="verse_1632877338896843" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Acts/7/55">Acts 7:55</a>).""To walk in the Spirit is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus. When the believer looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all he needs from Him - if the Lord Jesus is his all, then the believer walks in the Spirit." -A.C.G."To be Spirit-controlled does not mean the loss of free-agency. A free agent acts as he pleases, and the Spirit-controlled individual pleases to act in accordance with the mind and will of the Spirit." -A.McC.I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not (in no way) fulfill the lust of the flesh' (<a id="verse_1632877338922074" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/16">Gal. 5:16</a>). It might be objected, if a Christian were not under the restraint of the law that his life might be careless. The no way' of our verse forbids such a notion." -H.F.W."For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" (<a id="verse_1632877338268663" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>)

 Hidden To Reveal 

<blockquote>Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (<a id="verse_1632877427134345" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/5/1">Rom. 5:1</a>).</blockquote>Few see and stand upon the fact that our history in Adam ended on the Cross. Our past will plague us until we acknowledge that we are now clear of Adam and safely hidden in the risen Lord Jesus - newly-born creations in Him. One of the penalties of self-occupation is self-pity and corroding remorse."Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in the Lord Jesus that sinful past no longer exists. The man in Christ has only His past and that is perfect and acceptable to the Father. In the Lord Jesus he died, and in Him he rose, and he is now seated in Him within the circle of the Father's favored ones. He is no longer angry with himself because he is no longer self-regarding, but Christ-regarding: hence there is no place for regret.""The knowledge of our union with the Lord Jesus is what will deliver the believer from all that is low and feeble, and will lift him to a life of joy and peace. To gaze upon our risen Lord in the Father's presence, to whom all things are subject, will transform us into heavenly Christians, dwelling all the day in the Father's presence." -A.M."The believer shares the Lord Jesus' Cross knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him' <a id="verse_1632877427806733" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/6/6">Rom. 6:6</a>); His death:- ye died and your life is hid with Christ in God' <a id="verse_1632877427933811" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Colossians/3/3">Col. 3:3</a>); His burial:- we were buried with him by baptism into death' <a id="verse_1632877427627631" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/6/4">Rom. 6:4</a>); His resurrection:- as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we' <a id="verse_1632877427985575" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/6/4">Rom. 6:4</a>); His ascension:- made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus' <a id="verse_1632877427924346" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Ephesians/2/6">Eph. 2:6</a>)." -F.J.H."There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus" (<a id="verse_1632877427550508" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/1">Rom. 8:1</a>).

 Self-imposed Burden 

<blockquote>That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh" (<a id="verse_1632877457904272" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Corinthians/4/11">2 Cor. 4:11</a>, ASV.).</blockquote>The love motive is not adequate to carry the believer through to fruitful walk and service. Few seem to be able to face up to this fact, possibly because they see no higher alternative. But there is one: the life motive. "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" (<a id="verse_1632877457105547" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>)."By the body of Christ on the Cross believers were made dead to the law (<a id="verse_1632877457666234" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/7/4">Rom. 7:4</a>), in order righteously to be joined to Another, even the risen Lord Jesus Christ. The reason why we had to die to the law was, not at all because the law was bad (it, on the contrary, is holy, just and good'), but because we were bad."Our flesh was so powerless to do good and so ready to do evil, that the application to us of God's holy law only gave sin an occasion to involve our enslaved members in open rebellion against the law."So that even if a man loves God's law, as Paul did, he has no power to keep it; but sin only makes the law a constant means of working death to him, and the more a man tries to keep the law the more he comes under the power of sin. Hence there is only this left for us - to die to the law, and be joined to the risen Lord Jesus in a resurrection life absolutely beyond the sphere of the law." -W.R.N."The law is for the man who departed from God - that man has been removed from God's sight in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I rejoice that now by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus' I am free from the law of sin and death' (<a id="verse_1632877457813259" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>).""Not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life" (<a id="verse_1632877457921849" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/7/16">Heb. 7:16</a>).

 Life Above All 

<blockquote>Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (<a id="verse_1632877776924005" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/5/1">Rom. 5:1</a>).</blockquote>There will be no standing against the enemy's accusations until we are firmly assured of, and settled on, the fact that our Father is at peace with us because of our living union with His Beloved Son. And this alone will give us peace with our Father."We thought we were being more Christian by striving more, praying more, reading our Bible more, and confessing our sins more. But all that brought no relief. The awful gnawing in our vitals continues. The sense of guilt increases. We need not a Nathan to say, Thou art the man!' A thousand voices are forever ringing in our ears giving the lie to what we long with infinite yearning might be an altogether convincing testimony of a truly Christian walk."Now the way out is to be found in a clear-cut recognition of the fact that, as Paul says in <a id="verse_1632877776667776" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/1">Romans 8:1</a>, There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.' Let appearances, voices and feelings to the contrary be what they may, still this is a fact. The reason, of course, is found not in ourselves, but in Another." -F.J.H."It is a wonderful thing to have the consciousness that we are in living union with the Lord Jesus in heavenly glory, knowing our position in that risen sphere, participating in all that constitutes His life in the blessed circle of love and rest where He lives unto the Father. If we apprehend this we shall not be deceived by what goes on upon the earth." -C.A.C."Stand fast, then, in the freedom which Christ has given us" (<a id="verse_1632877776534669" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/1">Gal. 5:1</a>, Wey.).

 Accusation 

<blockquote>
The life-giving power of the Spirit. . . has set us free from the power of sin and death" (<a id="verse_1632877979279917" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>, Wms.).
</blockquote>The Holy Spirit ministers to our mind via the Word, and He conditions our heart via our daily experiences."A believer may know that he is positionally free, and yet have to mourn the fact that his experience is that of a wretched captive. The freedom is so entirely in Christ Jesus, and the maintenance of our living union with Him is so distinctly and entirely the work of divine power, that it is only as we see that the Spirit dwells within us for this very purpose, and know how to accept and yield to His working it, that we can really stand in the liberty with which Christ has made us free." -A.M."There is no strength or power in ourselves against the law of sin which is in our members. The Father has left us as much dependent upon the Lord Jesus' work for our deliverance from the power of sin as for our forgiveness! It is wholly because we died with Him on the Cross, both to sin and to the whole legal principle, that sin's power for those in the Lord Jesus, is broken." -W.R.N."Have we not often sought, by earnest thought, to enter more deeply into the significance of the Cross? Have we not, as we got a glimpse of some aspect of its glory, gone from book to book to discover what it really means? Have not some given up hope that words like I have been crucified with Christ,' the world is crucified to me,' baptized into His death,' dead unto sin and alive unto God in Christ Jesus' should have become truly intelligible and helpful? Is not the reason of all this that we want to grasp the hidden wisdom of the Father with our mind alone, forgetting that the Holy Spirit intends to work it into the heart and inner life also?" -A.M."The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable. . . free from doubts and insincerity" (<a id="verse_1632877979915231" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/James/3/17">James 3:17</a>, Wms.).

 Mind And Heart 

<blockquote>
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new"  (<a id="verse_1632878184681162" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Corinthians/5/17">2 Cor. 5:17</a>).
</blockquote>The old life is neither to be recycled nor reformed. We are all-new creations in the all-new Man, Christ Jesus."The illustration of a man drafted for the army, and finding a substitute to stand in his stead is not the Gospel. The Gospel is that you were under the judgment of death, and that the Lord Jesus has borne that judgment. It is not that you should keep the man who was under judgment, but that you should be completely severed from him in your death on the Cross." -J.B.S."We could not be saved by Him, and keep the life on account of which He died. Here there is great confusion among believers. If there were true apprehension of the work of the Lord Jesus on the Cross - that He so bore the judgment on man that all the man who had offended against God has been judicially removed to His infinite satisfaction, and that He who saved us from death is now our Life - there would be a wonderful testimony to the grace of God.""The Reformers failed because they did not see that as faith alone could save, and place man outside himself in the Lord Jesus, he must not return to that which through grace has been crucified. In not seeing this, the Reformers left the door open for the system and ritualism which have grown up since in the church; and hence the simple and only effectual way of dealing with either is, at the start, to refuse any place to the old man except crucifixion." -J.B.S."The Lord Jesus is the answer, but the Cross is needed to clear the way for Him.""For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" (<a id="verse_1632878184632440" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>).

 No Recycling! 

<blockquote>Ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit" (<a id="verse_1632878227632357" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/9">Rom. 8:9</a>).</blockquote>It requires more faith concerning the Spirit than concerning the Son."The believer, having received the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,' comes under the influence of the law' of that Spirit (<a id="verse_1632878227749875" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>). The operating principle of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus' ever works in the direction of profound self-judgment, and of the consciousness that we have in the Lord Jesus not only righteousness, but a divine Source of satisfaction and strength."This law' operates not to give a sense of claim (law), but of divine gift (grace) and resource and support. And thus it makes the one in whom it operates free from the law of sin and death.' It gives the consciousness that divine goodness is an unfailing resource for our hearts, and that all the treasures of that goodness are stored up in Christ Jesus, that we may learn them there, and find the life of our spirits in the growing knowledge of Him." -C.A.C."The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus' made me free from the law of sin and death' - not the life,' but the Spirit of life,' - not our effort, but divine strength; not self-occupation, but occupation with Him in whom we are before the Father, and in whom the divine favor rests upon us full and constant, because on Him it rests." -F.W.G."The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death' (<a id="verse_1632878227890040" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>). There is the substitution of the power of the Spirit for the power of a right will and human effort, the substitution therefore of occupation with the glorified Lord Jesus Christ for occupation with spiritual growth; for then and thus alone is growth obtained." -F.W.G."Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh" (<a id="verse_1632878227757672" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/5/16">Gal. 5:16</a>).

 All-essential Spirit 

<blockquote>
The Spirit of truth takes of what is Mine and will make it known to you" (<a id="verse_1632878328980908" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/John/16/15">John 16:15</a>, Wey.).
</blockquote>Fruitful service results from growth, not works. All sharing must be motivated and governed by life: "the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus" (<a id="verse_1632878328466358" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/8/2">Rom. 8:2</a>)."The Holy Spirit came to reproduce the Lord Jesus in the lives of men and women. The Church is that or it is nothing; the teaching relates to that, or it has no meaning. Any movement of the Spirit is in that direction, or we have entirely misunderstood. He came to conform us to the image of the Son; everything has to be tested by that."All our activities and efforts and energies and expenditures; all our sacrifices, our movements and our teaching: everything that has become a part of Christianity' has to be measured by the one rule - is it resulting in the reproduction of the Lord Jesus Christ in the lives of men and women, so that it is demonstrated from heaven that He is as truly here in this world now as ever He was in history?" -T. A-S."It is a mistake to measure spiritual maturity merely by the presence of gifts. They may be present and they may be valuable, but the Spirit's object is something far greater - to form the Lord Jesus Christ in us through the work of the Cross. It is not merely that a man does certain things or speaks certain words, but that he is a certain kind of man. In the long run it is what we are, and not simply what we say or do - and the difference lies in the formation of the Lord Jesus within.""The Father first uses the active talents of His servants; then He polishes the other side of the stone, making the passive graces shine - patience, meekness, etc.""My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you" (<a id="verse_1632878328970020" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Galatians/4/19">Gal. 4:19</a>).

 Be, To Do 

<h3>Life Through the Spirit</h3>8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8:1

Therefore, there is now no condemnation<cr>1</cr> for those who are in Christ Jesus,<cr>2</cr>

because through Christ Jesus<cr>1</cr> the law of the Spirit who gives life<cr>2</cr> has set you<ft>1</ft> free<cr>3</cr> from the law of sin<cr>4</cr> and death.

Romans 8:2

 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation   for those who are in Christ Jesus,   2 because through Christ Jesus   the law of the Spirit who gives life   has set you  free   from the law of sin   and death.

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 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

Romans 8:1-2

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.

 Therefore, there is now no condemnation   for those who are in Christ Jesus,   because through Christ Jesus   the law of the Spirit who gives life   has set you  free   from the law of sin   and death.

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