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Good News About
                     Being a Christian
                   #1 There Is No
                   CoNdemNaTIoN
                                       by Tim Bond
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Romans 8:1 NET There is therefore now
no condemnation for those who are in
 Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the life-
  giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set
you free from the law of sin and death.
3 For God achieved what the law could
    not do because it was weakened
 through the flesh. By sending his own
 Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and
            concerning sin,
    he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 so that the righteous requirement of
 the law may be fulfilled in us, who do
   not walk according to the flesh but
        according to the Spirit.
Michael Breissen was a new father, and
  he was not about to let his wife’s first
  Mother’s Day pass uncelebrated. But
 she was a nurse, and on that particular
    Sunday was working at the local
    hospital, and they weren’t able to
      celebrate together at home.
So Michael plunked his new son, Jason,
     in the baby carrier, drove to the
 hospital, and in front of all the patients
  and co-workers he surprised Miriam
  with candy and flowers and balloons
   that said, "World’s Greatest Mom."
It was a great Mother’s Day. But after
  celebrating, it was time for Miriam to
    go back to work, and Jason and
   Michael to go back home. Michael
  gathered all the things that had been
   part of the celebration: the candy,
         flowers, and balloons.
It wasn’t as much fun taking those things
  out to the car as it was taking them in to
       the hospital for the surprise. He
   begrudgingly tossed the candy on the
front seat and got the flowers arranged on
 the floor where they wouldn’t tip over. He
 pulled the balloons in out of the wind and
   got everything arranged, and headed
                    home.
On the way home, people began to
honk their horns and flash their lights
  at him. He didn’t realize what was
going on until he hit 55 miles per hour
           on the highway.
He heard a long scraping noise go down
 the roof, followed by a loud thump. He
    watched in horror in the rearview
 mirror as the baby carrier bounced off
 the trunk onto the highway and began
      to slide along behind the car.
Michael screeched to a halt. He ran
 back down the highway to the baby
carrier. Jason was okay. As the waves
  of guilt and fear and relief began to
  wash over him. Michael fell on the
      highway and began to sob.
That did not stop a passing policeman
     from writing him up, nor the local
 newspaper from writing a story about
 it. A reporter interviewed Miriam, who
 showed amazing understanding. She
 said, "It’s so unlike him. He really is a
               good father."
While there’s a part of us that says, "How
 could he?" there’s another part of us that
relates to Michael Breissen. We recognize
all the mistakes we have made, the dumb
  things we have done born out of hurry or
   frustration or distraction. We know that
   there is enough Michael Breissen in us
 that we could be guilty of such things too.
         It’s all part of being human.
The eighth chapter of Romans begins
with one of the greatest promises in all
  the Bible. “There is therefore now no
   condemnation for those who are in
  Christ Jesus." And even standing by
itself there is something in those words
      that makes your heart flutter.
The significance of the fact that in spite
 of our sin, God doesn’t condemn us is
  overwhelming in and of itself. But the
  truth of the matter is, when you read
    that verse in light of chapter 7, the
 personal application of its truth is even
            more invigorating.
You see, chapter 7 is one of the most
 powerful statements about struggling
 with sin in the history of all literature.
What makes it so powerful is, that it is
  Paul providing us a glimpse into his
     own struggle. For me that is
              encouraging.
Often when I think of the apostle Paul, I
 think of somebody who is bigger than
     life. I see him standing up and
    defending his faith in front of the
    Roman governors and even the
 emperor. I remember him on his great
    missionary journeys all over the
              Roman empire.
We have all listened to him as he
 instructs the churches to be faithful,
 and as he encourages Timothy and
  Titus to remain true to their calling.
Probably most of us have put Paul on
            quite a pedestal.
But when we come to the 7th chapter of
  Romans, we get a peek behind eyes
   of the apostle, and he’s a lot more
     human than we might have first
   thought. Paul is a fellow struggler.
Romans 7:14 NET For we know that the
law is spiritual — but I am unspiritual,
 sold into slavery to sin. 15 For I don't
understand what I am doing. For I do
  not do what I want — instead, I do
 what I hate. 16 But if I do what I don't
  want, I agree that the law is good.
17 But now it is no longer me doing it,
 but sin that lives in me. 18 For I know
 that nothing good lives in me, that is,
in my flesh. For I want to do the good,
  but I cannot do it. 19 For I do not do
the good I want, but I do the very evil I
             do not want!
Did you notice what is going on here?
  Paul is honest enough to recognize
within himself a tendency to get caught
 in the stranglehold of sin. This is not
 Paul talking about the way he used to
     be sinful before he became a
               Christian.
This is Paul saying, “Just this morning, I
gave in again.” It happens to us all. Earlier
  in his letter he has proclaimed Romans
3:10b NET "There is no one righteous, not
even one,” Later he stated matter of factly
 Romans 3:23 NET for all have sinned and
 fall short of the glory of God. But now he
states it even more personally. “I struggle
       with sin, and sometimes I lose.”
Finally, the frustration of losing seems to break
    through to the surface as Paul proclaims in
Romans 7:22 NET For I delight in the law of God
  in my inner being. 23 But I see a different law
 in my members waging war against the law of
  my mind and making me captive to the law of
   sin that is in my members. 24 Wretched man
   that I am! Who will rescue me from this body
                      of death?
How many times a week could you just
        kick yourself for failing?
  You try to be patient with your kids or
  your spouse or your parents, but in a
 flash you strike out and the words you
   say have done their damage before
            you even knew it.
You thought you had broken the grip of
 that nasty habit, but there was that one
  weak moment, and you listened to the
    whisper that told you "it will be okay
  just this once," and now you feel like a
                   failure.
You knew you should have steered
    clear, but you thought you could
handle it. Before you know it, you have
 found out the hard way that you were
       weaker than you thought.
A thousand times, in a thousand
different ways you have tried to live by
the standards that you know are right.
But like Michael Breissen, even though
   you knew better, you did the stupid
  thing. And now all you feel is stupid,
filthy, wretched to use the language of
Paul. Let’s read where Paul goes from
                  here.
Romans 7:24 NET Wretched man that I
am! Who will rescue me from this body
of death? 25 Thanks be to God through
    Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I
 myself serve the law of God with my
mind, but with my flesh I serve the law
                 of sin.
8:1 There is therefore now no
  condemnation for those who are in
 Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the life-
  giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set
you free from the law of sin and death.
You see, I told you that promise was
    even more grand when you know
   Paul’s train of thought. Paul admits
that there is a struggle going on within
 every human being, and when we try
  to win on our own strength we often
         get pinned to the mat.
But the greatness of the promise of
 God’s grace is that even when we fail
  again, there is no condemnation for
 those who are in Christ Jesus. There
is security in our relationship with God.
  If we are in Christ, we don’t need to
     wonder if God is angry with us.
“There is therefore now no condemnation
 for those who are in Christ Jesus." If you
  have a personal relationship with Jesus,
you don’t need to fear God’s wrath. “There
   is therefore now no condemnation for
   those who are in Christ Jesus." When
    God looks at you, He doesn’t see a
    wretch, He sees a son or daughter.
I am not saying we have a license to sin!
   No! Far from it! Let’s review what Paul
         said two chapters earlier.
 Romans 6:1 NET What shall we say then?
   Are we to remain in sin so that grace
   may increase? 2 Absolutely not! How
   can we who died to sin still live in it?
He goes on to talk about putting our life
 of sin to death when we join Jesus in
   death through Baptism. Then, as
  Jesus was raised from the dead we
   come out of the waters of baptism
  having put our old sinful life to death
     so we can then live a new life.
Just because we are living a new life
  under God’s grace we should live in
         obedience that results in
 righteousness. Romans 8:15 NET What
then? Shall we sin because we are not
under law but under grace? Absolutely
   not! 16 Do you not know that if you
present yourselves as obedient slaves,
you are slaves of the one you obey,
   either of sin resulting in death, or
obedience resulting in righteousness?
  17 But thanks be to God that though
  you were slaves to sin, you obeyed
from the heart that pattern of teaching
 you were entrusted to, 18 and having
   been freed from sin, you became
      enslaved to righteousness.
This being the case you have avoided
  the 2nd death, Hell and will receive
                the gift of
                Eternal Life.
  Romans 8:20 NET For when you were
    slaves of sin, you were free with
  regard to righteousness. 21 So what
  benefit did you then reap from those
 things that you are now ashamed of?
For the end of those things is death. 22
  But now, freed from sin and enslaved
  to God, you have your benefit leading
 to sanctification, and the end is eternal
   life. 23 For the payoff of sin is death,
     but the gift of God is eternal life in
            Christ Jesus our Lord.
The point is we have become slaves of
  God, hence, we live to serve Him. We
    must act like we belong to God and
   not sin. What needs to happen when
                   we fail?
1 John 1:9 NET But if we confess our sins,
   he is faithful and righteous, forgiving
   us our sins and cleansing us from all
              unrighteousness.
You remember the story of the prodigal
  son. The boy disregarded his father,
  and then disgraced himself in every
 way possible. Dr. Vernon McGee says
 “Do you know the difference between
   the son in that pigpen and the pig?
 The difference is that no pig has ever
  said to himself, ’I will arise and go to
               my father.’”
He’s right, but a child can do that! And
 when that dirty, stinking boy came within
 eyesight of home, His dad was there to
clean Him up and throw Him a party. Paul
 wants to make sure that you understand
 that God is just as anxious to throw His
arms around you. “There is therefore now
  no condemnation for those who are in
               Christ Jesus."
Now let me tell you why this is so
  important to understand. Because if
the truth be known, there is sometimes
   condemnation for those who are in
 Christ Jesus. But it never comes from
   God. It comes from Satan. Do you
 know what the word “satan” means in
           Hebrew? Accuser!
He loves to fool us into believing that we
  are condemned. He wants to trap us
 into believing that we are so wretched
  that God doesn’t want anything to do
  with us. He wants us to be like Adam
     and Eve in the garden after they
 sinned. All they wanted to do was hide
                 from God!
And the truth is, we’ve all been there.
We have failed, and kicked ourselves,
  and felt condemned. And we have
   hidden ourselves from God, and
 turned away, not because we don’t
    love Him, but because we are
               ashamed.
We have felt like a wretch, and we have
   listened to Satan tell us that God
  condemned us for our sin. But if we
   were in Christ at the time, then we
               were wrong.
A little while back there was a girl who
  was the daughter of one of the royal
   families of Europe. She had a big,
 round nose that destroyed her beauty
 in the eyes of others and especially in
  her own eyes. She grew up with this
          terrible image of herself
            as an ugly person.
So her family hired a plastic surgeon to
  change the contour of her nose. He
   did his work, and there came the
 moment when they took the bandages
     off and the girl could see what
               happened.
When the doctor removed the
 bandages, he saw that the operation
had been a total success. All the ugly
  contours were gone. Her nose was
 different. When the incisions healed
            and the redness
disappeared, she would be a beautiful
 girl. He held a mirror up for the girl to
                  see.
But, so deeply embedded was this girl’s
  ugly image of herself that when she
 saw herself in the mirror, she couldn’t
 see any change. She broke into tears
               and cried out,
      “Oh, I knew it wouldn’t work!”
The doctor labored with that girl for six
months before she would finally accept
 the fact that she was indeed different.
 But the moment she accepted the fact
that she really was different, her whole
       behavior began to change.
Paul recognizes a very important truth,
 that we act according to what we know
     we are. If we are deceived into
thinking that we are not what God says
  we are, then we are going to keep on
 acting that way. That is why the way to
   break the power of the most vicious
and evil habit is to see yourself as God
                sees you.
Then you begin to act that way. Now,
 how many of you believe the Bible to
be true? I want to find out. Remember,
  when you say the word “Amen” you
are actually saying a Hebrew word that
 means “That’s the truth!” In a minute I
   am going to read a promise from
    God’s Word, and I want you to
               respond.
If you believe the truth of the promise,
  then respond by saying “Amen!” (Not
  wimpy amen) God’s Word proclaims
       “There is therefore now no
   condemnation for those who are in
    Christ Jesus." Do you believe it?
The challenge that we face, is not to just
 say that we believe it, but to live like it.
  Don’t let anything that you have ever
   done, or will ever do to separate you
 from God. A little later in Romans 8 Paul
  asks a very important question that at
  one time or another is on the mind of
             every Christian.
Romans 8:35 NET Who will separate us
from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or
 distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As
    it is written, "For your sake we
  encounter death all day long; we
   were considered as sheep to be
         slaughtered." (Psalm 44:22)
37 No, in all these things we have complete
 victory through him who loved us! 38 For I
  am convinced that neither death, nor life,
 nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things
  that are present, nor things to come, nor
    powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor
   anything else in creation will be able to
 separate us from the love of God in Christ
              Jesus our Lord.
You see, none of those things can
 separate us from Him. But when we
are foolish and fail, our tendency is to
          turn away in shame.
For five weeks beginning today I am
  preaching from Romans 8 on “The
    Good News abouT beING a
          ChrIsTIaN.”
Nothing else I can ever say could be
more important than the one that Paul
   begins this great chapter with.
"Therefore, there is now no
 condemnation for those who are in
 Christ Jesus." There is never a time
when you will turn toward God and not
 find his arms extended, waiting for
your return. Why would we ever want
            to turn away?
Even though we are beginning a series
 of messages from Romans 8, Paul didn’t
       begin his train of thought by
 proclaiming the good news "Therefore,
    there is now no condemnation for
     those who are in Christ Jesus."
He began by proclaiming the bad news
  that in our natural state, every single
   person who lives on the face of the
 earth is guilty of sin and condemned to
                   death.
Romans 3:23 NET for all have sinned and fall
          short of the glory of God.
  Romans 6:23a NET For the payoff of sin is
 death, In our natural state we get what we
                   deserve.
        Imperfection brings death.
   23b but the gift of God is eternal life in
           Christ Jesus our Lord.
The bad news is that everyone outside of
Christ will suffer the consequences of their
                      sin.
         They will die!
 The good news is that God has made a
provision for us to come "into Christ." His
  will is that every person will come into
Christ. But God does not force His will on
          us. He gives us free will.
Now we must choose who must guide
    our lives. Will we live by our own
        standards and suffer the
   consequences. Or will we turn our
   lives over to God and receive the
promise of Romans 8:1 "Therefore, there
is now no condemnation for those who
           are in Christ Jesus."
The time to make that decision is




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#1 There Is No Condemnation

  • 1. Good News About Being a Christian #1 There Is No CoNdemNaTIoN by Tim Bond http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermon.asp?SermonID=44934&Sermon%20There%20Is%20No%20Condemnation%20by%20Tim%20Bond
  • 2. Romans 8:1 NET There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the life- giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
  • 3. 3 For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
  • 4. 4 so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
  • 5. Michael Breissen was a new father, and he was not about to let his wife’s first Mother’s Day pass uncelebrated. But she was a nurse, and on that particular Sunday was working at the local hospital, and they weren’t able to celebrate together at home.
  • 6. So Michael plunked his new son, Jason, in the baby carrier, drove to the hospital, and in front of all the patients and co-workers he surprised Miriam with candy and flowers and balloons that said, "World’s Greatest Mom."
  • 7. It was a great Mother’s Day. But after celebrating, it was time for Miriam to go back to work, and Jason and Michael to go back home. Michael gathered all the things that had been part of the celebration: the candy, flowers, and balloons.
  • 8. It wasn’t as much fun taking those things out to the car as it was taking them in to the hospital for the surprise. He begrudgingly tossed the candy on the front seat and got the flowers arranged on the floor where they wouldn’t tip over. He pulled the balloons in out of the wind and got everything arranged, and headed home.
  • 9. On the way home, people began to honk their horns and flash their lights at him. He didn’t realize what was going on until he hit 55 miles per hour on the highway.
  • 10. He heard a long scraping noise go down the roof, followed by a loud thump. He watched in horror in the rearview mirror as the baby carrier bounced off the trunk onto the highway and began to slide along behind the car.
  • 11. Michael screeched to a halt. He ran back down the highway to the baby carrier. Jason was okay. As the waves of guilt and fear and relief began to wash over him. Michael fell on the highway and began to sob.
  • 12. That did not stop a passing policeman from writing him up, nor the local newspaper from writing a story about it. A reporter interviewed Miriam, who showed amazing understanding. She said, "It’s so unlike him. He really is a good father."
  • 13. While there’s a part of us that says, "How could he?" there’s another part of us that relates to Michael Breissen. We recognize all the mistakes we have made, the dumb things we have done born out of hurry or frustration or distraction. We know that there is enough Michael Breissen in us that we could be guilty of such things too. It’s all part of being human.
  • 14. The eighth chapter of Romans begins with one of the greatest promises in all the Bible. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." And even standing by itself there is something in those words that makes your heart flutter.
  • 15. The significance of the fact that in spite of our sin, God doesn’t condemn us is overwhelming in and of itself. But the truth of the matter is, when you read that verse in light of chapter 7, the personal application of its truth is even more invigorating.
  • 16. You see, chapter 7 is one of the most powerful statements about struggling with sin in the history of all literature. What makes it so powerful is, that it is Paul providing us a glimpse into his own struggle. For me that is encouraging.
  • 17. Often when I think of the apostle Paul, I think of somebody who is bigger than life. I see him standing up and defending his faith in front of the Roman governors and even the emperor. I remember him on his great missionary journeys all over the Roman empire.
  • 18. We have all listened to him as he instructs the churches to be faithful, and as he encourages Timothy and Titus to remain true to their calling. Probably most of us have put Paul on quite a pedestal.
  • 19. But when we come to the 7th chapter of Romans, we get a peek behind eyes of the apostle, and he’s a lot more human than we might have first thought. Paul is a fellow struggler.
  • 20. Romans 7:14 NET For we know that the law is spiritual — but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. 15 For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want — instead, I do what I hate. 16 But if I do what I don't want, I agree that the law is good.
  • 21. 17 But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. 18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!
  • 22. Did you notice what is going on here? Paul is honest enough to recognize within himself a tendency to get caught in the stranglehold of sin. This is not Paul talking about the way he used to be sinful before he became a Christian.
  • 23. This is Paul saying, “Just this morning, I gave in again.” It happens to us all. Earlier in his letter he has proclaimed Romans 3:10b NET "There is no one righteous, not even one,” Later he stated matter of factly Romans 3:23 NET for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But now he states it even more personally. “I struggle with sin, and sometimes I lose.”
  • 24. Finally, the frustration of losing seems to break through to the surface as Paul proclaims in Romans 7:22 NET For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. 23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
  • 25. How many times a week could you just kick yourself for failing? You try to be patient with your kids or your spouse or your parents, but in a flash you strike out and the words you say have done their damage before you even knew it.
  • 26. You thought you had broken the grip of that nasty habit, but there was that one weak moment, and you listened to the whisper that told you "it will be okay just this once," and now you feel like a failure.
  • 27. You knew you should have steered clear, but you thought you could handle it. Before you know it, you have found out the hard way that you were weaker than you thought.
  • 28. A thousand times, in a thousand different ways you have tried to live by the standards that you know are right. But like Michael Breissen, even though you knew better, you did the stupid thing. And now all you feel is stupid, filthy, wretched to use the language of Paul. Let’s read where Paul goes from here.
  • 29. Romans 7:24 NET Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
  • 30. 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the life- giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
  • 31. You see, I told you that promise was even more grand when you know Paul’s train of thought. Paul admits that there is a struggle going on within every human being, and when we try to win on our own strength we often get pinned to the mat.
  • 32. But the greatness of the promise of God’s grace is that even when we fail again, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. There is security in our relationship with God. If we are in Christ, we don’t need to wonder if God is angry with us.
  • 33. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." If you have a personal relationship with Jesus, you don’t need to fear God’s wrath. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." When God looks at you, He doesn’t see a wretch, He sees a son or daughter.
  • 34. I am not saying we have a license to sin! No! Far from it! Let’s review what Paul said two chapters earlier. Romans 6:1 NET What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
  • 35. He goes on to talk about putting our life of sin to death when we join Jesus in death through Baptism. Then, as Jesus was raised from the dead we come out of the waters of baptism having put our old sinful life to death so we can then live a new life.
  • 36. Just because we are living a new life under God’s grace we should live in obedience that results in righteousness. Romans 8:15 NET What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves,
  • 37. you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
  • 38. This being the case you have avoided the 2nd death, Hell and will receive the gift of Eternal Life. Romans 8:20 NET For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. 21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of?
  • 39. For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life. 23 For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 40. The point is we have become slaves of God, hence, we live to serve Him. We must act like we belong to God and not sin. What needs to happen when we fail? 1 John 1:9 NET But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
  • 41. You remember the story of the prodigal son. The boy disregarded his father, and then disgraced himself in every way possible. Dr. Vernon McGee says “Do you know the difference between the son in that pigpen and the pig? The difference is that no pig has ever said to himself, ’I will arise and go to my father.’”
  • 42. He’s right, but a child can do that! And when that dirty, stinking boy came within eyesight of home, His dad was there to clean Him up and throw Him a party. Paul wants to make sure that you understand that God is just as anxious to throw His arms around you. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
  • 43. Now let me tell you why this is so important to understand. Because if the truth be known, there is sometimes condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. But it never comes from God. It comes from Satan. Do you know what the word “satan” means in Hebrew? Accuser!
  • 44. He loves to fool us into believing that we are condemned. He wants to trap us into believing that we are so wretched that God doesn’t want anything to do with us. He wants us to be like Adam and Eve in the garden after they sinned. All they wanted to do was hide from God!
  • 45. And the truth is, we’ve all been there. We have failed, and kicked ourselves, and felt condemned. And we have hidden ourselves from God, and turned away, not because we don’t love Him, but because we are ashamed.
  • 46. We have felt like a wretch, and we have listened to Satan tell us that God condemned us for our sin. But if we were in Christ at the time, then we were wrong.
  • 47. A little while back there was a girl who was the daughter of one of the royal families of Europe. She had a big, round nose that destroyed her beauty in the eyes of others and especially in her own eyes. She grew up with this terrible image of herself as an ugly person.
  • 48. So her family hired a plastic surgeon to change the contour of her nose. He did his work, and there came the moment when they took the bandages off and the girl could see what happened.
  • 49. When the doctor removed the bandages, he saw that the operation had been a total success. All the ugly contours were gone. Her nose was different. When the incisions healed and the redness disappeared, she would be a beautiful girl. He held a mirror up for the girl to see.
  • 50. But, so deeply embedded was this girl’s ugly image of herself that when she saw herself in the mirror, she couldn’t see any change. She broke into tears and cried out, “Oh, I knew it wouldn’t work!”
  • 51. The doctor labored with that girl for six months before she would finally accept the fact that she was indeed different. But the moment she accepted the fact that she really was different, her whole behavior began to change.
  • 52. Paul recognizes a very important truth, that we act according to what we know we are. If we are deceived into thinking that we are not what God says we are, then we are going to keep on acting that way. That is why the way to break the power of the most vicious and evil habit is to see yourself as God sees you.
  • 53. Then you begin to act that way. Now, how many of you believe the Bible to be true? I want to find out. Remember, when you say the word “Amen” you are actually saying a Hebrew word that means “That’s the truth!” In a minute I am going to read a promise from God’s Word, and I want you to respond.
  • 54. If you believe the truth of the promise, then respond by saying “Amen!” (Not wimpy amen) God’s Word proclaims “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Do you believe it?
  • 55. The challenge that we face, is not to just say that we believe it, but to live like it. Don’t let anything that you have ever done, or will ever do to separate you from God. A little later in Romans 8 Paul asks a very important question that at one time or another is on the mind of every Christian.
  • 56. Romans 8:35 NET Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, "For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered." (Psalm 44:22)
  • 57. 37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 58. You see, none of those things can separate us from Him. But when we are foolish and fail, our tendency is to turn away in shame.
  • 59. For five weeks beginning today I am preaching from Romans 8 on “The Good News abouT beING a ChrIsTIaN.” Nothing else I can ever say could be more important than the one that Paul begins this great chapter with.
  • 60. "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." There is never a time when you will turn toward God and not find his arms extended, waiting for your return. Why would we ever want to turn away?
  • 61. Even though we are beginning a series of messages from Romans 8, Paul didn’t begin his train of thought by proclaiming the good news "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
  • 62. He began by proclaiming the bad news that in our natural state, every single person who lives on the face of the earth is guilty of sin and condemned to death.
  • 63. Romans 3:23 NET for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 6:23a NET For the payoff of sin is death, In our natural state we get what we deserve. Imperfection brings death. 23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 64. The bad news is that everyone outside of Christ will suffer the consequences of their sin. They will die! The good news is that God has made a provision for us to come "into Christ." His will is that every person will come into Christ. But God does not force His will on us. He gives us free will.
  • 65. Now we must choose who must guide our lives. Will we live by our own standards and suffer the consequences. Or will we turn our lives over to God and receive the promise of Romans 8:1 "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."
  • 66. The time to make that decision is N OW!