From; GOD THE FATHER, THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD,
The Helper, that He may be with you forever. [John 14:16 ]
Subject: MY WORD
1 So there
is now no condemnation awaiting those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 For the
power of the life-giving Spirit—and this power is mine through Christ Jesus—has
freed me from the vicious circle of sin and death. 3 We aren’t
saved from sin’s grasp by knowing the commandments of God because we can’t and
don’t keep them, but God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent
his own Son in a human body like ours—except that ours are sinful—and destroyed
sin’s control over us by giving himself as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 So now we
can obey God’s laws if we follow after the Holy Spirit and no longer obey the
old evil nature within us. 5 Those who let themselves be controlled by
their lower natures live only to please themselves, but those who follow after
the Holy Spirit find themselves doing those things that please God. 6 Following
after the Holy Spirit leads to life and peace, but following after the old
nature leads to death 7 because the old sinful nature within us is
against God. It never did obey God’s laws and it never will. 8 That’s why
those who are still under the control of their old sinful selves, bent on
following their old evil desires, can never please God. 9 But you
are not like that. You are controlled by your new nature if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And
remember that if anyone doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ living in him, he is
not a Christian at all.) 10 Yet, even though Christ lives within you,
your body will die because of sin; but your spirit will live, for Christ has
pardoned it. 11 And if the Spirit of God, who raised up
Jesus from the dead, lives in you,
he will make your dying bodies live again after you die, by means of this same Holy Spirit living within you. 12 So, dear
brothers, you have no obligations whatever to your old sinful nature to do what
it begs you to do. 13 For if you keep on following it you are
lost and will perish, but if through the power of the Holy Spirit you crush it
and its evil deeds, you shall live. 14 For all who are led by
the Spirit of God are sons of God.
15 “If you
love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will
ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, 17 even the
Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor
knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. 18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will
come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see
me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that
day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them,
he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I
will love him and manifest myself to him.”
20 “I am not
praying for these alone but also for the future believers who will come to me
because of the testimony of these. 21
My prayer for all of them is
that they will be of one heart and mind, just as you and I are, Father—that just as you are in me and I am
in you, so they will be in us, and the world will believe you sent me.
