ROM # 42 Heirs & co-heirs with Christ Rom 8 vs11-17

Berean Sovereign Grace Church

1. The elect are justified by reason of being in Christ and Christ dying for them.2. They are they who walk according to the Spirit.3. And walking by the Spirit means they have Holy Spirit indwelling them.4. And their walk is characterized by their setting their mind on things above (Christ), considering their own righteousness as loss and dung.5. Now Paul says this standing before God brings about a host of exhortations and commands for those who are saved.6. They are to order themselves in this temporary life around the gospel. They do not seek instructions from the Law, but from Christ.7. God has given the Holy Spirit to indwell the redeemed for many reasons. He is the seal and guarantee of their salvation, even their future resurrection.8. The Holy Spirit as is God the Father and the Son will participate in the resurrection and glorification of all the redeemed (Salvation is Trinitarian).9. The same Holy Spirit testifies with our spirits that we are the children of God. 10. He is also called the Spirit of adoption, because in Christ we have been made children and sons, given the right of inheritance and thus co-heirs with Christ. This and more..