No Condemnation

SERIES: ROMANS

MESSAGE: No Condemnation

TEXT: Romans 8:1–3

MESSAGE BY: Pastor Tim Lewis

1. Justification in Christ Jesus. (V. 1)

   • “No Condemnation”
     (Rom. 4:25–5:2; 5:16–18; 8:31–34)

   • “In Christ Jesus”
     (Rom. 6:3–11)

2. Liberation in Christ Jesus. (V. 2)

   • The reason for my assurance – “Because”

   • “The law of sin and death”

   • (Rom. 7:7–10, 13–14)

   • “The law of the Spirit of life”

   • (2 Cor. 3:6, 17–18; Gal. 6:8; John 6:63)

3. Impotence of the law (V. 3a)
   (Acts 13:38–39; Rom. 3:20, 28)

   • The law cannot justify us

   1. The law cannot sanctify us

4. Intervention for us by God (V. 3)

   • God Did!

     • He sent His Son
       (John 3:16, 18; Rom. 5:8; 1 John 4:9–10)

     • His Son became fully human (V. 3)

     • His Son came to offer Himself for our sin
       (2 Cor. 5:21; Isa. 53:4–6)

     • God condemned sin in the flesh
       (2 Cor. 5:18–20)

“In that same nature which all others was sinful, in that very nature which in all others was dominated and directed by sin, in that nature assumed by the Son of God but free from sin, God condemned sin and overthrew its power. He…vanquished sin as power and set us free from its enslaving dominion…The battle was joined and the triumph secured in that same flesh which in us the seat and agent of sin.”

— John Murray