“The Spirit Who Gives Life” (Romans 8:9–11)

“The Spirit Who Gives Life” (Romans 8:9–11)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, February 11, 2018

Romans 8:9–11 (NIV)
⁹ You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

1. Every true believer in Jesus Christ is in union with Christ.

a. Belong to Christ (v. 9)
b. Christ in you (v. 10) and you in Christ (5:12–21)

2. Everyone who is in union with Christ has the indwelling Holy Spirit.

a. If you belong to Christ (v. 9), you have the Spirit of Christ.
b. The Spirit of Christ = The Spirit of God = The Holy Spirit.
c. Every believer/every true Christian has the indwelling Holy Spirit.

i. From conversion
ii. In totality
iii. Permanently (lives, dwells v. 9)

3. Everyone who has the indwelling Holy Spirit of Christ is no longer “in the flesh” but is “in the Spirit.”

a. If the Spirit of God lives in you, then you are not in the realm of the flesh but in the realm of the Spirit (v. 9).
b. Positional – transfer from one realm to the other. – True of all believers. A Christian cannot rightly be said to be “in the flesh” in this sense.

4. Everyone who has the indwelling Holy Spirit has been granted new spiritual life because of the righteousness of Christ (v. 10).

a. Your physical body is still subject to decay and death, but you have been made spiritually alive through the life-giving Spirit based on the work of Christ (his righteousness imputed to you).

5. Everyone who has been made spiritually alive by the Spirit will also one day be made physically alive at the resurrection (v. 11).

a. God raised Jesus from the dead.
b. If his Spirit (the Holy Spirit) is in you then you too will be raised from the dead physically and transformed into and immortal existence at the resurrection.

Main Idea: Every true believer in Christ has the indwelling Holy Spirit, who has transferred us from the realm of spiritual death in the flesh to the realm of spiritual life in the Spirit, and one day he will also grant new resurrection life to our physical bodies that grow old and die.