Study Desk

You were made free from the power of sin. Being right with God has power over you now.

I speak with words easy to understand because your human thinking is weak. At one time you gave yourselves over to the power of sin. You kept on sinning all the more. Now give yourselves over to being right with God. Set yourself apart for God-like living and to do His work.

When sin had power over your life, you were not right with God.

But now you are free from the power of sin. You have become a servant for God. Your life is set apart for God-like living. The end is life that lasts forever.

My Christian brothers, that is the way it is with you. You were under the power of the Law. But now you are dead to it because you are joined to another. You are joined to Christ Who was raised from the dead. This is so we may be what God wants us to be. Our lives are to give fruit for Him.

My mind and heart agree with the Law of God.

God's Law has power over my mind, but sin still has power over my sinful old self. I thank God I can be free through Jesus Christ our Lord!

The Law could not make me free from the power of sin and death. It was weak because it had to work with weak human beings. But God sent His own Son. He came to earth in a body of flesh which could be tempted to sin as we in our bodies can be. He gave Himself to take away sin. By doing that, He took away the power sin had over us.

The mind that thinks only of ways to please the sinful old self is fighting against God. It is not able to obey God's Laws. It never can.

Those who do what their sinful old selves want to do cannot please God.

If Christ is in you, your spirit lives because you are right with God, and yet your body is dead because of sin.

All those who are led by the Holy Spirit are sons of God.

For the Holy Spirit speaks to us and tells our spirit that we are children of God.

If we are children of God, we will receive everything He has promised us. We will share with Christ all the things God has given to Him. But we must share His suffering if we are to share His shining-greatness.

Everything that has been made in the world is waiting for the day when God will make His sons known.

Everything that has been made in the world is weak. It is not that the world wanted it to be that way. God allowed it to be that way. Yet there is hope.

Everything that has been made in the world will be set free from the power that can destroy. These will become free just as the children of God become free.

In the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us where we are weak. We do not know how to pray or what we should pray for, but the Holy Spirit prays to God for us with sounds that cannot be put into words.

God knows the hearts of men. He knows what the Holy Spirit is thinking. The Holy Spirit prays for those who belong to Christ the way God wants Him to pray.

We know that God makes all things work together for the good of those who love Him and are chosen to be a part of His plan.