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Study Section 9: Chapter 8 – The Holy Spirit’s Work in Salvation

9.1 Connect
Have you ever had a real exciting event occur in your life? Perhaps it was the day you got
married? Or perhaps it was the birth of your first child? I remember the day I accepted Christ as
my Savior. The Holy Spirit has really been working on me to show me my sin. I was miserable.
But the moment I received Christ as my Savior, the burden of sin was lifted, and I jumped up and
leaped for joy. I was just like the paralyzed man in Acts 3:8 who, after receiving healing, he was
“walking and leaping and praising God.” The feeling was so strong, I thought I would burst open.

That’s what Chapter 8 of Romans should do for you. It begins declaring that no one is condemned by God
who is IN Christ Jesus – who by faith has trusted in His work for salvation. That’s a decision that
determines a person’s eternal destiny! Wow! What an amazing truth declared in this chapter.

Let’s mine out this and other truths in chapter 8 of Romans…

9.2 Objectives
1. Students should be able to describe how the Holy Spirit works with Christ in Salvation.

2. Students should be able to explain the degree of how nothing can separate those who trust in
Christ from the love of God that has been shown to them in the life and work of Christ.

6.3 The Passage: Romans 8:1-39

Now then, no one who is in Christ Jesus has condemnation. For the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. For since it is impossible for the law
in which it is weak through the flesh, God his own Son sent in likeness of sinful flesh and
concerning sin condemned sin in the flesh, so that the righteousness of the law might be
fulfilled in us who not according to the flesh are walking but according to the Spirit. For the ones being
according to flesh have in mind the things of the flesh, but the ones according to the Spirit, the things of
the Spirit. For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; because the mind
of the flesh is hostility unto God, for to the law of God it does not submit, for it is not able; and those being
in flesh are not able to please God. But you are not in flesh but in Spirit if the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Now if the Spirit of Christ one does not have, this one is not His. But if Christ is in you, the body is dead
because of sin, but the spirit lives on account of righteousness. Now if the Spirit who raised Jesus out of the
dead dwells in you, the One who raised Christ out of the dead will make alive even your mortal bodies
through the indwelling of his Spirit in you.

Those who trust in Christ are indwelt by the Spirit and therefore they live according to the Spirit lives
pleasing to God that receive none of the condemnation sin deserves.

Therefore then, brothers, we are under obligation not to the flesh to live according to the flesh, for if
according to the flesh you live, you are about to die; but if by the Spirit the deeds of the body you put to
death, you will live. For whoever are lead by the Spirit of God, these ones are sons of God. For you have not
received a spirit of slavery again unto fear but you have received a spirit of adoption by which we cry,
“Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are children of God. Now if children,
also heirs; heirs of God, and fellow heirs of Christ, since we suffer together so that also we will be glorified
together.

We are obligated to live by God’s Spirit and not to live by the dictates of the flesh that lead to fear and
death.

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