Peter Barnes | Romans 8:9-11
SERMON NOTES
THE SPIRIT GIVES LIFE
(Romans 8:9-11)
– the Spirit in the Christian
1. The Spirit makes a person a Christian.
– 8:9-11; the Spirit of God is the Spirit of Christ; to have Christ is to have the Spirit (see Eph.3:16-17)
– John 14:17, 23; John Chrysostom: ‘Wherever one person of the Trinity is present, the whole Trinity is present too.’
2. The Spirit raised Jesus from the dead.
– 8:11; see Ezek.37:9-10, 14
– God raised Christ from the dead (e.g. Acts 17:30-31); Christ raised Himself (John 2:19-21; 10:17-18)
– But the Spirit raises Christ in 1 Peter 3:18 and Romans 8:11
3. The Spirit gives life to believers.
– 8:10; NIV and John Stott and others say that the human spirit is alive, but Paul says ‘the Spirit is life’, not alive.
– it is like John 11:25; 14:6 where Jesus says He is the life
– life now through the Spirit means life forever through the resurrection of the dead.