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Romans 8:3-5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; Unregenerate men, the men who remain in the state in which they were born, the men who allow their lower nature to have the predominance,...

Romans 8:3-4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. If there are any men in the world who do keep the law of God, they...

Romans 8:3-4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. The law of God was a good law, a just and holy law. It was weak, not...

Romans 8:3-4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. The law never made anybody holy, and it never will do so. The law says...

Romans 8:3-4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not niter the flesh, but after the Spirit. This is our victory, that let the flesh lust as it may, we do not...

Romans 8:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Oh, what a blessed thing it is to walk, freely, “not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” even though, all the while, there is, within the soul, this strife that the apostle has been describing! This exposition consisted of readings...

Romans 8:4

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Mark, again, how Paul brings us to this as the great evidence of our being in Christ Jesus,-the not walking after the flesh. Now, every man, as he is born into the world, left to himself, is sure to “walk after the flesh.” It is only the...

Romans 8:5-7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: That mind with which we are all born is enmity against God, and however much refined or...

Romans 8:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Those in whom there is a new life begotten by the Holy Ghost — these mind the things of the Spirit. Each nature seeks its own things, — the flesh seeks the things of the flesh, the spirit seeks the things of the Spirit. Judge ye, my hearers, to which case ye belong by this test, — for...

Romans 8:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; They care for nothing else: they are satisfied so long as their appetites are gratified. They are of this world, and the things of this world fill them to the brim. Rom_8:5. But they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Spiritual joys, spiritual hopes, spiritual...

Romans 8:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; They live to eat and drink. They live for self-aggrandizement. They live for the world and its pleasures alone. It is according to their nature. Everything acts according to its nature. The wolf devours; the sheep patiently feeds. They that are after the flesh do mind the things of...

Romans 8:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; Flesh cares for flesh. The man who is all body cares only for the body. The man, whose mind is under subjection to his body, minds “the things of the flesh.” Rom_8:5. But they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Where the Holy Ghost is Supreme where the spiritual...

Romans 8:5-6

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Oh! what a death it is to us if ever the flesh gets the mastery; and if it had the mastery in us, we should know that we were in death...

Romans 8:5

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Everything according to its nature. Water will rise as high as its source, but it will not naturally flow any higher. The great thing, then, is to be brought under the dominion of the Holy Spirit, and of that new nature...

Romans 8:6-7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. The old nature never will obey the law of God; it never can do so. What then is to be done with it? Improve it? Nay, my brethren, the only thing to be...

Romans 8:6

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For to be carnally minded— To be fleshly minded Rom_8:6. is death; That is what it comes to, for the flesh comes to death at last; and, after death, it goes to corruption. If we live after that carnal fashion, this will be the end of our living: “death.” Rom_8:6. But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. For the spirit will never die, and...

Romans 8:6-7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. It is so deeply vitiated, so thoroughly depraved, that so long as the fleshly mind exists, it will be in rebellion against God. “Ye must be born again,”...

Romans 8:6-7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. As long as a man lives only for this present evil world, lives for self, lives under the domination of the flesh, he cannot really know God, or truly...

Romans 8:6

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For to be carnally minded To have the mind of the flesh. Rom_8:6. Is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Flesh must die. Its tendency is to corruption; but the spirit never dies. Its tendency, its instinct, is growth, advance, immortality.

Romans 8:7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. The opponents of the free-grace gospel, which it is our delight to preach, assert that men can be saved, if they will, and that men most certainly can repent, and can believe, and can come to God of their own free will, and that it is not through any defect in any powers that they...