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Romans 8:11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. There is to be an emancipation even for this poor flesh, a translation and a glory for it yet in Christ.

Romans 8:11-12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quickens your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. We have got nothing good out of the flesh at present, for it is not yet...

Romans 8:11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. The blessing of life is to come to the body too; it shall be immortal by-and-bye, delivered from all the infirmities and sorrows which sin and death have brought...

Romans 8:11

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. So there is coming a time for your body to experience the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body. He does not say that he will give you a new body. Do not...

Romans 8:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. We owe the flesh nothing; I mean the law of sin in our members, we owe nothing to that. It has been a curse and a plague to us; we are not debtors to the flesh, so we must not “live after the flesh.”

Romans 8:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. Certainly not, for we owe the flesh nothing. It keeps us down and hampers us, it is a hindrance to us, but we certainly owe it nothing; so let us not be subservient to it, let us not consult or even consider it, and especially let us never come under its fatal bondage.

Romans 8:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For we owe the flesh nothing by way of gratitude or service. The flesh has dragged us down. The flesh has ruined us. We owe it nothing, except mastery of it. We are not debtors to it, to live after it.

Romans 8:12-13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. It is a live thing, and a quickening thing, for ye shall live.

Romans 8:12

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh What do we owe the old nature? Nothing, surely. Give it a decent burial. Let it be buried with Christ in baptism. Let the Spirit of God come and renew it. But we owe it nothing, and we are not debtors to it.

Romans 8:13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: If you live simply to gratify your ambition, if you live for avarice, if you live to please yourself, if you live for any earthly object which can be comprised under the term “after the flesh,” you will certainly be disappointed, for you will die, and your hope will die with you. Rom_8:13. But if ye...

Romans 8:13-14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God: Oh, high dignity and blessed privilege! As soon as ever we get away from the dominion of the flesh, and come to be led by the Spirit of God, and so become spiritual men, we have the evidence that we are the sons of God, for “God...

Romans 8:13

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: For the flesh is to die. Rom_8:13. But if ye through the Spirit do mortify — Or, kill — Rom_8:13. The deeds of the body, ye shall live. Shall a dying body, then, be my master? Shall the appetite for eating and drinking, or anything else that comes of the flesh, dominate my spirit? God forbid! Let death...

Romans 8:13-14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Your “universal fatherhood” is rubbish. “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God,” and none others. This is the essential to...

Romans 8:14-21

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and...

Romans 8:14

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. You can judge yourself, dear friend, by this test. Do you follow the Spirit’s leading? Do you desire continually that he should be your supreme Guide and Leader? If you are led by the Spirit of God, then you have this highest of all privileges, you are one of the sons of God....