[WVKayaker]

This article is not going to be popular with the Grace -covers-all crowd!

It is so easy to make a point using isolated quotes from Scripture, but it must be complete within context to supply the proper theme and conversation

Paul complies the thought at the end of Chapter 7, and encapsulates it in the first part of Chapter 8...

Romans 8: 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ...

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Romans 8: 1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” <<

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But of course, one needs to turn to 1John to find the definitive understanding on just who is “in” Yeshua.

John explains that those that have rejected his perfect law are not in him.
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