Calvary Baptist Church - Canyon Texas - David Crump, Pastor

All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you. (Colossians 1:6) Romans 8:1-4 v. 1 Those of us who are in Christ are no longer under any condemnation. v. 2 The power of the Spirit overcame the power of sin and death over me, through Christ Jesus. v. 3 God condemned sin completely and finally through the suffering and death of Jesus for everyone who comes to him. v. 4 What does Paul mean that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us? Christ fulfilled the law for us when he obeyed the law perfectly and died as the perfect sacrifice on our behalf. In him, we are perfect with his perfection and in him we are pardoned in his blood. Romans 5:19 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous. But that is not the point of verse 4. It does not say that the law is to be fulfilled for us. Then Paul focuses specifically on our walking, that is our