Sermon Notes
Date: 10/01/2023
Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor
Series: Romans
Key Text: Romans 8:5-11
Description:
What you set your mind on matters.
Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao continues with our study in the book of Romans and preaches that when you go at it on your own — apart from God — you are driven by the flesh. Consequently, your mind is set on the carnal, fleshly aspects of life.
…And lest you think it’s working out, the Bible instructs, it does not end well:
“For the mind set on the flesh is DEATH.…”
But when you live your life transformed by Christ, you can’t help but set your mind above, on the Spirit — which ends very well:
“…For the mind set on the Spirit is LIFE and PEACE.…”
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Questions:
The following are questions to help you think about the sermon, as well as offer a set of discussion questions for family worship, or gathering together in other settings. My prayer is that these questions will allow you to dwell longer, and meditate more, upon God’s holy Word and will be fodder for sanctifying conversations. — M.S.
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How do the justified live? (4-5)
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How do the justified think? (5-6)
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How do the condemned think? (6-8)
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What does it mean that the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God? (7)
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What does it mean that the mind set on the flesh cannot subject itself to the law of God? (7)
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What consequences follow from being “in the flesh” (8)
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What is the believers’s relationship to his sinful nature (or flesh)? (9-12)
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What is the significance of “belonging to Christ”? (9)
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What do you think Paul is saying in verse 10, when he says, “Yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness”?
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How does Jesus dwell in us? (11)
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