Witness of the Spirit — Leonard Ravenhill

Romans 8 as the Pinnacle of Biblical Revelation

The epistle of Paul to the Romans and the eighth chapter Romans and chapter 8 you may or may not remember that I know you Weren't living then seventeen hundred and seventeen hundred and seventy-two a man by the name of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Was born he became one of the outstanding critics of the day.

Later not when he was born, but later. And he wrote a lot of things. One thing that is outstanding of his writings was a thing called the ancient mariner. And it was a claimed and this claim He was born in when 1772 died in 1834, but he said this epistle of Paul to the Romans.

In his opinion of course one man's opinion isn't everything he said this is the most sublime thing that was ever written. It's amazing epistle. When I first came to America my first trip in 1950 There was a book critic by the name of Wilbur Smith a Very outstanding almost a genius.

He had a private library of 25 ,000 books. I think I'd like that number too. Well. He said if this is the most sublime book That has ever been written. The epistle to the Romans that is the eighth chapter Is very peak of all the revelation and it is the most sublime part of the most sublime book in the 1800s there was a hymn written Eternal light eternal light how pure the soul must be.

There's a phrase in that hymn that always sticks with me. The writer speaks of the Holy Spirit's energies the Holy Spirit's energy. It was he who moved over chaos in the beginning you remember and out of it brought cosmos or order.

It was he who moved over men. Some that climbed one climbed the sycamore tree. Amos was a herdsman. David was a king. These strange characters different characters were all inspired by the Holy Spirit of God and Be in these days when there's some disregard for the Old Testament.

I want to remind you again that all that's a LL Scripture is given by inspiration of God. And even in this day, it's profitable to us. The energy of the Holy Ghost breathes all through Romans as far as I'm concerned.

In fact, there are 26 references to the Holy Spirit in the epistle of Paul to the Romans. And if I remember 18 of them are in this very chapter, I remind you before that Romans 7 is a funeral March. Romans 8 is a wedding March.

From Romans 7’s Bondage to Romans 8’s Freedom

I Think if Paul had known it after he wrote Romans 7, he would have sung out of my bonded sorrow and night Jesus I come that's a great hymn. Out of my sickness into thy health out of my poverty into thy wealth out of my sin and into thyself Jesus I come.

God had to continually remind the children of Israel. Remember thou was the bondsman. Never forget. I'll be ashamed of your birthplace. I don't care if you're born in a gutter. So don't get if you're born of a harlot you have life.

Can't be made as much as science tries it can destroy it. In fact, it's making another now to roast us all in it can't just decide what temperature but we're trying to beat the Russians of it. But life is the most precious thing.

Romans 7 full of darkness and death. I'll say this and repent afterwards, but I Sometimes think that many of the modern preachers are devil's advocates. I heard the greatest holiness preacher greatest expository in the world 50 60 years ago 50 years ago and He gave a classic sermon on holiness.

Many finished and said now look I'm not preaching sinless perfection. But you know in our day we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness. That's a great weakness of the church today. He finished up by saying but remember with all his amazing comprehension of God the Apostle Paul finished up saying all right.

You know, that's a lie from hell. He did not finish there. There happens to be another chapter after Romans 7 and it's called Romans 8 to me. The Apostle Paul is the best example of his own theology. Every preacher should be that a man with an experience.

This is not mine. It's good enough to be mine, but it isn't mine. A Man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. I had to jump out of a burning hotel in Chicago in 1952 you you'll be amazed at the advice I got afterwards how I should have done it.

I Should have jumped and tippled the head over heels coming down. All the council I got after I've gone through that horrible experience I Said I suppose I should have sat down and said hey fire department.

Wait, I'm drawing a plan out to get out of this place. I haven't have some experience. I don't want to repeat it don't to tell you about it either. But you see this man's life breathes everything he preached.

He dares to say what few men dare to say. What things he As followers of readers of my testimony what things you have seen and heard in me doing the God of peace be with you. Ask your preacher on Sunday dare.

He say that There he said to you go where I go read what I read do what I read. Following my footprints and when you get to the literacy, I'll be accountable for the way you've trod because you followed me.

Reading Romans Closely and Meditating on Scripture

You know when you read this chapter first of all, they say it's chapter. There's nothing Tremendously exciting about it. I think It doesn't give you any goose lumps or whatever you want to call turkey pimples or anything else.

It seems very plain at first. But Dr. Sangster Westminster very marvelous man used to say brother Raven here. We need to be close readers of the New Testament. It didn't mean read it closely like this, you know, you may get down and don't skip it.

Don't get through it quickly meditate on it. It's a lost art. The psalmist says I will meditate in my precepts meditation contemplation. Brings revelation. Look how he begins. Yes, he's finished there.

Verse 24 of the previous chapter a wretched man that I am who should deliver me from this death the law can't do it. But he answers in the next verse. I thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh the law of sin.

What does he mean? He's sinning. No, he says I am my body this body of mine is going to serve the law of sin, which is death. If man hadn't of sin there would have been no death. But he says this body most likely will serve the law of death of sin and of death.

He says there is therefore now no condemnation the key verse. Let me jump to it is down here in two verses verse 15 and verse 16. We have not received the spirit of bondage again unto fear that you've received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry father.

That's what it really is father father. That the eternal God who sits on a throne the high and lofty one who inhabited eternity is my father. We reminded ourselves of this last week. Abraham never called him father.

Nor did Isaiah nor did the outstanding prophets of the Old Testament but we are permitted by the grace and mercy of God because we being God was contracted to a span an incomprehensibly made man. The heavens of heavens cannot contain and yet he's packed into the womb of a virgin.

How do you explain it? You can't. Anymore than you can explain how eternal life was put to death on the cross. There is therefore now no condemnation. Condemnation, let me go back. I'm sorry verse 15.

You've not received the spirit of bondage again. But the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba father or father father the spirit itself. That's a terrible translation. The spirit isn't it. It's him.

He's a person. Now I remind you again that the Trinity is not composed in this way the father the son and the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit Is not not a junior partner in the Godhead. He's equal with the father equal with the son.

Every mass that let me say this the Holy Spirit is totally incapable of doing anything small. You say but well my salvation wasn't dramatic. I've never been a prostitute. I've never been a thief and come on.

It took the mercy of God the blood of Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost to redeem you and regenerate you. You're the product of the triune God. It didn't happen just because you know down and said I'm a lousy rotten sinner and I deserve hell.

No no no. Agencies had been working before ever you could say that. It used to be years ago. And yes years ago years ago preachers used to be preach about prevenient grace, you know that means. It means all the times God interfered in your life when you're ready to slip into hell and he rescued you like that.

When you're going to do a somersault into destruction and there came an unseen hand and unseen power and restrained you. It might have been called fear. Might have been some other thing but prevenient grace was there.

You did not make the first move to God. He made the first move to you. The spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit. Notice that yeah, I might you might say to me. Did you see Sonny James in the meeting?

Say yeah, no, I didn't. I saw the shell he lives in. Nobody's ever seen him not even his wife. Which may be good, but anyhow. All I've seen is the house in which you live. You Are a spirit. God in that God is a spirit and as an old hymn says spirit to spirit thou dost speak.

You've not received the spirit of bondage. The spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit not our emotions not our thinking not our intellect. I Am a spirit capable only of being touched by God on the level of the spirit.

You can put my body to death. You can't put my spirit to death. The spirit bears witness. How does he spare witness? Bear witness. Well, this first verse said there is therefore now no condemnation. Well, if you were Methodist, I'd have you sing that great old hymn of Charles Wesley's and can it be that I should go?

How many of you know that? Wonderful. What a pity it is in our book. These Baptists are only 200 years behind. They'll catch up some of these days. Don't frown on me now. Because I've got the advantage I can point you out see.

The Witness of the Spirit and Freedom from Condemnation

But that's when Wesley wrote that and can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior's blood. Died he for me who caused his pain for me who him to death pursued. Amazing love. How can it be that thou my God shouldst die for me.

The second standard says no condemnation though I dread. You see I never have joy bows or much excitement in it. Well, that's not the point. I remember slipping into a meeting after I preached at a meeting in Ireland.

I went in and As I went in the schoolmaster of the district very fine Christian was there and he waved. I said hi. When the altar call was given his daughter a very bright 15 year old rosy cheek blue-eyed Irish girl.

Went down to the altar. He said would you please help my daughter when she comes back? I will if I can. She went up to the altar last week when this man called. Oh. So when she came up I said come on, let's go here.

Your daddy wants me to talk with you. What happened tonight. Tell me this what happened last week. You went up to the altar last week why. I was tormented with guilt. I was weighed down with condemnation.

I was haunted with memories. What happened? Well, I went to the front. They told me what to do and what happened. Nothing. I got up in the morning. I was just the same felt my guilt. First I disappointed God.

She went down the list again, well, then I said what happened tonight. He said well, I just went up to the front and I said the same thing again. What happened. Nothing, are you sure. Well, I don't feel any excitement.

We used to sing a hymn. You shall have the joy bells ringing in your heart. No joy bells ringing in my heart. He said. But that's not the point. What's the point? You said that when you went up to that altar last week and this week you were bored down with Condemnation and guilt and haunted with memories afraid of exposure.

What your daddy and mummy would think. Did you really pray sincerely God be merciful to me a sinner? Did you really say I believe Jesus died for my sins even mine as John Wesley said? He prayed that at a quarter time on the 24th of May 1738 he said I believe that that moment self-righteous man brilliant scholar in a Impeccable morality.

I believe that that moment I passed from death unto life. His brother to other colossal intellect his brother to is not standing teacher, and he wrote this book. Remember he has no hideous crime record.

He never polluted some woman's life. He never stole it was impeccable in his morality. But he wrote this lovely verse again in the same him and can it be that I should gain. And he says no condemnation is a second stanza, and then he says Long long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin, and here's a man you can put your finger on him.

You couldn't fault him in anything in his life. He was a perfect scholar a perfect gentleman a man of unclouded Revelation of God as far as he knew. But there came a moment when he said. Along my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night thine eye diffused a quickening ray.

I woke the dungeon flame with like my chains fell off. What change. Not change of depravity in the sense. We think the change of fear. The change of false religion. The change change of false teaching.

That I said to that girl. Well just wait a minute. Please don't run away. You said last week that you felt condemnation lassing you conscience was burning in you fear was on you. Yeah, I felt a bigger criminal as anybody on God's.

Do you feel it now a little face it. No Mr.. Radio, I don't feel guilty. I don't feel lash with guilt. I Don't feel a burden crushing me. Well like you've got the witness of the spirit why. Because if he doesn't witness with condemnation he witnesses with joy.

He witnesses with peace. You don't need much witness of the spirit if you're bells battling in your ear all day do. But sometimes when the enemy comes, but you know they're deep down in your heart that there is no condemnation.

No condemnation. Now I dread look at verse 34. I like the who. Excuse me. I thought you're talking to me there, okay? 9 verse 33. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect. It is God that justified always he that condemneth.

It is Christ that died. Who is even at the right hand of God the father making intercession verse 35 who shall separate us from it? Just as I says come on. Oh come on. Where are you come on bring your condemnation?

No condemnation. Now I dread. Why not. Who is he that condemneth. It is Christ that died. Can anybody contest whether they're men or demons or theologians. Can you contest the substitution of a death of Jesus Christ?

It is Christ that died who is at the right hand of the father. Making intercession or supplication. Can anybody contest his supplication? He's at the right hand of God. Can anybody contest his sovereignty.

He is wrong. The power of sin. Nobody can contest him. He made one perfect offering once at the end of the age when billions of sins Were on him. I tried to preach a couple of weeks ago about the contrast between The Christ on the back of a donkey going down the streets of Jerusalem with the two or three thousand people scorning ridiculing.

No doubt the Romans used to see an emperor go down the road with his slaves or his captives chained to the wheel of it. Here's a man on a donkey. Good night. Is he starting a kingdom? The church has made a lot of that on Palm Sunday.

But we've made very little of the man on the donkey when he comes on a white horse charging through the skies. When without saying a word he faces 200 million people. He has no sword in his right hand because he had seven stars.

And yet what is in the ninth of Revelation right after the marriage. So if you get the bloodiest battle that's ever been the battle of Armageddon. Blood is going to flow. It's from the ground up to the bridles of the horses and it's 200 miles in length.

You talk about a holocaust. That's a super super super holocaust. Jesus Christ with authority and power we've lost sight of that. Do you know why we're not impressing the world because our God is too small and the church is too paralyzed.

They're not concerned to go to art galleries and see what Rubens or Raphael or somebody else painted three centuries ago. And now they'll pit the picture sell for ten million dollars. How can you have a dead service if a living Christ is in it?

Come on. I Get angry when young people say our church is about as exciting as a Tupperware party. Well join Amway. Here he is the Christ of God. His substitution cannot be contested. His supplication cannot be contested.

His sovereignty cannot be contested. Isaac Watts among his great hymns wrote one. Jesus shall reign wherever the sun doth. Its successive journeys run his kingdom stretch from shore to shore. Till moon shall waxen when no man no more.

Blessings abound where he reigns. The prisoner leaps to lose his chains. The weary find eternal rest and all the sons We want are blessed. Where he displays his healing power death and the curse are known no more.

In him the tribes of Adam bore small blessings on their fathers. Or know that a people have gone to graves today. Never heard the name of Jesus Christ two thousand years after he was here on earth. I'm haunted by the five almost five billion at least in excess of four billion people that never heard the name of Jesus yet.

They look like most likely to hear the name of rock and roll stars and hear the name of Jesus Christ. Chapter 8 again verse 1 there is therefore now no condemnation and Not one of you can even squeak a hallelujah for that.

What a miserable crowd. When we went to the Methodist Church, I used to love to watch an old man I wasn't too old sitting across here across the island big hefty guy. He had a very great job. He was a garbage collector.

But you know what he'd been rescued from the verge of hell. And I felt sorry when we had a strange preacher and they sang him and can it be because he was in for trouble. As soon as they stopped singing the old boy they would raise a hand.

It looks as big as a shovel to me. Put his hand up like this and he'd ball out about ten keys out of order. Long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin and nature's night by night. He fused the quickening right?

I walked the dungeon great flame and he'd get those big happy boy like an earthquake. I got scared when he got there my chains fell off. My heart was three. I rose and I went forth and I followed him and he did.

You know, we think we haven't been saved from much. We didn't have a rotten record a rotten past. Brother, if you knew how many heartbeats away away from eternity when he intercepted you on the road to destruction.

May take eternity to open our eyes. That is there for now for no condemnation. For those of us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Adoption Into God’s Family

That's why it says in verse 15. You've not received the spirit of bondage again unto fear. But we have received the spirit of adoption. How many of you tonight are adopted? I don't mean spiritually. Thank you.

Oh, I got some information there. I Discovered she's now she's in the royal family. She's been adopted her Parents were criminals and the German SS army or something and boy is she embarrassed. She's found out when she was adopted.

We have received the spirit of adoption. Whereby we cry and we were outside the covenant of God. But now we can cry Abra father because he's brought us in. We have some schools in England, they're called public schools.

One of them is called Eton. At Eton you have to get your child's name. It's only a boy's school, of course. Pardon me, but the day your child is born you have to register that child to go to that school.

It's a school for royalty mostly princes rich people those private schools are called public schools. I don't know why. Any more than when you finish a meet a school period you call it the commencement.

How in the world can it be commensurate when it's the end of the thing? Tell me after. But this public school this little boy went to a public school. He always had more money than anybody else. They used to take big boxes.

We call them tuck boxes filled with candy and Fruits and all kinds of stuff. This is a fellow always had enough that when other boys had run out He'd say here here here here give them a quarter give them an apple give them candy.

One day a little boy came up to him and says listen. Yes, you're snobbish. Just because your daddy owns a mill and they owned half of the town. And a chauffeur drive you to school in a Rolls Royce. You know better than we are.

I've got something to tell you too. The man you call daddy isn't your daddy you say that again, I give you a bloody nose. He won't alter it. He's not your daddy. When he got home he dashed straight out of the car went into his daddy's Library that he says come son you're home for Christmas.

Do you know what I've got for you? I've got you the pony you wanted and I've got what's wrong. He said look at me straight. Are you my daddy? What? Are you my father? When the boy got back to school the other little urchin was there to jump on him and he said did you ask your daddy?

Yeah, well, is he a father? No. No, he's not. You're laughing when I told you so you give me a bloody nose. What are you laughing about? Well, he said he took me to the window of the library and he showed me said You see that town over there.

I own about three quarters of it. You know the big castle that you go to in summer well that belongs to me too and that yacht that we sail on that belongs to me, too and Not only that but I've got millions and millions of pounds in the bank.

I've got thousands of acres of land. I am one of the richest men outside of the royal family. You're not my daddy. No. What happened one day when the night when the bombers came to Liverpool your parents were killed and it's literally true they used to go around with trucks or vans after the Air raids and pick up children that were terrified and bleeding and wounded and they didn't know who they belong to and the kids didn't know very often.

Anyhow, he said we went to. They took me to a big home for boys. One day my daddy and mummy he my foster dad if you want they went to that place and said we want a boy. And the matron said well we have 500 500 to choose from.

He said then they reduced it to 15. Then they reduced it to five. And my daddy said let's take five we can afford them. My mother said who can manage them? So they decided not to have anybody but me. They chose me.

My daddy said all that I've told you is all yours. I've changed your name. I've changed your station in life. I've given you more than you could conceive as a little boy and You tell your friend this when you go back to school.

But what else did he say? He told me to tell you that when they wanted a boy. They had 500 to choose from. But when you were born your folk had to have you whether they wanted you or not. Do you think I'm going to be worried what this world says about my simple trusting of Galilean merchant who died for my sins.

And nobody's sure about it. Listen, I've passed from death unto life. He changed my name. He's changed my destiny. He's got a mansion laid up for me. He's got eternal life laid up for me. He's got the most glorious company the world could ever dream up.

I'm gonna be the marriage sufferer of the Lamb and you know what else? I'll have to change my sex. I'm gonna be part of the bride, but there's no sex in soul. There's no sex in soul. Listen, don't waste your sympathy.

I'm the child of a king. I'm belong to a royal priesthood and a holy nation. I can call the maker right now. My dear street wife's garden is gorgeous. I said to her tonight darling You've done a great job.

The roses are gorgeous. They look so wonderful and We have a beautiful plant spread out like this not quite like that. But anyway spread out. It's called Bougainvillea, but there's a lot of it grows over in the Bahamas glorious colors red and bluish tangerine white.

Magnificent. Oh that gun. When I see it, I think of a word of Isaac Watts when he said he made the stars those heavenly flames. He counts their numbers called their names his wisdom is vast and knows no bound.

He put the color in all of them. He shaped all of them and that mighty God The Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace is my God. I Can talk with him on the eye to eye one-to-one level when I want in my closet.

I can turn back the pages of history and all I can say when I turn the back is great is my faithfulness to individuals to colonies of people to nations of people. Great is I. Faithfulness the spirit bears witness not always with joy bells, but with peace and boy.

The Sermon on the Mount and the Way of Peace

I need peace when I need joy bells. It's the most elusive thing in the world. In our last hundred years that have been 1 ,800 peace pacts between the nations and we're further from peace now than we were when we started.

Why there's no answer. Jean-Paul Sartre the great French critic says this the present generation. Thank you. The present generation of people he says we've come to an impasse. For the nations of the world at this given moment of time that brilliant philosopher says there's no way out.

Well there isn't. Why did we wake up to that long ago? It's a problem nobody can solve. Can God solve it? No he can't he has solved it. We've got every answer. We need in the Sermon on the Mount. Because the one basic problem that humanity has is we can't get on with each other.

It's a problem of human relationships man and wife children and parents. Churches fellowships. All except last days, but anyhow. Blessed are the peacemakers now. It's blessed are the pacemakers. Blessed are the meek.

We think it's blessed are the weak. Meekness is the strongest thing. Jesus is the only person ever tried to found a kingdom on meekness. His first call to men was come unto me for I am meek. The main part of his message the Sermon on the Mount is meekness.

Paul writes about the gentleness and meekness of Jesus Christ, but gentleness today means softness and Meekness means weakness, but meekness. Jesus was a meekest man that ever lived but twice he cleansed the temple.

Wouldn't you have gone in a temple the second time after it cleaned it out once? And raised everybody's madness against you, but he did it. That's why when he was on his way to what we called a triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

He was not going to cleanse the temple again. Why didn't they kill him? He was defenseless. Except the other wall of angels round about him nobody could get through. Blessed are the meek. Do you remember there's a record of Moses.

He was the meekest man in all the earth. Mercy needed it with a sister like he had. Maybe that's why the Lord's making you meek. I'll get getting you ready for a wife. Moses the meekest man in all but when he came down from the mountain and they were making a golden cup.

He was angry. He was mad with them. Jesus was the meekest man. Look what a pity we can't get on TV and blast this into the ears of it. You have one of two options right now to submit to the blood of the Lamb.

Always and meet the wrath of the Lamb and there's no creature on earth I'm told which is more fierce than a ram. That has got maddened. It's totally impossible to get all of it and do anything with it.

It can get away from a man or a team of men. Right now God in his sovereignty in his mercy is still giving us some protection. I Don't think it's gonna last long. Within five years we'll have collapses in America.

We never dreamed of. Right now there is a day of mercy a day of grace. God is a God of mercy, but he's angry with the wicked every day. Stick that on your bumper sticker. They'll burn your car. Verse 2 says the Lord the Spirit of life in Christ.

The Law, Sin, and the Spirit of Life

Jesus had made me free free from the law of sin and death. Okay verse 3 for what the law could not doing 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 may be fulfilled not destroyed. He comes and gives me power to keep the law impeccably. Folk are crazy. It's a the Old Testament isn't for today.

Well, that's a fine thing to give the world, isn't it? They want to commit adultery. They want to lie. They want to cheat. Tell him now that the Ten Commandments are obsolete. Forget it. Jesus says I came not to destroy the law but to fulfill.

We have to keep the moral law as long as there are men on earth the ceremonial law is not ours. We don't have to go through all the ritual of ceremonial law. Thank God God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin.

Okay, get that for a minute. God sending his own son. So the son was sent in the likeness of sinful flesh. So the son was seen. First he was sent then he was seen in the likeness of sinful flesh. He was a sent one.

He was a seen one in the likeness of flesh and for sin he was a substitute one. And he condemned sin in the flesh. He was a sinless one. The righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.

Verse 8 of verse 7. The carnal mind is enmity against God. It is subject to the law of God. Neither can it be. Carnality is not subject to the law of God. There's no law of God that will cancel carnality in your life.

He doesn't curb it or Control it. He clenches it. He removes it. The carnal mind is enemy to against God. It is not subject. You can put all the laws you like come on, you know, you drive down the road there I 20.

Does everybody keep the speed limit? Don't blush. I see you're blushing. Well, that's all right. You shouldn't do it. You can legislate you cannot legislate righteousness. In this nation, there was a tremendous try years ago when I was a young man to legislate the drink business prohibition came in.

Did it stop it? Not on your life. It made the Kennedy's multimillionaires. We're told Al Capone was paying a quarter of a million Entithes every week to the Roman Church because he was running the underworld of liquor in Chicago.

You cannot legislate. Carnality the carnal mind is enmity against that's a terrible word. If he's not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Oh, that's an escape a hatch for us, isn't it? They did her in the flesh as long as I'm in this fret, that's not what it says. He's talking about your fleshly nature, which is quoted there in Galatians 5.

The works of the flesh all the horrid things the temper the price all those things if you're in the flesh you cannot please God. Well, that's a breather, isn't it? Till you come to the next verse where it says, but you're not in the flesh.

Now, what do you do? You're not in the flesh. Sin shall not have dominion over you. The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Hath raised me from the dead. He are not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be the spirit of God dwelleth in you.

I tell you this is spirit spirit spirit all the way through 26 times in the book and 18 times in this one chapter. It's the law the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. When Paul says Oh wretched man that I am who should deliver me from the body of this death.

He says I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. I Do not like flying in airplanes. If somebody came to me and said the Lord told me to buy you a Learjet for three million dollars I know he doesn't know the Lord.

Because the Lord knows I don't like planes. But I'm still fascinated when I see a plane with 400 people on and 400 of 800 pieces of baggage. And all the gasoline weight and the thing goes like that. No up it goes.

If I took a piece of paper and let go of it, it won't go up even if I tell it to it would go down a Feather comes on the breeze. It goes up for a minute saying then it goes down. You can talk about depravity as being human gravity if you like.

There's something in us that pulls us down but the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus is good. Why does that jet go on like that. Because it has a greater thrust? You notice I remember once being outside of Chicago Airport there.