{"id":10046,"date":"2022-02-01T06:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-romans-8\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:47:00","slug":"devotional-on-romans-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-romans-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Romans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16014\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16014\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100_3065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16014\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100_3065-1024x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100_3065-1024x642.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100_3065-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100_3065-768x482.jpg 768w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100_3065-1536x963.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/100_3065.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; At Long Beach, WA Thousand Trails &#8211; Cape Disappointment &#8211; on the beach a short walk from the campground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>God\u2019s answer to sin-in-me<\/p>\n<p>Romans 8: With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the answer to a failure filled Christianity? Am I destined to a defense oriented spiritual life? Is my constant excuse, \u201cthe spirit is willing but the body is weak\u201d? The gloom of Romans 7 is blown away by the opening words of Romans 8. Before Christ, Romans 7 was the norm, but it\u2019s the norm no more. In Christ \u201ca new power is in operation\u201d and everything\u2019s changed. When I cry out to God for relief from sin he responds in Christ to defeat sin-in-me once and for all. The blood of Christ is applied to my life to bring about a \u201cdeep healing\u201d and sin-as-a-condition is defeated. Now, a new day dawns in my spiritual life. I\u2019m led \u201cout into the open, into a spacious, free life.\u201d I\u2019ve been \u201cdelivered from that dead life\u201d and the Spirit is now living in me. As a child of God who struggles with sin, I cry out to my Heavenly Father for help. He responds by doing a work in me as \u201cGod\u2019s Spirit touches\u201d my spirit resulting in a deeper relationship with God and a level of spiritual living I never before dreamed possible.<\/p>\n<p>Take Away: In God, there\u2019s wonderful freedom from self and sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God\u2019s answer to sin-in-me Romans 8: With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. What\u2019s the answer to a failure filled Christianity? Am I destined to a defense oriented spiritual life? Is my constant excuse, \u201cthe spirit is willing but the body is weak\u201d? The gloom of Romans 7 is blown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1529,1428],"tags":[1299,494,945,1131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16016,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10046\/revisions\/16016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}