Paul unpacks what it means to live as those adopted as God's children who are being conformed to the image of God and glorified while living in a world groaning and waiting for the children of God to be revealed.

Jesus creates a new humanity; a people liberated from sin and death by God's Spirit who gives life to our bodies so that Jesus' prayers become our prayers as his way of life becomes our way of life.

There's a minute missing from the start of the sermon that was an amusing retelling of scenarios from the Adam West Batman series from the 1960s. This series is now almost 60 years old.

Just as Christians have died to sin and been made alive in Jesus, those who were under the law have died to the law and been made alive in Jesus, so that we all now have God dwelling in us by his Spirit to bring new life as we fight sin.

In the words of Bob Dylan, you've gotta serve somebody. It might be the devil, or it might be the Lord. In Romans, Paul makes a pretty compelling case for worshipping and serving Jesus and finding life in him, rather than slavery to sin and death.

Have you ever thought about dying?

What about living? The Gospel is the story that gives us hope that will not put us to shame; hope of eternal life.

We're invited to join God's family through the faith of Jesus, by putting our faith in Jesus; we bring nothing to the table as we receive his life in us; which liberates us from self-righteousness and self-justification (and from judging others).

Paul keeps building a picture he'll use to address an issue tearing apart the church in Rome by pointing to the big truth that all humans are sinful — and caught in systems and cultures built on idolatry — so facing death without a saving act from God. We consider how a passage designed to stop Christians judging one another (and those outside the church) has been weaponised as a "clobber passage".

Paul writes the letter of Romans to a real church facing real issues that are at risk of destroying the unifying work of the Gospel. Paul offers a vision for the transforming power of God — the Gospel — to address this issue.

Ryan unpacks Psalm 73 considering envy and right desires.

John encourages us to share the Gospel not because of the results it will produce in others, but because of the results faithfully sharing our faith produces in us as God makes us more like Jesus.