Reflecting on the fact that before his redemption his flesh was condemned to death by the Law of God, the Apostle Paul made the confession of faith that he was, by believing in Jesus Christ, dead to sin. Before we met the righteousness of God—that is, before we were born again—those of us who believe in Christ used to live under the dominion and curse of the Law. Thus, the Law would have had dominion over us had we not been redeemed of our sins by encountering Jesus Christ, who brought us the righteousness of God.
Paul spoke of spiritual matters that cannot easily be understood in the flesh—that is, those who are dead to sin are no longer under the dominion of sin, just as a woman whose husband has died is completely freed from her obligation to her husband. This passage may sound simple, but it is a spiritually crucial passage. It means that, whether they like it or not, those who have not met the righteousness of God are, as a matter of fact, fated to live under the curse of the Law. This is because they have not yet resolved the problem of their sins.

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Have you ever seen an entangled bundle of yarn? If you attempt to understand this chapter without knowing the truth of Jesus’ baptism in which Paul the Apostle believed, your faith would only be in a greater state of confusion than before.
Paul says in this chapter that because everyone is utterly sinful before the Law of God, one can go to Jesus Christ and be born again only after dying a spiritual death.

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I praise the Lord who has led me to meet you, the precious people of God again. I sincerely thank Him for having blessed me to live a happy life to this day. God has been always with me and had mercy on me, even though there have been times when I felt discouraged, experienced hardships, agony and weaknesses within myself on many different occasions. He has been alive and by my side throughout my life, in both my troubles and joys. There never was an instance when He left me alone, not even for a second.

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I had no power to prevent typhoon “Doug” when I heard about it in the news. All that I could do was pray. This Summer Bible Meeting had already been scheduled, we had already gathered, and there was nothing I could do about it. And I was worried that this chapel might not be strong enough to withstand the typhoon, given the fact that it was built with prefabricated materials. So I couldn’t help but rely on God. I prayed, “Help us God. Protect us. In Jesus’ name I ask, Amen.” And sure enough, God prevented typhoon Doug! I believe God knows everything. He leads us to safety because He understands our situations better than we do.

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How is your life of faith? “The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41). Are you not like this?
The Bible also tells us, “So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” And those are the laws that dominate us. Our hearts are made to love God and to love the truth, but it is only natural for the flesh to serve the law of sin. The Word of God tells us that the heart serves the gospel and His righteousness, while the flesh serves only sin.

All human beings inherited sin from Adam and Eve and became the seeds of sin. We are thus originally born as the offspring of sin and inevitably become sinful beings. All the people in the world cannot help but become sinners due to one ancestor, Adam, though none of them wants to be a sinner.
What is the origin of sin? It is inherited from our parents. We are born with sin in our hearts. This is the inherited nature of sinners. We have 12 kinds of sins that are inherited from Adam and Eve. These sins—adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness—are intrinsic in our hearts from the very time when we are born. The basic nature of man is sin.

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Chapter 8 can perhaps be described as the most important chapter of the Book of Romans. Through the several themes that are present in this chapter, Paul reveals to us just how wondrous the work of the righteousness of God is.
The first theme is: “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1). This means that regardless of how vulgar and degraded we may be in our flesh, the righteousness of God has freed us from all our sins.

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Romans 8:1-4 tells us what kind of faith those who are in Christ have. The secret of this passage is that we can meet, with our faith in the righteousness of God, all the demands of the Law.
What, then, is the faith that believes in the righteousness of God? This is the faith that has received the remission of sins by believing in the baptism of Jesus and His blood, through which our Lord took away all the sins of the world. We can therefore win over sin by believing in Jesus, who has fulfilled all righteousness by pursuing the righteousness of God, as our Savior. This is the faith that follows God’s righteousness and our victory in faith.

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Whether someone is a true Christian or not is distinguished according to whether the Spirit of God dwells within him/her. How can someone be a Christian, whether he/she believes in Jesus or not if he/she does not have the Holy Spirit within his/her heart? Paul tells us that whether we believe in Jesus is not the most important question, but whether we believe in Him having discovered the righteousness of God or not. The true faith required by the saints is the faith that is ready for the Spirit to dwell in them. The presence of the Holy Spirit in you will determine whether you are a Christian or not.

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Overseas mission is effective when done through literature, which is what we are doing right now. We are blessed when we read the Word of God and our faiths grow because we believe in His Word.
People have been suffering for the past five centuries, deceived by such false doctrines as the Doctrine of Incremental Sanctification, the Doctrine of Justification, and others that claim that redemption is possible through prayers of repentance.

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