Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4140 In Romans 8:15 Paul tells believers that they have not received a spirit of slavery leading back into fear, but the Spirit of adoption by whom they cry, Abba, Father. The phrase Spirit of adoption describes the Holy Spirit in His work of bringing the believer into the family of God and making…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4139 Romans 8:26 contains one of the most tender promises in all of Scripture, that when we do not know what to pray, the Spirit intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. The groaning of the Spirit is not a sign of divine weakness but a picture of the depth of His…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4138 When Paul writes in Romans 8:16 that the Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, he is describing one of the deepest comforts available to the believer. The assurance that we belong to God is not left to our own fluctuating feelings or to our uneven performance. The…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 04122 When Paul speaks of the law of the Spirit of life in Romans 8, he is describing the new governing principle that takes hold of a person who is in Jesus, the inward rule of the Holy Spirit that frees the believer from the old tyranny of sin and death. The law of…