23-1-1 Through the Bible with Les Feldick, There is Therefore Now No Condemnation: Romans 8:1-14

Romans 8:1a "There is therefore now no condemnation..." There are a lot of people who claim to be Christians, and I'm not saying they're not. But they can't buy this. They say there is no such thing as this kind of security. You've got to work and you've got to strive and you have to be careful or you're going to lose it. Like I told someone just the other day, "How are you going to know what sin cast you out?" Well, they won't know. So what do they have to do? They have to live a life of perpetual insecurity because no one has the wherewithal to hang on of our own. So I come back to these promises of Scripture: "There is therefore...." Because we've been justified by faith, because Christ has died and been buried and has risen from the dead. Because all of this has been accomplished by an act of God to which we contributed nothing of our own energy. There was nothing in all of that, that we could do in the flesh. It was all the work of God. And that being the case, that we're justified by faith, which is something that is invisible, it's something that you don't work at. So since we're justified by faith, God can come back through this Apostle and say: