Victory over the flesh is not so much about doing, as it is in grasping hold of the one that to saved you and Lean on Him to enable you to win your battles for you. Download free PowerPoint at BibleGuy.org

1. The Spirit Enables Us
Holding the Hand of God
Romans 8:1-17

2. Extreme Change Is Expected In the
Christian Life
The libertine seeks to minimize the change which is
required, wanting to avoid any rules or commands.
They want to speak only of grace and not of
righteousness or God’s Law. They want to continue to
live in sin just as they did as unbelievers. This view is
described and rejected in Romans 6.
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3. Extreme Change Is Expected In the
Christian Life
The legalist wants to burden the convert to Christ with
rules and regulations. He speaks of righteousness
and holiness, but of the kind men define which is
accomplished by human effort and not divine
enablement. Paul discusses this point of view in
Romans 7, showing legalism to be both sinful and
impossible.

4. When The Mind wants to do what is right
the Flesh wants to satisfy itself. The two
clash. What do we do?

5. Romans 7:21–25 (ESV)
21 So I find it to be a law that when I
want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
22 For I delight in the law of God, in my
inner being, 23 but I see in my members
another law waging war against the law
of my mind and making me captive to the
law of sin that dwells in my members.
24 Wretched man that I am! Who will
deliver me from this body of death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ
our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law
of God with my mind, but with my flesh I
serve the law of sin.

6. There is a Better Way!
The battle between the mind (desire for
righteousness) and the flesh (sinful desires) can
only be won through the dependence on, and
enablement by the same Spirit that saved us.

7. Romans 8
• The word “Spirit” is used 22 times in Romans 8,
the theme in the chapter is “Assurance”.
• The chapter starts with “assurance”: “There is
therefore now no condemnation for those who
are in Christ Jesus.”
• The chapter ends with “assurance”: 38 For I am
sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor
rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor
powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else
in all creation, will be able to separate us from
the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

8. YOU CAN WIN THE BATTLE BECAUSE
CHRIST HAS ALREADY WON THE WAR

9. Romans 8:1–17 (ESV)
Victory in our battles begin with assurance of what
Christ has done and why He did it.
8 There is therefore now no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the
Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the
law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the
law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in
order that the righteous requirement of the law
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to
the flesh but according to the Spirit.

10. FREEDOM AND POWER TO LIVE
FOR GOD

11. We have assurance of victory if we set our mind on
what pleases the Spirit rather than on what pleases
the Flesh.
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their
minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live
according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of
the Spirit. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but
to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the
mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does
not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who
are in the flesh cannot please God.

12. Victory lies, not in us, but in the One that we know lives
in us.
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in
fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not
have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if
Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin,
the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of
him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who
raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your
mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

13. Be assured, we owe the Flesh nothing. We owe God
everything. Serve the One you owe.
12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh
you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of
the body, you will live.

14. FREE TO LIVE AS SONS OF GOD

15. We Have Assurance because we are adopted Children.
Live as Children looking forward to an inheritance.
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back
into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as
sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit
himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children
of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and
fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in
order that we may also be glorified with him.

16. Victory over the flesh is not so much about
doing, as it is in grasping hold of the one that to
saved you and Lean on Him to enable you to
win your battles for you.