The Life Mindset — Andrew Forrest

Romans 8:9-11

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.

Without Christ, people’s minds are enslaved to sin; now, those who are in Christ live according to the Spirit and focus on life and peace. When a person’s mind is enslaved to sin, it is impossible for him to live righteously.

The Good News is that those who trust in Jesus are now living in the Spirit, and their mindset is totally different. The Spirit raised Jesus from death to life, and He does the same thing for Christians now, and though our mortal bodies are heading towards death, the Holy Spirit turns death into life.

“This explains why it is only by being in the Spirit’ (v. 9) and ‘walking according to the Spirit’ (v. 4b) that life and peace can be had and the life that the Spirit gives is by no means ended by the grave, for the presence of the Spirit guarantees that the bodies of believers will be raised from physical death (vv. 10-11).” —Douglas Moo

Walk in the Spirit today.