Oakwood Church

“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, 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.”
Romans 8:3-4

Justification - You are declared righteous in Christ

Sanctification - You are becoming righteous through Christ

How to Fulfill All Righteousness:

1. Find your Identity in Christ

“Fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh…”
Romans 8:4-5

How to Fulfill All Righteousness:

1. Find your Identity in Christ

“You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit… Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ is not his.”
Romans 8:9

Our New Identity in Christ:

● “I am forgiven.”

● “I am a child of God.”

● “I am His masterpiece.”

● “I am secure forever.”

How to Fulfill All Righteousness:

1. Find your Identity in Christ

“If in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you… If Christ is in you… the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you…”
Romans 8:9-11

How to Fulfill All Righteousness:

2. Focus on the Spirit who is in you

“Those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.”
Romans 8:5

“Those who live according to the flesh have 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. For to set the mind of the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.” Romans 8:5-6

How to Fulfill All Righteousness:

3. Fight against the Flesh which clings to you

“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.”
Romans 8:7

How to Fulfill All Righteousness:

3. Fight against the Flesh which clings to you

“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.”
Romans 8:12-13

“We need to be intimately acquainted with the ways, wiles, methods, advantages, and occasions which give sin (lust) its success. This is how men deal with their enemies. They search out their plans, ponder their goals, and consider how, and by what means they have prevailed over them in the past. Then they can be defeated.”
~ John Owen, The Mortification of Sin

“One of the… most important parts of spiritual wisdom is to find out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin; to consider where its greatest strength lies – how it uses occasions, opportunities, and temptations to gain advantage. We need to find out its pleas, pretenses and reasonings, and see what its strategies, disguises and excuses are! We need to… trace this serpent in all of its turning and windings, and to bring its most secret tricks out into the open. We must learn to say – ‘this is your usual method; I know what you are up to.”
~ John Owen, The Mortification of Sin

“The first thing in mortification is the weakening of this habit…This is called ‘crucifying the flesh and the lusts thereof (Galatians 5:24); that is, taking away its blood and spirits that give it strength and power… Sin …is fastened to the cross… that… the power of sin [be] weakened and abolished by little and little.”
~ John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation

How to Fulfill All Righteousness:

3. Fight against the Flesh which clings to you

“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.”
Romans 8:12-13