Kaatcya (11 Jan 2013)
"To Charles re "Romans""



Just wanted to share some synchronicity today.  I was prompted to check out Abingdon Bible Commentary from the local library and have been reading the commentary on Romans these last few days, just finishing it today.  Then I decided to read today's five doves posts and received the reminder about things of the spirit are life and peace.  It is all about Jesus and what He did that we are alive now, having our conversation/citizenship in the heavenlies, awaiting the redemption of our bodies! It is all about the spiritual.

From the Commentary:  on Romans 8. 1-11, at page 1153a, in the section titled "The Supremacy of the Spiritual Over the Material": "Christians have their being on the plane of spirit; in this sense they are 'spiritual' (v.9). The new life which was due to faith in Christ, a participation in his spiritual life, was a life no longer on the material, but on the spiritual plane, and was guaranteed by the fact that the Spirit of God made his abode in the believer."  So, no wonder your mind goes to Jesus!

Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.