Bible Studies

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We will continue where we stopped in Part 1.

ROMANS 8:10 is another verse that we should discuss. For one thing, this verse (using the translation of the NASB) speaks of our spirit being alive (having life). I agree, of course, that the spirit of born-again Christians is alive, but I don't believe that is what the apostle was saying here. He was making a much more important point. I discussed this verse (in its context with the surrounding verses) in some detail in my book, "Holiness and Victory Over Sin" and in other writings, but I'll limit the discussion here to the words "yet the spirit is alive" of Rom. 8:10. I'm confident that the King James Version and the New King James Version translate the Greek in the sense that Paul (and the One who sent him) intended: "but the Spirit is life," where the word Spirit refers to the Holy Spirit.

Born-again Christians have life, including in our spirits, by the indwelling Spirit of life (the Holy Spirit). There is no source of life (spiritual life or physical life) but God (the triune God). In Rom. 8:2, for example, Paul speaks of the "Spirit of life" who "has set [us] free from the law [or, governing principle] of sin and of death." Before the Spirit of life came to dwell in us through the Lord Jesus and His atoning death, we were spiritually dead, and we were slaves of sin; we were separated from God and without the Spirit of life, righteousness, and holiness. In Rom. 5:21, the apostle spoke of the fact that after the rebellion of Adam "sin reigned in death

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