We are Not Condemned.

Romans 8 is full of wonderful promises. In the previous chapter, Paul speaks about the war within us of good against evil; how sometimes when we want to do good, we instead do what is wrong. He talks of how we cannot obey the law of God ourselves. But he says that we are not condemned because of this for Jesus can deliver us.

Romans 8:1-6

"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

For what the law could not do (save us), weak as it was through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin. He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God."

Verse 10 - "If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit is alive because of righteousness."

So, although in this life we may sin, Christ's righteousness covers us and saves us. We need only confess our sin and set our minds on things of the Spirit by prayer and Bible study.