(St. Paul preaching on the ruins, Giovanni Paolo Pannini, 1744)
This week's scripture reading is Romans 8:1-11:
"Complex as it is, its essential message of this passage remains clear: The Spirit gives life. Paul gave explicit detail of how this came about: God sent His Son Jesus Christ into the world as an ordinary human being. Jesus' God-given mission was to deal with human sin and the alienation from God which sin causes. He did this by living our human life and meeting every requirement of the law.
The Spirit of God which was in Jesus now dwells in us so that we may too may life as He lived in fellowship with God. The power of God that raised Jesus from the dead now gives us spiritual life. Mortal though we still are, the Spirit will ultimately deliver us from spiritual death."
- David Sherman on Midrash
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