Study Desk

If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace.

You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God's Spirit, who lives in you. People who don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him.

But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you, even though your bodies must die because of your sins.

If you do, you will die. But you will live, if by the help of God's Spirit you say "No" to your desires.

Meanwhile, creation is confused, but not because it wants to be confused. God made it this way in the hope

The Spirit makes us sure about what we will be in the future. But now we groan silently, while we wait for God to show that we are his children. This means that our bodies will also be set free.

And this hope is what saves us. But if we already have what we hope for, there is no need to keep on hoping.

In certain ways we are weak, but the Spirit is here to help us. For example, when we don't know what to pray for, the Spirit prays for us in ways that cannot be put into words.

God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won't he freely give us everything else?

But, my friend, I ask, "Who do you think you are to question God? Does the clay have the right to ask the potter why he shaped it the way he did?

God wanted to show his anger and reveal his power against everyone who deserved to be destroyed. But instead, he patiently put up with them.

"Once they were told, ‘You are not my people.' But in that very place they will be called children of the living God."

And this is what the prophet Isaiah said about the people of Israel, "The people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand along the beach. But only a few who are left will be saved.

What does all of this mean? It means that the Gentiles were not trying to be acceptable to God, but they found that he would accept them if they had faith.

just as God says in the Scriptures, "Look! I am placing in Zion a stone to make people stumble and fall. But those who have faith in that one will never be disappointed."

I know they love God, but they don't understand

But Christ makes the Law no longer necessary for those who become acceptable to God by faith.

But people whose faith makes them acceptable to God will never ask, "Who will go up to heaven to bring Christ down?"

But am I saying that the people of Israel did not hear? No, I am not! The Scriptures say, "The message was told everywhere on earth. It was announced all over the world."

But the Lord told Elijah, "I still have seven thousand followers who have not worshiped Baal."