Romans 8:9-11
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
If we have God’s Spirit, Christ’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit living in us, then we are not only His by that act of taking possession of us, but also live in Him because He lives in us. We don’t pursue living for sin because of His righteousness counted to us and our subsequent death to that tyranny of sin raging in us apart from Him. So, if this Spirit who raised Christ is in us, we also are resurrected from death in sin to life in Him. This is only possible by our justification in His righteousness counted to us, sealed by His presence within us. So we are in the Spirit and no longer in the carnal nature we were born in.
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