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            A debtor (1)       [Romans 8:12-17]     What do you think of when you hear the word “debtor”?   When we think of a “debtor,” we can usually think of a person who has borrowed money and is in a position to pay it back.   As an example, we can take Matthew 18:24.   When a king was accounting with his servants, one “debtor” of ten thousand talents (v. 24) had nothing to pay (v. 25), so he fell on his knees and bowed before the king and said, ‘Be patient with me and I will pay you back everything’ (v. 26).   Then the master of the servant had compassion on him and let him go and forgave the debt (v. 27).   But the servant whose debt of ten thousand talents was forgiven met another servant who owed him a hundred denarius and grabbed him and began to choke him and said “Pay back what you own me! (v. 28).   His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, “Be patient with me, and...

We are under obligation         [Romans 8:12-13]                      Look at Romans 8:12-13: “So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh-- for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.”   The Bible says that we are under obligation (v. 12).   All mankind is under obligation.   People of the past, people of the present, and people of the future are all under obligation.   It is one of two things: one who is under obligation to the body or one who is under obligation to the Spirit.   All descendants of Adam are under obligation to the flesh.   We too were under obligation to the flesh until we were born again by God (before we were regenerated) (1 Jn. 5:1, 4).   How do those who are under ...