Breathe: Commanded By Spirit & Love That Is Life-Giving Rome 13 **Love Fulfills The Law** **8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.** **Sour****ce** https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%2013&version=NIV **Romans 12: Love in Action** **9: Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.** *Even the national duties if done out of love and not of stricter laws, will the situations be smoothly & abiding.* When we were still obeying our carnality, though we thought it was "love", it was a lie, desiring only from our flesh, because loving ourselves from God's point of view that extend to our neighbors will open our conscience to not covet what belong to theirs, using any rituals against the Lord's way such as sorceries and the other flesh works/desires listed below: "Romans 13:12 So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. **13** Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in **carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy**. **14** Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh." If copying Adam was possible in the first creations, copying Jesus is more and perfectly possible now as we open our hearts, wholeheartedly and let Him walk with our personal journey spiritually. An open heart is a river of flowing, never-ending water from above. True or agape love is life-giving because it's the breathe, air, Spirit from the Father.
There are two types of commands I've noticed in Romans 8. *I don't have a full data about the laws before but they say that some were stricter that it's no longer healthy and just for the show to be called "holy" without touching the inner man or hearts of the followers or fulfillers.* *No one was able to fulfill it perfectly from Adam, except Jesus.* The first is the commands of the Spirit in Christ that gives us fuller life. (The Cristo seed) The second commands or laws is of the flesh. (As I can see was the Adamic and the misdeeds of the body) But the two are sides that I guess we can't leave untouched since we were first born fleshy, thanks to the grace of the Lord for giving us redemption through the Spirit. Dying in one means living again in another. Living in one means being unconscious in another. We just have to choose which side to live as one leads to death and one leads to fuller life. **Romans 8 Life Through the Spirit** **8** Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, **2** because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. **3** For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, **4** in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. **5** Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. **6** The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. **7** The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. **8** Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. **9** You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. **10** But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. **11** And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you. **12** Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. **13** For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; **but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live**. **14** For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. **15** The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, *“Abba,* Father.” **16** The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. **17** Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
**Present Suffering and Future Glory** **18** I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. **19** For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. **20** For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope **21** that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. **22** We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. **23** Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. Those who are lead by the Holy Spirit in their hearts, whole of it not just half will have their bodies redeemed as well. As a new creation lead by the Holy One, the commands of the Spirit we obey as we realized how our Father from above gave us His maturing love. This is life and breathe in the Spirit. **Here's cheering on you being unboxed from the flesh, misdeed of your generational DNAs and unwilling hearts and rebirth in the Spirit of the Cristo,** SuperJulalaine 💜 Thank you super readers and sponsors. Subscribe, like if you will. *Free Images from Unsplash.*
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