CHAPTER FOUR

THE OPERATION AND THE DISPENSING OF THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN THE THREE PARTS OF THE BELIEVERS

OUTLINE AND SCRIPTURE READING

1. Beginning from the believers’ spirit:
   1. By God’s Spirit dwelling in the believers-Rom. 8:9a.
      
      Romans 8:9a
      But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.
   2. The Spirit of Christ, that is, the pneumatic Christ, making home in the believers’ spirit-Rom. 8:9b-10a.
      
      Romans 8:9b-10a
      But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is not of Him. (10a) And if Christ is in you...
   3. That the believers, though dead in their bodies because of sin, may have their spirits become life because of righteousness-Rom. 8:10b.
      
      Romans 8:10b
      ...though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is life because of righteousness.
2. Continuing in the believers’ soul:
   1. By the believers setting the mind of their soul on the spirit-Rom. 8:6b.
      
      Romans 8:6b
      ...but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace.
   2. That the divine dispensing that dwells in the believers’ spirit may spread into the believers’ soul, that their mind may be transformed and their soul renewed-Rom. 12:2b.
      
      Romans 12:2b
      ...be transformed by the renewing of the mind, that you may prove by testing what the will of God is, that which is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
3. Consummated in the believers’ body:
   1. By the Spirit of the One who raised Christ from the dead dwelling in the believers’ spirit and soul-Rom. 8:11a.
      
      Romans 8:11a
      But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from among the dead dwells in you...
   2. That He who raised Christ from the dead may spread His divine dispensing into the believers’ body through His indwelling Spirit-Rom. 8:11b.
      
      Romans 8:11b
      ...He who raised Christ Jesus from among the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.
   3. That the believers’ mortal body may also receive the supply and saturation of the divine life-Rom. 8:11b.
      
      Romans 8:11b
      ...He who raised Christ Jesus from among the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who indwells you.