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Romans 8:12-14 - Living in Christ Defeats the Sinful Nature! [addendum]

Romans 8:12-14 - Living in Christ Defeats the Sinful Nature! 
[addendum] 

Romans 8:12-14 (TNIV) So then, my friends, we have an 
obligation, but it is not to live as our human nature wants us to. 13 For if 
you live according to your human nature, you are going to die; but 
if by the Spirit you put to death your sinful actions, you will 
live. 14 Those who are led by God's Spirit are God's children. 

Romans 8:12-14 (NLT) Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you 
have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. 13 
For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the 
power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, 
you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are 
children of God.  

Romans 8:12-14 (AMP) So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not 
to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live 
[a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the 
flesh. 13 For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you 
will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you 
are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the 
[evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] 
live forever. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of 
God.  

Romans 8:12-14 (CWR) Therefore, my brothers, we are not under 
obligation to our sinful human nature, to do what it tells us to do. 13 If 
you do, you will die. But if by the power of the Holy Spirit, you 
stop giving in to your sinful selves and doing the wicked things 
you're doing, you will live. 14 Those who are guided by the Spirit of 
God are the sons of God. 

Romans 8:12-14 (MSG) So don't you see that we don't owe this old 
do-it-yourself life one red cent. 13 There's nothing in it for us, nothing at 
all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with 
your new life. 14 God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and 
places to go!  

Romans 8:12-14 (TLB) So, dear brothers, you have no obligations 
whatever to your old sinful nature to do what it begs you to do. 13 For 
if you keep on following it you are lost and will perish, but if 
through the power of the Holy Spirit you crush it and its evil deeds, 
you shall live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons 
of God.  

CONTEXT

Life Through the Spirit: Romans 8:1-17.

APPLICATION COMMENTARY With Emphasis On Verses 12-14:

As God's creatures, we are all debtors to him: to obey him with 
all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken his 
commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to his justice, and we owe to him 
a vast amount which we are not able to pay. But of the Christian 
it can be said that he does not owe God's justice anything, for 
Christ has paid the debt his people owed; for this reason the believer 
owes the more to love. I am a debtor to God's grace and forgiving 
mercy; but I am no debtor to his justice, for he will never accuse me 
of a debt already paid. Christ said, "It is finished!" and by that 
he meant, that whatever his people owed was wiped away for ever 
from the book of remembrance. Christ, to the uttermost, has satisfied 
divine justice; the account is settled; the handwriting is nailed to 
the cross; the receipt is given, and we are debtors to God's justice 
no longer. But then, because we are not debtors to our Lord in that 
sense, we become ten times more debtors to God than we should have been 
otherwise. Christian, pause and ponder for a moment. What a debtor thou art 
to divine sovereignty! How much thou owest to his disinterested 
love, for he gave his own Son that he might die for thee. Consider how 
much you owe to his forgiving grace, that after ten thousand affronts 
he loves you as infinitely as ever. Consider what you owe to his 
power; how he has raised you from your death in sin; how he has 
preserved your spiritual life; how he has kept you from falling; and how, 
though a thousand enemies have beset your path, you have been able to 
hold on your way. Consider what you owe to his immutability. Though 
you have changed a thousand times, he has not changed once. Thou art 
as deep in debt as thou canst be to every attribute of God. To God 
thou owest thyself, and all thou hast--yield thyself as a living 
sacrifice, it is but thy reasonable service. [Morning and Evening by 
Charles H. Spurgeon] 

What I say is this: let the Spirit direct your lives, and you 
will not satisfy the desires of the human nature. Galatians 5:16 
(TNIV) 

Let the Holy Spirit direct your lives and you won't care about 
satisfying the desires of your sinful nature. Galatians 5:16 (CWR)   

LINKS WORTH CHECKING OUT:

Grace Notes:
http://www.e-gracenotes.org/index.php

A Better Way to Live:
http://www.itiswritten.com/betterway/

Excellent Spiritual Resource Site:
http://www.christianlifemediacenter.com/

More Spiritual Resources:
http://www.aBible.com