RCL reading for Sunday, June 7, 2009:
Excerpt from the New Revised Standard Version
via Oremus (http://bible.oremus.org)
Romans 8:12-17
12 So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh —
13 for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’
16 it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ — if, in fact, we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
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The eighth chapter of Romans ends with the breathtaking hymn to time, space and dimension. Here Paul tells us of the experiential comfirmation of election. When the Holy Ghost dwells within us the Spirit cries out with us when we address God as Abba, Father. This process he calls symmartyrein translated as "bearing witness with." The process extends to the identification involved in suffering with the Lord's passion and resurrection.
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