In this sermon from Romans 8, Dan talks about taking on the nature that ruled the life of Jesus. That nature produces freedom and releases believers from the prison created by pride. But, when God places that nature into us, does it come with expectations?

“The knowledge of our own poverty is what brings us to the proper place where Jesus Christ accomplishes His work.”

“The redemption means that Jesus Christ can place within anyone the same nature that ruled His own life, and all the standards God gives us are based on that nature.”

Oswald Chambers

Romans 8:18-21 (NIV)

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.