TG Mortality 15 - Romans 8:11

Romans 8 again reminds us that the choice our unaided efforts to be good are doomed to failure without the atonement

"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:  That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walked not after the flesh, but after the spirit." v. 3-4

The trick is to yield to the enticings of the spirit and be transformed (Mosiah 3:19).

Again the implication is that there is a daily choice before us -

"walk after the flesh"                         "walk...after the spirit" (v. 1, 4)
"law of sin and death"                       "law of the spirit if life in Christ Jesus" (v. 2)
"they which are after the flesh"         "they that are after the Spirit" (v. 5)
"mind the things of the flesh"            "mind the things of the Spirit" (v. 5)
"carnally minded"                              "spiritually minded" (v. 6)
"death"                                               "life and peace" (v. 6)
"in the flesh"                                      "in the spirit" (v. 7-9)
"have not the Spirit of Christ"           "the Spirit of God dwell in you" (v. 9)
"debtors to the flesh"                         "through the Spirit"
"live after the flesh"                          "mortify the deeds of the body"
"die"                                                   "live" (v. 12 -13)
"the spirit of bondage again to fear"  "the spirit of adoption by which we cry Father" (v. 15).

And what is the conclusion?

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God." (v. 14)