Romans 8 contrasts living by the Spirit vs. the flesh, highlighting freedom from condemnation, hope, and spiritual redemption. Believers endure earthly struggles, anticipating eternal glory.

Shawn's teaching focuses on reaching full potential through biblical principles, emphasizing believers as heirs with Christ, enduring suffering, and pursuing a deeper connection with Jesus for a special "out-resurrection."

Believers are led by the Spirit, showing faith through actions like love and forgiveness. Salvation is by grace, not works, with spiritual growth reflecting God's presence.

Teaching focuses on spiritual growth from infancy to maturity, moving from "milk" to "meat," emphasizing God's influence, adoption as God's children, and deeper understanding.

Spiritual mindset leads to life and peace; carnal focus results in death. Faith and the Spirit's indwelling transform believers, aligning them with God's love and righteousness.

Paul's teachings in Romans 8 focus on living by the Spirit for liberation from sin, contrasting with the Law's limitations. Emphasizes love, spiritual growth, and peace.

Romans 7:14-25 highlights the struggle between flesh and spirit, emphasizing reliance on Christ's grace for deliverance, as believers battle sin despite delighting in God's law.

Paul's message in Romans 7:14-25 highlights the struggle between flesh and spirit, emphasizing the need to die to the Law to live in Christ, with deliverance through Jesus.

Paul uses marriage analogy in Romans 7 to show freedom from old law, emphasizing faith in Christ over legalism. Law reveals sin but isn't sinful; true faith transcends it.

Paul's letter to Romans highlights the Law's insufficiency for peace, advocating faith in Christ for true salvation. Shawn emphasizes love, spiritual fruit, and freedom from legalism.

Paul and Shawn teach that Christians, under grace, are free from sin and law, empowered to live righteously, bear spiritual fruit, and receive eternal life through faith in Christ.

Paul's teaching in Romans 6: Believers, through Christ's death and resurrection, should reject sin, embrace a new self, live righteously, and rely on grace, not perfection.

True spiritual rebirth in Christ involves dying to sin, receiving a new identity, and living fearlessly in love. Baptism symbolizes this transformation, embodying Christ's essence.

Believers are spiritually united with Christ, dead to sin, and empowered to live a new life. Avoid antinomianism; live by the Spirit, not flesh. Embrace new identity.

The teaching emphasizes the universal impact of Christ's atonement, contrasting Adam's sin with Christ's grace, highlighting universal reconciliation but requiring faith for salvation.

Adam's sin brought death; all inherit sin's environment, not his sin. Christ's death offers grace. Federal Headship: Adam's sin, Christ's grace imputed. Jesus brings life.

Romans 5:12: Sin entered through Adam, affecting all; Jesus' justification by faith offers salvation. Emphasizes grace, redemption, and surpassing Adam's sin.

Paul and Shawn emphasize Christ's sacrificial death and reconciliation, urging believers to focus on personal devotion to God, genuine faith, and unconditional love.

Paul's Romans 5:6-8 highlights peace with God, tribulation, and hope, introducing human depravity and Christ's love, forming Reformed Theology's TULIP basis.

Justification by faith in Jesus brings eternal peace with God, unlike worldly peace. This peace fosters patience, character, and hope, empowering believers through trials.