ks about how those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Morris says that, "Paul is still concerned that those whose interests are earth-bound cut themselves off from fellowship with God and the blessings that followto be wholly involved in this life is to make it impossible to please God, (Morris, 308)." Morris is right here, by what Paul is saying, we have to believe that it is impossible to please God if we revolve our live around ourselves and the world. Morris defines "In the Spirit" as the "means of how a believer lives a bodily life as all people do, but they aren't characterized by it and they don't belong to it". Even though Christians are part of this world because of their sin, they do not have to belong to it. In verse 9, Paul talks about the believers living very close to God and how that is so important in a believer's life. Morris talks about how when anyone is in Christ that their body is not supreme and it is possible to take the words in this passage to mean that their body is dead, completely overcome. Morris gets this from when Paul talks in verse 10 of "Spirit in you" and "Christ in you". Morris then goes on to say "The Spirit in you is impossible without Christ in you". In verse 11, Paul talks about being raised up by Christ through the Spirit. According to Morris, "the Spirit doesn't play a fleeting visit, but has its home in them, (Morris, 310)." The Spirit will come to the believer and raise them up with Christ.In verse 13, Morris takes Paul's words and understands them as, "For Christians, the flesh has no rights, we owe nothing to the flesh. To be indebted to the flesh means to live according to the flesh. This is not an option for believers, (Morris, 311)." Morris is right, Christians don't have any options. They live in the Spirit and that is it. In verse 15, Paul is saying that the Spirit does not make people slaves but sons. Morris made a really good point about how in those days of Paul's preaching, ...
