So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.  (9) But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.  Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.  (10) And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  (11) But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to yoir mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

The Apostle Paul wrote the letter to the Christians in Rome.  Chapter 7 of Romans closes describing the struggle within the believers human sinful nature and our desire to please God.  But chapter 7 ends with great thanksgiving that God is sovereign  and in His mercy has given faithful man the gift of righteousness through our Lord Christ Jesus.  Then chapter 8 begins with the assurance that there is no condemnation for the faithful Christian.  Imagine.

We cannot be saved unless God saves us.  There is nothing – no works – that can earn us heaven and the Holy Spirit is the seal and agent of our sanctification.  God never intended us to live our faith by our own efforts and our liberator is the Indwelling Spirit.  ALL the faithful are covered by the perfect sacrifice of Christ Jesus.  We are delivered from the penalty of sin.   In the Spirit we belong to Christ.  The Spirit is life-giving and has power over death – the Spirit was the instrument by which Christ was raised from the dead and through the Spirit life will be given to our mortal bodies.

The Spirit provides us a no condemnenation status which was paid for by Christ’s death  The faithful have life in the Spirit and are enabled to fulfill the regeneration of belief.  In the indwelling Spirit we have gone from death to life; from dark to the light.  Because the Spirit is now in us our nature has been changed and our relationship with God is settled