That we have been saved by grace through faith in Jesus is such amazing news it’s easy for us as Christians to stop right there, and forget that when Jesus left, the Holy Spirit came. In the middle chapters of Romans the Apostle Paul throws some light for us on the purpose and work of the Holy Spirit in the Christian life — to empower the Christian life for godly living. God never meant for us to finish in the flesh what He began by the Spirit (Galatians 3:3). We are not meant to live in Romans 7 despair when Romans 8 victory is available to us by the Holy Spirit.