HE CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3)

“He condemned sin in the flesh.” Amen. The work God did in sending His Son is forever God glorifying. Why is this the case? If we look at the text above, it says that God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. The same law God established through Moses years ago, could not be fully obeyed. God's law shows that we are in trouble with Him and that we are held accountable to Him. God's law also shows that we are under sin (Rom 3:9, 19, 20). So what did God do? He sent His Son in human flesh (the likeness of sinful flesh; without sin). Jesus fully obeyed the law. In every way of the law (the heart of the law), Jesus fulfilled it. This text seems to go straight to the Cross, “He condemned sin in the flesh.” At the Cross of Jesus, God condemned sin in every way through the righteous Person of Jesus. What we could not do, Jesus did. The penalty for sin that we could not pay, Jesus paid, in every way. And as the text shows, God was the orchestrator of it all, for His glory and our joy. There is true joy in honoring Him through the Grace that He offers in and through His Son. This Grace given by God through Jesus should show that there is true freedom in Honoring Him in every way because of this Good and Powerful News. Amen.