9.64 Jesus condemned sin in the flesh
Yesterday, we talked about the sin problem faced by Paul and us. The solution could not be found in trying by self-effort to die to self. The solution is to be delivered from the body of death. The answer is found in a Person – Jesus!
Paul declares that the person who could deliver him from the body of death is Jesus. Jesus is the answer for us.
(Romans 7:24-25)
O wretched man that I am! WHO will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through JESUS CHRIST our Lord!
How did Jesus do it? He came down to this earth as a man to dies on the cross and to condemn sin in the flesh. He came to deal with the root problem of sin nature. He paid the price for sin and He took the condemnation for sin.
He washed away our sins and He gave us His righteousness. Because we have been made righteous, He is able to put His Spirit in us. While His righteousness is the new wine skin, The Holy Spirit is our new wine – the power behind the New Covenant believer. And when we walk according to the power and leading of the Spirit, we find the power to walk in righteousness.
(Romans 8:3-4)
For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
So how do we die to self? How do we die to the old man? We do so by believing in Jesus, be receiving Him. When we believe in Him, we are united in His death and resurrection. Our old man was crucified with Him that the BODY OF SIN may be done away with. This means that the sinful nature has been done away with in Christ.
(Romans 6:5-6)
For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our OLD MAN WAS CRUCIFIED with Him, that the BODY OF SIN might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
The key in faith – believing what Jesus has accomplished. And to believe that we were crucified with Him, and that we are resurrected in Him. We are to walk by faith in that reality.
Paul declares that the person who could deliver him from the body of death is Jesus. Jesus is the answer for us.
(Romans 7:24-25)
O wretched man that I am! WHO will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through JESUS CHRIST our Lord!
How did Jesus do it? He came down to this earth as a man to dies on the cross and to condemn sin in the flesh. He came to deal with the root problem of sin nature. He paid the price for sin and He took the condemnation for sin.
He washed away our sins and He gave us His righteousness. Because we have been made righteous, He is able to put His Spirit in us. While His righteousness is the new wine skin, The Holy Spirit is our new wine – the power behind the New Covenant believer. And when we walk according to the power and leading of the Spirit, we find the power to walk in righteousness.
(Romans 8:3-4)
For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He CONDEMNED SIN IN THE FLESH, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
So how do we die to self? How do we die to the old man? We do so by believing in Jesus, be receiving Him. When we believe in Him, we are united in His death and resurrection. Our old man was crucified with Him that the BODY OF SIN may be done away with. This means that the sinful nature has been done away with in Christ.
(Romans 6:5-6)
For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our OLD MAN WAS CRUCIFIED with Him, that the BODY OF SIN might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
The key in faith – believing what Jesus has accomplished. And to believe that we were crucified with Him, and that we are resurrected in Him. We are to walk by faith in that reality.
posted by Joshua Lye @ 10:13 PM
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