GIFT OF SACRIFICE

'For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in 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'. Romans 8: 3-4

Verses 3, discussed that the law was powerless in that it was weak through the flesh, which means that the law was not able to overcome the controlling power of sin. In Hebrews 8:3, it talks about how every high priest must offer a gift of sacrifice, so it was also necessary to Jesus to offer us a gift of sacrifice for sins of the world.

In the likeness of sinful man, Christ was incarnation he become truly human. But unlike all of us he was found sinless. Matthew 4:1-11, talks about when the Spirit took him into the wilderness for 40 day and 40 nights. There Satan temped him three times but he defeated sin. ‘In the Flesh’; Paul is perhaps using that to illustrate to Christ human body (on the cross).

Verses 4, ‘righteous requirements of the law’, the law still plays a part in Christ followers life. Not as a mean of salvation but as a mortal and ethical path, obeyed out, of love for God and by the power of the Holy Spirit given. If you look in Jeremiah 31:31-34, it talks about the new covenant through the blood of Jesus Christ.  Here In verse four of Romans talks of the fulfilment of that covenant.

God purpose in sending His Son is so that all His believers might be enable to embody the true, and full intention of the law. Living according to the Spirit and not according to the flesh for the flesh will always lose over the controlling power of sin.  The Spirit of God has a more powerful controlling power than that of sin, but we have to let Him come in our lives. If we do this we’ll be empowering ministry of the Holy Spirit to come upon us, then evil will have no places in us therefore we become the righteous sons and daughters of God. AMAN