“For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending His Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so He condemned sin in sinful man.”
The Law tells us, ‘Keep all these commandments and you will live.’ But our sinful nature is incapable of the perfection required by the Law. Thus the Law is powerless to save us – once we have broken it, there is no way to un-break it. For imperfect people – and we are all imperfect – salvation cannot be found in the Law.
God knows all this. This is why He sent His Son to earth as a human being – just like us in physical and emotional capability, but without the sin nature and with the self-discipline to keep the Law perfectly. He became a sin offering for us: our sin was transferred to Him (across the ages, by faith) and He died in our place.
How wonderful it is that God has not abandoned us to die in our sin, and that the Law, with its ‘one strike and you’re out’ policy, has been superceded by Christ’s work on the cross on our behalf. God’s justice has been satisfied, and we are now free.
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