For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 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, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Before we can really understand the magnitude of what Paul wrote in the above passage, we have to really go back and look at what he just wrote about sin in chapter seven. In the above passage we read that God sent Jesus in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirements of the might be fulfilled in us ..! This is truly amazing. Look what he wrote about sin:
Romans 7:8 (ESV)
But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.
Romans 7:11 (ESV)
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Romans 7:13 (ESV)
13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
Romans 7:17 (ESV)
17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
Jesus came in the likeness of sinful flesh to defeat sin in our lives and to give us righteousness that was not our, but His, and He took our sin.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV)
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
This is the Gospel. This is our victory over sin and death.
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