Sin Has Been Condemned in Your Flesh Too, Christian - Michael Edwards
For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, Rom 8:3 NAS God has condemned sin in the flesh, this is why it dies. The wages of sin are death.
For most Christians, I believe they see this as only in Jesus flesh on the cross. But this is not correct. To be born again we must die with Christ on the cross. When we place our faith and trust in Jesus, before we are born again, our flesh is crucified and dies one time on that same cross in God’s eyes. By faith we are supposed to agree with God to what He states is true. What God says is true is as good as done and we all know that our flesh does die a much softer death than crucifixion for most of us.
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Gal 2:20 NAS
Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. Rom 7:4 NAS
Our flesh has been circumcised by God, set apart from our spirit. In other words, our unredeemed flesh is cut off from our perfected, righteous, born again spirit. It is separated onto death like all flesh that is separated from life. Our flesh has been cut off from any possibility of inheritance as sin will never enter heaven. While in the spirit, we are a co-heir with Christ – Rom 8:17.
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