Jesus the Deliverer

“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” Romans 8:3-4

The law could not do what Christ could.  It was weak.  It was weak because the redemption that was offered was through the flesh.  It could atone for sins committed by sinful flesh but could not eradicate the sin within our flesh.  The carnal nature that drives us to commit sin.  Therefore, God sent his own Son to condemn sin in the flesh and provide deliverance.  Nothing short of deliverance. 

             

  The Bible, considered as a whole, and not in part will prove itself utterly consistent, and can be used as the complete Word of God that is your guideline and your strength.  While the old law accomplished only a part of our redemption, Jesus accomplished all.  The reason the Jews sacrificed animals was because they committed sin.  The reason they had to keep sacrificing year after year was because they sinned year after year.  The reason they sinned year after year was because of their nature to sin that remained in them, year after year.  The law could justify sins committed.  What could it not do, is take away the drive to sin.  The nature to sin.  That predetermined sinful state that naturally occurs in all mankind.  A sinful condition that we are cursed with since the fall of Adam.  A condition that manifests itself as we leave the ignorance of childhood and press into young adulthood.  We steal because we lust.  We kill because were angry.  We cheat because we want.  The fruit of carnality is committed sin.  So, what did God do?  “He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, for sin, to condemned sin in the flesh.”   Sin is “in the flesh” is inbred carnality.  By sacrificing himself, spending three days in a tomb, and coming out on the third day; Jesus conquered sin, death, and hell.  He sent the Holy Ghost as a witness to the victory over sin.  As Oswald Chambers once wrote, the Holy Ghost is a witness to the ascending Christ.  If you believe on Jesus and you are willing to submit your life to his will, way, and wishes; he provides victory over sin.  That is both sins committed and the desire to sin, and because Jesus provides it, he condemns it.  If you have the option not to sin, that means that you are choosing to, and if you choose to you elect to face the consequences of your willingness to live in sin rather than live in holiness.  Jesus did what the Law could not do.  He brought to the power to live without sin, in this life.  Complete and total deliverance. 

               

If you remain in the flesh, sinning and repenting, sinning and repenting, sinning and repenting, you are just like the Jews of old; calling only on the forgiveness of God.  But consider this: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.”  If you call on the complete delivering power of God found in the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in your heart.  You are no more in the flesh but in the Spirit and it guides you to walk as such, to never sin again.  The flesh is weak, the Holy Spirit is not.  Jesus Christ brings full deliverance.