Fresh Bread - 5/11

Daily Bread

Romans 8:3 - “For the Law was powerless in that it was weak through the flesh. God sent His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin condemned sin in the flesh.”

Although the Word, Jesus Christ, became flesh He did not become sinful flesh (John 1:14; 1 Peter 2:22; 4:1-2). The flesh of Jesus Christ was absolutely sinless. He never one time sinned and thus condemned or pronounced sentence against sin being in the flesh. It is important to distinguish between the flesh of human ability and natural limitation and the flesh of sinful flesh. Sinful flesh refers to the depraved and wicked nature, a condition of man because of Adam’s sin (Romans 5:12-21). It is the same as the spirit of the world that works in the children of disobedience, which is also all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life (Ephesians 2:2; 1 John 2:). The sinful flesh is the Old Man, that was put to death by the death of Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:4-6). It is a realm belonging wholly to the god of this world, the prince and power of the air, the realm of the nature of wrath (Ephesians 2:3; Galatians 5:19). Sinful flesh is the state of mankind dominated by the sinful nature or fleshly lust and the works of the devil (1 Peter 2:11; 1 John 2:16; 3:8).

Blessings,

Pastor Mark Spitsbergen