Daily Bread – June 11, 2021 (The Sixth Day – Genesis 1:24-31) 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 a sinful nature. Sinful flesh refers to the depraved and wicked nature which is 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 2:15-17). 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 spirit now working in the children of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2-3; Galatians 5:19-21). Sinful flesh is the state of the unredeemed man dominated by the sinful nature, or fleshly lust, and the works of the devil (1 Peter 2:11; 1 John 2:16, 3:8). Jesus was made like us so we could be born again of God and made like Him. And now we are not of this world even as He is not of this world (John 17:14,16). The Greek word ‘katakrino’ is used to describe those who are condemned to destruction (2 Peter 2:6); condemned to death (Mark 10:33); and of God’s condemnation (Mark 16:16; 1 Corinthians 11:32). In this verse, it may properly be translated God has “pronounced His sentence” (on) sin in the flesh. God has pronounced His sentence on sin in the flesh whether the person is a Jew or a Gentile – because there is no difference. All are descendants of Adam and have the law of sin and death dominating their lives. There is only one way to be free from the judgment of sin and death that fell on Adam and that is through salvation in Christ Jesus. Paul told the Colossians the “body of the sins of the flesh” were removed by the circumcision of Christ, which was the true circumcision. Jesus, our Lord, walked in perfect obedience to the Father; and although fleshly lust warred against Him, He never one time gave in. He proved how the earthly realm Adam had been placed in was perfectly designed in the image of God and sin had no place in the flesh. Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 6/11/2021
