You’ve heard since your earliest memories of religion why Jesus came. Did you know that what little you heard that wasn’t wrong, wasn’t half the story? Yes, Jesus came to die for our sins, yes He came to shed innocent blood that we might live, yes He came to save the world; but those things, stupefying though they may be, were almost an afterthought to the REAL purpose of Jesus coming. The purpose you never heard.Did you ever think of how unfair it is? Unfair I said. Unfair that God should expect us to obey an arbitrary set of rules; submit ourselves to Him; live by His code? Think about this! Jesus came to Earth; lived a perfect life, didn’t sin, then died and went back to heaven. Now He expects us to walk in His tremendous footsteps. Who could do that?
Who could do that, when we have a nature that LOVES to do evil; when we are trained from so early in life to embrace the lies of the world. Who could possibly do what God asks? This problem has led most of the world to believe that the ten commandments are done away, and that we shouldn’t even TRY to obey God, since we’re doomed to fail anyway.
Romans 8:3 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:
This verse answers the question fully - if you really understand ALL of the connotations of what it says. It says that Jesus came in the likeness of sinful flesh. And condemned sin in the flesh.
What does that REALLY mean? What does it mean to CONDEMN sin? One way is to say “sin is bad!” - that condemns sin. But does it really? Think about it - does it condemn sin if you say “sin is bad”, but you yourself sin? Read the rest of this entry »