August 29, 2010
God’s law is perfect and holy. Despite our best efforts, none of us can keep it and approach Him on our own merits. Instead, as Alistair Begg explains, we must rely on what God did for us in sending His Son to die for sinful man. Through Christ’s sacrifice, believers are freed from guilt and empowered by the Spirit to live holy lives. Our obedience to God’s law then demonstrates our relationship to God through His saving grace.
2For the law of hthe Spirit of life ihas set you2 free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3For jGod has done what the law, kweakened by the flesh, lcould not do. mBy sending his own Son nin the likeness of sinful flesh and ofor sin,3 he condemned sin in the flesh, 4in order that pthe righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, qwho walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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