Legally speaking, God sees us as law-keepers-He sees that His law has been fulfilled in us-because when He looks at us, He sees Christ. The condemnation and elimination of our sin cleaned the slate, so to speak, for Christ's righteousness to be imputed to us (2 Cor. First, the law is fulfilled in us via imputation. He also provided, in Christ's atonement, a way for us to fulfill the law as we walk in the Spirit (v. He bore our penalty, and our just Lord would never commit the great injustice of making those in Christ serve a sentence He had completed for us.īut God did not only condemn sin in order that justice could be done in our salvation. Jesus satisfied the curse of the law in our behalf, so we need fear it no longer. When the Lord condemned sin in the sinless flesh of His Son, He did what His law in the possession of sinful flesh could not do (8:3). Another way had to be found, one that is not dependent on our law-keeping and that does not arbitrarily set aside God's standards.
#One mind one spirit free
His law, while good in itself, cannot solve the problem of sin because it cannot give sinners what they need to be righteous before Him or free them from sin and death (7:7-25).
God secured this release by succeeding where His law failed. This state of being free from the Lord's condemnation is permanent and perpetual-there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus, for in Him we are set free from the law of sin and death (8:1-2). Condemnation is the only end for those who do not have their sins covered, but for those who have been justified in Christ, there is no condemnation (Rom. Humanity's fundamental problem is its estrangement from God, which results in eternal death if it is not rectified (Gen.
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