People's Problem Under the Old Testament (TMF:1700)

Friday, September 17, 2021
Peace to Live By: People's Problem Under the Old Testament (TMF:1700) - Daniel Litton
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       Moving on. Verse 2: “For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:2-4, ESV). People who lived under the Old Testament Law had no ability to live free from sin. Under the Old Testament system, the Law could not do that. It just showed people where their sin was, and what they weren’t supposed to do. The problem is that without being a new creation, without the old self passing away, one could only live by trying to keep the rules. And there were certain sins, that if a person committed them, there was no way to really get away from the guilt and condemnation that came from that sin. A think a good example of this is David’s sin with Bathsheba.