This morning I finished Leviticus and wow, God had some intense laws He wanted to put on the Israelites. So as I was reading, I continually asked myself “Why does God care so much about these laws that we don’t even really worry about anymore?”. I then thought of Romans 8:3-4 that says

“3For 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, 4in 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.”

My focus here being the difference between the law and the sacrifice of Christ. The law was weakened by flesh, aka sin. The law was put in place to show God’s glory in the obedience of the Israelites, however because of their sinful nature this never actually happened. God instituted the law to say to the Israelites “I want to set you apart from the other nations and I want you to act as my chosen people!”. The people didn’t have the Spirit (with a few exceptions) upon them so the only thing they had to please God was His law. This was how he made it for them to fulfill their end of the covenant with Jacob, Isaac and Abraham. Of course we know that this never happened as sin was stood before the Israelites instead of them before God.

The Breaker of Sin then came to change all of this and fulfill the part of the covenant that we never could, making it forever fulfilled and never null and void. Christ, who was, is and always will be holy and righteous, came to absorb God’s wrath against the sinners and no longer allow their (our) glory-belittling-sin to stand before them. God then was able to be fully glorified in their lives because they were made righteous before Him in their (OUR!!) acceptance of Christ as the Son of God and our Messiah.

Hope you have been continuing to read through b90x and it has been encouraging your faith in God and helping to build a foundation that the enemy could never shake!

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