Righteous Requirements Of The Law

Romans 8:3-4 - 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.

Hebrews 10:1 - For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

Philippians 2:5-7 - Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Galatians 5:16 - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Jeremiah 31:33-34 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Application:

·         The sacrifices prescribed by the law were repeated year after year, the very repetition bearing testimony that the perfect, sin-removing sacrifice had not yet been offered.

·         He made Himself nothing, not by giving up deity, but by laying aside His glory and submitting to the humiliation of becoming man. Jesus is truly God and truly man.

·         The law still plays a role my life—not, however, as a means of salvation but as a moral and ethical guide, obeyed out of love for God and by the power that the Spirit provides. The law’s righteous requirements can be fully met—by no longer letting the sinful nature hold sway but by yielding to the directing and empowering ministry of the Holy Spirit.

·         Living by the promptings and power of the Spirit is the key to conquering sinful desires.

·         The law is put in me internally, in contrast to setting it before me externally.

·         I am to know the Lord in the experiential sense, not just the academic sense.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV