WHAT THE LAW COULD NOT DO
" For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:3,4). The Old Testament is the story of God's dealings with man under the law. It is a tragic story of man's utter failure to live according to the law's holy demands. Since the original fall, God has allowed man to gorge himself on the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil only to discover that the result of eating that fruit was what God indicated it would be in the beginning: death. "For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh..." The problem was not so much with the law - for it is holy, just, and good - but with the flesh. Those men and women in the Old Testament who found grace in the eyes of the Lord, did so b