The law effectively takes us by the hand and leads us to Jesus:
For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:3-4
When we begin to experience the work of Jesus, the power of the gospel, we see that what our flesh was too weak to do, God did by sending Jesus to be our sin offering.
Look at the cross just now: what you are seeing is God making a sin offering for you out of His Son. That is, He took your sin off of you and put it on Jesus, who then removed your sin by dying as your Substitute. Then He gave you His righteousness and perfection in its place, applying the full obedience of Jesus’ law-keeping to your account.
So, through belief in this gospel we “fully meet the righteous requirements of the law” (Romans 10:4, Philippians 3:9). You may have thought that you are a failure in all of your rebellion, but now, In Jesus, you measure up! God views you as having fully met the requirements of the Law found in the 10 Commandments, because of Jesus’ perfect obedience in your place. Do you understand that?
So the key is to begin to experience the power of the cross. To look to the cross and Wash at the cross. And since the Holy Spirit works through the message of the cross, we receive the Spirit and begin to Walk by the Spirit as we wash at the cross. In other words, the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit works in you when you believe the message of the cross.
For the remainder of this lesson, let’s consider the following biblical illustration of everything we have talked about so far.
Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’ Luke 10:30-35
Question 3. What was the condition of this man after the robbers had attacked him: