Sin Condemned in the Flesh
Rev. Cornelius Hanko expounds Romans 8:1-3 to explain how believers, despite the continued presence of sin in their flesh, experience freedom from condemnation through Christ's work and the Holy Spirit's power. The sermon traces the believer's paradoxical experience of hating sin while still committing it, and shows how God's sovereign grace in Christ resolves this tension through justification and the progressive work of sanctification.
Rev. Cornelius Hanko (1 July, 1945) 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 (Rom. 8:3). In Chapter 7 of this epistle the apostle gave us a glimpse into his own personal, spiritual experience, which is the experience of every believer. He complained that sin still dwells in his members. When he desires to do the good he does the evil, and even the good that he does is...