What the law could not do

For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. – Romans 8.3-4

What the law could not do. It could not provide eternal life. It could not do anything about be and my flesh. It could do nothing because I was always going to fall short. Me, like everyone else, will fall short of the glory of God.

This is only possible because God sent His own Son in the flesh to do what none of us could do – to satisfy and fulfil the law. Because the law and its requirement of righteousness has been fulfilled we are now longer bound to walk in the flesh. Now we are free to walk in the Spirit.

‘God did,’ all by itself really says it all. God did, not we did. Through Jesus Christ all that needed to be done was done. ‘It is finished’ indeed.