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Yes, in the suffering it experiences in this life and in its death.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom 6:23 NAS
As a follower of Christ, we are to see our flesh as one with Christ on the cross, crucified and dead. The cross is where sin was condemned in the flesh.
Our newly born Spirit is of God and it is as righteous, sanctified, and as holy as the blood of God’s perfect Son can make us. In other words, our Spirit is complete and is sanctified and perfected just like the book of Hebrews tells us.
For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. Heb 10:14 NAS
Our flesh, on the other hand, is still infected with the same fallen Sin nature we inherited from Adam. God tells us our flesh has been crucified with Christ and is dead and we are freed from our inherited Sin nature.
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; or he who has died is freed from sin. Rom 6:6-7 NAS
This is how we are freed from our slave master Sin (noun - inherited Sin nature), how God sees our flesh right now and how we are to see it by faith. When we are born again in the Spirit our unredeemed flesh is circumcised, cut off by Christ.
But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God. Rom 2:29 NAS
When you came to Christ, you were "circumcised," but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision--the cutting away of your sinful nature. Col 2:11 NLT
God condemned sin in the flesh and our flesh was on that cross with Jesus, the flesh pays the ultimate price for sin.
For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Rom 8:3-4NAS
But God in His great love for us would never allow us to take the full punishment Jesus experienced. He experienced the full wage of Sin. A death of the type we will never see and the full consequences of sin. We only experience a shadow of what he went through when we suffer in this life and see our flesh finally die. This is all part of suffering with Christ in this life and working out our salvation with fear and trembling.
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, Phil 3:10 NAS
Thank God we are not our flesh and we will never die.
and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. Rom 8:8-10 NAS
For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.
Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— for we walk by faith, not by sight— 2 Cor 5:1-6 NAS
Do you see your flesh as dead now? Can you see yourself in Christ in the Spirit as God does? The death of your flesh has freed you from your slave master sin. It is finished. Do you see it in the faith?
More New Covenant Bible Studies that apply:
How Does Jesus Set Us Free from Our Body of Death?
If Your Faith is in Christ, Your Flesh Has Been Circumcised, Cut Off
He is Dead, We Have Got to Drop the Charges
God Sees A Believers Faith Not Their Sins
Your Flesh is Dead Christian, Not in School
A Christian is Dead to the Law, Freed from the Law and Dead to Sin
Christians are Blessed Because God is Not Imputing our Sins
Many more New Covenant Bible Studies HERE. Jesus poured out His blood for the New Covenant of grace and truth, replacing the Old Covenant law of Moses. Believers are exclusively under the New Covenant, the last will and testament of Jesus that began after the cross.
And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood. Luke 22:20
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