Section 9
God sending His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh." This verse says that there is an im possibility related to the law, referring not to the law of the Spirit of life, with which there is no impossibility, but to the law of God outside of us. There is an impossibility associated with the law of God because that law is weak through the flesh. The flesh is the factor of weakness, pro ducing the impossibility mentioned in 8:3.
The subject of 8:3 is God. God sent His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and con cerning sin, and condemned sin in the flesh. This verse, the deepest verse in Romans 8, is very difficult to understand.
The "flesh of sin" in 8:3 corresponds to the term "the body of sin" in 6:6, where we are told that our old man has been crucified with Christ that "the body of sin" might be made of none effect. Why is our body called "the body of sin" and the "flesh of sin"? Because, as we see from Romans 7, sin dwells in our body. Since our body is the dwelling place of sin, it is called "the body of sin." Since our body has become a fallen body, it is also called the "flesh," that is, the "flesh of sin."
Our weakness in keeping the law of God is