Section 11
with this situation? The law of God makes its demands, but it has been weakened through the flesh.
The problem is not with the law itself; the dif ficulty is with sin and the flesh of sin. Sin is the transgressor, and the flesh of sin is the helper. The two of them work together. If God was to solve the problem, He would have had to deal with both sin and the flesh. Although sin, not the flesh, is the foremost problem, God must deal with them both.
How did He do it? God did it in a marvelous way, in a way that is beyond human words to explain adequately. God solved the problem by sending His own Son "in the likeness of the flesh of sin." God was wise. He knew that He should not send His Son to be the flesh of sin, for if He did that, His Son would have been involved with sin. Therefore, He sent His Son "in the likeness of the flesh of sin," as typified by the brass ser pent lifted up by Moses in the wilderness (Num. 21:9) and mentioned by the Lord Jesus Himself. In John 3:14 Jesus said, "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up," indicating that the brass serpent was a type of Himself on the cross in our stead. When He was on the cross, Jesus was in