Section 15
away. However, we may use a mouse trap with some bait. The mouse comes into the trap, in trigued with the prospect of having the bait in his possession. Then he gets trapped, and a man can easily crush him. Likewise, Satan has been trapped and bruised in the flesh of Christ on the cross. In doing this God solved two problems at once: He has solved the problem of sin, the nature and source of which is Satan, and the problem of the flesh.
THE LAW FULFILLED
Romans 8:4 says, "That the righteous require ment of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to flesh, but according to spirit." The fact that 8:3 ends with a comma in dicates that what was accomplished in that verse is for the following verse. God condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous require ment of the law might be fulfilled in us. There was an impossibility related to the law of God due to the flesh. Therefore, God sent His Son "in the likeness of the flesh of sin" and condemned sin, solving the dual problem of sin and the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us. The "us" refers to those "who do not walk according to flesh, but according