The Two Natures In Every True Believer In Christ

Romans 8:1-3

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. (“who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit” is an interpolation, meaning it does not belong there—isn’t in the original Koine Greek New Testament).

2 For the law (the rule) of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law (the rule) of sin and death.

3 For what the law (see Ex. 19:8; 24:3; Rom. 7:12-13; 1 Cor. 15:56-57) could not do in that it was weak through the flesh (used to bring out the evil of sin, Ps. 51:4), God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh (Christ had an impeccable human nature, never a sin nature, Lk. 1:35; Heb. 4:15=sin apart=not a sin nature), and for and by becoming a sacrifice for sin (nature), condemned sin in the flesh.

“He condemned sin in the flesh”; that is, He there condemned the evil root of sin (sin nature, not sins for everyone) which is in our flesh (those in Christ, sins dealt with) —our carnal nature.

God, through Christ also “made an end of sins” (see Dan. 9:24; Heb. 9:24-28 versus Jhn. 8:21, 24)—of the actual sins of every believer.

Jhn. 1:29 Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the “sin” of the world. Not “sins”—see the type in Lev. 1:1-4; 16:6-10—two “lots”, one for God, in which the “sin” question of the whole world was dealt with (Jhn. 1:29), and as a result was a “sin-offering” sacrifice, and the other “lot” was the scapegoat where the “sins” of each believer were put on Christ on the Cross, being the scapegoat which was presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement (reconciliation by Christ the Substitute), and set free in the wilderness. Thus, for us IN CHRIST, “For freedom's sake Christ HAS set us free, so be free!” Gal. 5:1.

Freedom, only in Christ with our wills submitted, so that we don’t function in the flesh, where there is no freedom, but only the experience of death—separation experientially from our true image in Christ.