Les Feldick Bible Study

Why did Jesus come in man's frame of flesh?

Jesus came in man's frame of flesh so that, at man's level, He could condemn sin and the flesh. By taking the likeness of sinful flesh, He dealt with the old Adam, condemning the old Adam and the flesh. This was His whole purpose in coming.

Les teaches that this truth is something he cannot fully comprehend except through the eyes of faith: the Creator God Himself, who spoke the universe into existence and caused Adam to come up out of the dust, sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. Christ's whole purpose in coming was to get right down at man's level, in man's frame of flesh, so that He might condemn sin and the flesh, dealing with the old Adam by condemning the old Adam and the flesh.

Romans 8:3

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

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What was Jesus's whole purpose in coming?

Jesus's whole purpose in coming was to get right down at man's level, in man's frame of flesh, so that He might condemn sin and the flesh.