“since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified.” Later
in his epistle to the Romans (Rom. 3:20)
(Ps. 143:2). No “flesh,” no human being
from among finite humanity, is capable of generating or effecting
righteousness, which is the character of God alone (Ps. 11:7; 119:137,142; I
Jn. 2:29; 3:7). No performance of man will make one righteous either objectively
or subjectively, forensically or vitally. Paul had tried his hardest to keep
the Law in order to be righteous (Phil. 3:4-6), and had to agree with Isaiah
(Isa. 64:6) that all such self-effort attempts were futile. The Law (whether in
its general Judaic form, or in its more restricted Judaizing form) is “weak
through the flesh” (Rom. 8:3), providing no dynamic of grace. It is proposition
with no provision, regulation with no resource, document with no dynamic,
letter with no life, expression with no energizing – incapable of being the
basis of the behavioral expression of God’s righteousness; capable only of
exposing man’s inability and his need to discover such in Jesus Christ. arrogance of self is t aside fully in grace by faith in Christ alone
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