Can you imagine a bigger insult to Christ than believing that flesh still stands in the way of one's peace with God? And this is AFTER God sent Christ to die on the cross for the purpose of condemning Sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3).
It's as though the Christians are saying, "Thanks for condemning Sin in the flesh, Jesus, but we don't really trust it, so we've decided to condemn Sin in the flesh ourselves. We're sure You won't take it personally. It will probably work better when WE do it because, well, You supposedly did it 2,000 years ago, but we didn't actually SEE that, and of course You are aware that we just can't believe anything we
don't see, and so we hope You don't mind if we just fight this flesh thing ourselves, because at least our own sweat is something tangible to us."
Romans chapters 6-8 is NOT about how not to sin. These chapters are about what to do about sin ONCE IT OCCURS. (It is vital to understand this.) Because once Sin occurs, that's when Satan moves in, using the
Sin to make you doubt your justification, doubt Christ, doubt God, doubt everything. Christians doubt every one of these things (they still think flesh is a problem; the don't believe Christ actually did anything against it), even while fancying themselves the greatest champions of God and Christ. What a joke These people are the greatest INSULTERS of God and Christ.
