Romans 8:3 AMPC
For God has done what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power]
I often hear Christians tell others that we should hate sin but not the Sinner. This is a great statement because it reflects exactly how God felt about us in our lost condition. He didn’t hate us; He hated sin because of all the destruction it had brought us. At the Fall of humanity, sin entered the world like some supernatural virus. It had a lethal impact on all of creation. Every human born since the Fall would be infected by the virus. God’s plan to deliver us from the reign that this virus was to become one of us and gather the virus and all of the symptoms that had affected every human being who would ever live into Himself and in His own body as theGod–Man condemn the virus to death and deprive it of its power. In Himself, the second person of the Trinity, having become the virus (sin) on our behalf, died and was buried, thus killing the old sin-diseased Adamic race, so that on the third day in Himself, who was the last Adam, could raise up a whole new humanity free from the virus’s reign. In Christ, the law sin still lives in the members of our not yet glorified body, but its power to rule and dominate has been broken forever, and now we in union with the risen God–Man live dominated by the power of the Holy Spirit who actualizes in us the daily dynamic of the new creation through whom Christ now lives His victorious life of liberating holiness.