Rely On Christ.

When sin entered the human race- everything was altered in an instant.

We were glorious beings of flesh- clothed with the light of God's righteousness. We knew no sin. Sin is the opposite of God's righteousness. Sin is the taking away of God's righteousness. Sin took away our clothing of light.

When we were created - we were sinless, and we were sinless because we lived in the righteousness of God.

When angels were created they too were sinless, and they too lived in the righteousness of God- yet they bore no flesh. Angels were not created in the likeness of their Creator, they were not made in the image of their God. Some might argue that angels are more like God than we are in that they were made spirit beings and God is spirit. 

Some believe our having flesh is a hindrance that needs to be done away with, and will be done away with. Yet, our Savior retained His scarred flesh after He was resurrected.  However, that scarred flesh was changed- it was no longer sin tainted flesh.

Yes, Jesus was born with our sin corrupted flesh, or else He would NOT have been able to redeem us through His sacrifice.  He had to have all our propensities towards temptation or else being tempted would be meaningless. He resisted the temptations, all of them and never let sin be conceived within Himself, but HE felt the temptations - the pull towards sin that our flesh inherited with sin's inception in our human race.  If Jesus was going to be God with us, live and die for us, it had to be accomplished with true purpose or else there was no reason for it to happen at all. God putting Himself into a flesh body that held none of our inherited tendencies, would be meaningless because it could not prove that a human being could- through reliance upon God the Father alone and God's righteousness- remain sinless. We right now, today must RELY upon God's righteousness ALONE, upon the righteousness of our SAVIOR who took on FLESH and conquered that flesh.  The ability to RELY upon God through Jesus IS possible, the ability is faith to RELY upon God through Jesus is possible, our relying upon ourselves is IMPOSSIBLE. Salvation is found in Christ alone.

Heb_4:15  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

How could this be a true statement if JESUS wasn't born with our flesh after the fall?

If He'd been born with the flesh of Adam before the fall, He would NOT have been able to be tempted in ALL points like we are.

If I take a starving man and put him in a room with a banquet and tell him he can't eat, and then take a man who has just recently eaten a full and hearty meal and put him in a similar room with a banquet and tell him he can't eat….   Is their temptation the same?

No.  The only way for the temptation to be the same for both men is for them to live in similar conditions prior to the temptation.

The full man presented with a banquet would not be as tempted to eat, and the starving man would be desperate to do so.

If Jesus were NOT really tempted by the sins we face, how could we read that He was tempted in ALL POINTS like we are? He WAS tempted and HE prevailed against the temptation by resisting it, and NOT letting it become conceived within Him.  That flesh Jesus was born with was dying flesh…aging flesh…. Not the flesh of Adam who's flesh upon creation was not aging, not dying, not tainted in any way at all. The flesh of Adam was clothed with light and that light was the righteousness of Adam's Creator- our Savior. Our Savior- took OFF His power of Creating-- 

Php 2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 

Php 2:6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 

Php 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 

Php 2:8  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 

(ASV)  but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;

(CEV)  Instead he gave up everything and became a slave, when he became like one of us.

(LITV)  but emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, having become in the likeness of men

Jesus EMPTIED Himself.

Jesus brought with Him- NO reputation.

Jesus HUMBLED Himself.

Jesus took on the form of a SLAVE.

Jesus could of Himself do NOTHING.

Joh_5:19  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

Joh 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. 

Joh 8:28  Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. 

Joh 9:4  I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 

Joh 12:49  For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 

Joh 12:50  And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. 

Joh 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 

Joh 14:20  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 

Jesus did NOT come to earth in the form of a full grown man clothed in the righteousness of God's light, whose flesh was that of perfection in all ways- ways we scarce can imagine- because it certainly was NOT the flesh we have today. Sin altered us instantly. As soon as we were removed from the light of God's righteousness we reverted to complete creature form- and this is why Adam and Eve suddenly comprehended their nakedness. They had no nakedness before they sinned, their clothing was the righteousness of God in a pure form of perfection beyond our full comprehension- a form we will once more obtain when we are changed…

1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 

1Co 15:53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 

1Co 15:54  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 

Do you honestly believe we were meant to have all the absurdities of our current form of existence? No, not by a long, long, long, infinitely long shot.

Rev 19:7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 

Rev 19:8  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. 

1Jn 2:1  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous

Heb 1:8  But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. 

Rom 3:22  Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference

1Co 1:30  But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 

1Co 1:31  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

2Co 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Php 3:9  And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith

The Righteousness of Christ Through Faith.  We must rely solely upon Christ's righteousness not try to manufacture the impossible - a righteousness of our own.