The truly amazing truth is that the very God we have sinned against has at infinite cost to Himself provided the solution. Could there be anything grander and more satisfying than this? In all the man-made religions of the world there is nothing like it. In everyone of them man is exhorted to be his own savior, a truly hopeless task. The Christian faith is the only one, that offers guilty man a Savior, sufficient and willing to meet all God's claims of divine righteousness. Here is the only remedy. We read these wonderful words, "The Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world." (1 John 4:1414And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. (1 John 4:14)). "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:1616For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)).
But note carefully what was involved in sending our Lord into this world. We have seen that death is the penalty of sin, and that after death comes the judgment. It is manifest that if death is the penalty of sin, death must of necessity be its expiation, and that the death of a spotless Victim, One sufficient to meet the judgment of God meted out against sin. Only the atoning death of our Lord Jesus Christ was sufficient to meet this.
The sending of the Lord Jesus into this world was in full view of His dying an atoning sacrifice on Calvary's cross, which should meet the demands of divine righteousness, and exhaust the judgment that lay upon the sinner. It is deeply important that we should see that there are