ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
certain offense was to be punished by the offender's losing both eyes. The law was scarcely made before the flrst offender was arraigned before the tribunal. and brought before the king-and the guilty one was the king's own son. The royal father commanded that the law be executed. The men brought forth the hot needle and passed it across one eye. Then the king stepped down from his throne and said, "Release the boy." But how could the boy be released and the command of the law be kept? The king took the place of his son, and had one of his own eyes burned out. Thus the law was vindi~ cated. Two eyes were given; yet the offender's sight was spared. Nothing could have impressed the people of the majesty and sacredness of the law more than one look at the king's sightless eye. It pronounced his justice, his love, and his mercy. Likewise, and in a far more wonderful way at the cross, love and justice kissed each other. Christ bled and suffered and died, that we might live. And one glimpse of Calvary's Lamb is enough to break the sinner's heart. Some people say that it is not just that Christ, a sinless Person, should die for us. A man said to me, "Do you mean to tell me that God, the flrst person, took the sins of you, the second person, and placed them on an innocent third person?" I answered, "No, my friend; I do not say that; the Bible does not teach that. The Bible teaches that God, the flrst person, took the sins of man, the second person, and laid them on Himself, in the Person of His own Son. . Jesus the Son and God the Father are One. When Jesus Christ was on the cross. He was "God . . . manifest in the flesh ." God came down to earth in human form for the purpose of vindicating sinners. Yes; God is holy and just; but He is also merciful. "God is love." BOASTING EXCLUDED 3:27, 28 How wonderful is all this! I trust that we shall all come into a deeper realization of what Calvary means, a realization Page 56]
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