Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

The law could not pardon; the law could not sanctify; the law could
not dispense with its own requisitions; it is the rule of righteousness, and
therefore must condemn unrighteousness. This is its unalterable nature.
Had there been perfect obedience to its dictates, instead of condemning,
it would have applauded and rewarded; but as the flesh, the carnal and
rebellious principle, had prevailed, and transgression had taken place, it
was rendered weak, inefficient to undo this work of the flesh, and bring
the sinner into a state of pardon and acceptance with God.
Where the law ends, Christ begins. The law ends with representative
sacrifices; Christ begins with the real offering. The law is our
schoolmaster to lead us to Christ; it cannot save, but it leaves us at his
door, where alone salvation is to be found. Christ, as an arguing sacrifice
for sin, was the grand object of the whole sacrificial code of Moses; his
passion and death were the fulfilment of its great object and design.
Separate this sacrificial death of Christ from the law, and the law has no
meaning, for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take
away sins.
Take Jesus, his grace, Spirit, and religion out of the Bible, and it has
neither scope, design, object, nor end.
The gospel is God's method of saving a lost world, in a way which that
world could never have imagined. There is nothing human in it; it is all
truly and gloriously divine, essentially necessary to the salvation of man,
and fully adequate to the purposes of its institution.
Every language is confounded, less or more, but that of eternal truth.
This is ever the same; in all countries, climates, and ages, the language of
truth, like that God from whom it sprang, is unchangeable. It speaks in all
tongues, to all nations, and in all hearts: "There is one GOD, the Fountain
of goodness, justice, and truth. MAN, thou art his creature, ignorant,
weak, and dependent; but he is all-sufficient—hates nothing that he has
made—loves thee—is able and willing to save thee; return to and depend
on him, take his revealed will for thy law, submit to his authority, and