Mankind always tries to minimize the price of our sin, and pare back the extent of the Lord Jesus' death for us.
False teachers claim that God can simply forgive our sins without satisfying the demands of justice.
In other words, God will break His solemn promises regarding the punishment for sin, because He is "all love."
Thus, these men deny that Jesus was punished by God in our place and for our crimes imputed to Him at the cross.
The Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal this week brought to mind another problem with this truncated view of the death of Jesus.
In Rittenhouse's case, he was either innocent, and justly acquitted, or he was guilty, and defeated justice, in this life at least.
How different we are from Mr. Rittenhouse!
None of us are innocent before God! None of us can be acquitted in our own persons, because of God's justice. Paul makes it clear, that "the whole world is guilty before God."
On the other hand, none of us, being guilty, will trick God into acquitting us. None of us are going to defeat the justice of God.
How awful it would be if God just let us off, forgave us, without justice being done.
Think of how horrible it would be if Mr. Rittenhouse was actually guilty, but escaped justice by tricking the jury into acquitting him. How could he ever have a clear conscience? All the rest of his life, he'd live with the knowledge of his true guilt.
Yet this is the false teaching of some ministers, who proclaim a forgiveness of sinners without the satisfaction of divine justice.
A sacrifice of Jesus, that does not fully satisfy God's justice at Calvary against our sins, cannot give the guilty conscience peace with God!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...