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Rom. 3:31. And the answer is equally impressive: "God forbid:
yea, we establish the law." p. 40, Para. 2, [LOOK-
ING].
Out of the catastrophe of sin, but three paths appeared:
one was to let the law take its course, the wages of sin,
which is death, be inflicted, and man perish. Another was
atonement for sin through the death of Christ, to save men.
The third was to take away the law, by which is the knowledge
of sin; so that, inasmuch as "where no law is, there
is no transgression" (Rom. 4:15), men might be considered
guiltless, and so not under the sentence of condemnation
and death. The first, to let men perish, Christ's love for
the human race would not permit him to do; the last, to
take away the law, he could not do, as that would be not
only a triumph of Satan, but worse, it would be the abandoning
of the universe to chaos and ruin, the abdication of
his throne by the Lord Jehovah, and the unconditional surrender
of the field to sin. Could the law have been relaxed,
or changed, or abolished, man could have been released
from the grasp and doom of sin (except as sin would
in the end have accomplished the destruction of all
things), without the death of the Son of God. But this
could not be. Law must be maintained. The order and safety
of the universe rest upon it. Any alternative less than the
death of Christ, which could have saved man, would surely
have been adopted, rather than that he should pass so fearful
an ordeal. Therefore one look at the divine victim expiring
on the cross, should forever fix this fact in every
mind, that the throne of God can as soon be overturned as
that the law can be abolished, or in the least jot or tittle
be subjected to a change. So invulnerable its strength,
so invincible its claims, that nothing less than the death
of God's own Son could rescue guilty man from its awful
power. Thus the death of Christ establishes the law; thus
faith in Christ, as the only one who can save men from the
transgression of the law, establishes the law; and this
every believer confesses when he flees to Christ to save
him from his sins, and from the just doom to which the law
holds him so long as guilt defiles his soul. Sin is a reality,
and the gospel, good news, because the law still
lives. p. 40, Para. 3, [LOOKING].
The offering of Christ was accepted by the Father. He testified
to this by raising him from the dead, and setting
him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above
all principalities and powers, and every name that is