<TITLE>02. Par 10-19</TITLE>L-10 Now, if there is no law, then there is no justice. But law required... Or justice requires a law. And the law, when it is--it is called on, it projects justice.
Now, by the law no flesh is saved. Now, the law cannot save us. The law was just the thing that put us in jail, but it has no redeeming power. The law only showed us that we were sinners and condemned us. That's what law is to do. It's to bring condemnation, or to show you where your mistake is. So the law in itself could not save. It could only prosecute.
And God, being holy and just, He had to have a prosecution. He had to prosecute the sinner, because he had overstepped the boundaries of grace and had become a law-breaking citizen. Then he must be dealt with.
And the--every law has a penalty, for the penalty of transgressing God's law is death. And it had to project death to the human race. And all of the human race is under the penalty of this law.

L-14 Now, when Adam and Eve had sinned, there was no way, no other remedy that they could ever stand in the Presence of God again, except this sin be dealt with. And no man can commit a sin of any type, no matter how little or how big, that individual sin has to be dealt with before the one who committed it can ever stand in the Presence of the Holy God.
So therefore, when Adam and Eve had sinned and had transgressed the law, they were subjects of death. And the law had to be executed; therefore, it put all the human race under the penalty of death. Now, if we can only settle down for a few moments now in our thinking, and look at this great picture, and remember that every person here is included in this. Every man and woman, child, is included in the penalty of death by the transgression of the head of the human race, Adam; by his transgression every one of us fell victim to sin.

L-16 And sin must be dealt with. And so, God, in His great infinite-cy and His great love... The law was to separate the sinner from his Maker; then he become annihilated, and totally annihilated, there would be no way for him to ever come back unless that sin was dealt with. And it would be very easy then to believe in a total annihilation of the sinner at the end, for he is completely, forever separated from the Presence of God.

L-17 Now, notice this sin. And how God, being just, and He could do nothing else but be just, for He is the resource of all justice, then there would be nothing else for Him to do but to place the penalty for this transgression. And the penalty was death, for He said, "The day you eat thereof, that day thou shall surely die." Now, it's a dark picture we have here.
But then if we go back just a little further, and find out the very attributes of God, the Bible plainly tells us that God is love. But yet, being love, He has to be just. So love does not mean just a thing that can be petted and played with. Love is the justice of God.

L-19 Now, when God seen that His children had transgressed His law and that they must die the death, then sovereign love stepped in to make a way. For God seen that these children was to be absolutely, totally annihilated from His Presence. There was nothing else to be done, for they had transgressed His law, and the penalty of His law was death.
And then love of God went out for His subjects. And when Divine love is projected, sovereign grace produces the object of the love. And God, by foreknowledge, when He loved His race so well; yet, with the penalty, He caused the substitutionary death to take place in the garden of Eden. That was, He substituted an innocent creature, a little lamb that knowed no sin, and it went for a substitute to work and to die in the stead of the guilty sinner. And it was a lamb, slain, to hold the life of His subjects.


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