Justice Asks No More

But as it is, He has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. – Hebrews 9:26

Sin meets on Christ and Christ is punished for sin, and what then? Why then sin is put away. If the penalty be endured justice asks no more. The debt discharged-there is no debt; the claim made and the claim met-the claim ceases to be. Though we could not meet that claim in our proper persons, yet we have met it in One who is so united and allied to us that we are in Him even as Levi was in the loins of Abraham. Jesus Himself also is free. Upon Him the gathered tempest has spent itself, and not a single cloud lingers in the serene sky. Though the waters came His love has dried them up, His suffering has opened the sluices, and made the floods for ever spend themselves. Though the bills were brought He has honored them all, and there is not one outstanding account against a single soul for whom He died as a substitute.

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” Here is a rock to stand on, a safe resting-place for those who trust in Jesus. As for you who trust Him not, your blood be upon your own heads! If ye trust Him not, ye have no part nor lot in this matter, ye shall go down to your own punishment to bear it yourselves; the wrath of God abideth on you; you shall find that the blood of Jesus has made no atonement for your sins. You have rejected the invitation that was given, and put far from you the cross of Christ, and upon your heads the pardoning blood shall never drop, and for you it shall never plead, but you must perish under the law, seeing you refuse to be saved under the gospel. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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