Out of Love to the Father and to Men

And being found in human form He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. – Philippians 2:8

Out of supreme love to us, that man might be forgiven without the violation of divine rectitude, the Son of God assumed human flesh, and became in very deed a man, in order that He might be able to offer in man’s place a full vindication to the righteous and unchangeable law of God. These were voluntarily undertaken by Himself out of pure love to us, and in order that we might thereby be justly saved from deserved punishment. There was no natural reason on His own account why He should suffer, bleed, and die. Far from it— “He only has immortality.” Being God, He thus showed forth the wondrous love of God to man by being willing to suffer personally rather than the redeemed should die as the just result of their sin. The matchless majesty of His divine person lent supreme efficacy to His sufferings. It was a man that died, but He was also God, and the death of incarnate God reflects more glory upon law than the deaths of myriads of condemned creatures could have done. See the yearning of the great God for perfect righteousness; He had sooner die than stain His justice even to indulge His mercy. Jesus the Lord, out of love to the Father and to men, undertook willingly and cheerfully for our sakes to magnify the law, and bring in perfect righteousness. This work was so carried out to the utmost, that not a jot of the suffering was mitigated, nor a particle of the obedience foregone, “He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” Now He has finished transgression, made an end of sin, and brought in everlasting righteousness, for He has offered such expiation that God is just, and the justifier of him that believes. God is at once the righteous Judge, and the infinitely loving Father, through what Jesus has suffered. “As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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