
The Cause of His Death - Part 1
The Bible for Today with John Stott
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The Cross Provides an Answer to the Divine Dilemma
The real question we should ask is not why god finds it difficult to forgive sins, but how he finds it possible at all forgiveness. How can god express his love in forgiving sinners without compromising his holiness? How cangod be simultaneously a righteous god and a saviour? It is this question to which the cross supplies an answer. At the cross, when jesus died, god, in his holy love, paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself in our place. And on the cross, divine mercy and divine justice were perfectly reconciled. But i think i hear some impatient objector saying, again, you make it all sound so terribly complicated. He just sacrificed himself out of
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