Jesus Taught Us the Truth by Dying on the Cross ㅡ
“He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.” (Isaiah 53:11)
“If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus.”(Ephesians 4:21).
What a truth is presented as we gaze upon Jesus in connection with the cross of Calvary, as we see this Wonderful, this Counselor, this mysterious Victim, stooping beneath the amazing burden of our race!
That the transgressor might have another trial, that men might be brought into favor with God the Father, the eternal Son of God interposed Himself to bear the punishment of transgression.
One clothed with humanity, who was yet one with the Deity, was our ransom.
The very earth shook and reeled at the spectacle of God’s dear Son suffering the wrath of God for man’s transgression.
It was the transgression of the law of God that made this suffering necessary.
And yet men harbor the thought, and give expression to the suggestions of Satan through those who trample upon the law of God, that all this suffering was to make that law of none effect.
Deceived and blinded by the great transgressor, they tell the people that there is no law, or that, if they keep the commandments of God in this dispensation, they have fallen from grace.
What a delusion is this that Satan has fastened upon human minds!
When the theory that the law of Jehovah is not binding upon the human family is adopted and taught, man is blinded to his terrible ruin.
He cannot discern it.
Then God has no moral standard by which to measure character, and to govern the heavenly universe, the worlds unfallen, and this fallen world.
Could God have abolished the law in order to meet man in his fallen condition, and yet have maintained His honor as Governor of the universe, Christ need not have died.
But the death of Christ is the convincing, everlasting argument that the law of God is as unchanging as His throne.
(Lift Him Up 153)