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Darkness Before Dawn
triumph, as the Son of God had triumphed, over the power of Satan.
Thus God is just and yet the justifier of all who believe in Jesus
God’s Law Is Sustained
But it was not merely to accomplish the redemption of man that
Christ came to the earth to suffer and to die. He came to “magnify
the law” and to “make it honorable.” Not alone that the inhabitants
of this world might regard the law as it should be regarded; but it
was to demonstrate to all the worlds of the universe that God’s law is
unchangeable. Could its claims have been set aside, then the Son of
God need not have yielded up His life to atone for its transgression.
The death of Christ proves it immutable. And the sacrifice to which
infinite love impelled the Father and the Son, that sinners might be
redeemed, demonstrates to all the universe—what nothing less than
this plan of atonement could have sufficed to do—that justice and
mercy are the foundation of the law and government of God.
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