The Gift Of Righteousness - Part 7

Part 7 – Our righteousness is attained through faith in Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. God must be perfectly consistent with Himself. He cannot break His own Law or violate His own nature. “God is love” (1 John 4:8), and “God is light” (1 John 1:5). A God of love wants to forgive sinners, but a God of holiness must punish sin and uphold His righteous Law. How can God be both “Just and the Justifier”? The answer is in the cross of Jesus Christ. The cross of Christ is where wrath (justice) and compassion (justification) converged, it was the courtroom where humanity and divinity had their differences settled.