A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.
We have a tendency to think of GOD being glorified only in the manifestation of his mercy----- He is just as glorified by His justice.
It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace
By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.
The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
