HOW CHRIST JUSTIFIES THE LAW AND GOVERNMENT OF GOD:
- Since the father and son were united in creating all things they must also have been united in the government of moral intelligence.Heb 1:12;John 10:30.
- Christ as Creator had full authority to give the law,which he also did for he spoke and wrote it Exodus 20:1-17; Neh 9:12,13; 1 Cor 10:1-4.
- As a creator he was above law of subject to law as created intelligence but in order to convience all that the ruler of the universe would not enforce and unjust or oppressive law upon his subjects,the Father and the son united on the following plan to prove that Satan's charges against God's law and government were unfounded and unjust.
- The son took on him the seed of Abraham "was made flesh" in the likeness of sinful flesh was born of a virgin and took upon him the form of a servant.Heb 2:16; John 1:14; Rom 8:3; Matt 1:18-21; phil 2:7.
- When Jesus became flesh"his glory was shrouded.His divinity was yield with humanity the invisible glory invisible form".While in the flesh he could of himself do nothing:but strengthened by his father,through the holy spirit,he could and did do all that is ever required of a human being.John 5:19,30; 3:34; 14:10.
- When Christ in the likeness of sinful flesh resisted every temptation to sin,and kept the law to absolute perfection he thereby proved that Satan's charges against God's law and government was unfounded.Heb 4:15; Matt 4:1-10; John 15:10; 1 Pet 2:22.
- After that Jesus took the place of the sinner and though he himself was without sin,yet he was "made" to be sin for us the sins of the world were laid upon him and then hr suffered the penalty of the Isa 53:6; John 1:29 margin; 1 Pet 2:24; 2 Cor 5:21; Gal 3:13; 1 Pet 3:18; Rom 5:6,8. Thus was Satan's charge,that the penalty of God's law was unjust and disproved,since Christ willingly suffered it in the sinner's stead.
- Finally,Christ rose from the dead or sinless being a conqueror of Satan and death 1 Cor 15:14-21,55; Heb 2:14.
- Thus by the father's and son's planning together for Christ to become a subject obey the law as a subject and finally suffer the penalty of the law,were the just Principles of God,his law and government fully Justified Isa 42:21; Col 1:20; Rom 3:31.
THE SINNER'S SUBSTITUTE: