If you read this Lord's Day the main theme is God is just but also merciful. It speaks more about God than about us. The salvation we have is ALWAYS in Christ! No salvation can be sought in any other way and even as our sin is before us, God satisfies His justice and it meets on the cross with His mercy.

Man was able to do the will of God and capable of keeping His law before sin and corruption. The law was written in our hearts in Adam, but man plunged himself into wrath. The question is asked if it is not just for God to require of man even though we cannot keep His law and what He created man for. The answer is yes. Then we are moved to ask if God can divert His wrath and justice on someone else? These questions all lead us to see the ONLY way to salvation. Christ and the cross. And God does NOT compromise Himself for us, but rather completes His good pleasure (salvation) to His own glory which is the very basis for all He does! Hoe does this all fit in our redemption?

To be just is to be righteous. Does God allow such unrighteousness to go unpunished? Many times it is heard today that the love of God cancels out His perfect justice and it is very wrong. God will NOT let sin go unpunished and compromise His justice, but He compromises His own very being in His love to satisfy His own justice! We sometimes compromise (wrongly so) on our discipline with our children, but God DOES NOT. Christ was made a CURSE for us that we may be righteous before God and He maintains His justice in His righteousness. An unrighteous world always stands under the curse and indignation of God and they abide in it and it will be with them into all of ETERNITY and is His holiness maintained in His justice...but He hates our sin as well! We cannot get from under it anymore than the world EXCEPT it be for God's mercy!

We see God's curse of sin even today in God's curse and the consequences of sin, but God is merciful and shows that mercy in His justice and they meet on the cross. And these two meeting are our salvation! The depth? He hung on the cross into total darkness and was forsaken of God for us AND the very mercy of God. We stand guilty again in Pontius Pilate but the holiness of God stood in all its glory in Christ on the cross. God vindicates His justice and vindicates us in His Son in His righteousness on the cross. We will show our thankfulness now and in the life to come forevermore into eternity.