How God Has Manifest His Love for Sinners

“And not only so, but we also joy in God through LORD Jesus Christ,

by whom we have now received the reconciliation.”

(Romans 5:11)

How does the Blessed God commend His Love? How does He recommend and set it forth for such poor, hell-deserving sinners as we are? The apostle Paul answers in this chapter: "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life" (Romans 5:8-10)

Can anything commend the Love of God better than that or make it more suitable, more acceptable to us as sinners, than that? Nothing, my friends. To be brought in a Spiritual Way and in our own experience to feel that, even when we were ungodly, enemies to God by wicked works - the iniquities and sins of the heart as bad as could possibly be - the Blessed God should so have loved us as to give His Only Begotten Son to die for us! Oh, what Love!

And, oh, what a Way of commending that Love!