The Evil of Sin!

If the death of Christ was that which satisfied God for       our sins, there is infinite evil in sin, since it would not be  expiated but by an infinite satisfaction. Fools make  a mock  at sin, and there are few in the world who are fully sensible of its evil; but certainly, if God should  exact of you the full penalty, your eternal sufferings could not satisfy for the evil there is in one vain thought.

You may think it severe, that God should subject his      creatures to everlasting sufferings for sin, and never   be satisfied with them anymore. But when you have well considered, that the Being against whom you sin  is the infinitely blessed God, and how God dealt with the angels that fell, you will change your mind.

Oh the depth of the evil of sin!

If ever you wish to see how great and horrid an evil   sin is, measure it in your thoughts, either by the        infinite holiness and excellency of God, who is   wronged by it; or by the infinite sufferings of Christ, who died to satisfy for it; and then you will have     deeper apprehensions of its enormity.

If the death of Christ satisfied God, and thereby        redeemed  us from the curse; then the redemption of souls is costly; souls are precious and of great value with God. “You know that you were not redeemed   with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition; but with the precious blood of the Son of God, as of a lamb without spot.” (1Peter 1:18,19). Only the blood of God is an equivalent for the redemption of souls. Gold  and      silver may redeem from human, but not from hellish bondage.

The whole creation is not a value for the redemption of one soul.

If Christ’s death satisfied God for our sins, how unparalleled is the love of God to poor sinners! If Christ, by dying, has made full satisfaction, then God can consistently pardon the greatest of sinners that  believe in Jesus.

-By John Flavel