How Can God Have Mercy on Sinners?

April 29, 2010

I’ve been reading through Greg Gilbert’s What is the Gospel?, and I’ve found it to be a helpful and encouraging read. Here’s just one gem from Greg’s book:

“How can God have mercy on sinners without destroying justice? What can it mean that God forgives iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clears the guilty (Ex. 34:7)? How can a righteous and holy God justify the ungodly (Rom. 4:5)? The answer to all these questions is found at the cross of Calvary, in Jesus’ substitutionary death for his people. A righteous and holy God can justify the ungodly because in Jesus’ death, mercy and justice were perfectly reconciled. The curse was rightly executed, and we were mercifully saved.” (Greg Gilbert, What is the Gospel? (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2010, 69).

You want to pick two copies of this book! One to read and one to give away to a friend who doesn’t know Jesus.

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