My pardon cost him that by Archibald
Brown from who is a pardoning God like thee Stepney Green Tabernacle
Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not have to stay angry
forever, but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion
on us. You will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. Micah
chapter 7, verse 18 and 19. Before God could forgive a sinner
in accordance with his infinite holiness and perfect justice,
think what had to be done, sacrificed, and suffered. Measure God's pardon
by the obstacles his pardoning love overcame, and then you can
form some idea of its intensity. God has fathomed his love and
pity in one text God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son that little word so contains more than heaven
or earth can describe In it is the heart of God. In it is the
depth of pardoning love. Oh, think for a minute what that
pardon cost, which now makes your soul sing for joy. You received it freely enough,
because another paid the price. But what was that price? It cost
Jesus a price no lip can tell and no heart conceive. See him
tied to yonder pillar. Mark that awful scourge as it
falls again and again upon his quivering flesh. Note how deep
the thongs cut, drawing blood at every stroke. your pardon
cost that by his stripes we are healed Isaiah chapter 53 verse
5 follow him in that weary walk to Calvary linger by him as fever
courses through his veins while head and hands and feet all drip
with gore stay by him until his sacred head falls upon the bosom
and his great heart breaks with anguish. And then, looking up
into that ashen countenance, say, My pardon cost him that. Yes, no pardon could ever have
come to guilty man if an atonement had not been made that satisfied
divine justice, honored the law, and magnified the holiness of
God. It is sweet work to trace the
ruby stream of forgiving love and mark how it would flow on
until it reached the sinner. Yes, even though it flowed along
the channel of a Savior's wounds. Who is a pardoning God like Thee? Who has grace so rich and free? you