RESCUE FROM A FIERY LAW & INEXORABLE JUSTICE
" If thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it." -Exodus 20:25 [KJV] This chapter abounds with legal terror. Here, the glorious Jehovah is giving the law with thunderings and lightnings, and the sound of a trumpet. The mountain smoking. Poor sinners, trembling and fleeing, saying, Let not God speak with us, lest we die . Most awfully tremendous! Well might St. Paul call it, “the ministration of death and condemnation” (II Corinthians 3:7, 9.) But blessed, blessed be God, it contains precious gospel-grace to law-condemned sinners. Here, rejoice, and say, Let God speak, and we live . For here is an altar commanded. God is accessible to us. “An altar of earth thou shalt make unto Me.” Here is gospel-grace. That beloved Son typified, Who was made like unto us, and appeared in our earthly nature. Thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon it. “Our God is a consuming fire” (Hebrews 12:29.) Yet, “we have an altar” (Hebrews 13:10.) ...