God's Estimate of Sin by Charles Henry Mackintosh

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 13, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 18.

God's Estimate of Sin.

By Charles Henry Mackintosh

If we would have a just sense of the awful reality of the government of God, his wrath against sin, and the true character of his holiness, we must gaze at the cross; we must hearken to that bitter cry that issued from the heart of the Son of God and broke through the dark shadows of Calvary, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"

Never had such a question been asked before; never has such a question been asked since, and never shall—never can such a question be asked again. Whether we consider the One who asked it, the One of whom it was asked, or the answer, we must see that the question stands absolutely alone in the annals of eternity. The cross is the measure of God's hatred of sin, as it is the measure of his love to the sinner. It is the imperishable foundation of the throne of grace, the divinely righteous ground, on which God can pardon our sins and constitute us perfectly righteous in a risen and glorified Christ.—C. H. Macintosh.