The Everlasting Covenant

To Reveal Super-abounding Grace

For be it remembered that although “the law entered that the offense might abound,” yet “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” ⁴ Since it is the law that makes sin to abound, where can its hideous magnitude be more clearly defined than at Sinai? But since “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound,” it is evident that at Sinai we may most clearly see the vastness of God’s grace. No matter how greatly sin abounds, in that very place grace superabounds. What though “the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven?” Still we have the assurance, “Thy mercy is great above the heavens; and Thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.” ¹ “As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.” ² EVCO 289.3

Blessed law, that reveals to us the height of God’s wondrous grace! Shall we revile it and hate it, because it makes sin to appear in all its hideousness, and reveals the abundance of it? Far from it; the greater and more hideous and deadly sin is seen to be, the more is God’s superabounding grace magnified. The law is the pedagogue to bring us to Christ, and therefore, although it is unbendingly stern, it acts in reality the part of A COMFORTER, because it is “in the hand of a Mediator.” EVCO 290.1

Jesus is the Comforter. “If any man sin, we have a Comforter with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” ³ So when His disciples were sorrowing because of His announcement that He was going to leave them, He said, “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth.” ⁴ While Jesus was on earth, he was the embodiment of the Spirit; but He would not have His work limited, so He said: “It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go away, I will send Him unto you. And He, when He is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.” ⁵ EVCO 290.2