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THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST . Oh what self sacrificing love demonstrated in the life of Christ and GOD the Father that between the Father, Son of God and the Holy Spirit a plan was predetermined before the fall of Adam & Eve that the Father in tender loving mercy would send His one and only Son, to demonstrate the love of the Father, that if man created in His own image should fall from Grace by disobedience to God’s command, Heaven would be emptied of all God’s Love. In the sacrifice of Jesus Christ would surrender His omnipresent nature, remove His Kingly robe,Divinity would be clothed in the garb of humanity and live a life of self sacrificing love. Christ consented to die in the sinner’s stead, that man, by a life of obedience, might escape the penalty of the law of God. His death did not make the law of none effect; it did not slay the law, lessen its holy claims, nor detract from its sacred dignity. The death of Christ proclaimed the justice of His Father’s law in punishing the transgressor, in that He consented to suffer the penalty of the law Himself in order to save fallen man from its curse. The death of God’s beloved Son on the Cross shows the immutability of the law of God. His death magnifies the law and makes it honorable, and gives evidence to man of its changeless character. From His own divine lips are heard the words: “ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. “ The death of Christ justified the claims of the law. In Christ were united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile GOD and man, to unite the finite to the infinite. This was the only way in which fallen man could be exalted through the merits of the blood of Christ to be partakers of the divine nature. Taking human nature fitted Christ to understand man’s trials and sorrows, and all the temptations wherewithal he is beset. Angels who were unacquainted with sin could not sympathize with man in his peculiar trials.