"Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed" - Gal. 3:23.
The law was designed to convict men of their sinfulness and inability to save themselves. The more honest a man is and the more tender his conscience, the more readily will he acknowledge that he has broken the law times without number and is helpless to keep it, apart from divine aid. To those so convicted God presents Christ as the Holy One who met every claim of the law perfectly, and then went to the cross and suffered, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. All who believe in Him have eternal life here and now and are forever delivered from condemnation. - H.A. Ironside
To us our God His love commends, When by our sins undone:
That He might spare His enemies, He would not spare His Son.
His only Son, on whom was placed His whole delight and love,
Before He formed the earth below, Or spread the heavens above.
Our sorrows and our guilt to bear, Our judgment to sustain;
He came, upon the tree to die, That we might life obtain. - Jas. Stennett