God's Law

God’s Law

God’s Law Has a Penalty Attached

If there were a law that man should not steal but no penalty was attached to it, some man would have my pocketbook before the day were over. If I threatened to have him arrested, why would he fear the law if there were no penalty?

It is not the law that people are afraid of; it is the penalty for transgression

Do not suppose God has made a law without a penalty. The penalty for sin is death: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” If I have sinned, I must die or get somebody to die for me. If the Bible doesn’t teach that, it doesn’t teach anything. And that is where the atonement of Jesus Christ comes in.

--D. L. Moody