The Cross: God is Glorified in Salvation Through Judgment

The supreme display of God's judgment through which salvation comes, when the marvelous glory amazes all creation, is the remarkable moment when Jesus dies on the cross. God's commitment to his righteousness warrants the extreme measure of the death of his Son. What could more effectively communicate God's holiness? Simultaneously, God acts from unsearchable depths of love and mercy. Wrath and mercy come together in a paradoxical display of holiness and loving-kindness. The Father shows his love by sending Jesus to uphold justice. Jesus shows his righteousness by obeying the Father, by which also he loves his Father and his people to the end. God is glorified in salvation through judgment in Christ's death on the cross. Selah (Jim Hamilton, God's Glory in Salvation Through Judgment, 550).