Was the Cross Necessary?

TEACHING THE WORD MINISTRIES

...If God is to save man, it must be in a way which is in harmony with the divine holiness and which honours the necessities of the divine government. It must be in a way which demonstrates to an onlooking universe the awful sacredness with which God Himself looks upon His holy law. It must be in a way which shows God's hatred of sin; and nowhere else was there ever such a revelation of divine wrath against sin as on Calvary. One has only to ponder carefully these and other aspects of the case to see how necessary was the Cross of Christ if God was to save us. It was not [merely] that God "required blood" (as we heard one preacher vulgarly say), but that sin necessitated an infinite substitutionary expiation if man was to be saved according to the principles of eternal righteousness. And who could make that infinite expiation but the infinite God Himself? No less a marvel was required than that a member of the divine Triunity should assume our manhood, live our life, conquer our foe, and yield Himself an atoning Substitute to "take away the sin of the world".