Who did God love at the cross?
At the cross, God loved sinners—undeserving sons of Adam, you and I. He did not love them as angelic beings but as sinners. That was love epitomized, the greatest act of love ever done, all because He loved you and I as sinners.
Les teaches that the love poured out at the cross was love epitomized—as great an act of love as has ever been done. God loved you and I as sinners, not as angelic beings, but as undeserving sons of Adam. This love is bound up with grace, the attribute of God that pours out undeserved favor and mercy on sinners. Les explains that believers are not under law but under grace, and Paul says in verse 21 that he does not frustrate the grace of God. If righteousness came by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. But because God loved undeserving sinners at the cross, grace—not the law—is where believers stand.