The idea of God being an Impartial Law-Officer punishing every crime committed is dismissed by a generation filled with cheap grace and unaccountable freedom. 

The title Impartial Law-Officer is a correct picture of one aspect of the only true God.  It is a very real part of our Loving God’s character.  Every child has an innate desire for fairness.  “It’s not fair” you hear a child cry.  Adults cry, "Where's justice?" when someone sins against us: murderer, embezzler, rapist, adulterer, sexually impure, liar, thief, gossiper, sinner.

 God cannot abide sin, cannot allow us to be less than He designed.  He demands life-blood for sin. 

If you were honest with yourself, you wouldn’t want any less of God.  A god who did not have the character of an Impartial Law-Officer would be a powerless invention of man without fairness or strength over evil.  There would be no true justice.

Here is the kicker to this Impartial Law-Officer: he wants a relationship with you and wants it to be forever.  So, He died in your place, gave his life-blood. 

NIV 1 Peter 1:17-19
Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear.  For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.

1. Do you have made up ideas or superstitions about God?
2. Does it mean anything to you that Jesus died in your place?
3. Is there sin you can live with?
4. Are you at home here or is this a place you live as a stranger?
5. What is reverent fear?