God's Attitude Toward Sin and the Sinner

This is a sermon from our sermon library preached between 1955-1965.

Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 4

Question 9. Doth not God then do injustice to man, by requiring
from him in his law, that which he cannot perform?
Answer. Not at all; for God made man capable of performing it; but
man, by the instigation of the devil, and his own wilful
disobedience, deprived himself and all his posterity of those
divine gifts.

Question 10. Will God suffer such disobedience and rebellion to go
unpunished?
Answer. By no means; but is terribly displeased with our original
as well as actual sins; and will punish them in his just judgment
temporally and eternally, as he hath declared, "Cursed is every one
that continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of
the law, to do them."

Question 11. Is not God then also merciful?
Answer. God is indeed merciful, but also just; therefore his
justice requires, that sin which is committed against the most high
majesty of God, be also punished with extreme, that is, with
everlasting punishement of body and soul.