Text for discussion: Numbers 27.
Who wants to pay the full price, especially when you get a great discount?
The price for salvation was steep, impossibly high. Keeping the Law with the goal of salvation in mind is an errand of despair.
Isn’t there another way? It’s on full display, wrapped up in Jesus’ very name.
The hymn: Savior Again, to Thy Dear Name We Raise (public domain).
The painting: Ecce Homo!, by Mihály Munkácsy, 1896. (public domain).