Consider. ( John 3 v 16 )

While I was witnessing to a person I tried to  point out , the significance of the awful suffering of the cross and how it shows the seriousness of sin.Most people do not consider the seriousness of sin,God does ,and it is only when the  Spirit of God,convicts a person of their sin do they in some degree see sins seriousness. ( John 16 v 8 ). When I was very young I attended a Children's meeting,the speaker stressed sin and its consequences so  I trusted Christ. Sins terribleness needed the cross,which could be classed as an altar,and the only answer for salvation.It meant Christ suffering in the most evil way, at the hands of evil people,and suffering at the hands of God.Christ the sinless one would do something that no one else could do,He would bear the punishment for sin , not His, for He was sinless,no the  punishment for the sins of others.This punishment was so awful so severe there are not words to describe it ,but the result is ,all those who trust Him need never suffer the consequences for there sin, that means they need never go to hell,but it also means they will go to heaven. .