According to our works, all men have earned the death penalty. Although God is Love, God is also Righteousness, and as such God will not just ignore sin. How does God extend both His Love and His Righteous Judgment towards us? Through the Passover Lamb of Jesus Christ. It is through the Lamb of God that God's Righteous Judgment is fulfilled in Him, and thus the sentence of death can "pass over" us so that through the Grace of God we might have Eternal Life.