He Spared Not His Own Son

Minister:
Date: AM
Text: Romans 8:31,32
Psalters: 229, 355, 126, 248
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper
  1. The meaning.
    1. God ?spared not His own Son.?
      1. God did not withhold His Son.
      2. This evidences the greatness of God?s (love and grace) for those called according to His purpose.
    2. God ?delivered Him up.?
      1. This language describes the willing activity of God Himself which brought Jesus to the cross.
      2. Jesus was given in order to bear the full penalty pronounced on sin.
    3. ?For us all.?
  2. Two conclusions drawn.
    1. ?If God be for us, who can be against us?? He Who did not spare but delivered is for us.
      1. This ?God? is the One of every perfection, Who sovereignly purposed and rules over all.
      2. With God for us, nothing can be against us.
      3. But all that which is against us is nothing before Him Who is on our side: our God is for us!
    2. ?How shall He not with Him also freely give us all things??
      1. Paul reasons from the greater (God?s own Son) to the lesser (all things).
      2. All things are given to us with Christ.
    3. We are triumphant - more than conquerors.