(e): The Promise of Our Father's Provision

Driving home: The greatness of the Father's gift is, it is founded upon the reality of the depth of the Father's love for the Son. He that spared not his own Son.

This common saying is used to explain the meaning of 'to spare' as withholding what is due, illustrating that God did not withhold anything from His Son.

To spare is to withhold what is due. We have the little saying, Spare the rod and spoil the child. What do we mean when we use that terminology? Withhold proper punishment to a child.

12:39 - 12:55 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The greatness of the Father's gift is, it is founded upon the reality of the depth of the Father's love for the Son. He that spared not his own Son.

This analogy further clarifies 'to spare' by showing that a judge who spares a criminal does not hand him over to his just deserts, contrasting with God's not sparing His Son.

To spare the child. If a judge spares a criminal, he does not hand him over to the ordinary and just desert of that criminal's crime. And here we are told that the Father did not spare his own Son. All that justice demanded was completely, unreservedly poured out upon Jesus.

12:55 - 13:23 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Not Judas. Not Pilate for money. Not Pilate for fear. Not the Jews for envy. But the Father for love.

A quotation from another generation emphasizes that it was the Father, out of love, who delivered up Jesus, not Judas, Pilate, or the Jews.

A man of God from another generation wrote, Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas. Not Pilate for money. Not Pilate for fear.

15:48 - 15:59 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Not Judas. Not Pilate for money. Not Pilate for fear. Not the Jews for envy. But the Father for love.

A quotation describes the depth of Christ's suffering as vicariously borne damnation, executed with unrelenting justice, to help apprehend the wonder of God's inexhaustible love.

And one has written, It is only as the ordeal of Gethsemane and Calvary is viewed in this perspective of damnation, damnation vicariously borne, damnation executed with the sanctions of unrelenting justice, damnation endured when the hosts of darkness were released to wreak the utmost of their vengeance. Only then shall we be able to apprehend the wonder and taste the sweetness of love that passes knowledge, love eternally to be explored. But eternally inexhaustible. Explored for all eternity.

16:17 - 17:02 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord.

This story illustrates the absurdity of hesitating to ask for a 'paper bag' (lesser things) when a wealthy man has already given a 'thousand dollars' (the greater gift), applying it to God's giving of His Son and then 'all things'.

How shall He not with Him also give us all of the things, the things that are necessary? With Christ He has given us all things in the word of His promise. If there were a wealthy man who for no reason that you could ever discover set his affection upon you and said, I want to give you ten, a thousand dollars, no strings attached, and he sits down with you at a table and he marks out the money in fifty dollar bills and they're all stacked there and you say, what's the catch? He says, no catch, it's yours.

24:32 - 25:15 Read in full sermon