Freely Give us All Things – Rom. 8:32 (communion msg.)

Driving home: This verse to which I make reference, verse 32, he that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things, has been designated by some very succinctly as th…

Romans 8 is described as a 'veritable field of spiritual diamonds,' with verse 32 being one of the most precious, to convey the immense value and beauty of the chapter's truths.

is a veritable field of spiritual diamonds diamonds of exquisite beauty and also of immeasurable worth and one of the most precious of all of the diamonds in this veritable field of diamonds is verse 32 one commentator upon this chapter has expressed his own judgment that of all of the amazing statements in romans chapter 8 this perhaps breaks up higher than all of the others like some impressive mountain in a mountain

5:49 - 6:32 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The first part of the text, 'He that spared not his own son,' is expounded, defining 'spared not' through biblical examples of God's judgment and emphasizing the full measure of…

The example of God not sparing national Israel by bringing promised curses upon them is used to define the meaning of 'spared not' as bringing full judgment.

Well the apostle uses this word spared not just several chapters over in Romans chapter 11 and verse 21. Speaking of God's activity with respect to national Israel we read for if God spared not the natural branches neither will he spare thee. The sparing not of the natural branches in the context is that God brought upon national Israel the promised curses.

9:44 - 10:24 Read in full sermon

Driving home: There in this assertion is the negative that God spared not his own son but then there is the positive statement but delivered him up for us all and the word for deliver is the standard word translated betray in the New …

Paul's warning about 'grievous wolves... not sparing the flock' is used to illustrate the ruthless, unsparing nature of God's judgment when He 'spared not' His Son.

Them to do so against the backdrop of his certain knowledge of the dangers to which the flock of God would be exposed. And one of them is delineated in verse 29. I know Acts 20 29 that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you not sparing the flock. Now the image should be clear to all of us.

11:24 - 11:54 Read in full sermon

Driving home: There in this assertion is the negative that God spared not his own son but then there is the positive statement but delivered him up for us all and the word for deliver is the standard word translated betray in the New …

A paragraph from Octavius Winslow is quoted to powerfully articulate that God 'spared not' His Son by not relaxing any requirement or abating any suffering, exacting the utmost payment for redemption.

Very own son and when the text tells us that God spared him not this is what it signifies. And here I read a paragraph from Octavius Winslow's moving devotional comments on this very text. Knowing what redemption required justice stern and inexorable demanding full satisfaction.

12:54 - 13:24 Read in full sermon

Driving home: For love him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God Peter said you by wicked hands have crucified and slain in this great transaction we lose sight of his betrayers and his accusers and his m…

Octavius Winslow is quoted again, emphasizing that it was not Judas, Pilate, or the Jews, but the Father, 'for love,' who delivered Jesus up, highlighting God's sovereign love in the transaction.

Us in this assertion that God did not spare him but delivered him up for us all to what was he delivered again as Winslow said who delivered up Jesus to die not Judas for money not pilot for fear not the Jews for envy but the father.

16:23 - 16:53 Read in full sermon

Driving home: It is only as the ordeal of Gethsemane and Calvary is viewed in the perspective of damnation vicariously born damnation executed with the sanctions of unrelenting justice and damnation endured when the host of darkness w…

Professor Murray's insight on 'delivered him up for us all' is quoted, stressing that the ordeal of Gethsemane and Calvary must be viewed as 'damnation vicariously born' to apprehend the wonder of God's love.

Was he thus delivered up for us all for the church purchased with his own blood for all in that church he has an equal love and for all he paid an equal price professor Murray and commenting on this same phrase delivered him up for us all rights with even more sobering and I think more penetrating insight.

17:54 - 18:23 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not grovel under the weight of unconfessed sin; God freely gives all pardon.

An anecdote about Rabbi Duncan responding to 'Is there any news today?' with 'The blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, cleanses from all sin' is used to emphasize the constant need for and availability of pardon.

Rabbi Duncan, you'll hear about him, whatever biography I'm reading will come out in my preaching, generally speaking, and it apparently was a common social nicety when men of that day would meet in that part of Scotland where he labored, and they would say, is there any news today? What they meant by that is, if you heard anything with respect. To international or national news of any importance, they didn't have primetime television, didn't have the same plethora of news media, etc. And on one occasion when someone asked that question of Rabbi Duncan, he shocked them by answering, yes, there...

28:39 - 29:23 Read in full sermon

The point: On this first communion of the new year, make fresh acts of faith that God, having given the greatest gift, will withhold no lesser gift.

The analogy of a man giving the Hope Diamond and then being reluctant to give a bag to carry it is used to illustrate the absurdity of thinking God would give His Son but withhold lesser gifts.

He has given himself up in death and shed his blood. But let us take that bread as a token and pledge that he, who spared not his own son, will with him freely give us all things. And on this first communion of this new year, may there be fresh actings of faith that God, having given the greatest gift, will withhold no lesser gift. As someone has quaintly said, if you knew the man that owned the hope diamond, that diamond that I believe, is 17 carats in weight,

33:27 - 34:11 Read in full sermon