No Expense Spared

Why did Jesus die because he deserved to die because it was the right thing to do because though he didn't sin himself. Our sins were reckons to his account imputed sin. And when God looked on him when the father looked on him. He saw a sinner imposing him assume the gospel in a very succinct way when he said that Christ came into the world to save sinners who lived the perfect life and died on the cross. Yet there are aspects of Christ's atoning work that perhaps we've never considered before we can or teaching fellow Dr. Derek Thomas is going to help us do that today your on Renewing Your Mind.

And as result, we will come away with a greater assurance of our salvation.

He's teaching from Romans chapter 8 come now to verses 31 and 32. What then shall we say to these things. If God be for us, who can be against us. He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things are. This section begins a series of four questions, all of which begin with the interrogative who want not what and is therefore referring to a person who is against us charging us and of course that is the devil, I'm more to say to that aspect of things. As we move through the rest of this passage that I want us to see the question.

First of all, what then shall we say to these things, what things while the things that he's been talking about to Romans eight in verse one that there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus for what he says in verse three. But God has done what the law weakened by the flesh could not do by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, what shall we say to these things or in verse nine. For example, you are not in the flesh but in the spirit and that's where indwelt by the Spirit, the spirit witnesses with our spirits that we are the children of God, what shall we then say to these things or verse 17 that we are children and their children and heirs and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. We are inheritors what shall we then say to these things or verse 18 that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us, what shall we say to these things or in verse 26 when he speaks about the spirit interceding for us in times of weakness in trial and difficulty what shall we then say to these things, and his answer is if God is for us who can be against us, he that spared not his own son, but freely delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also, along with him freely give us all things and there is a focus in this text on the father. There is a focus in this text on the sun and there is a focus in this text on us. First of all on the father.

Verse 32 he who did not spare his own son. The gospel is first of all, a statement about the father. It is of course about Jesus. It is of course about Jesus dying on the cross. It's about his substitutionary death, it's about how he satisfied the demands of divine justice how he was buried and raised again, and ascended to the right hand of God and how he ever lives to intercede for us. The gospel is about Jesus of the gospel. First of all, is about the father.

John 316 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that the God is God the father.

He loved and gave his only begotten son, and therefore this is a correction to the notion that the gospel is about Jesus making a reluctance somewhat miserly and unpredictable father to love a seat.

He woos the father reluctantly to love us and the representations of the gospel that almost sounding like that to be honest, this is a correction to that we have been loved by the father. The father who gives his own son, Nicholas Walter store very famous philosopher in our time as written many many books. One was called lament for a son and it's about his son was in adults and died in a rock climbing accident and he writes a book about the pain. The searing pain of losing a son and the father knows that pain he too is lost a son. He too knows what it is to send his son to die, to die upon the cross and to be pronounced dead than to be placed in the tomb. We have a heavenly father who knows what it is to suffer loss send to lose a son. He did not spare his own son. He could've spared him, but he did not spare him, and the word that's used here is the same word in the Greek translation of Genesis in the Septuagint when Abraham and Isaac. Isaac is being offered up, and God spares Isaac and provides the lamb that squawked in the thickets, and so on and it sent word that's used here, God spared Isaac, but he did not spare his own son, but freely delivered him up for us all. Who killed Jesus else, we can ask it in that way. Who killed him was it's the high priest was a pilot was at the Sanhedrin was a Judas was it's the juice of the first century in Jerusalem collectively is Peter himself.

One of them says sin is Pentecost. Someone that was used by wicked hands who took him and screw him but it was all by the determine the power and foreknowledge of God's, Peter sent so in a sense interest. The father who put him to death. It was the justice of his father, the person to death. It is a demonstration of the extent to which the father loves us and in the context has loved us from before the foundation of the world.

He foreknew our son predestined us and called us and justify the send glorified us. This is the father's love.

One of the greatest questions that you can ask. It's one of the most pertinent questions that you can never ask is why did Jesus die. Why did he die. Death is the wages of sin. But if Jesus never sinned, why did he die there is something unjust about it. There's something wrong about it.

At the very core. If Jesus never sinned, why did he die, and there are only two answers to that question. One is that there is no justice in the world that you can live a perfect life. You can obey the law, you can keep all of the commandments you can be impeccable and you can still die if you can still suffer the penalty for sin.

But you didn't commit and therefore that God himself is unjust, send there is no justice in the world and you would sink into despair and cynicism. Or you can answer the question why did Jesus die because he deserved to die because it was the right thing to do because though he didn't sin himself. Our sins were reckons to his account imputed sin. And when God looked on him when the father looked on him. He saw a sinner. He saw the greatest sin of the world had ever seen in the words of Roosa and the death that Jesus endured was the reflex of God's holiness toward sin and it was the right thing. It was the just thing to do for David and the injustice of his death lies in the fact that our sins were reckons to his account. He died for us. He died in the room. He died in our place. First of all, there is something in this text about the father's love for us what manner of love for this how great it is how extraordinary it is.

And then secondly, there is a focus on the son he was delivered up here did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all.

He gave him up and in other translations. He he delivered him up for us all on its own verb that is employed in the gospel narrative description of how Jesus was handed over. He was handed over to the scribes and Pharisees. He was handed over to pilot.

He was handed over to Herod, he was handed over to be crucified on 56 times in the gospel narrative of the crucifixion of Jesus. This verb is employed. He was handed over.

Paul speaks of its in the opening of Romans eight.

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus for the law of the Spirit of life is set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death, for God has done what the law weakened by the flesh could not do. By sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin now is coming back to its here in verse 31, and especially here in verse 32. God did not spare him behind this, I think, lies the idea that between the father and the son. There is an agreement. There is a covenant for pre-sometimes referred to as the covenant of redemption between the father and the son in eternity and one imagines a conversation between the father and son.

How will sinners be safe and someone must pay the penalty for their sin and someone must become a substitute and someone must satisfy the demands of divine justice for they can't save themselves.

Someone imagines a conversation in which Jesus responds I will go up. Some of you remember from Lord of the rings by J. R.

Talking this the Council of Elrond. The ring has been found that as being in Bilbo Baggins's possession all along and now Frodo has brought it all the way to this Council of Elrond in Rev. Dale and the fellowship of the nine is about to begin. Your remember and the ring is sitting on the kind of pedestal and in the center where they are gathered and somebody says who will go and there's an argument between the dwarves send the elves and the men that are there and then we remember Frodo speaks up quietly at first and then yells at the top of his voice. I will go but I do not know the way. And Jesus is saying, I will go I will become the substitute.

I will bear the loss.

That is the just penalty for sin. I will take that upon myself to send his own son. Remember, on two occasions at the time of his baptism and at the time of the transfiguration.

The father speaks doesn't he perforate center space and time at the beginning of Jesus his public ministry at the very onset of the descent into Jerusalem and crucifixion. The father speaks and says you're my son and I love you.

I think those words are intended.

First of all for Jesus that are intended for the disciples to overhear, perhaps to corroborate the identity of Jesus, but I think first of all, they were intended for Jesus himself.

Jesus as the God man Jesus and his incarnate condition. Jesus in his human mind with the human will and human affection send human psychology under human way of knowing things and he needs reassurance as to his identity.

How does Jesus know his identity and is not. I think because his divine mind is telling his human mind is no evidence in the Gospels that the expense of all it's the fact that he believes his identity as he reads it in Scripture. As Mary would've told him his identity was Providence unfolds and now by the voice of his heavenly father saying you are my son and I love you. He gave his only begotten son and the son was willing to come. He was willing to be the Messiah. He was willing to be the mediator of the Redeemer, the one who stands between God and man. The man to represent name to God and God to represent God to men, two natures in one person and what is it that he accepts to do what is it that he takes on the role of being a mediator and where would that role take him to the cross of Calvary became for sin, he was made. Verse three of chapter 8 in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he had come to deal with the issue of sin and therefore on the cross when he dies this darkness descends for three hours says, though God hides his face from him has no creation itself hides itself is Jesus is hoisted above the ground and decries my God, my God, why have you forsaken me. Quoting from Psalm 22 and it's not just that he's quoting a Psalm that he is memorized, but he's quoting it with effect. God has abandoned him. He doesn't say my father. My father, as though the native consciousness of his son ship has been obliterated by the fact that all that he can sense is God's anger got is withdrawn God's and showing his face. He doesn't feel the warmth of his father's arms around him. He is descending into hell is becoming the greatest sin of the world is ever seen God the father who loves him isn't telling him that anymore. Jesus is dying as our substitute in our room. I do not stand at the end of every service on Sundays. We typically pronounce the benediction and some people close their eyes because they think benediction is a prayer and some of them keep their eyes open as I think they should because it's not a prayer but the statement is God's gospel statement the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace but that's not what Jesus heard on the cross. The Lord course you be angry with you and hide his face from you and refused to smile on you and give you hell we get there only benediction and Jesus taught that God did not spare him. I despaired him we would not be saved and God answered the question. The Jesus Austin the garden of Gethsemane. Father let this cup pass from me, is there not some other way. Mention of the father had said enough.

My son and not worth your death. You're too precious to me to let go and endure this pathway, but instead, there is silence is a voice that speaks in Gethsemane. There is no reassurance. You are my son, today I have begotten you. I love you always love to those to silence Jesus walks into Gethsemane and out of Gethsemane and towards Calvary and he does so by face, trusting that his father will never leave him nor forsake him in the ultimate sense. So there's a focus on the father. There's a focus on the son and there's also a focus on us. He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things now that Jesus is died. Now that he is paid the penalty for sin. Now that God the father has raised him from the dead.

The public demonstration of the father's acceptance of all that he is done now that Jesus has two user euphemism gone up in the world ascendance to the father's right hand. How is it possible for Jesus to have accomplished all that was necessary to save us, and that that accomplishment not be applied as a possible if Jesus is accomplished everything that is necessary for our salvation.

It stands to reason, it will be applied and it will be applied to the letter for all for whom Jesus died for all, for whom he shed his blood for all, for whom he made atonement for all, for whom he became the propitiation for our sins, he will apply the same to call and justify, and glorify the logic here to what Paul is saying all things, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things is not talking about giving your car or a nice necklace or some other mobile from the trinket store of this world. He's talking about glory. He's talking about the new heaven and new. He's talking about God's purpose in saving you to conform you to the image of his son. Auntie ensures that all things work together for the good of those that love him so that the eventual outcome will be sure and certain. There's something here about the father something here about the son and then the something here for us.

Jesus died and rose again and therefore my future is secure and certain.

The Holy Spirit will not refuse to apply all the Jesus is accomplished for us for the Holy Spirit and Jesus are of the same mind and that of the same opinion. Everything that Jesus has accomplished for us this in abundance.

What a glorious truth that's Dr. Derek Thomas from his teaching series on Romans chapter 8 and you're listening to Renewing Your Mind is one of our teaching fellows here at regular ministries. Dr. Thomas has the opportunity to teacher on the campus from time to time, and though this series is his latest forest would like to send you the two DVD set containing the full 12 part series that when you give a donation of any amount will be glad to send it your way there a couple of ways you can reach us. One is by phone at 800-435-4343. You can also find us online@renewingyourmind.org with Dr. RC Sproul founded leader ministries almost 50 years ago.

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