I'm reading one verse from Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8 and verse 32. I'm in a dilemma of giving you a title tonight, but you can choose. Not spared to spare. That's one. The second is delivered up to deliver. So you choose. But I think the Lord Jesus Christ was not spared. He was not spared for you and me to be spared by God. So not spared to spare sinners like us. Romans chapter 8, verse 32. He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? My dear friends, I'm fully aware that this chapter has been written to address specially and specifically believers. So if you don't mind, because it is about salvation, I want to apply it also to those who are still outside the kingdom of Jesus Christ, because it speaks about salvation. So if it speaks about salvation, salvation must be addressed to all, must be also preached to all, and must be provided in free grace, and with free grace to all, the free offer of the gospel. So in Romans chapter 8 here, I believe again that the apostle Paul stands in awe. He is amazed. He's amazed about God's wonderful plan to save men and women. So he's really amazed. And he celebrates God's free salvation. This verse again, I will limit myself to this verse, but I believe it is a crystal diamond in a diamond mine. Every word You can count how many words are in the verse, but every word is worth its weight in gold or in diamond, if you prefer. But it's all there. Every word here is so important. And if you are outside the kingdom of Jesus Christ, meaning if you have never trusted, if you have never repented from your sins, my dear friend, may I have your attention? May I apply this verse to your soul tonight? This is your warrant. How would God save a sinner like me, a person like me, who have spat at him, insulted him, rebelled against him, and said, I don't want this man, Jesus Christ, to rule over my life. So this verse is really your warrant. But look at it. Or the chapter, just to give you an idea, is packed, it's blessing upon blessing, and promise upon promise. And you could see the chapter is also, especially the end section, is swarmed with rhetorical questions. The who, who, who. Many of them are paved in that, and profusion in that section. But look at it again. Please tell me, do you see any hesitation in the passage? He does spare not his own son. but delivered him up for us all. Do you see any hesitation there? Do you see any doubt? Oh, no, not at all, not at all. And my prayer tonight is that the few words I'm going to put before you, oh, may the Lord use them and make you to run, to run in haste to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ in fear, in trembling, but with great joy, joy only provided by salvation. So this is really a wonderful verse. My dear friend, what greater proof do you need, really, for God to give you, except or beyond the sacrificial love of the Lord Jesus Christ? What other proof do you need? What other sacrifice do you need? What other evidence, except looking at Christ? And he's the savior. Oh, great assertion in this passage. I think there is wonderful argument. You know, there are here what we call the six faithful friends who will never let you down. You know them by heart. That's why I'm mentioning them. Who, when, why, where, what, how. It's all in the verse here. You can do it for yourself later. Who is there? Who is speaking? Why is he speaking? Where from is he speaking? And you can look at it again. You will see the giver is there. The gift is there. The giving is there. The recipients are there. The blessing is there. The recompense is there. Everything is in this verse. So you wouldn't say tonight, oh, I didn't hear that Jesus Christ gave himself at the cross of Calvary. He paid the penalty I deserve if I have never repented. He took upon himself my hell. His blood is so powerful to wash me and to cleanse me from all iniquities. Oh, he's the only savior. But when you look at it again, the passage here in Romans chapter 8, yes, Paul is speaking, but really when you look at it deeply, no, no, no, this is not Paul speaking. These are the very declarations and statements by God himself. It is as if it's God himself, verbatim, who is speaking to us and saying to us, don't you see what I have done for you and me in order to save you, in order to procure heaven for your life? Oh, it's all here for our souls and for our understanding. I have a number of headings, if that would be a help to you. Number one, I'm just using the text. I don't go anywhere beyond the text. And number one, look at it from the verse. Romans chapter 8, verse 32. He that spared not. So that's my first heading. The he there, the pronoun there stands for God. The pronoun stands for God, so you can replace the he, that, the demonstrative there, with the person of God. So God did not spare or spared not his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, it is natural normally for parents to protect their progeny. That's natural for parents. A father no matter how weak he is, is willing to do anything. I have seen that with my eyes. Fathers willing to do anything to protect their offspring. And here, we read something so surprising. A father, God is a father, that's another thing you read in the text. He that spared not his own son, meaning implicitly, explicitly actually, that God is a father. But as a father, he spared not. That is a great surprise. Astonishing. It is, in our human mind, inacceptable. Inaccessible. For a father to do that, not to provide, not to secure, not to protect his own child? But it is really a big surprise. Hard to swallow beyond our imagination. He that spared not. But this first heading really comes with the notion that God himself took the initiative. You didn't run after God. You didn't go to God. It was God who came to us. He took the initiative, and he saw our pitiful condition. And really, I'm still amazed by the verse. There are not many verses in the Bible so poignant. Why? Because the only one who should have been spared was not spared. The only one who deserves to be spared and to be laid aside, to be really protected, protected by God, protected by the angels, protected by the power of God, was not spared. And even, you remember, those outsiders of the Bible and outsiders of the church of Jesus Christ? Do you know that even up to the Garden of Gethsemane, that's the last night of the Lord Jesus Christ before he was arrested, actually, in that night, in that garden, before his crucifixion, even in that place, suffering such an intense agony, he wanted to be spared. But you know what happened? God did not spare him. Because if he was spared there, we would be lost forever. Forever. None of us. We wouldn't be sitting here if the Lord Jesus Christ was spared from the cross of Calvary. Even the mob, instigated and pushed by Satan, While he was on the cross, if you are the son of God, you have saved all the people, come down. It's in a sense they were scornful. They were mocking him. But again, he has the power to come down from that cross. But remember, Christ was not put on that cross by us. Oh yes, we were not spectators. We were not just there as spectators. We contributed. This happened more than 2,000 years ago, but it's not only the mob that was there which crucified the Lord Jesus Christ. You and me being there, we would have done the same. And I often say to myself, I would have shouted even better and greater and louder. Because we don't want that man. We think he deserves to suffer what he was suffering on that cross. Oh, my dear friends, this is before his coming in the world. 700 years in the book of the prophet Isaiah. You know the passage, Isaiah 53, verse 10? It says there, it pleased the Lord to bruise him. I heard the man, I know the man, I was not in the church when that happened, but I know personally the man, and I heard later, when he heard the passage of Isaiah 53 verse 10, this is a man who claimed to be a believer, he was even teaching believers, when he heard the expression that it pleased the Lord to bruise him, he stood up and left the church forever. Because he couldn't understand. God the Father bruised. Of course, God was not rejoicing when those things were happening, but it was done according to his counsel. It was done according to his will. It was done according to his sovereign power. And we repeat again, it pleased the Lord to bruise him and to have him to be grieved there, to suffer there on the cross of Calvary. Oh, be worried, my dear friend, be worried about your sins. Just sometime to say to myself, do you know why the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross of Calvary? Oh, my sins took Him to that cross. If there was no sin, if you are not a sinner, if I was not a sinner, He wouldn't have to come. If there was even one perfect person in this world, He wouldn't have to come. But you know the passage, Romans 3, verse 23, All have sinned and come short to the glory of God. All, without exception, you and me, we are included in that verse. Or remember, in the past, we read that in the Word of God, in the past God did not spare the old world. You know what happened with the old world in the time of Noah? The imagination and the thoughts of men, they were so voluptuous and they were so criminal, cruel towards God that their vain imagination in Genesis chapter 6, and God from his abode in heaven brought down upon them the judgment. What judgment God brought upon them? The flood. And only eight people survived. Only eight people. And in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, you remember what happened there also? God sent fire and brimstones upon the people who rebelled against him. So God did not spare the old world. But remember, God did not also spare the disobedient angels. But God didn't spare also the unbelieving Israel, the nation of Israel. They rebelled against him. The word came to his own, and his own received him not. They received him not. So this is really just the first part of this verse, he that spared not. And here we read in Romans chapter 8, verse 32, that he spare not his son of any shame, of any suffering, of any humiliation, of any agony, of any torment, and even to the death, the cursed death, to die on a cursed tree was a curse. And the only one who should be the blessed one was cursed for sinners. on that cross, sinners who trust in him. But look at my second, I must really hurry up in this verse. Look at the second heading I want to put before you. The verse says, he that spared not, not just a son, not just his son, but the emphasis in the original, the emphasis is on his own son. His own son. Why? Because he's special. He's the anointed one. He's the only one. He's the son of his love, and he's the beloved son. In whom we read in Matthew chapter 17, this is my beloved son, in whom I'm well pleased. So you see, this is again another astonishment given to us. The Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners. We read in Hebrews 7, verse 26. But there is a section I want just to read for you. Oh, you can see how Christ is sublime. You cannot compare Christ with anyone in this world. Sometimes people, even Muslims, you speak with them, they say, oh, Jesus Christ is just a prophet. But may I show you these things from Hebrews chapter 1? I dare not comment because The text is so rich. Look at at least seven qualities of the greatness and the majesty, the magnificence of the Lord Jesus Christ. The description is beyond heaven. things that are said about Jesus Christ. He is called the Son of God in verse 2, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world. He is the Creator, who be in the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the power of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins. sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, being made so much better than the angels, as he had by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." You can carry on. And in Colossians chapter 1, verse 15, 16, 17, Christ is lifted up above all things. Can you compare this man, this Jesus Christ, with anyone? You see, this is the Son of God. God did not shield his son from suffering. And do you know that son has a name? He has a name. His name, Matthew 1, verse 21, you shall give him the name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. And the name Christ means the anointed one, the special one, the unique one. and he's the savior. So the gift which God gave to lost men and women, ruined by sin, was his own son. But I must give you a third heading, even if we end up with this third one. I had five or six in mind in the verse here, but look at the third one. He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up, I think the English language really is too small to really bring the strength of the word here. It's so strong the way it is mentioned. God gave up his son as an oblation for sin. We read in Romans 4 verse 25 that he was delivered for our offenses, for our sins. Christ was delivered up. And the father delivered him, but our hands, as I mentioned earlier, hanged him and pierced him. God disposed of his son, but we were there. And when you read in the book of Acts, Acts chapter 2, Acts chapter 3, Acts chapter 5, we are told there that Herod, Pilate, the rulers, the kings of nations, even his own disciples, they all delivered him up because they fled his own disciples. Judas, the son of perdition, the evil one, delivered him up also for 30 pieces of silver, the price of a slave. So you see the danger you are in, but Judas did exactly what we are doing daily if we don't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. We are selling him. We are mocking him. We are walking on him daily, scoffing him. The only one who could give us happiness and joy, new heart, new nature, and make us to be adopted in the family of God. But you see, This is us, but intentionally. Yes, the Father delivered him up, but we know the verse in John chapter 10, the Lord Jesus Christ said, I have power to give my life and to take it back. So intentionally, willingly, voluntarily, the Lord Jesus Christ delivered himself up. He gave himself. He was not pushed. Please never believe anyone who was telling you that Christ Jesus was, somebody twisted his arm or pushed him to get to the cross of Calvary. He came knowing that this is the reason for his coming into this world. This is the reason of his atonement. This is the reason of his conception. This is the reason of his incarnation. This is the reason of his miracles. This is the reason of his teaching. This is the reason of his death. This is the reason of his resurrection. This is the reason of his glorification. And this is the reason of his return. It's all in this verse, willingly he laid down his life. But how can I illustrate you this verse? Because there is a parallel in the Old Testament when we speak about the delivering up, to deliver your own son. He takes you back, I'm sure you know where I'm going. There back in Genesis chapter 22, God said to Abraham, Abraham waited almost a century to have a son. And when God gave him that son, Isaac, in Genesis chapter 22, God said to him, you must give me that son as a sacrifice. Of course, God will never appreciate or welcome any human sacrifice. But God could read the mind of Abraham. And we read in Genesis chapter 15 verse 6 that Abraham believed in God. He believed in God and he was willing to be obedient to God. And for three days, three nights, all the pictures, if I may give you just a few parallels, for three days they walked on a donkey going to Mount Moriah in order to sacrifice Isaac there. And Abraham was willing to obey. There are many, many parallels. At least 10, 12 parallels you can draw. But if you don't mind, I'll just give you a few to illustrate how Jesus Christ is greater than Abraham. Jesus Christ is greater than Isaac. Jesus Christ's sacrifice is greater than all and above all. But look at it here. It is from Genesis chapter 22. And the first one, Isaac, was Abraham's only son. When you read in verse 16 there, God said to Abraham, yes, you are willing to give me your only son. And Jesus Christ is the son of the living God. The only son. When you read the word begotten, it means unique. None like him. Christ is the Son, the only Son of the living God. Isaac willingly submitted himself to be put on the altar for slaughter, and Christ Jesus was willing also to be laid on that cross and to suffer there. But more than that, Isaac carried the wood for the sacrifice. You remember when walking with his father Abraham, he said to his father Abraham, here is the wood, here is the knife, where is the sacrifice? And Jesus Christ also took the piece of wood, and that piece of wood is the cross on which he will be crucified. And there in Genesis chapter 22, when Abraham was to the point of slaughtering his son, he put him on the wood, on the altar, and God had to stop him. You remember the ram was held by what? The ram was held in the thorns there, in the bush, by thorns. And on the Lord Jesus Christ they put a crown of thorns. Oh, many parallels you can see. I did not invent them. Oh, my dear friends, you remember God spared Isaac. But God did not spare the Lord Jesus Christ. He delivered Him. He gave Him there for us, for those who will trust in Him. And when Isaac asked his father, where is the sacrifice? You remember what Abraham said to him? God will provide. God will provide. And in the Lord Jesus Christ, God did provide. All was fulfilled in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He fulfilled it all. He is the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Christ was made of no reputation. He shed his blood. Who will deliver? Who will deliver somebody? If you know your son is totally innocent, I'm sure you will never, never give him to anyone. But the Lord Jesus Christ was perfectly innocent, blameless, spotless, sinless. But his father, and with his own accord, of course, I believe so, with the power of the Holy Spirit, he gave himself. But see more in the verse here, Romans 8, verse 32. Look at the recipients for whom God did all this, in verse 32. He that spared not his own son, but delivered him for us all. Now for us all, again, it's only for believers. But because it speaks about salvation, it speaks about Christ being delivered for our sins, we can apply it for us, each one of us, for Jews and Gentiles alike, without distinction. You could be one of the us tonight. That's my challenge to you. You could be one of the all and one of the us tonight. How do you do that? How do you become one of us? How do you become one of all? By believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. But because salvation is personal, each one of us must come for himself in repentance, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ. How do you get to be one of us? Oh, simple. You don't have to go for a PhD for that. Look to the cross. Look to the cross. That's sufficient. Look to the Lord Jesus Christ and repent from your sins. Oh, your prayer tonight. You know, your prayer is very simple. Can I give it to you? Please, Lord, spare me. Spare me. That's the simplest prayer I can give you tonight to utter before God. Oh, Christ took the judgment and the hell we deserve. If we die without the Savior, certainly we will stand before Him. In Psalm chapter 2, we read, kiss the Son. Oh, kiss the Son, embrace Him, love Him with your heart, and you will be spared. The us again here is you if you come to the Lord Jesus Christ. But now, let me ask you my fifth heading. What do I gain? What do I gain if I come to the Lord Jesus Christ tonight? What will He give me? Oh, you don't believe in him, of course, to gain anything but salvation. But it's here for us. Look at the verse again. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? All things, not some things, not many, but all things. But remember the context is salvation. The context is spiritual. Christ will give you all things pertaining to salvation. Forgiveness of sin, he will give it to you. New heart, new nature. or the fruit of the Spirit, adoption, you become the child of the living God. Those things are freely, it means by grace, freely given to you. And the text says, with Christ and never without Christ. All in Christ, with Christ, and for Christ. You gain all these things freely. He gives all things. Oh, peace will be given to you, wisdom, assurance, comfort, consolation, protection, victory over sin, sanctity, spiritual growth. You know the passage, Psalm 23, verse 1, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want all things. are there in Psalm 23. Are you downcast tonight? Come to the Saviour, come to the Lord Jesus Christ, and all things will be yours. We read it in 1 Corinthians 3, that all things are ours. All things. I read that verse for you this morning. I often quote that verse in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3. Blessed is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all, not some, not many, but all spiritual blessings. in the heavenly places in Christ. So all is ours in Jesus Christ. My dear friends, I wish I can continue, but really my time is over. There are good things here. You can read them for yourself later. Memorize this verse. It will do good to your soul. And you can see here, what shall we say then about these things? What shall we say? Oh, I come to thee tonight, Lord. Save me, Lord. I don't want to go back home empty as I came into this place, because I know I cannot predict what will happen to me the next day. Oh, Lord, in thy mercy, please spare me tonight. And as I often say, when you trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, you go out from this place of prayer, being the most blessed man in the world, the most blessed woman. Come to Him and plead His merits. Repent from your sins. Believe on the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross of Calvary. Let's pray together. Our Heavenly Father, we come to Thee praying Oh Lord, what can we say? How much can we say to bring a sinner, a rebellious sinner with a stony, rocky, and thorny heart? to repent from his sins, so much inundated by the things of this world. O Lord, we pray that Thou wilt do the work of salvation. We thank Thee that Thou art still saving souls, and we pray, Lord, that even one single person, young and old alike, O Lord, we plead that Thou wilt speak to that soul to repent and to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, to have his sins forgiven, that this verse, at the end, the person could say also that Jesus Christ gave himself for me. What a message, what a statement, what a promise, and what a blessing. We ask this message in the name of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Let's sing our closing hymn, hymn number 250. Hymn number 250, Alas, And Did My Savior Bleed.