![]() God is happy to pour good things our on us. He wants to give us things.Įvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. We don’t have to worry about God thinking our requests are silly or not worth His time. James says we can ask God for anything we lack, like wisdom, with faith because God “gives to all liberally and without reproach” (James 1:5). Jesus told His disciples, “it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,” so all His teaching to us are also a gift (Matt. You can finds lists of some spiritual gifts which God gives in 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and Romans 12:6-8. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! (Luke 11:13) Peter calls it “the gift of God” in Acts 8:20, and John 7:39 notes that the Holy Spirit was only given after Christ was glorified, tying it directly to the greatest gift. 6:23)Īnother extremely important gift that God gives through Jesus is His Holly Spirit. Eternal life is one of these gifts, and a direct result of Christ’s sacrifice.įor the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. We touched on this last week when talking about god rewarding prayer, and promising “no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly (Ps. What does “all things” in Romans 8:32 include? Well, having given the most valuable thing they could - Jesus Christ Himself - the Father and Son continue to “spare no expense” in blessing us. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? (Rom. Christ and the Father truly “spared no expense” in freeing us from captivity. His life was so precious - so “expensive,” if you will - that it could cancel out forever the debts of the whole world. That sacrifice was so valuable that “by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified” (Heb. 2:7-8)Ĭhrist gave up all this power, and risked His eternal life (for if He had failed there was no one else to sacrifice for sin), all to save us. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. He had equality with God and the power needed to make all things. … All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:1, 3). He was the Word who “was with God, and the Word was God. Imagine how long those three days that Jesus spent dead in the grave must have seemed!Īnd now think of it from Christ’s perspective. It follows, then, that God the Father had never been alone before. We believe that God and the Word are Eternal and didn’t have a beginning point - They’ve always been there. Talk about sparing no expense! God delivered up His only Son to die in our places. But please take the time to read it again with me.įor God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. We all know John 3:16 - probably have it memorized. 16:1-18).īut anything humans can come up with when we “spare no expense” can’t begin to compare with what God can accomplish when He “spares no expense.” With One Sacrifice In one message, the speaker was talking about showing hospitality, and in the other the subject was David’s generous offering when he welcomed the Ark in to Jerusalem ( 1 Chr. But recently I heard it twice in a completely different context - in two different sermons just a couple Sabbaths ago. When I hear the phrase “spared no expense,” the first thing that comes to mind is John Hammond advertizing his Jurassic Park.
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