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Luke 2:14
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"He who did not
spare His own Son,
but
delivered Him
up for us all..."
Do you think
anything
whatsoever could beat
the price
that this gift cost?
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The Gift
by MeHistory waited,
Prophesies foretold,
But God's People rebelled,
Time did not stand still
But as we remember
History poised still for this time,
The time of the anointed Messiah king.
But then the noise of the tender wail of a child
The innkeeper friend crouched on the level above
"What? The voice of a child?" he said as he saw
Jesus laid in the barrel for feeding below
'What of the Jewish king?' he wistfully wondered
Meanwhile in the nightly shadows a shepherd snored softly
His friends nearby, A sheep as his pillow, The sky for his coat.
Then the sky burst forth in glorious light
The shepherd jumped up in much of a fright
'An angel, a messenger from God his king !?!
Surely not come to see me in all this might?'
The angel cried out,
shaking with wonder at the message he brought,
"Don't stand terrified, it's joy I bring,
great joy you should sing"
But then the refrain,
a million bright messenger's,
shaking with wonder at the message they brought,
praising God and saying
"Gloria, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, to God be the glory
both now and forever!".
Shaking with wonder at the message he heard
the shepherd ran full speed with the wind in his face
to look for the Messiah in meager cloth
who had bothered to tell the stinking shepherds that
the time of the anointed Messiah king had come.
31-39So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:
They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. (Romans 8:32, The Message)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A32&version=MSG&src=embed
Romans 8:32
32 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?
Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208:32&version=NKJV
You may want to use this link to read the verse in the NKJV in it's chapter context: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8&version=NKJV
Romans 8 - Matthew Henry's Concise
Commentary on
the
Bible
Their final triumph, through Christ.
All things whatever, in heaven and earth, are not so great a display of God's free love, as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the cross for the sin of man; and all the rest follows upon union with him, and interest in him. All things, all which can be the causes or means of any real good to the faithful Christian. He that has prepared a crown and a kingdom for us, will give us what we need in the way to it. Men may justify themselves, though the accusations are in
full force against them; but if God justifies, that answers all. By Christ we are thus secured. By the merit of his death he paid our debt. Yea, rather that is risen again. This is convincing evidence that Divine justice was satisfied. We have such a Friend at the right hand of God; all power is given to him. He is there, making intercession. Believer! does your soul say within you, Oh that he were mine! and oh that I were his; that I could please him and live to him! Then do not toss your
spirit and perplex your thoughts in fruitless, endless doubtings, but as you are convinced of ungodliness, believe on Him who justifies the ungodly. You are condemned, yet Christ is dead and risen. Flee to Him as such. God having manifested his love in giving his own Son for us, can we think that any thing should turn aside or do away that love? Troubles neither cause nor show any abatement of his love. Whatever believers may be separated from, enough remains. None can take Christ from the
believer: none can take the believer from Him; and that is enough. All other hazards signify nothing. Alas, poor sinners! though you abound with the possessions of this world, what vain things are they! Can you say of any of them, Who shall separate us? You may be removed from pleasant dwellings, and friends, and estates. You may even live to see and seek your parting. At last you must part, for you must die. Then farewell, all this world accounts most valuable. And what hast thou left, poor
soul, who hast not Christ, but that which thou wouldest gladly part with, and canst not; the condemning guilt of all thy sins! But the soul that is in Christ, when other things are pulled away, cleaves to Christ, and these separations pain him not. Yea, when death comes, that breaks all other unions, even that of the soul and body, it carries the believer's soul into the nearest union with its beloved Lord Jesus, and the full enjoyment of him for ever.
Previous commentary:
Their interest in the love of God.
About this commentary:
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible is available in the Public Domain.
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/Matthew-Henry/Rom/Their-Final-Triumph-Christ
Other helpful tools for Romans chapter 8:
Heartlight's search God's Word
Coffman Commentaries on the Old and New Testament - http://www.searchgodsword.org/com/bcc/view.cgi?book=ro&chapter=008
Christ notes
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary (see below text) - http://www.christnotes.org/commentary.php?com=mhc&b=45&c=8
Classic Bible Commentaries
Courtesy of E-Word Today
Chapter 8: | Darby | Geneva | Gill | Jamieson Faussett Brown | Johnson | Luther | Matthew Henry | Matthew Henry Concise | Wesley | Index | Bible Gateway |
For example: John Wesley's Notes on the Bible - http://www.ewordtoday.com/comments/romans/wesley/romans8.htm
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