God's Greatest Gift: The Pledge of Complete Redemption

He that spared not His own Son.—God's greatest gift secures His other gifts. Note three truths:

First, Elohim hath already given the very greatest thing to set before salvation: what every parent who had but one beloved son would surely feel as the greatest of his treasures. In human transactions, the pledge is but a minute proportion of the complete performance. Yet in this divine transaction, the pledge is more valuable to the Giver than all He hath pledged Himself for. God feels He has already given what to Himself was of the greatest value.

Second, the deep and mysterious suffering incurred at this first and greatest step in our salvation is now over. The travail of Christ's soul hath already gone by; now He has only to see of the fruit of this travail and be satisfied. When He set forth from glory on our world's restoration, He had persecution and cruel martyrdom before Him. But what He thus originated with pain, He has only now to prosecute in peace and triumph to its consummation. Will the Father who spared not His own Son from deep humiliation now refuse to magnify Him and bring this glorious warfare to its most honourable termination?

Third, all which Adonai hath done in the work of our redemption has been done entirely of free will—because His own heart was set upon it, not from obligation. That force of affection which bore down every obstacle will now bear onward with accelerated speed to accomplish all the good it is set upon.