Romans 8.32-If The Father Delivered His Son To Death For The Christian, Surely He Will Freely Give The Christian All Things
Wenstrom Bible Ministries
Pastor-Teacher Bill Wenstrom
Sunday January 25, 2009
Romans: Romans 8:32-If The Father Delivered His Son To Death For The Christian, Surely He Will Freely Give The Christian All Things
Lesson # 282
Please turn in your Bibles to Romans 8:31.
This morning we will study Romans 8:32 and in this passage, Paul argues that if God the Father delivered His Son over to death to save the Christian, surely then, He will freely gives the Christian all things.
Let’s read this final paragraph and then concentrate on verse 32 for the rest of the morning.
Romans 8:31-39, “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, ‘FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.’ But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Let’s now concentrate on verse 32.
Romans 8:32, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”
Not translated is the emphatic particle ge (gev) (gay), which is employed with the relative pronoun hos in order to emphasize the argument that if the Father delivered His Son over to death to save the Christian, surely then, He will freely give the Christian all things now that the Christian is in His family.
“Who” is the relative pronoun relative pronoun hos (o^$) (hos), which refers to God the Father since its antecedent is the masculine singular form of the noun theos that appears in Romans 8:31 where it refers to the Father.
“He did not spare” is composed of the emphatic negative adverb ou (ou)) (oo), “not” and the verb pheidomai (feivdomai) (fi-dom-i), “He spare.”
In Romans 8:32, the verb is used of the Father and its meaning is emphatically negated by the emphatic negative adverb ou.
Together, they denote that the Father “by no means spared” His own Son from both spiritual and physical death so as to provide salvation for all mankind.
“His own Son” is composed of the adjective idios (i&dio$) (id-ee-os), “His” and the noun huios (ui(ov$) (hwee-os), “Son.”
The noun huios expresses three fundamental concepts regarding the Lord Jesus Christ: (1) His eternal relationship with the Father. (2) His appointment to the office of Savior and Messiah. (3) His divine essence.
The adjective idios is not only emphasizing Jesus Christ as being the Father’s Son by virtue of His divine nature in contrast to the Christian who has been adopted into the family of God but also emphasizes the magnitude of God’s sacrifice and the price for man’s salvation was the Father’s own Son, Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:32, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”
“But” is the adversative use of the conjunction alla (a)llav) (al-lah), which introduces a statement that presents an idea that is totally in contrast to the idea of the Father sparing His Son for the Christian, namely He delivered His Son to death in order to provide salvation for all men.
“Delivered Him over” is composed of the verb paradidomi (paradivdwmi) (para-did-omee), “delivered over” and the intensive personal pronoun autos (au)tov$) (ow-tos), “Him.”
In Romans 8:32, the verb paradidomi is used of the judicial act of God the Father delivering His Son Jesus Christ over to the Jewish and Roman authorities in order that He might suffer spiritual and physical death.
“For us all” emphasizes that every Christian without exception benefited from the Father delivering His own Son, Jesus Christ over to the Jewish and Roman authorities in order to suffer both spiritual and physical death for them.
“How” is the interrogative particle pos (pw$) (poce), which is accompanied by the adverb ouchi (ou)xiv) (oo-khee), “not” in order to ask a rhetorical question that demands an affirmative answer from Paul’s Christian readers in Rome and completes his a fortiori argument.
The adverb ouchi is the strengthened form of the emphatic negative adverb ou (ou)) (oo) and is used interrogatively in Romans 8:32 since an affirmative answer is expected from Paul’s rhetorical question and means, “unequivocally not.”
Therefore the adverb ouchi in this rhetorical question means, “how will He (the Father) unequivocally not also freely give the Christian all things?’
This word emphasizes that Paul is making an absolute statement that applies throughout history without exception and that is not subject to challenge, or dispute, not subject to conditions or exceptions because it is an eternal spiritual truth.
As we noted these two words ask a rhetorical question that demands an affirmative answer from Paul’s Christian readers in Rome and completes Paul’s a fortiori argument.
A fortiori has two parts: (1) The greater (2) The lesser.
What requires a greater degree of effort is used as the basis for showing what requires less effort.
It is a system of argumentation or debate which takes an accepted fact and by a comparison produces an inescapable fact and confident conclusion.
The first statement that appears in Romans 8:32 forms the first part of the a fortiori argument and the rhetorical question that demands an affirmative answer completes it.
The first statement in Romans 8:32 emphasizes with Paul’s readers that God the Father by no means spared His own Son but rather delivered Him over to death for each and every Christian!
In the a fortiori argument it presents the “greater” or “more difficult” thing the Father did for the Christian whereas the rhetorical question that follows this first statement emphasizes that God will do the “lesser” or “least difficult” thing.
Paul’s argument is that if the Father has done the “greater” work of delivering His Son over to death to provide salvation for them while they were His enemies, He will certainly then perform the comparatively “lesser” or simple task of freely giving them all things now that they have been adopted into His family.
Romans 8:32, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”
“Will He freely give” is the verb charizomai (xarivzomai) (khar-id-zom-i), which means, “to give or grant graciously and generously,” with the implication of good will toward the Christian on the part of the Father who is the giver.
“Also” is the “adjunctive” use of the conjunction kai (kaiV), which introduces an “additional” act performed by the Father on behalf of every Christian.
It indicates that not only did the Father deliver over His Son for the Christian but He will “also” with Christ graciously give the Christian all things.
“With Him” emphasizes the believer’s union with Christ and identification with Christ in His crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection and session.
“Us” is the personal pronoun hemeis (h(mei$) refers to the Christian who has been placed in union with Christ and identified with Him in His crucifixion, death, burial, resurrection and session through the baptism of the Spirit.
“All things” is the adjective pas (pa$), which refers to every spiritual blessing as a result of the Christian being in union with Christ and identified with Him in His death, burial, resurrection and session.
It also refers to those blessings connected to the believer’s salvation or deliverance from the sin nature, the devil and his cosmic system as well as those blessings connected to the believer’s sanctification.
The word speaks of the Christian’s spiritual prosperity that is the result of his union and identification with Christ.
Ephesians 1:3, “Worthy of praise and glorification is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the One who has blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in the Person of Christ.”
Spiritual and material prosperity originate from the Lord who is the owner of a cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalm 50:10, “For every beast of the forest is Mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.”