(This is from my forth coming book: God's Love Never Fails)

....          (1) How infinite must the Father's love be for His Son!  How indescribable is the act and out pouring of the Father's pleasure into His Son in His expression of His love for Him.  Those who are in Christ will experience this pleasure of the Father!

          The Father sent the Son to earth, or in other words the Father asked and the Son said, yes I will go.  What this means is that Jesus Christ when He obeyed the Father's request, for Him to go to earth and die for sinners, was done out of infinite love to the Father.  Jesus Christ understood to the same degree that His Father understood concerning how wonderful the Father is and how wonderful it is to have His Glory displayed.  Jesus Christ as Divine God and the brilliant embodiment of the Father's own Glory, both loved the Father and loved the thought of having His Father's Glory displayed as much as the Father does!  As much as God the Father values Himself so does His Son, Jesus Christ.

        Therefore, when the Jesus Christ obeyed the Father to come to earth, it was done with same intense love for His Father as the Father loves and values His Glory being displayed.  This is why God asked His Son, Jesus Christ to come to earth.  God, in His unsearchable wisdom, knew in order for the full displaying of His excellent glory, needed to do this by means of intense mercy given to unworthy recipients.  God need a public audience to be grafted in His Son, so that they may see best the glory of God and love Him for it.  At this point God ask His Son, if He would be the actual tangible mercy and come to earth and lovingly die for sinners, to save them.  In doing so the full displaying of His Justice and Mercy are accomplished, which is how the bible speaks is the center of God's heart or of His glory.  The apostle makes the center mater of Jesus dieing on the cross, the displaying of God's loving mercy and beautiful justice.[1]  The Father asked this because of His overwhelming passion to fully display His true nature or glory. 

        Jesus Christ, valuing and loving His Father and the idea of having His Father's Glory displayed, therefore, united Himself to His Father's chief passion to display His Glory and with infinite love to His Father gave to His Father the most beautiful display of regard to His Father ever seen.  Jesus Christ shows His supreme love and regard to His Father and His Father's desire to display His glory by obeying His Father to come to earth to accomplish this although it meant for Him to be humbled so low, removed so far from His Fathers presence and experience such great pains. 

          See, Christ being the outshining of the Fathers Glory itself, was the prefect Person to make known and showcase the Father's Glory. This is doubtlessly why the Father pick Him for the work of our salvation.

         Believers are mystically united to One, Who infinitely loved the Father and Who earned from the Father and infinite reward of love!  The saints union to their beloved Savior is no mere symbol, but is tangible, real and divinly mystical.  It is described as a loving eternally binding marriage.  Ephesians 5:25, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her." A marriage is no mere symbol but "they shall become one flesh."[2]  This union is like a branch connected to the vine: John 15:5, "I am the vine, you are the branches."   This union is mystical in that its beauty and connection is greater than what words can afford: "that they also may be one in Us, John 17:21.

          This is important, because Christ had not before merited the Fathers love in the manner as He did when He loving obeyed and died on the cross.  This is apparent in Jesus' own statement in John 10:17, "Therefore, My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life."  By obeying the Father as He did, especially as it was contracted in the Covenant of Grace, Jesus Christ earned an infinite reward of love from the Father. 

        This was true, that He already had the Father's infinite love, since before the dawn of time.  The reason Jesus Christ earned this other reward was for our sakes.  He worked so that we will be united in His Heaven Body.  Accordingly, the Father for eternity is in a happy debt to lavish on all believers the merit of the Christ's love.  This love, from the Father, comes to us in the particular stream of grace![3] Our lord Jesus Christ earned from the Father an infinite reword; because we are united to Christ, being members of His body, we receive this same infinite reward of love that the Father gives His Son, Jesus Christ! 

          In this our Lord Jesus did not only work to have our sins forgiven and removed but also earned for us an infinite reward of love, flowing from the Father!  The meriting of this infinite reward from His Father was for two reasons.  The first is concerning His completion of the everlasting covenant of grace.[4]  The second, for which we are concerted with, centers on the pure pleasure of the Father in His Son for His loving obedience.[5] 

        This is why we are told to come boldly to the "Holiest by the blood of Jesus."  This Holiest place is this greatest concentration of God's beauty and pleasure.  Jesus accomplished this access for us because He both (1) with His own blood "offered one sacrifice for sins forever"[6] and this removal of sins meant Christ "obtained eternal redemption"[7] for us and (2) He being a "Mediator... by means of death [accomplished for] those who are called...eternal inheritance"[8] and this inheritance is the reward of God loving us or, as Jesus said it,  "this is eternal life, that they my know You, the only true God and Jesus Christ."[9] 

        Isaiah 53:12, "Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors."  The prophet Isaiah explicitly records that God the Father rewards His Son with a great portion, because He willing out of obedience "poured out His soul" and suffered on the cross with two criminals, for He was "numbered with the transgressors." 

         Furthermore, He did this willing act of obedience in the role of mediator, or High Priest, for He both sacrificed by bearing "the sins of many" and the interceding on behalf of these people for He "made intercession for the transgressors."  This again was the reason why Jesus Christ received a great portion or reward, because He earned it.  Christ did not become our High Priest and die on the cross so that He could get Himself a reward, but to save sinners from death and bring them to Himself in Heaven.  Yet the willingness and love of Jesus Christ to His Father in saving sinners, was so beautiful and delightful to the Father that the Father, out of pleasure, rewarded His Son an infinite reward. 

          This is why the apostle Paul says the following in, Ephesians 1:11, "In Him [Christ] we have obtained an inheritance."  Christ received an eternal reward or inheritance from His Father.  All who are saved by Christ's death and resurrection are grafted into Christ Himself.  This being grafted into Christ is so profound that we become members of His body: and if members of His body then recipients of His same reward.  Therefore, we are not only saved from death and have our sinful debt paid, but Jesus Christ went beyond this and gave us an eternal infinite inheritance as we are in Him.

         Forgiveness of our sin does not mean we automatically receive an "eternal inheritance", it just means we are eternal forgiven.  The inheritance that Christians receive is the reward of being united in Christ and therefore, having the infinite reward of God's Love, which Christ earned from the Father by His own obedience to Him!  The reason we know this "inheritance" is not merely forgiveness or owing merely because our sins are removed is found in Ephesians 1: 10-11, "[God's plan was that] in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth. In Him we have obtained an inheritance." God planned to gather or unit all believers into Christ's body; therefore, because of this we have an "inheritance."  The fact that we are united to Christ gives us an infinite reward of God's love, because it makes us legitimate children of God: "In love [God] predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will." Being forgiven does not make us sons, but being united into Jesus Christ (who is both Divine and human), who is a Son of God, does make us sons of God and objects of the same love that Jesus receives from His Father!

          Jesus Christ our Prince and Savior earned this pleasure for us!  What a marvelous God Who saved us.  It is true that our Lord Jesus Christ has given us grace for grace.[10]  He not only removes our sins by His bloodshed, as a human dieing for our sins, but also earns for us an eternal reward of the Father's love.  Again this happened because He loved His Father as much as the Father's value and Beauty deserves.  Our wonderful God simply piles on grace on top of more grace over us, which is more like God giving a thirsty man the pacific ocean to drink, which is to say more than we could ever image.

         (2) We should worship, adore, marvel and admire our Lord Jesus for what He has done by the endless amount of honor displayed in His obedience to the Father.  Accordingly, we should be humbly and excitingly thankful to Him in all areas of our life and personal fellowship with Him.  Lastly, we should be boastful about His glory to this world.   We should not dishonor this obedience by disbelief or self-righteousness, but honor Him by believing in Him for the complete accomplishment of our salvation.

           Worship is an expression from us to Him for His marvelous grace to us.   We are to praise our God for His wonderful grace toward us that has made every area of our lives blessed.  Deep worship for our precious and marvelous God will arise in our hearts the better see our Savior's Glory displayed on the cross and what this Glory for us means. And the glory which He lavishes on us is nothing less and endless grace and love.

            (3)Also, this doctrine shows us why God punishes sinners in Hell for eternity.  Although we fail in comprehending the true magnitude and intensity of the Love of the Father for His Son, yet we can strongly see it and feel its weight by faith.  As we feel the love of God shone upon our hearts we can only imagine the intensity of God's love for His only begotten Son who without hesitation obeyed Him, even to the point of a brutal slaughtering of a cross.   The essence of the infinity of God's existence itself is none other than endless Holiness shone out in the brightest beauty and fellowship acted out in deepest enjoyment and pleasure.   Furthermore, from the Father's standpoint this infinite acting of His existence of enjoyment is centered and poured out into the Person of His Son, Jesus Christ.  Who is able comprehend such a Love?

         This then becomes our question: what would become of the love of God for His Son, seeing that Jesus Christ passed through infinite disvaluing and punishment for our sins, if sinners themselves, who actually committed sins, do not undergo an equivalent disvaluing or punishment?  The answer is the love, which the Father has for His Son, would not only be in question it would have failed His Son.

           God has publicly broadcasted, by divine revelation, of His endless love for His Son.  What then becomes of this if God would allow Christ to under infinite punishment for sins, which He did not commit (although agreed to have them imputed), if actual sinners whom God has already said He's angry with, lets them go without passing through infinite punishment?  Therefore, if God is to continue to uphold His endless love for His Son, then He must make unrepentant sinners undergo, in the least, the same degree of punishment His Son went through!

       Jesus having infinite value, being a partaker of the Supreme Being, even though He went though a day long suffering equated to an infinite degree of disvaluing, sorrow and suffering.  Christ possessing divine capacities for emotions and memories (being powered by the Spirit) concerning His love for His Father would experience far reaching amounts of suffering, having His Father turn His back on Him, in a short time frame. Christ did not only suffer as a human but as God, for He did not leave His divinity behind; therefore infinite Value suffered, meaning an infinite disvaluing happened.  Its total would be an untold degree of suffering. 

        Therefore, the only just way for a human, who is capable of only experiencing limited degrees of suffering, must be punished eternally.  This must be if a human is to equate the same degree of suffering the Lord Jesus went through.  Yet, it will never be as infinite as Jesus experienced as Jesus' infinity of worth and glory is more infinite than time itself or eternal punishment.  This shows the great degree love, which Jesus Christ gave to His Father, that He would go to the cross in loving obedience, although knowing how horrible it would be. 

         Conclusion: the guilty and wicked will be punished for eternity for if they were not then the love of Father would be in question.  But the goal of the Father is primarily about Glorifying Himself or to making His love for His Son public.  Therefore, how insured is the eternal damnation of the wicked, particularly in light of God's chief goal being, above all, centered on loving His Son in the most glorious and public way possible.

          Such knowledge should lead us to confess and forsake our sins, which we hold on so dearly.  Are such fleeting sins worth causing an infinite Being to be our enemy?  For the sinner this should be motivation to seriously look at their vain and wicked life.  All such persons have been personally invited by God's Son to enjoy His forgiveness and love for all eternity.  Let such person not look easily past this invitation of good news, for tomorrow may never come. 

          Also for the saint if your truest desire is to honor your God, then could you possibly be more counter productive than living disobediently to your Savior.  We are called to be in Christ and therefore, to be like Him.  He lovingly obeyed the Father, and so to this we are called!  Much of your love for God will be in question if your obedience is weak, being done with little zeal.  Let this not be for you.  If you wish to remain in God's love so as to honor Him, then do this by happily obeying Him.  John 15:9-10, "Abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in MY love, just as I have kept MY Father's commandments and abide in His love."

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[1] (See Romans 3:21-26 and chapter 9:20-23 / also consider Psalm 9:16, 138:6, 89:14 & Exodus 34:5-7 & Hosea 2:19 & Matthew 23:23)

In Romans 3 the central glory being accomplished and displayed, in Christ dieing for sinners, is His justice and mercy:" He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus."  Then in Exodus 34 (verse 6-7) God in the proclaiming of what His Glory is states that it is both that God is: (1) "compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth;  who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin." And (2) "yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."  Here we see to distinct categories, the first being that of love, compassion and forgiving mercy.  The second category is comprised of authoritative justice even as vengeance.  From God's own mouth He proclaims that central essence of His glory is concerning that He, the Almighty High God, is personally shining forth in lovingkindness even to the point of forgiving mercy and of perfect vengeful justice.  This according to God is what makes Him so beautiful.  This is what Jesus Christ displayed in dieing for sinners.  This is why God planned above all things for sending His Son, so that the truest picture of His Glory might be displayed and enjoyed.  It was out of infinite love to His Father and particularly the love to have this true Glory of His Father display that Jesus effectively obeyed His Father in the most perfect and honoring way possible.  Jesus Christ Himself even said this was the finer points of His Father's Glory: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe [yet] have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done."  The law was a tutor (Gal. 3:24) concerning the coming of Jesus and the glory He would reveal.  These weightier matters of the law concerning mercy and justice are the weightier glories that Jesus Himself would reveal of the true nature of this Father and Himself!

[2] Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:5 & Ephesians 5:31

[3] Ephesians 2:7, "In the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."

[4] Psalm 2:8 and Hebrews 9:15-18

[5] Matthew 17:5 and Luke 3:22

[6] Hebrews 10:12

[7] Hebrews 9:12

[8] Hebrews 9:15

[9] John 17:3

[10] John 1:16

[11] Malachi 4:2

[12] John 17:21, "[I pray] that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me."

[13] 1 Corinthians 12:27, "Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually."

[14] 2 Corinthians 11:2, "For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ."

[15] 2 Corinthians 5:21, "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

[16] NIV

[17] NIV

[18] Hebrews 9:12