Example King David after committing adultery and murder is confronted by the prophet Nathan. Nathan says, "Why have you despised the word of the Lord?" (2 Samuel 12:9). David admits he has sinned and then Nathan basically says that's ok God has forgiven you. If God is a righteous Judge then God must punish David for murdering a good man. But God just "passed over" it. Therefore Christ in a since, first of all dies for the Father that He might be righteous in what He does as the Divine Judge. It would be unrighteous for a judge in America to let a convicted murderer, who killed your child go free without any punishment. This is why Christ died according to Romans 3 to vindicate His Fathers Name for passing over sin without punishment. Christ became their punishment. But yet it still goes deeper than this.

What is deeper is Christ's love and desire for the Father above all things.

            Hebrews 10:5-7, "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come -(In the volume of the book it is written of Me)-- To do Your will, O God."

            God the Father needed a worthy sacrifice, because He says, "in burnt offerings...for sin you(God the Father) have no pleasure." And this is because "it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins." Therefore the Son who came from God's own bosom (John 1:18) steps forward and said, "behold I have come to do your will, O God." Now if we look at Psalm 40:7-8 where Paul quotes the verses found in Hebrews 10:5-7, we see the deeper meaning come through. (Psalm 40:7-8) "Behold I have come...I delight to do your will, O my God". Also note that Christ said in His own words, (John 14:31), "But that the world may know that I love the Father."

            If you delight to do someone's will, it reflects most profoundly that you delight in the person them-self. God the Father needed someone to take away the sins of the world to vindicate His Name and to righteously bring those elected persons to Himself. Christ therefore, out of Love and Delight for His Father said He would do it. Thus Christ first and foremost even beyond His love for the church, Loved His Father. But why is this important for us to know?

            We in the modern church seem to think that Christ died first and foremost out of love for us. But as we have seen this is not the case, although it is true Christ does love mankind with an infinitely great love, which is impossible to overstate.  So it might come across a bit of a shock to understand God loves God more than us. But the question begs to be asked; if God loves God above all things then there must be a good reason for it. And there must be a good reason since the Wise God has communicated this reality to the church.

            As I have shown, by Gods grace, time and time again, God is above all things, passionate for His Glory and that His Glory is properly communicated for all to admire and enjoy. And lastly I have tried to show how Christ has made known the Glory of the visible God to the world. And it is no different in this reality of which we are presently discussing. 

            Christ's' love for the Father in that He came and died a criminals death, shows how Great and Wonderful the Father must really be if He would gladly follow His will, even to the point of a cross. By Christ's death being above all, even above His love for the Church, love for His Heavenly Father, communicates how Infinitely Admirable and Cherish-able God really is. Christ loves the Father so much and the infinite energy of pleasure they share in communion that He, with out hesitation, but with infinite "delight" said, "Behold I have come...I delight to do your will, O my God". Which is why Christ also said when it came down to why He came to the earth in the first place says in John 12:27-28, "But for this purpose I have come to this hour, Father, glorify Your Name."

            Thus Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in His death and resurrection communicates the true worth, beauty and Glory of the Father by prizing Him above all. Which is why Christ said in His last prayer in John 17:5 "And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was."

          Jesus, who unlike us, has infinite knowledge of all things, and with this knowledge clearly and unanimously, understood that God is to be loved above all things, at all cost. We as humans don't have all knowledge and therefore our best conclusions are lacking. Therefore let us look to Christ who understanding all things for He," did not consider it robbery to be equal with God"(Phil. 2:6) and yet, "has become a servant to the circumcision for the truth of God"(Rom. 15:8), and "became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross"(Phil. 2:8), and He did this above all because He "delighted" to do His Fathers will.

          If this does not clearly communicate how Great and Wonderful it must be to know such a God, then nothing will. In Colossian 1:27 the Gospel is boiled down to this is simple phrase by the apostle Paul, "Christ in you, the hope of glory." The Gospel of the "grace of God", above all things, gives us the "hope", through Christ, of knowing this Majestic and Almighty God forever. (John 17:24)

            To the Christian Christ is always the example to follow and it is no different when it comes to the first commandment.  Christ fully demonstrated, by His life and death, what it means to "love your God with all your heart, mind soul and strength."  Thus Christ makes known, through His eternal Love for the Father, that God is the total and absolute sum of all true Glory and Beauty. Which gives the creature, through the hope and forgiveness found in Christ, that by this hope they might know the pleasure, which comes when one intimately knows the Almighty God who dwells in "unapproachable light". Jude 1:25, "To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen."