The Father’s Love to the Son
Matthew 3:17, 17:5; 2 Peter 1:17; John 17:24
The Father’s Love to the Son is the very foundation of the gospel. The Father cannot be an enemy of Him Who is His very heart. When the Son put on His people’s sin, He met the anger of an offended Judge, not the enmity of an offended Father. Even when His God forsook Him, as He hung surrounded with the terrible garment of our sin, and His human soul wanted all sensible comfort, He was the Object, amid all His woe, on Whom Eternal Love was resting. The great triumph of the cross is this, that He who hung there was more pleasing in His Father’s sight than even sin was hateful–that sin should be consumed, and yet the Love remain!!! Had this love not been as full as ever, as high as ever–had there been an interruption of it but a moment–our salvation would be hopeless. But while Christ took on Him what was due to us, He did not lose, He could not lose, what was Eternally His Own; the light of Everlasting Love did not forsake, and could not forsake the Temple where it dwelled. George Smeaton (1814-1889)
Matthew 3:17, 17:5; 2 Peter 1:17; John 17:24
The Father’s Love to the Son is the very foundation of the gospel. The Father cannot be an enemy of Him Who is His very heart. When the Son put on His people’s sin, He met the anger of an offended Judge, not the enmity of an offended Father. Even when His God forsook Him, as He hung surrounded with the terrible garment of our sin, and His human soul wanted all sensible comfort, He was the Object, amid all His woe, on Whom Eternal Love was resting. The great triumph of the cross is this, that He who hung there was more pleasing in His Father’s sight than even sin was hateful–that sin should be consumed, and yet the Love remain!!! Had this love not been as full as ever, as high as ever–had there been an interruption of it but a moment–our salvation would be hopeless. But while Christ took on Him what was due to us, He did not lose, He could not lose, what was Eternally His Own; the light of Everlasting Love did not forsake, and could not forsake the Temple where it dwelled. George Smeaton (1814-1889)
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