Verse 32
God’s plan for us cost Him dearly. He did not spare His own Son (cf. Genesis 22). Having made the greatest possible sacrifice for us already, we can know that He will also do whatever else may be necessary to conform us to the image of His Son (cf. 2 Peter 1:3).
"If you buy a costly watch at the jeweller’s, he sends it to you in a lovely case which he gives you freely-with your purchase. . . . For ’all things’ of this created universe,-yea, even all gifts or blessings God may give us, here or hereafter, are but nothing, compared with Christ!" [Note: Newell, p. 337.]
"Romans 5:8-10; Romans 8:32 appear to me to be unanswerable texts for those who deny the scriptural teaching of Christ’s substitutionary atonement. These passages state plainly that, if Jesus gave Himself for us in atonement, everything else must follow because, having done the most that He could do in dying as our substitute, the lesser things-such as conviction of sin, repentance, effectual grace, faith-must inevitably follow. God’s great eternal purpose, expressed so beautifully in Romans 8:28-30, must reach its fruition in glorification for all those for whom He died." [Note: S. Lewis Johnson Jr., "Behold the Lamb: The Gospel and Substitutionary Atonement," in The Coming Evangelical Crisis, p. 134.]
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