This is amazing! I heard it the first time through my favorite preacher of all time (Paul Washer). The way John imagines & articulates this conversation between the Son & Father is wonderful. I had to put it near my desk at work; I read it at least once a day. It just makes you want to worship Christ all the more for what He has done for us. I hope all who read it are blessed by it. I need to purchase this entire book.
Introduction: Here you may suppose the Father to say when driving his bargain with Christ for you.
Father: “My Son, here is a company of poor miserable souls, that have utterly undone themselves, and now lie open to my justice! Justice demands satisfaction for them, or will satisfy itself in the eternal ruin of them: What shall be done for these souls?
Son: “O Father, such is my love to, and pity for them, that rather than they shall perish eternally, I will be responsible for them as their guarantee; bring in all thy bills, that I may see what they owe thee; Lord, bring them all in, that there may be no after-reckonings with them. At my hand shall you require it. I will rather choose to suffer their wrath than they should suffer it: upon me, my Father, upon me be all their debt.”
Father: “But, my Son, if thou undertake for them, thou must reckon to pay the last mite, expect no abatement; if I spare them, I will not spare thee.”
Son: “Content Father, let it be so; charge it all upon me, I am able to discharge it: and though it prove a kind of undoing to me, though it impoverish all my riches, empty all my treasures, I am content to undertake it.
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