The cross is the danger signal to you - Spurgeon FB meme

 A FB friend posted this:

Me: As much as I like Spurgeon, I think he is misusing the word "spare." Romans 8:32 is the verse he's mis-citing.

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  The NKJV also uses the word spare so it might be a translation difference. Also the word ‘spare’ here is not used as an ‘exception to the rules’, so to speak. Rather it’s used as demonstration and amplification of the concept that while He, did not have to/ was not bound to, dying on the cross for our sins out of some transaction out of some failing of His own, but rather that even though He was innocent of all sin the Father did not spare Him this agony and suffering - for our sake. Thereby, if we are without Christ then we will not be spared since we are actually guilty, compared to Jesus being clear of all sin and yet not being spared from the sufferings of our sin as He obeyed the Father completely without exception.

  
  

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  It sounds like Spurgeon is telling us the same fate awaits us as Jesus, that is, God destroyed Jesus and He'll surely destroy us if we keep it up.

  Romans 8:32 does not say this. "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"

  God did not spare Jesus, that is, He handed Him over for us as the sacrificial lamb. This is the reason Paul gives for us receiving good things.