Romans 8:32 - “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?”
Calvin:
As it greatly concerns us to be so thoroughly persuaded of the paternal love of God, as to be able to retain our rejoicing on its account, Paul brings forward the price of our redemption in order to prove that God favors us: and doubtless it is a remarkable and clear evidence of inappreciable love, that the Father refused not to bestow his Son for our salvation. And so Paul draws an argument from the greater to the less, that as he had nothing dearer, or more precious, or more excellent than his Son, he will neglect nothing of what he foresees will be profitable to us.
I recently taught on a Wednesday night at our church on the topic if parental affection, wherein we spent time considering the affection that God, our perfect Father, has for the Son.
We spent a bit of time considering Matthew 3:16-17 - “And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.’"
Jesus is the agapetos, the beloved of God. The object of the Father’s delight and affection, in whom is all his delight.
It’s unspeakably incredible to consider that the church would take on the same title: the beloved. So great is the Father’s love for the Son, and yet it is the very same love which is extended to us in Him. The pleasure that the Father takes in the Son, He takes in us through Him.
John 17:22-23 - “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”
1 John 3:1 - “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.”