Who shall lay any charge against God's elect? Principalities in the demonic world or Satan and his angels cannot separate us from the love of Christ, nor can anything that happens today or tomorrow. The one who justifies is the judge of all, and He has declared us just by the imputation of the perfect righteousness of Christ. Sproul, published by Crossway Books © 2009. God spared nothing, not even His Son, so that we might be saved. He could not stand that Christianity exalted virtues like mercy, love, and pity. If we do not like the idea of God's sovereign grace, if we are still kicking against it, why? The Latin is even better—super vinceˉmus: in all these things we are supermen through him who loved us. He has conquered the world. Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. Who can rightly bring any charge against Jesus? Brent Kercheville March 7, 2010 Click here to listen to this lesson. 38-39). ( John 8:46). (v. 35). It is foolish, therefore, to worry about the slander of men. (Romans 8:32). The things Paul anticipates here are not exhaustive; this list is representative. His inheritance is the world and everything in it. God has not pardoned or exonerated us, but having clothed us with the righteousness of Christ He has pronounced His verdict of righteous. Christ's perfect obedience is transferred to the account of all who put their faith in him. I’ll have you 3 kids stand here and I’ll have you 3 children stand here. God gave His Son to redeem His elect, those who are a part of the Golden Chain. Those who live a life of uncertainty thinking they can lose their salvation if they fail to persevere to the end need only remember the finest flower in God's garden, the tulip. What matters is where the court sits, and it sits at the right hand of God. God has forgiven us (Romans 8:33) - declared us righteous in Christ, although Satan would like to accuse us, we are in Christ. Today’s bible lesson is found in Romans 8:31. Paul says that because the Son died for us and the Father did not spare him, He will also give us everything that He gives His Son. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? It was on Mount Moriah, later named Mount Calvary, just outside the city of Jerusalem, where, one thousand years after Abraham's experience, our Savior on the night before His death went into the garden of Gethsemane and sweat drops of blood pleading with the Father to allow the cup to pass from him. If we have been saved, we are safe from anything this world can put against us because God from all eternity has loved and redeemed us. We may feel at times that God has departed from us, but that is when we have to believe His Word rather than our feelings. How can we not understand the posture of God toward His people after He has gone to such lengths to effect our redemption? A Bible Object lesson typically utilizes common everyday objects paired with a biblical message. I always think of Nietzsche when I read Paul's words about our being more than conquerors in pestilence, tribulation, peril, and sword and in being led as sheep to the slaughter. When Stephen's enemies stoned him, they acted with great fury, gnashing their teeth in hatred. He is defiant to the end. "Nevertheless," Jesus said, "not what I will, but what You will" (Mark 14:36). Nietzsche argued that what most defines humanness is the will to power. How different that is from Jesus' charge to His people: "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). He said to His contemporaries, "Which of you convicts Me of sin?" Article Images Copyright © 2020 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. Paul is speaking in the language of logic, even of a syllogism, which gives a first premise and then a second premise and then rushes toward a conclusion. The verdict is in. Condemnation is gone. Sproul is founder and president of ligonier ministries, and the author of the truth of the cross. When we read such language in Romans 8, how can we not think back to Genesis 22, where God commanded Abraham to offer his son Isaac, the son whom he loved, on the altar at Mount Moriah? Christ loves us (Romans 8:35-39) - Nothing can ever separate us from His love. In that moment of the grand passion of Christ, the Father said no. (Romans 8:31).Paul sets forth that phrase in a conditional sense; in other words, the language suggests a kind of uncertainty. What about depth? In obedience Abraham took his son on an arduous journey and placed him on the altar, bound in ropes, and he lifted up the knife to slay him, but at the last second God stopped him: "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him" (Genesis 22:12). (v. 35). Satan works to bring every conceivable slanderous charge against God's elect. This superman would serve as an example of authentic human existence, the father of biological heroism. Christ is the one sitting at the right hand of the Father, and Christ is the one who intercedes for us every day. Romans 8:31-39, Who Will Separate Us From The Love of Christ? His tombstone reads, Athanasius contra mundum, that is, "Athanasius against the world." All rights reserved. When people are rescued from an almost certain doom at the last second, we say that they have been spared a disaster that was about to befall them. He is our great high priest, pleading our case before God every minute. Knowing I had not played for some time, my father offered me a word of advice: “Bobby, until you build up your confidence, why don’t you drive with an iron at first?” “Pop,” I responded, “I have all the confidence in the world. The apostle says "If God is for us," as if it were a matter open to some doubt or further speculation, but Paul is not indicating uncertainty about God's being for us. Athanasius was driven into exile countless times. We could just as easily translate it with the word, Compiled & Edited by BST & Crosswalk Staff, Compiled & Edited by BibleStudyTools Staff, romans: the righteous shall live by faith, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. What can be sillier than to bring accusations against those who have been redeemed through the blood of the Lamb? "If God is for us who can be against us?" Because of Christ's perfect obedience for us, the Father bestows every conceivable blessing upon him. Below you will find all of the Sunday school lessons from Romans taught by Pastor Welder in the adult Sunday school class. Nietzsche also declared that life is meaningless and that there are no real values. So when Paul asks, "If God is for us," he is writing syllogistically, not with respect to uncertainty. Paul continues with his list of questions. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. These lessons are outlined as expository studies so that you get both a doctrinal study of the verses as well as a spiritual lesson. He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. God commanded Abraham to spare his son. He lays against God's elect every conceivable charge that he can bring; yet, there is no work more futile, which is why Paul mocks Satan with this question. (v. 33). We are hyper-conquerors. Paul sets forth that phrase in a conditional sense; in other words, the language suggests a kind of uncertainty. Men could throw Joseph in prison for years, but they could not separate Joseph from the love of his God. It is just as futile for anyone to lay a charge against us as it is to lay a charge against Christ, because we are clothed in His righteousness. Sproul has thoroughly and concisely analyzed weighty theological, philosophical, and biblical topics in books, seminars and "Right Now Counts Forever," his monthly column in Ligonier Ministries' Table Talk magazine. He never stops harassing us and getting at our consciences, telling us how wicked we are and that we do not deserve to be in fellowship with Christ. My mother taught me to say, "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me." It is Christ who died; it is Christ who was raised for our justification; it is Christ who ascended to the right hand of God, where He is seated in the position of cosmic authority. 33-34). We have a superman, an Übermensch, in Christ. He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? This passage says “If God is for us, who can be against us?” I want to have some fun this morning and show explain to you what this bible verse means.

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