If God is For Us (Romans 8:31-34)
"If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31b)
What a brilliant and memorable way to think about the Christian life!
(By the way, I feel like every week in Romans 8 I say some form of, "One of the most famous verses in the Bible." I don't know what to tell you - Romans 8 is an amazing chapter).
This week at Grace, we'll be continuing through Romans 8, looking at verses 31-34. It is a fitting crescendo on all that Paul has been describing about the gospel in the first eight chapters of Romans.
If God is for us (and everything we see in the gospel shows that He is), then our experiences of opposition, accusation and condemnation in this world are fleeting, at best.
This is, of course, very different from how we experience the world on a day to day basis. We may organize our lives around avoiding opposition or criticism, and act as if the opinions of people around us matter more than God's opinion.
Do you recognize a need for more gospel-confidence in your life? Are you letting the critical voices of people in this world crowd out the approval of God through Christ?
Let's talk about it Sunday at Grace.
In Christ,
Pastor Bob
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 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? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
- Romans 8:31-34
