ROMANS 8
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
YOU ANSWER THE QUESTION?
Romans chapter 8 is an absolute masterpiece in the rich tapestry of scripture and it paints a vivid and beautiful picture.
As Paul brings this chapter to a climax, he asks this amazing question.
What can we say to these things, what things you may ask? Well, the first 30 verses of the chapter to be precise.. The answer is to shout HALLELUJAH.. amen.
Read Verses 1-30 of this chapter and the only answer is one of unending praise, wonder, amazement and joy, that God would justify you, call you his son and daughter.
The second question is this, If God is for us, who can be against us? Again, Paul leaves it up to us, to answer the question, and the one answer is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OR NOBODY.
Christian you have to look in the light of scripture and see what God says. God says you are under no condemnation, that you are his child, that he hears your prayers and that the present suffering you are going through is just a little pinprick compared to the glory that will be revealed in heaven.
God stands in your corner believer, he is your rear-guard, your strong tower, your refuge and your all in all. He says that you are justified before Him through the blood of his Son shed on Calvary. He has graven you on the palms of his hands.
It is time to shout Hallelujah to the first question and to say nothing or no one to the second.. amen
As ever I refer to the great bible commentator Matthew Henry
The ground of the challenge is God’s being for us; in this he sums up all our privileges. This includes all, that God is for us; not only reconciled to us, and so not against us, but in covenant with us, and so engaged for us—all his attributes for us, his promises for us. All that he is, and has, and does, is for his people. He performs all things for them. He is for them, even when he seems to act against them. And, if so, who can be against us, so as to prevail against us, so as to hinder our happiness? Be they ever so great and strong, ever so many, ever so might, ever so malicious, what can they do? While God is for us, and we keep in his love, we may with a holy boldness defy all the powers of darkness. Let Satan do his worst, he is chained; let the world do its worst, it is conquered: principalities and powers are spoiled and disarmed, and triumphed over, in the cross of Christ. Who then dares fight against us, while God himself is fighting for us?
God bless you
Keith
ROMANS 8
32 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?
A FREE GIFT
If we look back to Genesis 22, we see the picture of Abraham obeying God regarding Isaac his son. What God said to Abraham was that he had not withheld his son from God. Isaac was the special son and his true treasure but he didn’t withhold Him from God.
We now go forward over two thousand years and see that in the same way, God did not withhold his Son to be our Saviour. He knew it would lead to his death on the cross.
He gave his son to be delivered in to the hands of the Jewish rulers and the Romans. He gave the ultimate gift to us. His SON to be our Saviour.
Why then do we doubt God when He doesn’t give us what we want? If God gave us everything our hearts required then believe me, we would be in a very sorry state. He gives us all things, but those things which are needful and will lead us closer to HIM. Sure, he blesses us with material gifts, but the spiritual gifts he gives us, will never fade away amen.
Never doubt God, he gave up the most precious thing he had, his Son. for us.
He did not spare him, God the father’s heart was broken at the cross, some of you have lost a child, which is heart-breaking, maybe you can understand the true pain of the father’s heart.
Believer, He gave you Jesus. And he gives everything that amounts to life and godliness.
Jesus.. what a gift.. amen
If God has given us salvation through Christ, giving his son for us, do you think, he will withhold any good thing from us?. He is the giver of every good and perfect gift.. amen.
The reformation study bible says this:
He who did not spare his own Son. Paul’s words are an effective echo of the Septuagint (Greek translation) text of Gen. 22:12.
gave him up. The phrase is used elsewhere of active participation in the judicial condemnation of Christ (Matt. 20:19; 26:15, 16; 27:2, 18, 26; cf. Is. 53:6, 10).
for us all. Even for the worst of us who now believe (3:9–18; 5:6–8). Once more, as in 5:9, 10, Paul reasons from the greater to the less: for God to give His Son to die for us was the supreme gift, guaranteeing the subsequent gift of everything else that we need for our full and final glory (v. 30).
God bless you
Keith