Romans 8:31-39

If God is for you nothing else matters! 

I am doing a reading, in lieu of my 87 year old Father, for my nephew’s wedding in Newtown, CT how fitting it is. Evil may try to destroy your faith but it cannot succeed. Cling to that faith which is your gift from the Father in the salvation of the Cross and everything will work out. In Christ all things are possible and the same Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is is able to get you safely home.

justification

noun

there's no justification: grounds, reason, basis, rationale, premise, rationalization, vindication, explanation; defense, argument, apologia, apology, case.

The apostle struggles for words to describe the absolute certainty of God’s love for believers. Nothing hard or dangerous, neither death nor life, can separate us.

If God, the uncreated One, is for us, and no created thing can separate us, then our security in Him is absolute.

Romans 8:31-39

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 delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

³⁷ Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁹ Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.” 

Numbers 14:9

⁶ For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 

Romans 5:6

¹⁸ “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

John 3:18

²⁵ Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. 

Hebrews 7:25

⁹ Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, 

2 Corinthians 1:9