Romans 8: 33-39
No one can bring any charge against us
Because God is the One Who justifies
God justified us through His Son’s blood
God’s holy judgement is met
With the perfect and holy punishment
In the form of His
One and Only
Holy
Spotless
Son
Having died for us on the cross
Therefore no one can condemn us
No not one
The resurrected Christ Himself intercedes for us at the right hand
of God
God’s Holy Son
Who died on the cross for our sins
Has resurrected from the dead
His resurrection is the proof that
Our punishment
Fully paid for by Him
Was fully accepted by the Holy God
Who then can separate us from the love of Christ
No circumstances
No trouble or hardship
No situations
No persecution or famine
No nakedness
No danger or sword
Nothing
Even as we experience hardships
Even when we experience as though
We are sheep to be slaughtered
Even as we face death in the face
For the sake of the Gospel
Nothing
For nothing can keep us from being conquerors
through Him Who loved us
No life’s situations
Not death nor life
No rulers nor powers
Not angels nor demons nor any powers
No time boundaries
Not the present nor the future
No spatial constraints
Not height nor depth
Nor anything else
in all creation
Will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus Our Lord
For God loves us too much
To allow a separation between Him and us
Between His love
For us
His
Beloved
1 Therefore, there is now no
condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus
the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and
death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the
flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a
sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the
righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live
according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 Those who live according to the
flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in
accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is
life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not
submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the
flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the realm
of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God
lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not
belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is
subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of
righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is
living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your
mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
12 Therefore, brothers and sisters,
we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. 13
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you
put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
14 For those who are led by the
Spirit of God are the children of God. 15 The Spirit you received does not make
you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received
brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now
if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if
indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
18 I consider that our present
sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be
revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own
choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the
creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into
the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of
childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who
have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our
adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were
saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already
have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know
what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through
wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the
Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the
will of God.
28 And we know that in all things God
works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his
purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the
image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and
sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also
justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31 What, then, shall we say in
response 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,
along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is
God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus
who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and
is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or
sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered
as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am
convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the
present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor
anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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