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God’s Amazing Everlasting Love for His Elect

God’s Amazing Everlasting Love for His Elect. Romans 8:31-39 Pg. 835 (pew Bible). Romans 8:31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?. To what things? (see vs. 29). What Things?. What more could be said about a God who

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God’s Amazing Everlasting Love for His Elect

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  1. God’s Amazing Everlasting Love for His Elect Romans 8:31-39 Pg. 835 (pew Bible)

  2. Romans 8:31 • What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? To what things? (see vs. 29)

  3. What Things? • What more could be said about a God who • Foreknew those who would be saved • Predestined a plan of salvation • Calls men and women to Himself through Jesus • Freely justifies sinners by grace through faith • And will one day fully glorify these mortal believers Paul seems to be saying that there is nothing more that could be added to this

  4. Romans 8:31 • Q: Is there anything more that could be said about this Awesome God? • A: Yes! If God be for us [and He is], who can be against us?

  5. Since God is for us, there isn’t anyone or anything of significance that can be against us Is the essence of this entire passage of Scripture

  6. This idea that there can be no one or nothing of significance against me can only be reconciled with Romans 8:28

  7. 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? In an attempt to quantify God’s great love, Paul takes us to the cross.

  8. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

  9. Someone Says What about a wife? Wouldn’t giving up a wife be a stronger witness to love?

  10. Ephesians 5:25 • Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; And Turn to Romans 5:6-9

  11. Romans 8:33 • When the God of the Universe declares you righteous, who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? • This goes back to Romans 8:1. • You cannot live the abundant life if you will not forgive yourself for your sin.

  12. Romans 8:34 • Who is he that condemneth? • It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

  13. Fact (in my opinion) The reason we don’t get as excited about this as we should is because poverty, cancer or a common cold bother us more than our sin.

  14. Romans 8:34 • Who is he that condemneth? • It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. When you are in Christ Jesus, NO ONE can condemn you! Not even yourself!

  15. Commentary • No one, then, is able to successfully bring any charge against us or to cause us to be condemned in the judgment. For it is God who has chosen us and justified us and his own Son who answers any indictment brought against us. D. A. Carson

  16. So then can we live like we want with no concern for God’s judgment on our sin? Romans 6:15

  17. Romans 8:35 • Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? • “Us” is only God’s Elect! (see vs. 33)

  18. Romans 8:35 • Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Paul speaks from personal experience.

  19. The Promise is NOT: Permanent Prosperity or No Struggles or Suffering or Even Life!

  20. Romans 8:36 Dying for Christ • Is a direct quote of Psalms 44:22 in the LXX • For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. God’s Elect being slaughtered for the cause of Christ!

  21. January 8, 1956 Five Missionaries Martyred in Ecuador What should we think about this?

  22. Question Did our Sovereign God lose to Satan on January 8, 1956, on the airstrip in Ecuador?

  23. Romans 8:37 • Nay, [YET] in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Five Martyrs Doesn’t Look Anything Like Conquerors

  24. Answer #1 • There must be more to life than life on this planet, or we are NOT more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

  25. Answer #2 • Five martyrs dying, without defending themselves with the guns they had, directly contributed to the satanic hold over the Waorani Indians being conquered.

  26. Answer #3 • Victory over hate/bitterness. • Steve Saint has dedicated his entire life to working with the people who killed his father.

  27. Romans 8:38-39 Fully Convinced • For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  28. Romans 8:38-39 • For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels [holy angels], nor principalities [fallen angels], nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  29. Romans 8:38-39 • For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  30. Romans 8:38-39 • For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  31. Our Conclusion Acts 7:54-60

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