I read somewhere that our brains are most neuroplastic during the first hour upon waking up. I was reading that on my cellphone in bed, upon waking up.
So I closed my eyes and napped a little longer, before waking up again and opening the Bible app… where I was reading Romans 8 last time. Here’s where I saw how though it’s nice to say Romans 8 is my favorite chapter of the Bible and Romans 8:37-39 are some of my favorite verses, it’s also nice to keep going back to it. You find so much in the context.
Who can be against us?
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?Romans 8:31-32
No matter who comes against us, God is for us. Jesus Christ is God’s only begotten Son, in Whom He is well pleased.
He said this twice – first, at His baptism, when the Holy Spirit descended upon Him as a dove, in the presence of John the Baptist and his congregation (where the Pharisees were also lurking). God also commended Christ in this way in the presence of the greatest of priests (Moses), and the greatest of prophets (Elijah) before the lowliest of men (Peter, James and John).
God is for us, in that He freely delivered up His Christ, in whom He was well pleased, for us all.
God is for us, and freely gives us all things, again, because He freely delivered up His Christ, in whom He was well pleased, for us all.
Who Shall Bring A Charge Against God’s Elect?
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Romans 8:33
“For the Lord GOD will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, And I know that I will not be ashamed. He is near who justifies Me;
Who will contend with Me? Let us stand together.
Who is My adversary? Let him come near Me.
Surely the Lord GOD will help Me; Who is he who will condemn Me?
Indeed they will all grow old like a garment; The moth will eat them up.
Isaiah 50:7-9
We say we are justified by the Word that says that we stand with Christ, the One whom God justified.
We are justified, and safe. Therefore,
7 A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.
8 Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked.Psalms 91:7-8
“Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys the voice of His Servant? Who walks in darkness And has no light?
Let him trust in the name of the LORD And rely upon his God.
Look, all you who kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with sparks:
Walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks you have kindled— This you shall have from My hand: You shall lie down in torment.
Isaiah 50:10-11
Who is he who condemns?
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. Romans 8:34
‘Condemns‘ – katakrinō / kat-ak-ree’-no / From G2596 and G2919; to judge against, that is, sentence: – condemn, damn.
Though we may be judged against, though we may be damned and sentenced in the eyes of the enemy, Christ, who is Justified, makes intercession for us.
On condemnation – once, we refused the light. Once, we were created sinners, who loved the darkness. We who were condemned, condemned – our deeds were evil. Though the light has come into the world, we loved the darkness.
“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. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John 3:18-19
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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.
Romans 8:35-37
We are more than conquerors through Christ, in whom we trust. Charges were brought against Him first, yet He was justified first. Christ was condemned first, and He was the One who died first; Yet He was the One who rose again.
Now, because we believe in Him, because we trust in Him, we are in awe of the truth: That He justified us, He intercedes for us. This is the love of Christ for us in tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword.
The Justified One justified us. The Resurrected One intercedes for us, and nothing can separate us from His love. We are more than conquerors through Him.
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.Romans 8:38-39
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