WATER  (Rom 8:35)  “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?…. (36)  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (37)  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” How is it that verse thirty-six agrees with verse thirty-seven? Answer: this life should not be the Christian’s desire, resting place, or focus. Christ’s love in salvation takes us to where life will never end.

(Rom 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? (36)  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”  The various trials of verse thirty-five have to do with our stand for the cause of Christ. Man cannot take from us what God has given. Message: stand fast for His glory’s sake.

 (Rom 8:35)  “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?… (38)  For I am persuaded, that [nothing – inserted by  me].. .(39)…..shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  Since…God loved us so much He gave His Son when we were sinners before salvation, that He really would take it away after salvation? Yes, He will chasten the sinner and may even take his life, but not his eternal life: (1Co_3:15)  “If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”

(Rom 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.”  This reminds me of Job’s friends, blaming his trials on sinful actions. Job expressed longing: (Job_9:33) “Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.” For the saved, that Man is the Lord Jesus.  Men may accuse us; Satan may accuse us (Rev. 12:10), but Jesus’ hands testify of the justification of the saved. 

(Rom 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.”  Even Satan’s accusations mean nothing, for the Lord Jesus has paid for my sin, the Judge of the Universe has pronounced me innocent (justified), and my Justifier (Rom 3:26) sits at God’s own right hand making intercession for me. Glory!

(Rom 8:33) “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.”  “Justified”: pronounced innocent of the crime. God, the Eternal Judge of All Men has passed sentence upon every saved Child of God – justified. Who, then, can say they are guilty. None. No one has the authority, the right, to say otherwise.

(Rom 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?”  God our Father went to the extreme in saving our souls, giving His Own Son to take our place of punishment. Therefore the opposite extreme is also ours – blessing beyond our imagination!

(Rom 8:31)  “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”  That is, who can keep us from our inheritance? There are those who would say, “We can keep ourselves from it – lose it.” If spirit-life died, it could not rightly be called “everlasting life”. It could not be called “salvation”, for it did not save from hell. We did not earn it. Then how could we possible keep it? (Rom 11:29)  “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” He never takes it back.

 (Rom 8:30) “Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”  Notice that although you and I are still here upon this earth, still fighting our old nature, still enduring sickness and ailments, yet it is said we are “glorified”. In the mind of God, the end result – our resurrection – has occurred: (Eph 2:5) “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) (6)  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:”