NOTES for Rom 8:31-39
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? |
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? |
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. |
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. |
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. |
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that 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 creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
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The words of the apostle Paul always strike us with their astonishing power and confidence. After reading this passage, no doubt remains that the Lord truly will not abandon us under any circumstances. The love of God is so great and strong that nothing on earth or in heaven, nothing around a person or in his inner world, can overcome it. These words can lift a person from the depths of despair and give him strength to go on.
If the confidence of Paul, who did not even meet Jesus during His earthly life, could be so absolute, then how strong must the faith have been of those who saw the light of Tabor. Clearly it was this burning faith, and not the moral and ethical system of Christianity, that made the appearance of the Church possible.
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