God’s Love Makes Us…

Romans 8:31-39

I. Introduction

A. Sunday School teacher telling a person in class that God does not love everyone, using Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated. But, we long to be loved by God when the World’s idea of love is so bad

B. What shall we say to these things?

1. Freedom, life, adoption, glory, intercession

2. More specifically to the way that God has our eternal security laid out from eternity past to eternity future

II. Unstoppable (31-32)

A. Explanation

1. If God is for us, who can be against us?

a. This comes from the previous verse which states that the believer will be glorified – Christ will. Get Him there to the end

b. The answer is No One!

2. We know it because the price for our salvation and sanctification – He gave up His only Son

3. If He is willing to give His own Son, what will He not give for our salvation – The answer is Nothing!

4. He will graciously give us all things – All things necessary for our salvation and glorification

B. Illustration – Abraham asked to sacrifice his own son. He was not allowed to follow through. Not only could he not atone for the sins of all people, he also was meant to be an example to us of the difficulty of sacrificing a son. God followed through in offering His own son as a sacrifice for our sin. What amazing love that God did not withhold His Son from the cross.

C. Application

1. When it comes to the pathway of glory there is nothing that can stop us

2. We are His workmanship created for good works

3. Philippians 1:6 (ESV) — 6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

4. As God’s work we are unstoppable on the path to becoming fully like Christ and glorified

III. Unimpeachable (33-34)

A. Explanation

1. Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?

a. Not denying the hardships of Christians or that we can be opposed

b. The question is, who can bring a charge against the ones chosen by God to be His own

c. He is the offended party in our sin

d. And yet he is the one who paid the penalty for our sin to save us

e. There is none more offended than Him and none who has done more to redeem us

2. This should give us comfort

a. When Satan seeks to accuse us

b. When our conscience seeks to shame us

c. When others seek to diminish us

d. We are fully forgiven; the sin is outed and paid for in Christ

3. Who is it that condemns?

a. No one – The perfect and highest judge has dealt with our sin

b. To deny this would be to deny the efficacy of the cross of Jesus

4. Why Christ is powerful to forgive our sin

a. He died – for us

b. He was raised – victorious over death

c. At the right hand of God – serving in the perfect position as God

d. Interceding for us – He is the great intercessor before God – He is our advocate having saved us

i. 1 John 2:1 - My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

B. Application

1. You have become unimpeachable

a. Not that we are perfect

b. But the sin has been dealt with

c. There is none who can brings a new charge against us as all our sin was dealt with on the cross

2. There is nothing left to convict you of if you are in Christ.

3. Your guilt and shame have been dealt with

IV. Inseparable (35-36)

A. Explanation

1. Who shall separate us from the love of God?

a. Paul gives several options of power – tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, or sword

b. This question is asked by people who know the love of god, but still are allowed to experience suffering

c. Sometimes it is easy to think that suffering is evidence of a lack of God’s love, but Paul is proving that this is incorrect

d. No more than God’s love was withdrawn from Christ when He suffered on the cross

2. Paul quotes Psalm 44:22

a. He quotes this to show that God’s people always suffered

b. In the NT church we know that we suffer for the name of Christ and there is hope and meaning in the suffering

B. Application

1. There is no circumstance in which we are separated from the love of God

2. His love for us as His people never fails

3. Suffering is a part of life and growth, and God does not always save us from it, but His love is with us through it

V. Unconquerable (37-39)

A. Explanation

1. We are Super Conquerors / hyper-conquerors - We are victorious in our salvation and sanctification.

2. Nothing can separate us from the love of God

a. Paul gives the litany of powerful entities that cannot separate ys

b. Death nor life, angels nor rulers, things present, nor things to come, powers, height nor depth,

c. nor anything else in creation – Because God is creator and over all creation

3. In Christ Jesus our Lord – What Jesus has done

B. Application

1. When it comes to the promises of our salvation, we are super-victorious

2. All because Jesus is a super-conqueror. He has dealt with our sin and made us righteous

3. He has secured our eternal salvation

VI. Conclusion

A. So what should I do with the truth of the inseparable love of God?

1. Comfort during trials

2. Hope of a secured future

3. A drive to live a life worthy of such love

B. Trust in Jesus