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Are there times we ever feel fearful in the Christian life?
Paul writing Roman church with hope that church would be a staging ground for mission to go further West.
But these Christians were living at heart of most powerful empire in history of world.
Indimidating time to live as a Christian.
Every day living for Jesus was at risk of being seen as competition for Roman Emperors rule.
And in church battling with reality of 2 cultures colliding - Jews and Gentiles, and what it meants to live united.
Fears we experience in Christian life
Will I ever overcome this sin in my life?
Will I ever stop giving in to doubts
What if my faith isnt strong enough to see me through?
What if God has given up on me?
How can I be sure i’m really saved?
With all thats going on in life and in world - how can i be sure God loves me at all?
Today Paul wants to show us that we can
KNOW TRUE ASSRUANCE IN CHRIST
What questions does Paul ask - and what are the answers his gives?
Paul drawing together everything from ch 5-8.\
AIM: believer - true assurance in gospel.
2 unchanging truths for anyone who is in Christ.
for believer to have certainty to see them through life.
Nothing can stand against you before God
2 reasons nothing can stand against you before God
FIRST: God is on our side.
BIG BEAR LITTLE BEAR GREAT BEAR
“BIG ANDY” Ricky, not big, but had a big mouth.
BANK OF MUM AND DAD - all money I had was from there anyway.
As we place our trust in Jesus - God is on our side.
- if God is for us, who can possible stand against.
How can we have enough to keep us going - because we have an infinately resource and a generous giver.
Reference to Abraham.
Abraham who did not withhold his own Son from God, God blessed him in everythign else he could be blessed with.
How much more will God, who did not spare his most treasured possession, but gave him to secure salvation for sinners like me and you not also give all other resources needed to complete it.
Because he is on our side, because he did not spare his Son, he will also give us all things to ensure our salvation is complete, and all things that we could ever dream when it is.
You go up against creator of all things - you lose.
SECOND: Because he has justified us.
If enemy can’t defeat God, then perhaps can turn him against us.
Paul says not so.
Law court language.
Imagine you are on trial for a crime.
Judge, Jury.
Prosecution and defence.
During trial proseuction will bring evidence against you, and witnesses.
testifying against you, trying to get Judge and Jury to see your guilt.
Reality is that we are guilty.
On own Merit evidence stacked aginst us.
God is judge.
But gospel is that we have greatest defence - Jesus.
Doesn’t just try to suspend case or make deal, or plead.
But takes our place in the doc, and taken on guilty verdict - sentanced to death for us on our behalf, and God’s wrath poured out on him.
Which means all the accusations directed at the beleiver united to Jesus have been dealt with.
And God as judge looks at Jesus and see that justice has been doen - and so justifies those who are in Him.
Which means that when accusations are made - when charges brought up, Jesus is standing before God declaring we are innocent
Therefore who can condemn - no one - no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.
Should a Roman emperor seek to bring a charge against a believer in Rome for worshiping a king other than Caesar, that charge would have no effect in the eyes of God.
Should Satan seek to bring a charge against the elect of God in order to discredit their faithfulness, such a charge would go unregistered.
God has already brought all the charges which could possibly be brought against the believer to the bar of justice and declared them erased:
As surely as he lives, nothing can stand against us before God.
Second
Nothing can seperate you from the love of God
We might be innocent before God but are we loved by him?
How easily can fears creep into consciousness.
Am I suffering for a reason?
What if I wake up on the other side of death and discover I have been fooled?
What if I do not wake up on the other side of death?
Where will the love of God be then?
Reality of life can cause us to question power or presence of God
Paul aware and desperate for Roman church to be prepared for whatever they might face - helping them to know truth.
So asks question -
Romans 8:35 (NIV)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Then goes to every physical exteme possible that Roman Christians could face.
Anything that enemy might use to pursuade them that God has given up on them, that cost is too high.
Quote sums up Christian experience.
Why has this happened - if God loves us, surely this isnt right.
See Paul’s response.
In response doesn’t just think about physical extremes, but every extreme to show that nothing can stand between believer and love of God.
Death nor life - because our fate is tied to Jesus, which means in this life he is with us and in our death we will go home to be with him.
Neither angels nor demons, nor any power: These powers have been defeated at the cross, where:
When Christ rose, Ephesians 1:21 says, he was exalted "far above all rule and authority and power and dominion."
So, even though these scoundrels are on the loose, they cannot do ultimate harm to God’s elect.
Neither present nor future : No circumstances we will every face take God by suprise.
Nothing we can face or do will undermine his love for us.
Height nor depth:
What is Paul saying - sums up, just in case we aren’t sure.
Nor anythign in all creation.
will be able to seperate us from the love of God tha tin Christ Jesus our Lord.
Here is deal.
through faith, by Spirit you are united to jesus forever.
And he is at the right hand of God, ruling and interceding — so as surely as he lives and is loved by God, so surely if our life eternally safe in his hands, and God’s love for us certain and unbreakable.
We are loved with the everlasting love of a Father.
John Chrysostom (A.D. 347?–407), preacher in Constantinople.
he was brought before the Roman emperor he was threatened with banishment if he remained a Christian.
This was his reply
“Thou canst not banish me for this world is my father’s house.”“But
I will slay thee,” said the emperor.“Nay,
thou canst not,” said the noble champion of the faith, “for my life is hid with Christ in God.”“I will take away thy treasures.”“Nay,
but thou canst not for my treasure is in heaven and my heart is there.”“But
I will drive thee away from man and thou shalt have no friend left.”“Nay,
thou canst not, for I have a friend in heaven from whom thou canst not separate me.
I defy thee; for there is nothing that thou canst do to hurt me.”
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