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Important Questions - 4
“If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31)
This, in fact, is the lead question in a series of questions designed by Paul to comfort, inspire and strengthen believers:
“How shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”
“Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?”
“Who is he who condemns?”
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
The answer to each of these questions goes back to our lead question: God is for us, and He has worked on our behalf to neutralize every threat to the spiritual well-being of His people. This, of course, is what Paul has been developing throughout the Roman epistle to this point; the latter portion of chapter eight summarizes all the foregoing in a great crescendo of confidence.
Conclusion: “We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (8:37). May nothing – not grief or fear or pain or guilt or rejection or anything else – persuade us that God doesn’t love us. If Satan can make us believe that, he wins.
