Romans 8:28-30. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 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.
No breaks between the links of this chain. Foreknowledge is welded to the predestination: the predestination is infallibly linked with the calling, the calling with the justification, and the justification with the glorification. There is no hint given that there may be a flaw or break in the series. Get a hold of any one, and you possess the whole. The called man is the predestinated man. Let him be sure of that. And the justified man shall be a glorified man. Let him have no doubt whatever about that.
Romans 8:31. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
A great many, but they are all nothing. If God be for us, all they that be against us are not worth mentioning: they are ciphers. If he were on their side, then the one would swell the ciphers to the full, but if he be not there, we may put them all into the scale and reckon them as less than nothing.
Romans 8:32-33. 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? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
Who, indeed.
Romans 8:33-34. It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth?
No one can, for:
Romans 8:34. It is Christ that died,
And so put our sins to death.
Romans 8:34. Yea rather, that is risen again,
And so hath justified us.
Romans 8:34. Who is even at the right hand of God,
And so has carried us into heaven by his representing us there.
Romans 8:34. Who also maketh intercession for us.
Whose everlasting plea, therefore, silences all the accusations of the devil.
Romans 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?
They have all been tried. In different ages of the world, the saints have undergone all these, and yet has never one of them been taken away from the love of Christ. They have not left off loving him, nor has he left off loving them. They have been tried, I say.
Romans 8:36. As it is written. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
What is the result of it?
Romans 8:37-39. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 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.
Halleluiah! Blessed be his name.
This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 138:1.; Isaiah 55:1-11; Romans 8:28-39.