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Romans 8:31-39

There are Three Stages in this Challenge of Faith.

I. Who shall our accuser be? Nothing will stop the accuser's mouth, but the one mighty act of God's sovereign grace by which He acquits and justifies the sinner.

II. The adversary may accuse; condemn, he dare not. For Jesus, the Judge, is in His own person a threefold, fourfold answer to every charge against His people.

III. The Apostle flings down his glove to the forces of the world. What is his challenge but an echo to the calm strong words of the King? "In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

J. Oswald Dykes, The Gospel according to St. Paul,p. 273.

References: Romans 8:32. Homilist,vol. vi., p. 341; W. Cunningham, Sermons,p. 174; T. J. Crawford, The Preaching of the Cross,p. 23; Christian World Pulpit,vol. xvii., p. 256; H. Melvill, Penny Pulpit,No. 3114; G. Brooks, Five Hundred Outlines,p. 8. Romans 8:33 . Spurgeon, Evening by Evening,p. 210.

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Romans 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.