"He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge (to ask as a price or fee; to lay a command or injunction upon; to fill or refill so as TO MAKE READY FOR USE) against God's elect (v.29,30)? It is God who justifies! Who is he who condemns? (to judge or pronounce to be unfit for use or service). It is Christ who died and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us." (Romans 8:32-37)
Notice! We are more than conquerors THROUGH Him who loved us. He can/will show us what that means. Who brings the charge? God who justifies! Who is he who condemns? Christ who died! We know that there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit." (Romans 8:1)
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword separate us from the love of Christ? You ask yourself that! At what price will you turn away? These THINGS (Romans 8:28) come to separate us from He who is HEAD of ALL THINGS to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all (these things; Ephesians 1:22,23); and have, and will depending upon what we say to them! (Romans 8:31)
God charges us, bringing the requirement. Jesus Christ shows us the way, the truth and the life IN ALL THESE THINGS! Assuredly, by the Holy Spirit, we know when we are fit for the Master's use. If unfit or unready, our heart, by the same Holy Spirit, condemns us.
(Definitions within initial paragraph are from Webster's College Dictionary)
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