Romans 8:35-37 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.Now in the history of the Christian Chur...  Read More

Romans 8:35-37 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.So, Christ died, was raised, is at God’s...  Read More

Romans 8:32-34 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.In Romans 8 Paul writes about th...  Read More

Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?God foreknew, predestined, called, justified, and glorified all of His adopted children (8:29-30). He is sovereign over His creation and the Judge over the same. Stepping back from his assessment of God, Paul asks, What shall we say to these things? (v. 31). What else can believers conclude now except that thei...  Read More

John 6:44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him…”In a summary statement about salvation, Jesus speaks of God’s efficacious grace in John 6:44. God actually “draws” people to Him and does not woo them as some falsely teach. The Greek word is used six times, five times by John. In 18:10, it is used in reference to a sword being drawn out for battle. In 21:6, 11 it is used fo...  Read More

Romans 8:28-30 We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and t...  Read More

Romans 8:30 …and these whom [God] predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.Romans 8:30 resumes the chain of salvific, theological terms that began in v. 29 with God’s foreknowledge and predestination. These terms reveal, at a minimum, that the salvation of sinners did not begin when they were born and later heard the g...  Read More

Romans 8:29 For those whom [God] foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren…The explanation of why God works all things for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose (v. 28) is found in v. 29 as indicated by “for,” an explanatory particle. So, in vv. 29-30 Paul reveals the purpose, or pl...  Read More

Romans 8:28 We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.Oftentimes there is a difference between what we think is “good” and what God knows is good. What we think is good is often bad, and what God knows to be good is always what He accomplishes in and through us—even the most gut-wrenching experiences over th...  Read More

Romans 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.In the context of Christian trials leading to future glory (8:18-27), Paul assures believers that although the sufferings of life can be difficult, they will indeed be worked out by God for the Christian’s ultimate good. The Greek verbs in v. 28 are n...  Read More

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.Like all humans, Paul was getting older. His earthen vessel was not only decaying (cf. Eccl 1...  Read More

Romans 8:26-27 In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.All of God’s creation groans under sin’s curse (vv. 19-23). When God’s son...  Read More