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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 8:31-34 - God Is For Us No Condemnation

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Romans in Outline No. 89

(1)  THIS PASSAGE IS A CONCLUSION

(2)  THE CLOSING VERSES RETURN TO THE THEME WITH WHICH PAUL BEGAN CHAPTER 8 — “NO CONDEMNATION”

1.1  THE BIG QUESTION:

“What then shall we say to these things?”

Romans 8:31a

1.2  QUESTION #1

Romans 8:31a

2.1  Argument: “If God is for us…”

2.2  Conclusion: “…who can be against us?”

Satan?

The Jews

Romans

False teachers

All opposition inconsequential, because God is for us

A balance scale

Jonathan “If God wants to deliver…”

1.3  QUESTION #2

Romans 8:31b

2.1  Argument: “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all…”

3.1  THE SON NOT SPARED

Genesis 22:12

3.2  THE GIFT IS THE PROMISE AND PLEDGE OF “ALL THINGS”

2.2  Conclusion: ”…how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”

3.1  THE POINT IS THIS: THERE IS A “GREATER THING” GOD HAS DONE AND FROM THAT FACT WE CAN CONCLUDE THAT SURELY HE WILL DO A “LESSER THING.”

Matthew 6:33

3.2  ALL SPIRITUAL NEEDS MET

1.4  QUESTION #3 (Forensic/Legal #1)

Romans 8:33

2.1  Argument: “Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?”

3.1  CHARGE = “MAKE A FORMAL ACCUSATION IN COURT.”

3.2  SATAN IS IDENTIFIED AS “THE ACCUSER” OF GOD’S PEOPLE (Revelation 12:10; cf. Zechariah 3:1)

3.3  THE BLESSEDNESS OF NOT HAVING INIQUITY IMPUTED

2.2  Conclusion: “It is God who justifies.”

1.5  QUESTION #4 (Forensic/Legal #2)

Romans 8:34

2.1  Argument: “Who is he who condemns?”

John 3:18

2.2  Conclusion: “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.”

3.1  THE ONE WHO DIED

3.2  THE ONE WHO IS RISEN

3.3  THE ONE WHO IS AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD

Hebrews 8:1

3.4  THE ONE WHO MAKES INTERCESSION FOR US

Hebrews 7:23-25

Romans 8:31-34

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 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? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? 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. (NKJV)

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