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1. There are some who have the perception that being a Christian isolates us from trouble and we’re immune to bad things.
2. But those of us who are Christians know different.
3. We have the same problems as everyone else.
4. We have the same sicknesses the same pain the same heartbreak.
5. We all live in the same fallen world and we all face many of the same circumstances as others.
B. Sometimes we as Christians get discouraged by the events in our lives.
1. Sometimes our hearts hurt because of things that happen in our lives beyond our control.
2. The news from the doctor the family member who fails the church friend who hurts us all of these things can crush us.
C. Read Romans 8:31–39.
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.
1. Paul was not a stranger to suffering and neither was the Roman church he was writing to in this passage.
2. But he gave the Romans encouragement and through this Word of God he will give you encouragement too.
3. Paul presented his encouragement in the form of four rhetorical questions. 4. Let’s look at these questions and the encouragement in the answers.
II. Who Can Be Against Us? (vv. 31–32)
A. If God is for us who can be against us?
1. Paul phrases this question as if God is for us!
2. According to what we read here as Christians God is for us.
3. God is on our side.
4. If this is true shouldn’t this be a tremendous encouragement to us?
5. Think about it if this statement is true then we as “Christians have the Creator and Lord of all the universe standing for us and with us.
B. How do we know that God is for us?
1. How can we know that this statement is true? 2. Look at verse 32.
C. What can we learn from this verse that will assure us that God is for us? 1.God didn’t spare His own Son.
a.God sent His Son Jesus Christ to this world.
b. Jesus was the only perfect person who ever lived.
c. He healed many people and touched many lives.
d. The Bible tells us Jesus was the express image of God.
e. In other words He was God in the flesh.
f. He is Emmanuel “God with us.”
g. This Jesus this “God with us” this perfect sinless person died on the cross.
h. God didn’t spare His Son but carried our His entire plan which included Jesus dying.
2.Why did Jesus come to die?
a. There is a vitally important two word phrase in verse 32.
b. It is the two words “for us.”
c. Why did God not spare His only Son?
d. Why did He deliver Him up to that cross
e.for us
f. Jesus died for us
g. God sent his son to die on that cross so that we might have forgiveness.
h. God delivered Jesus to the cross to die so we might live.
3.We can know that God is for us.
a. All we have to do is look to the cross.
b. While we were still sinners Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
c. God was for us before we were ever for Him.
d. If God loved us so much that He sent His Son to die for us before we ever trusted in Him how much more is He for us now!
D. What does this mean for us now?
1. There will be people who come against us.
2. There will be diseases heartbreak and pain that comes against us.
3. But they will not be successful in breaking us.
4. We have God on our side.
5. When the load gets heavy we have a God who is there for us.
6. When it seems like we’re going to stumble or fall remember that God is for you. 7. He proved it at the cross.
A. Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect?
1. We live in a world where the motto is the end justifies the means
2. This is just another way of saying you can do whatever you want as long as you get what you want in the end“3. People will walk all over you to get one step ahead.
4. People today think nothing of stepping on you to get what they want.
5. Today being a Christian puts a big target on your back.
6. When we stand up for what is right and morality and righteousness stand in the way of the world’s goals we will be a target.
7. The favorite way for the world to target Christians today is to attack their character.
8. They say we can’t love God or others because we don’t agree with what other people want.
9. They say we’re preaching hate because we are intolerant.
10. They make all these charges against us and justify their charges by saying we’re intolerant.
B. God is the One who justifies.
1. The world may make all kinds of terrible charges against us as Christians but they can’t make the judgment.
2. God is the One who justifies.
3. And we’ve already been justified by our faith in Jesus Christ.
4. The world may tear us down but we’re already whole and complete in Jesus Christ.
C. So don’t let this world get you down.
1. We are to be the salt and light of this world
4. Whatever they throw against us or accuse us of they have no power of judgment over us.
5. God is the both the Judge and the Justifier.
6. The world will never change God’s mind about us.
7. There are no charges this world can make that will change His mind.
8. Who can bring a charge against us when the Judge has already pronounced us “not guilty?”
IV. Who Can Condemn Us? (v.34)
A. Who is to condemn?
1. There are many things that make us feel as if we’re condemned.
2. We may face hard times in our lives where there seems like we have no escape.
3. The doctor’s bad news may make us feel like we’re condemned.
4. Our bank statement may make us feel like we’re condemned.
5. Going to that job again tomorrow may feel like condemnation.
6. The heartbreak we experience in our lives may feel like a death sentence.
7. There may be people in our lives that make us feel like dirt and we have seemingly no escape.
B. We will never be condemned with Jesus Christ.
1. According to this verse Jesus is the only One with the power to condemn us 2. And what is he doing for us
3.He died for us.
a. He died so we might escape the condemnation that comes with sin.
4.He rose again for us.
a. His resurrection means death is no longer condemnation.
b. He was the firstfruits of all who believe.
c. He conquered death and proved death cannot have its hold.
d. He has promised us death is not the end but only the beginning.
e. Death is not the end.
5.He is right now interceding for us.
a. Jesus didn’t ascend into heaven just to wait to come back.
b. He is right now sitting at the right hand of the Father interceding for us.
c. He is there praying for you right now.
d. He is standing before God right now on your behalf.
e. You have representation in heaven right now in Jesus Christ.
C. With Jesus standing for us how can we be condemned? 1
That bad news from the doctor that bank statement that job that heartbreak will not stop Jesus standing for you. (Read Romans 8:1)
V. Who Can Separate Us From the Love of Christ? (vv. 35–39)” “A. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
1. There are times in our lives when we think God may have forgotten us.
2. Paul mentions events here that may cause us to think that we’ve been abandoned by God.
3.Tribulation and Distress
a. These are the hard times we face in our lives.
b. We all face these times of tribulation.
c. We all face times of distress.
d. We all get to those points in live sometimes where things are too heavy to bear.
e. These are the times when we wonder if God is really there.
f. These are the times when we feel like we’re all alone in this world.
4.Persecution and the Sword
a. These are the times that come down on us by no fault of our own.
b. People for whatever reason make life miserable for us.
c. We feel the whole world is against us and we have no help.
d. This can also be the prospect of death.
e. Why would God let this happen?
5.Famine Nakedness and Peril
a. These are the times when we’re struggling materially.
b. We don’t seem to have the things we really need
c. We just can't stretch that paycheck to cover all
“the expenses.
d. We have more bills than check.
e. We feel like God has left us alone to sink.
B. All of these things can be real in our lives.
1. None of us go through life without facing these very real situations.
2. Sooner or later we all have tribulation and distress persecution and material needs.
3. Does this mean that we’ve somehow lost God’s love for us?
C. We are never separated from the love of Christ.
1. Death and life cannot separate us from God’s love.
2. Spiritual beings cannot separate us from the love of God.
3. Time cannot separate us from the love of God.
4. Our emotions cannot separate us from God’s love.
D. We are forever loved and in the hands of God.
1. Nothing can keep God from loving us.
2. Sin can’t keep God from loving us.
3. We are securely in the love of God.
4. Our salvation is secure.
5. There is nothing that anything or anybody can do to separate us from the grip of God.
VI. So where do we stand today?
A. We are more than conquerors! (v.37)
1. A conqueror is someone who cannot be defeated
2. A conqueror has the power to stand strong in the face of danger “3. A conqueror is someone who overcomes all obstacles they face. 4. That is what the Word of God says we are.
5. We are not conquerors because of who we are.
6. We’re conquerors because of the God who loves us and for us. 7. With God on our side nothing can or will ever defeat us.
8. We are His!”
