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LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 23
ROMANS 8:31-39
Let's get back to Romans Chapter 8. The Scriptures are not just some gobbledy-gook, but rather written by the hand of God so that anybody can understand it. Now, of course, that's what precipitated the Dark Ages, when the church had gotten so powerful that they had pulled the Scriptures away from the common man and brought it into the monasteries because they felt only the monks and educated could discern the Word of God, but that's not what God intends. "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
Romans 8:31
That we've been justified, glorified, forgiven, and all these things that Paul alone teaches. If God be for us, who can be against us?" And that's where God wants us to rest, there is no one that can condemn us because of verse 32.
Romans 8:32
Did Isaac fight back? Philippians 2:8
Romans 8:33:
Romans 8:33a
"Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?..."
Because if you have enough faith to believe the Gospel (Ref. I Corinthians 15:1-4), if your faith is sufficient to bring you into that Salvation, then you should have enough faith to take God at His Word, and the rest of it. Verse 33 again.
Romans 8:33
"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth."
Would God elect someone who somewhere down the road would chose to reject Him? I said, "Look, the Scripture says that God will never cast us out." We are totally, and I can't emphasize this enough; we are totally under the power of the Sovereign God, and nobody can supersede his power." These closing verses of Romans 8 are like the crescendo of a great orchestra. "Look, nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ!" We see this in verse 35:
Romans 8:35-37
Verse 36)? Christ Jesus. What does the Book of Colossians say?
Colossians 3:17
"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him."
We no longer have to cry for mercy because God poured out His mercy on Christ there on the Cross. "Unmerited favor." Now, let's look again at verse 38:
Romans 8:38
Go to Ephesians Chapter 6. Paul writes:
Ephesians 6:12
It's up here with tremendous power, and position. These powers are in high positions and let's compare the same Greek word `powers' back in Matthew Chapter 10 so we get an idea of what Paul is really driving at when he says, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers,"
Matthew 10:1
"And when he (The Lord Jesus in His earthly ministry) had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power..."
Authority. Ephesians 6:12
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,..."
And they have authority. Now, return to Romans 8 for a little bit, and then we may look at a couple of verses in John.
Romans 8:39
Let's turn to John's Gospel Chapter 6. And here Jesus is speaking:
John 6:37
God is. You and I can't seek God, because it not in us; no unbeliever is going to go running after God, it's not in him. If he suddenly has an appetite for the things of God, then God put it there first. John 6:37
Now, Jesus said it in His earthly ministry that anybody that God has chosen, that God has elected, that God has sent to Him would in no wise ever be cast out. Now, let's look at John Chapter 10. John 10:27,28
Not just man, but neither the angelic powers, the Satanic powers, nothing can pluck them out of His hand. Well, if you can believe that God in Christ died, and rose again for your Salvation, then you should be able to have enough faith to believe these things. Never have I said that. Grace is not license! I would hope that I would never fall into any great sin. We're all guilty of these mundane sins of everyday living, and thoughts.
But so far as falling into a great sin such as David did. Did David fall into sin? Was David a believer? Did David lose his Salvation? Did God kick Abraham out? No! Abraham had to come to the place of recognizing his sin as a believer. Luke 22:31
Peters denial. And here, great big Peter, to probably a teenage girl, cursed and swore that he didn't know Jesus. Paul never gives us license to sin. I John 2:1
"My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin (we're going to, and if we sin), we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:"
And then back in the Book of Revelation Chapter 12. My, don't ever think for a minute that believers aren't subjected to sin. Revelation 12:10
"And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, `Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren (believers)is cast down (Satan), which accused them (believers) before our God day and night.'"

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