I am doing a nine part mini-series on the following scripture passage. I will start out with the full passage each time, because we really need to get it in our hearts.
Romans 8:31-39 – 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Today I want to hit on the second verse of the passage.
Romans 8:32 – 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
What a great reminder of how much God loves us. God didn’t have to come back and make a way for mankind to get back into His presence, He chose to do so. He could have looked at the whole situation and been done with it. Just a simple “poof” and life doesn’t exist on this planet no more.
However, we know that’s not God. Why? Because while we were still sinners He sent His Son, part of Himself, to pay the price for our transgressions.
Romans 5:8 – 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Also in verse 32 it reads along with Him. Along with who? Along with Jesus, God the Son. God is three persons, but God is one.
The verse ends with how will He not graciously give us all things?
What things? Everything thing you need and everything He wants to share! If He is willing to die for us, you can bet that He wants to share with us, who want to worship Him as our awesome God.
We don’t have it under control. God has it under control. That’s why we need to listen to His voice, die to our own selfish ambitions, and follow His way.
We are more than conquerors. Why? Because of Him and no other reason!