The Golden Chain iii

Romans 8:31-39

By Pastor Craig Phelps, October 15, 2022

Introduction: We have been looking at the Golden Chain of our Salvation. We had already looked at the section of chain that extended to eternity past (God’s foreknowledge and predestination), then we looked at the section of chain that extends into our present time with God’s calling, justification and even sanctification. Now. let’s look briefly at the other end of the chain in eternity future and then the ramifications of this whole thing.

30b these He also glorified.

31a What then shall we say to these things?

1. NO WILL STAND

–31b 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?

2. NO WILL STICK

–33a Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?

–33b 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.

3. NO WILL SUCCEED

–35a Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

–35b Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who 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 created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.