What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
When adversity surrounds us, we judge God's love by present sorrows and lose heart; but Paul calls us to look deeper. God's favor, consecrated in Christ, is the brazen wall that shields us from all dangers, not that nothing opposes us, but that His paternal love secures our victory over every enemy.
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Paul throws down the gauntlet here: if God be for us, who can prevail against us? All His attributes, all His promises, all that He is and has, stands for His people. Even when He seems to act against them, He remains for them.
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Commenting on Romans 8:31-39
What remains but to be thankful and glory in these blessings, foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification, glorification? They are a complete set, wanting nothing; they cannot be contradicted or made void by hell or earth. From them flows the free, sovereign, unchangeable love of God and the certainty of our salvation.
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