Romans 8:26-31

Romans 8:26-31

This passage couldn’t be more fitting for the Lord’s Day. I trust you have enjoyed reading these passages from Romans from the Phillips Translation.

8:26-27 - The Spirit of God not only maintains this hope within us, but helps us in our present limitations. For example, we do not know how to pray worthily as sons of God, but his Spirit within us is actually praying for us in those agonising longings which never find words. And God who knows the heart's secrets understands, of course, the Spirit's intention as he prays for those who love God.


8:28-30 - Moreover we know that to those who love God, who are called according to his plan, everything that happens fits into a pattern for good. God, in his foreknowledge, chose them to bear the family likeness of his Son, that he might be the eldest of a family of many brothers. He chose them long ago; when the time came he called them, he made them righteous in his sight, and then lifted them to the splendour of life as his own sons.

We hold, in Christ, an impregnable position

8:31-32 - In face of all this, what is there left to say? If God is for us, who can be against us? He that did not hesitate to spare his own Son but gave him up for us all - can we not trust such a God to give us, with him, everything else that we can need?


8:33-34 - Who would dare to accuse us, whom God has chosen? The judge himself has declared us free from sin. Who is in a position to condemn? Only Christ, and Christ died for us, Christ rose for us, Christ reigns in power for us, Christ prays for us! 


8:35-36 - Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, pain or persecution? Can lack of clothes and food, danger to life and limb, the threat of force of arms? Indeed some of us know the truth of the ancient text: 'For your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter'. 


8:37 - No, in all these things we win an overwhelming victory through him who has proved his love for us.


8:38-39 - I have become absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, neither messenger of Heaven nor monarch of earth, neither what happens today nor what may happen tomorrow, neither a power from on high nor a power from below, nor anything else in God's whole world has any power to separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ our Lord!

Wow! If that doesn’t cause you to worship today, then you better check your heart, brother! Fall down and worship HIM today. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s KESWICK

Digging Deeper: Proverbs 17; Isaiah 50-52; 1 Thessalonians 5

Dig This Quote: Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way! Oswald Chambers
Determined Praying: We should believe that nothing is too small to be named before God. What should we think of the patient who told his doctor he was ill, but never mentioned the particulars. J. C. Ryle
Determined Digging: Level 1: John 1:12-13; Level 2: Proverbs 4:20-27