THE ULTIMATE LIFESTYLE

God is for Us!
Romans 8:31-39
March 28, 2021

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The last four verses of Romans 8 form the pinnacle of the book. Like a mountaintop towering high above the hills, this section lifts our hearts to new heights in understanding the Grace of God. Paul poses five rhetorical questions which focus on all that God has promised to do for us in Jesus Christ. I believe this passage is the clearest description of what Grace is in the entire New Testament.

1. “GRACE” means that I can always count on God’s POWER.

Romans 8:31 - What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

1 John 4:4 - You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Philippians 4:13 - I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

2. “GRACE” means that I can always count on God’s PROVISION.

Romans 8:32 - 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?

Psalm 37:4 - Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 84:11 - For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.

Philippians 4:19 - And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

3. “GRACE” means that I can always count on God’s PROTECTION.

Romans 8:33 - Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

Revelations 12:10 - …For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

1 John 2:1-2 - My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense — Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

ACCUSE means: to bring a charge, to impeach.

4. “GRACE” means that I can always count on God’s PARDON.

Romans 8:34 - Who is he that condemns? 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.

Romans 8:1 - Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus…

1 Peter 3:18 - For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit…

John 3:18 - Whoever believes in him is not condemned…

Romans 8:34 - Who is he that condemns? 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.

John 19:30 - When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

5. “GRACE” means that I can always count on God’s PRESENCE.

Romans 8:35 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

Romans 8:36 - For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Romans 8:37-39 - 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.

John 10:27-29 – “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

Grace means God is for us!