Paul wrote in Romans 8 v. 33 LITV, Who can bring any charge against God’s elect? God is the One justifying! There is no one who can accuse or condemn the elected people of God to cause their condemnation. Absolutely no one. God has justified us in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and His justice has been satisified in Him. The sin debt has been paid in full by Jesus for His chosen people. It would be absurd to suppose that God would both justify a person, and then condemn them. A true Christian is therefore secure in the Lord Jesus Christ forever.
Paul wrote in Romans 8 v. 34 LITV, Who is he condemning? It is Christ who has died, but rather also is raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. One commentary says, The office of passing sentence of condemnation of men shall pertain to Christ, the Judge of living and the dead. The Lord Jesus Christ will not condemn His own people, whom He died for and rose again for their salvation, and to be justified before a Holy God.
Notice Jesus is at the right-hand of the Father, but not only is He at the right hand of the Father, but the Bible tells us that the Lord Jesus sits at the right-hand of the Father. The Lord Jesus said in Luke 22:69 LITV, From now on the Son of man will be sitting at the right of the power of God. Even in the book of Psalms, this was prophecied by David, when he wrote in Psalm 110:1 LITV, A Psalm of David. A statement of Jehovah (I say Yahweh instead of Jehovah) to my Lord: Sit at My right hand, until I place Your enemies as Your footstool. What does it mean in Luke 22:69, and Psalm 110:1, Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father? It means He has completed His work for the salvation of His people, and the Father is satisfied, and Jesus is exalted above all, power is given to Him, and as Ephesians 1:22 LITV says, And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church, which is His body: the fullness of Him filling all things in all. The One who is over all things, condemns us not, but represents us.
Jesus intercedes for His people, not on bended knees, but presents Himself to the Father as Who is He and what He has done for His people, the completeness of His perfect sacrifice for the Elect, and the Father’s satisfaction, which the Father planned before the foundation of the world. Christ has already won the victory in His death, burial and resurrection, and His work for the salvation of His people is complete, which means His intercessory work is perfect, and it can not fail and will not fail. The Lord Jesus will see His people to the end. They will endure. We have complete salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ.
What does Paul say in Romans 8 v.35-37 LITV, Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? Even as it has been written, For Your sake, we are killed the all the day; we are counted as sheep of slaughter. But in all these things we more than conquer through Him loving us.
Then Paul wrote in v.38-39, For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, not things to come, nor heigth, nor depth, not any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
May this be an encouragment to glorify the One who represents us at the right hand of the Father, the One who laid down His life for us, and may we not dishonour His name, the One who bears our names in Heaven. Amen.
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