God For Us: Hope in the Love of God for Us

We have hope in no condemnation in Christ (1), freedom in the Spirit (2), being raised by the Spirit (11), being led by the Spirit (14), loved by the Father (15), linked to the Son (17), in waiting in suffering (18-25) and we have hope in prayer by the Holy Spirit (26-27), we have hope in the providence of God and our glorification, and the work of God for us.

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We have hope in the providence of God over us.

Romans 8:28-30

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. 

We have hope in the work of God for us.

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; 34     who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was ^craised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 

We are rhetorically questioned about the love of Christ for us.

A rhetorical question by definition is a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36 Just as it is written,

“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;

We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

We have overwhelmingly conquered through Christ in the midst of all challenges to our salvation. 37

37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

“Too often we look upon the outcome of conflict with the forces of iniquity as mere escape, perhaps by the skin of our teeth.  In truth it is victory and that not merely but completely and gloriously.” John Murray

The greatest of these is love.  Nothing is greater than the love of Christ.  Nothing is greater than love.

We are completely convinced in Christ of His ability and intention to keep His people in Christ and for salvation. 38-39

38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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