August 31, 2025 • 34 mins
Standing at the summit of biblical assurance, Romans 8:31-39 offers breathtaking views of God's unbreakable love. Just as Churchill inspired courage in Britain when they had "nothing but the back end of broken bottles" to fight Hitler's regime, Paul's words carry infinitely greater authority—backed by the risen Christ himself.
This powerful sermon unpacks three life-changing realities: your past is secured in Christ, your present is secured in Christ, and your future is secured in Christ. When Paul asks, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" he's reminding us that the God who didn't spare His own Son will certainly fulfill every promise to those who believe.
Through vivid courtroom imagery, we see how all accusations against believers are dismissed—not because we're innocent, but because we're clothed in Christ's righteousness. Like the scapegoat on the Day of Atonement, our sins are cast away never to return. Even when facing tribulation, persecution, or danger, we remain "more than conquerors" because nothing can alter our ultimate victory in Christ.
Most reassuringly, Paul's exhaustive list in verses 38-39 leaves no room for doubt: death, life, angels, rulers, present circumstances, future events, powers, height, depth—absolutely nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love in Christ Jesus. This includes even our own failures and shortcomings.
As one pastor puts it, "If you could lose your salvation, you would." The good news is you can't—not because of your grip on God, but because of His unbreakable hold on you. This assurance isn't just theological comfort; it's freedom to live courageously in a world of uncertainty. When God is for you, who or what could possibly stand against you?
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
1st Baptist, baptist El Dorado.
Will you join me now inlistening to our sermon from
this week?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Amen.
Well, we will finish Romans,chapter 8, this morning, as
we've been in our seriesClimbing Everest, everest, what
may be the greatest passage ofScripture, the greatest chapter
in all of Scripture that's whywe call it Climbing Everest, as
we've walked through this MountEverest of Scripture, this
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beautiful, encouraging,encouraging passage, and we'll
look at verses 31 through 39, ashave already been read for us
this morning, but I'll readverse 31.
What then, shall we say tothese things?
If God is for us, who can beagainst us?
Let's pray together, lord Jesus.
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That is the truth, that if youare for us, who can be against
us?
Would you encourage our heartsthis morning of that truth that
there is nothing, absolutelynothing, that can separate us
from you?
And so, lord, would you speakto us now?
Holy Spirit, speak through yourword.
We ask In Christ's name.
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In Christ's name, amen.
The line that separates historygoing one direction and another
direction is often a very, verythin line.
In the 1940s, it may have beenas thin of a line as it's ever
been, and there was anindividual who held that very
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thin line between history goingone way or another and at times
felt like he was holding it allby himself, named Winston
Churchill.
Winston Churchill had a gift,an ability to make you feel
brave, to make you feelcourageous, even when you had no
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business feeling brave andcourageous.
Some say that at this time youhad these, well, a few powers,
but certainly these two.
Where Hitler wanted his peopleto acknowledge how great Hitler
is, churchill wanted his peopleto acknowledge how great his
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people were.
He could make you feel brave.
In fact, in his famous speechbefore the House of Commons,
after Churchill comes into theoffice of prime minister
following Neville Chamberlain in1940, he is giving this speech
before the House of Commons andhe gives again the famous words
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we shall go on to the end.
We'll fight in France, we'llfight on the seas and in the
oceans.
He continues where we'll fight?
We'll fight in the hills and weshall never surrender.
And the whole House of Commonsexplodes in applause and cheers.
Really, the whole country isexploding in these applause and
cheers.
And in that moment Churchilllooks to a colleague and very
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quietly says and we will have tofight them with the back end of
broken bottles, because that'sjust about all we've got.
He made a country feel bravewhen they were outmanned,
outmatched.
He made a country feelcourageous and self-assured when
they had really no businessfeeling that way, and yet it
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worked.
I wonder this morning if WinstonChurchill can make a country
feel assured, brave, courageous,when all he had to work with
was the back end of a few brokenbottles to fight this large
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regime.
If he can make you feel bravein that moment, what can Paul do
as he writes to us, thegreatest words maybe in all of
scripture.
And yet the authority behindPaul is not the back end of
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broken bottles, not a story ofhow we are a people outgunned,
outmatched, but instead behindPaul is all the authority of the
resurrected Savior, jesusChrist the righteous.
That is the authority behindPaul's words here.
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And I just wonder this morningif you will leave here brave,
assured, courageous, not throughany work of your own, but
because of the encouragement ofPaul, because of the authority
behind him in the finished workof Christ, and because of three
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things, and they're simply thisthat your past is secured in
Christ, your present is securedin Christ and your future is
secured in Christ.
Your present is secured inChrist and your future is
secured in Christ.
Look with me, verse 31.
What, then, shall we say tothese things?
If God is for us?
Who can be against us?
What shall we say to thesethings?
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He's really picking up on allof Romans 8, but we could argue
he's picking up on all of Romansup to this point In chapters 1
and 3, through 3, showing usjust how sinful we are.
But then the good news of theend of chapter 3, all the way
through 7, showing us that thegood news is we have a Savior,
as sinful as we may be.
We have a Savior who has diedfor sinners and has risen from
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the grave, and so this is thegood news.
And then Romans 8 that gives us, time and time again, assurance
of our salvation, assurance ofour justification before Christ.
And now he ends in 31 to 39.
He starts right here.
What shall we say to thesethings?
With all of this in mind, hereit is.
If God is for us, who can beagainst us?
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Who can bring condemnationagainst us?
If God is indeed for us?
I think of John, chapter 8, andthis story with Jesus and the
religious elite bring into theroom a woman who's been caught
in adultery, and there's a lotthat goes on behind the scenes,
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there's a lot that leads to thismoment, but this woman is
standing before Jesus and Jesussays those famous words let he
who is without sin throw thefirst stone.
And slowly but surely, allthese men start walking away.
And then Jesus looks around andthere's no one there.
And so he looks at this womancaught in adultery and says who
is there to condemn you?
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And she also looks around andall those who would bring
accusation against her are nowgone, and the one person still
standing who could bringaccusation instead shows grace.
This is the same story ofRomans 8, 31.
Who shall bring a chargeagainst you?
Who's still standing?
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Who is still remaining that canbring condemnation, can bring
some kind of accusation?
And all throughout the end ofRomans, chapter 8, we'll
continue to ask that questionand see time and time again that
there is no one there whocondemns.
Why?
Because, verse 32, he who didnot spare his own son but gave
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him up for us all, how will henot also, with him, graciously
give us all things?
If this is the God who is forus, paul wants to explain who
that God is.
It's the very God who, beforeyou and I, were born before you
and I had even sinned our firstsin.
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God had already done what ittakes to justify sinners.
He sent his own son as asacrifice.
For us, we remember Genesis,chapter 22,.
For us, we remember Genesis,chapter 22, abraham and Isaac
are marching up this mountain tothe place of sacrifice, but
there's no animal for theoffering and Abraham puts Isaac
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up on the altar, as Godinstructed to even sacrifice
your firstborn son.
And at the last moment theangel calls out and tells
Abraham to stop.
And in that moment Abraham'sown son was spared by God.
This beautiful moment.
And yet we see on that samemountaintop, generations later,
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that God's own son was placed onthe altar.
And in that moment, instead ofsparing his own son, jesus
Christ took the penalty, the sinfor each one of us that the son
of God was not spared.
And the greatest gift we couldever be given has already been
given to us in Christ Jesus bythe father who has died for us
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and has risen from the grave.
And so Paul just wants to saywho can bring a condemnation, a
charge against us?
This is the God on our side,the one who didn't even spare
his own son.
And if he's already given usthe greatest of all gifts, will
he not give us all the more?
In Christ Jesus.
I remember being a child atChristmas time and I think I've
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talked about this before but myfamily, my parents and
grandparents, they were big fansof that one delayed gift Maybe
you do this as well that wewould go open our stockings.
We would go open the gifts.
We were fired up at what we hadreceived.
Everything we asked for, mosteverything we asked for, was all
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there and we were so excited.
And then at the last second myparents would say but wait, but
wait, why don't you go look inthe backyard?
And one year we went and lookedin the backyard and there was a
brand new basketball goal outthere.
And I remember one year at mygrandparents' house, but wait,
we thought we were done.
But wait, go look in the garage.
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We looked in the garage andthere was a ping pong table
there.
Wasn't that great for mygrandparents Give the ping pong
table that has to live at myparents' house.
But it was still out there.
And we were so fired up becausealways at the end there'd be
that.
But wait, there's one more itemout there waiting on you.
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It's interesting as I read thispassage for us on our behalf.
God does just the opposite Fromthe very start.
There's no waiting on it,there's no wondering if there's
something more to give.
From the very start, thegreatest gift, even before you
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and I were born or thought of,at least in our parents' eyes,
not in God's eyes, but from thevery start, the greatest gift
has already been placed beforeus Christ Jesus in his death and
resurrection.
The greatest has been given.
And so Paul says if God did noteven hesitate to send his own
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son on our behalf, how much morewill he give us all things?
If God can send his only sonfor us, how much more can he
come through on every singlepromise that is given to us in
Christ Jesus?
That's the beauty of the gospel, that's the beauty of our
assurance.
And then we continue this logicin verse 33.
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Who shall bring any chargeagainst God's elect?
It is God who justified verse34,.
Who is to condemn?
Who shall bring any chargeagain against God's elect?
It is God who justifies.
Who is to condemn, like ourwoman caught in adultery, again
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in John, chapter 8.
And he asks again where areyour accusers?
Where are those who desire tobring some kind of charge
against you, desire to bringsome kind of charge against you?
I'm really fascinated by theinner workings of our country,
the justice system in ourcountry, the different levels
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and layers that exist, how onething moves from another, how
you appeal here and there, andit's interesting how it all
works on the federal side ofthings.
If you need your day in court,you are a rightful citizen and
you can get your rightful day incourt.
You can go to the US districtcourt and you can have your day
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in court.
Now, if you don't like theresult, there is somewhere you
can go.
You can appeal to the US Courtof Appeals and you can again
have that case kind of seenagain.
There are 11 men and women ofyou're sitting right now in the
8th Circuit.
That runs from right here wherewe're sitting, all the way up
to the Dakotas, and they willhear your case, along with 1,999
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other cases throughout the year, and three of those 11 will
break down your case and theywill give you a ruling on it.
Now, if you don't like thatruling, there is one more place
you can go.
It is actually the most supremeof possible places that you can
go.
Your case can be heard by theSupreme Court.
Now, if you don't like wherethat lands you, if you don't
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like their ruling in this.
I think at that point you justhave to go home.
I think it's over, but I almosthave this picture as we're
looking for those who willcondemn of the evil one just
roaming around looking for acourt, looking for a judge that
will hear his case, looking fora court, looking for a judge
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that will hear his case Up anddown, spouting off the evidence
against God's children, lookingfor any court that will bring
condemnation.
And wherever he can find aplace, he will spout out the
many things, the many sins thatyou and I have done, you and I
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who are children of God.
If he could just find acourtroom and a judge that will
hear him out, so he can tellevery detail of the mess we've
made of our lives, in our ownsin.
And when he finally gets to theSupreme Court, the Supreme of
Supremes, the God of theuniverse, when he gives the case
of Taylor Guerin and what he'sdone, he can finally plead his
case.
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The evil one can to the God ofthe universe and said God,
you've got the wrong guy.
You know this guy, taylor, andyou know the sins he's committed
.
You know just how broken hispast is God.
I've got the receipts and Icould roll the tape on just the
many ways he has rebelledagainst you, god.
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I know you think he's a childof God, but I've got all the
evidence I need to let you knowtoday, God, I'm doing you a
service today to let you knowthat this would-be child of God
he's not who you think he is.
He's a sinner.
And in that moment the judgelooks back and says this I've
counted him justified.
And in that courtroom, satanprobably says no, no, you didn't
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catch what I was saying.
He's sinful beyond belief.
Have you not seen his past?
Have you not seen hisbrokenness?
And the judge says I see theproblem here, because you
thought I was judging Taylorbased on his works.
No, no, my judgment is given toTaylor based on the finished
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work of Christ.
This courtroom doesn't look atTaylor's works as he tries to
earn salvation.
No, no, it looks at thefinished work of the perfect
sacrifice, the Son of God, whois without blemish and has died
and has risen from the grave.
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And now my servant, taylor, isa child of God.
Why?
Because he is now clothed inthe righteousness of Christ.
And so when I give thatjudgment of justified before God
.
I am basing that on what Christhas done and at that moment the
case is absolutely closed,because verse 34, who is to
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condemn?
And here's who we have behindus Christ Jesus is the one who
died More than that, who wasraised, who is at the right hand
of God, who indeed isinterceding for us.
There is the basis ofeverything that happened in that
courtroom that day that Tayloris justified because there is a
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justifier and the means ofjustification has come in the
person of Christ Jesus.
My favorite maybe, pictureoutside of the cross and
resurrection itself, ofatonement, of justification in
scripture might actually comefrom Leviticus, chapter 16.
And you're probably sayingdidn't see that coming, the
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greatest picture of the gospel,atonement, justification,
leviticus, chapter 16, becausethere was one day a year, the
day of atonement, when the highpriest would enter into the most
holy place and first he wouldmake a sacrifice for himself.
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You don't just walk in there,you make a sacrifice for
yourself.
And then you go into that holyplace and he would take with him
now hang with me.
He would take with him twogoats and one goat.
He would sacrifice there andthen sprinkle the blood of that
goat onto the altar, now withthe second goat, he would place
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his two hands on the head ofthat goat and symbolically, in
that moment, symbolically, he isplacing the sins of Israel onto
this goat.
I know this sounds a littlestrange, but hang with me.
He'd symbolically placed thesins of Israel, confessed sins,
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and they would symbolically goonto this goat.
And then here's what they woulddo with that one remaining goat
.
They would not sacrifice theother goat.
Instead, they would take thatgoat and they would cast that
goat out of the camp.
They would cast that goat outinto the wilderness, never to
return again.
And here's why this happened onthe day of atonement, because
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this was a picture of really twothings Number one, the means of
our atonement and number two,the effects of our atonement.
And number two, the effects ofour atonement, that the means of
our atonement is this that thisgoat would be a sacrifice for
sin, that blood would be spilledfor the sake of sin.
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Now the effects of theatonement are this that your
sins are now cast into thewilderness, never to return.
So that's the day of atonement,the means and the effects of
your atonement.
Now look no further than thework of Christ Jesus If you want
to see both the means and theeffect of your atonement, the
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means that the perfect son ofGod was sacrificed for your sin.
Sin was truly placed upon him,he truly died.
He was truly placed in thegrave.
Praise God, he truly rose fromthe grave.
The effects of that atonement,your own sin, are now cast into
the wilderness as far as theeast is from the west, and they
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will never return.
That is what justification is,because now, through the work of
Christ, you are justifiedbefore the Lord, god.
Who can bring a condemnationagainst that?
Who's got a word to speakagainst you that is better than
the word spoken by Christ Jesusat his resurrection, that your
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sin is cast into the wilderness,never to return.
And so here's the truth of yourpast.
Your past is secure in Christ.
And so everything in your past,everything, the good, the bad,
the ugly, all the sin, all therebellion, all the times you
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have run from your father andGod, all the times you have
tried to sit on the throne ofyour own life, all the times
that you have fallen short ofthe glory of God, and for every
one of us in this room that is avery long list of those kinds
of times, but in all of thosetimes there is a better word
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that speaks over it, and it'sthe blood of Christ.
And in Christ Jesus your pastis secure.
And so when you look over themovie of your life, of your past
, you may be tempted to say allI see is brokenness and guilt
and shame.
But, believer, be encouraged.
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If you are in Christ Jesus,I'll tell you what really exists
as you watch the movie of yourpast, it's the person of Jesus
Christ, clothed in hisrighteousness.
Your past is secured, but alsolook at this your present is
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secured in Christ.
Verse 35,.
Who shall separate us from thelove of Christ?
Shall tribulation or distressor persecution, or famine or
nakedness or danger or sword, asit is written, for your sake,
we're being killed all the daylong.
We are regarded as sheep to beslaughtered.
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Let's stop right there for amoment.
In verse 35, who can separateus right now, in this present
time?
And then he lists cantribulation do it Again?
Distress, persecution, famine,nakedness, danger, sword, all of
these things that are very realand present dangers To everyone
living in the church at Romeunder the thumb, under the hand
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of the watchful eye of theemperor.
All of these things are veryreal threats.
In verse 36, paul is actuallyreferencing Psalm 44, as the
psalmist is talking about theirown tribulation, their own
persecution for their faith.
And even back in Psalm 44,we're being persecuted, we're
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like sheep being slaughtered.
The persecutors are comingafter us and this is their life,
as the psalmist writes and Paulis proclaiming.
This is still life in thechurch at Rome.
There is persecution, there isdanger, there is sword, and even
in your own life.
Now you know very well thatthere is trial, there's
tribulation, there is suffering,and we've talked about it
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throughout our Romans 8 seriesthat you will suffer because
you're being persecuted for yourfaith.
You will suffer because youproclaim the name of Jesus.
You will suffer because of thesin and brokenness in this world
.
You will suffer because, again,we live in a world that is not
as it should be and not as itwill be.
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You will suffer again becauseof the consequences of your own
sin, my own sin.
There is suffering in this life, but what Paul wants to know is
can that separate us from thelove of God in Christ Jesus?
And then there's verse 37.
37.
No, in all these things we aremore than conquerors through him
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who loved us, that nothing,even these things, now notice
what Paul doesn't say.
He doesn't say this.
He doesn't say that because youare in Christ Jesus.
Famine, sword, nakedness,danger, destruction, that stuff
will never come Again.
You and I both know there'ssuffering in this life, but what
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he does say is, even in themidst of suffering like we talk
about in Romans 8, 28, that Godcan work all things for the good
of those who love him or calledaccording to his purpose.
That even in our sufferings,you and I are more than
conquerors through him who lovedus.
I think of Paul in anotherletter in Philippians.
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He's in prison, he's probablynearing the end of his life and
he doesn't know what's better.
Is it better for me to face myfinal fate, or is it better to
me to stay on this earth,probably in and out in prison, a
little longer?
And he says these wordswhatever it may be, to live is
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Christ.
What does he say next?
To die is gain.
One person says it like this tolive is Christ, to die is's
Christ.
And in your circumstances, youreally have two possible results
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.
If you are in Christ Jesus,whatever you walk through in
this life, there are twopossible results.
Number one is this that Christwill bring you through it.
And the second possibility isthis that Christ will bring you
through it.
Those are the two possibilitiesand there's not a third that
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Christ will bring you through itor Christ will bring you
through it.
And we've all set in thoseseasons of life where we've
suffered and we've seen this,that Christ has brought us
through it, at least up to thispoint.
Some things will.
This side of glory will neverfully be on the other side, but
up to this point God has broughtme through it.
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And then there's even somethings that will only fully see
the full reality of it on theother side when Christ brings us
home for eternity, where wewill live and dwell with our
Savior for eternity.
But here's the good news andhere's what Paul wants you to
understand that nothing canseparate you from Christ Jesus,
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because whatever happens in thislife, you win, because in
Christ Jesus you've already won.
And that's the good news of thegospel that not only has Christ
secured our past, but he hassecured our present.
But I want us to see this aswell your future is secured in
Christ Jesus.
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Let's end on 38 and 39.
For I am sure, notice that'sPaul speaking through the Holy
Spirit.
And he says I am sure, noticethat's Paul speaking through the
Holy Spirit.
And he says I am sure Not.
I've got a good feeling.
I think it could be this I amsure that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor rulers,nor things present, nor things
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to come, nor powers, nor height,nor depth, nor anything present
, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor
anything else in all creationwill be able to separate us from
the love of God.
In Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Your past is secure, yourpresent is secure, but for the
believer I want you to see thisyour future is secure.
Because in these two verses Paultries to give us the full
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extent of some of those optionswe might throw out to say this
thing could probably finallyseparate me from Christ.
And if Paul could just give usthe full scale of anything we
might could throw out that saycould separate us, and then show
us this that no, it is notpossible, then maybe in that
moment we can take someassurance, because death can't
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do it, life can't do it.
Angels or rulers probably righthere, not so much angels, the
little sweet angels in theChristmas pageant.
But these spiritual beings,that even those evil spiritual
beings that want to come to youand talk about your past and
your unworthiness and your sinand want to wreak havoc in our
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world.
Nor things present, noranything to come.
So what you have seen or areseeing or will see in the future
, there's no powers.
There's no powers human powers,spiritual powers.
There's not height or depth.
If he says, if I can just showyou all of creation, I'll show
that nothing can do it, noranything else in all creation.
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I'm thankful for that one,because you and I are probably
just stubborn enough to say, hey, but Paul didn't mention this
one.
I did know there was at leastthat one thing that could
probably separate me from Christ.
And so Paul says we'll getbeyond that by saying this nor
anything else If I forgotanything, if you tried to fill
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in the blank with anything, I'lltell you right now nor anything
else in all creation will beable to separate us from the
love of God in Christ Jesus, ourLord.
And here's what encourages methis morning that anything else
in all creation will be unableto separate us.
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The good news is this thatincludes me, that my own moments
of sinful rebellion.
I'm not talking about before Iwas a Christian.
I'm talking about after I was aChristian, when I've fallen
below the standard God has formy life, when I've sinned in
ways I'm not proud of, said thatstatement there's not sinful
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ways that I am proud of but butalways when I've done anything
that I feel like surely that'sthe time where God's going to
look at me and say, taylor,that's enough, I've got the
wrong guy here that nothing inall of creation can separate me
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from the love of God.
I'm thankful for how one pastorput it, and this one.
It's pretty in your face, buthe says this if you could lose
your salvation, you would.
Isn't that the truth?
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If you could lose yoursalvation, I'm not picking on
you, I'm talking about me, I'mtalking about all of us.
If you could lose yoursalvation, you would Think about
this the audacity of sayingthat it is possible to lose my
salvation based on anything I do.
And guess what?
I've kept it all the way.
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I've kept it through the end.
No, no, no, no.
I'm thankful for a gospel thatwon't even let me get in my own
way, but is held together by theSavior who holds me.
That nothing in my past,nothing in my present, nothing
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in my future will be able toseparate me from the love of God
in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
That is the truth of our gospel, that is the beauty of Romans,
chapter eight.
That's why we take four weeksto climb Everest, the Mount
Everest of scripture, to beencouraged, to be assured, to
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remind ourselves of our standing, though undeserved, our
truthful standing before our Godand Father.
Before our God and Father.
That's the good news of ourgospel.
And if Churchill can make acountry who is largely
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outmatched believe that theycould do just about anything and
make them assured that theycould win the war, how much more
can the risen Savior, jesusChrist, the war?
How much more can the risenSavior, jesus Christ, the
righteous, remind me, day afterday after day, that for now,
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unto eternity, there is nothingthat can separate me from the
love of God, that can separateyou from the love of God in
Christ Jesus, our Lord.
And that's your story, both nowunto eternity, for those in
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Christ Jesus, pray with me.
Lord Jesus, we thank you forthe gospel, thank you for the
assurance of salvation that wecan know beyond any shadow of a
doubt, based on the authority ofChrist Jesus, that we are yours
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both now and for eternity.
Let us live in that truth bothnow and forever.
Lord, if there is any in thisroom that needs to respond to
this message, the reality is weall do Respond through our
worship, respond to your wordjust through our own
encouragement, maybe justlifting up a prayer of
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thankfulness, of gratitude.
If there's anybody that needsto respond now, just by coming
and desiring to be a part ofthis church family, maybe
there's someone that, for thefirst time, wants to come to
know you and wants to, for thefirst time, experience the
forgiveness of sins, thatjustification that only you
offer.
Maybe today's the day, lord.
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If they desire to come down,I'd love to talk with them about
it.
Lord, if there's any who standin need of prayer and they would
come, lord, I'd love nothingmore than to pray over them.
But however we need to respond,would we do so even now?
And, lord, let us all respondwith worship in Christ's name,
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amen, would you stand?
And if you need to come downfor anything in any way, I'll be
right down front.
1st Baptist, baptist El Dorado.
Will you join me now inlistening to our sermon from
this week?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Amen.
Well, we will finish Romans,chapter 8, this morning, as
we've been in our seriesClimbing Everest, everest, what
may be the greatest passage ofScripture, the greatest chapter
in all of Scripture that's whywe call it Climbing Everest, as
we've walked through this MountEverest of Scripture, this
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beautiful, encouraging,encouraging passage, and we'll
look at verses 31 through 39, ashave already been read for us
this morning, but I'll readverse 31.
What then, shall we say tothese things?
If God is for us, who can beagainst us?
Let's pray together, lord Jesus.
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That is the truth, that if youare for us, who can be against
us?
Would you encourage our heartsthis morning of that truth that
there is nothing, absolutelynothing, that can separate us
from you?
And so, lord, would you speakto us now?
Holy Spirit, speak through yourword.
We ask In Christ's name.
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In Christ's name, amen.
The line that separates historygoing one direction and another
direction is often a very, verythin line.
In the 1940s, it may have beenas thin of a line as it's ever
been, and there was anindividual who held that very
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thin line between history goingone way or another and at times
felt like he was holding it allby himself, named Winston
Churchill.
Winston Churchill had a gift,an ability to make you feel
brave, to make you feelcourageous, even when you had no
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business feeling brave andcourageous.
Some say that at this time youhad these, well, a few powers,
but certainly these two.
Where Hitler wanted his peopleto acknowledge how great Hitler
is, churchill wanted his peopleto acknowledge how great his
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people were.
He could make you feel brave.
In fact, in his famous speechbefore the House of Commons,
after Churchill comes into theoffice of prime minister
following Neville Chamberlain in1940, he is giving this speech
before the House of Commons andhe gives again the famous words
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we shall go on to the end.
We'll fight in France, we'llfight on the seas and in the
oceans.
He continues where we'll fight?
We'll fight in the hills and weshall never surrender.
And the whole House of Commonsexplodes in applause and cheers.
Really, the whole country isexploding in these applause and
cheers.
And in that moment Churchilllooks to a colleague and very
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quietly says and we will have tofight them with the back end of
broken bottles, because that'sjust about all we've got.
He made a country feel bravewhen they were outmanned,
outmatched.
He made a country feelcourageous and self-assured when
they had really no businessfeeling that way, and yet it
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worked.
I wonder this morning if WinstonChurchill can make a country
feel assured, brave, courageous,when all he had to work with
was the back end of a few brokenbottles to fight this large
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regime.
If he can make you feel bravein that moment, what can Paul do
as he writes to us, thegreatest words maybe in all of
scripture.
And yet the authority behindPaul is not the back end of
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broken bottles, not a story ofhow we are a people outgunned,
outmatched, but instead behindPaul is all the authority of the
resurrected Savior, jesusChrist the righteous.
That is the authority behindPaul's words here.
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And I just wonder this morningif you will leave here brave,
assured, courageous, not throughany work of your own, but
because of the encouragement ofPaul, because of the authority
behind him in the finished workof Christ, and because of three
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things, and they're simply thisthat your past is secured in
Christ, your present is securedin Christ and your future is
secured in Christ.
Your present is secured inChrist and your future is
secured in Christ.
Look with me, verse 31.
What, then, shall we say tothese things?
If God is for us?
Who can be against us?
What shall we say to thesethings?
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He's really picking up on allof Romans 8, but we could argue
he's picking up on all of Romansup to this point In chapters 1
and 3, through 3, showing usjust how sinful we are.
But then the good news of theend of chapter 3, all the way
through 7, showing us that thegood news is we have a Savior,
as sinful as we may be.
We have a Savior who has diedfor sinners and has risen from
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the grave, and so this is thegood news.
And then Romans 8 that gives us, time and time again, assurance
of our salvation, assurance ofour justification before Christ.
And now he ends in 31 to 39.
He starts right here.
What shall we say to thesethings?
With all of this in mind, hereit is.
If God is for us, who can beagainst us?
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Who can bring condemnationagainst us?
If God is indeed for us?
I think of John, chapter 8, andthis story with Jesus and the
religious elite bring into theroom a woman who's been caught
in adultery, and there's a lotthat goes on behind the scenes,
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there's a lot that leads to thismoment, but this woman is
standing before Jesus and Jesussays those famous words let he
who is without sin throw thefirst stone.
And slowly but surely, allthese men start walking away.
And then Jesus looks around andthere's no one there.
And so he looks at this womancaught in adultery and says who
is there to condemn you?
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And she also looks around andall those who would bring
accusation against her are nowgone, and the one person still
standing who could bringaccusation instead shows grace.
This is the same story ofRomans 8, 31.
Who shall bring a chargeagainst you?
Who's still standing?
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Who is still remaining that canbring condemnation, can bring
some kind of accusation?
And all throughout the end ofRomans, chapter 8, we'll
continue to ask that questionand see time and time again that
there is no one there whocondemns.
Why?
Because, verse 32, he who didnot spare his own son but gave
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him up for us all, how will henot also, with him, graciously
give us all things?
If this is the God who is forus, paul wants to explain who
that God is.
It's the very God who, beforeyou and I, were born before you
and I had even sinned our firstsin.
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God had already done what ittakes to justify sinners.
He sent his own son as asacrifice.
For us, we remember Genesis,chapter 22,.
For us, we remember Genesis,chapter 22, abraham and Isaac
are marching up this mountain tothe place of sacrifice, but
there's no animal for theoffering and Abraham puts Isaac
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up on the altar, as Godinstructed to even sacrifice
your firstborn son.
And at the last moment theangel calls out and tells
Abraham to stop.
And in that moment Abraham'sown son was spared by God.
This beautiful moment.
And yet we see on that samemountaintop, generations later,
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that God's own son was placed onthe altar.
And in that moment, instead ofsparing his own son, jesus
Christ took the penalty, the sinfor each one of us that the son
of God was not spared.
And the greatest gift we couldever be given has already been
given to us in Christ Jesus bythe father who has died for us
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and has risen from the grave.
And so Paul just wants to saywho can bring a condemnation, a
charge against us?
This is the God on our side,the one who didn't even spare
his own son.
And if he's already given usthe greatest of all gifts, will
he not give us all the more?
In Christ Jesus.
I remember being a child atChristmas time and I think I've
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talked about this before but myfamily, my parents and
grandparents, they were big fansof that one delayed gift Maybe
you do this as well that wewould go open our stockings.
We would go open the gifts.
We were fired up at what we hadreceived.
Everything we asked for, mosteverything we asked for, was all
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there and we were so excited.
And then at the last second myparents would say but wait, but
wait, why don't you go look inthe backyard?
And one year we went and lookedin the backyard and there was a
brand new basketball goal outthere.
And I remember one year at mygrandparents' house, but wait,
we thought we were done.
But wait, go look in the garage.
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We looked in the garage andthere was a ping pong table
there.
Wasn't that great for mygrandparents Give the ping pong
table that has to live at myparents' house.
But it was still out there.
And we were so fired up becausealways at the end there'd be
that.
But wait, there's one more itemout there waiting on you.
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It's interesting as I read thispassage for us on our behalf.
God does just the opposite Fromthe very start.
There's no waiting on it,there's no wondering if there's
something more to give.
From the very start, thegreatest gift, even before you
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and I were born or thought of,at least in our parents' eyes,
not in God's eyes, but from thevery start, the greatest gift
has already been placed beforeus Christ Jesus in his death and
resurrection.
The greatest has been given.
And so Paul says if God did noteven hesitate to send his own
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son on our behalf, how much morewill he give us all things?
If God can send his only sonfor us, how much more can he
come through on every singlepromise that is given to us in
Christ Jesus?
That's the beauty of the gospel, that's the beauty of our
assurance.
And then we continue this logicin verse 33.
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Who shall bring any chargeagainst God's elect?
It is God who justified verse34,.
Who is to condemn?
Who shall bring any chargeagain against God's elect?
It is God who justifies.
Who is to condemn, like ourwoman caught in adultery, again
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in John, chapter 8.
And he asks again where areyour accusers?
Where are those who desire tobring some kind of charge
against you, desire to bringsome kind of charge against you?
I'm really fascinated by theinner workings of our country,
the justice system in ourcountry, the different levels
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and layers that exist, how onething moves from another, how
you appeal here and there, andit's interesting how it all
works on the federal side ofthings.
If you need your day in court,you are a rightful citizen and
you can get your rightful day incourt.
You can go to the US districtcourt and you can have your day
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in court.
Now, if you don't like theresult, there is somewhere you
can go.
You can appeal to the US Courtof Appeals and you can again
have that case kind of seenagain.
There are 11 men and women ofyou're sitting right now in the
8th Circuit.
That runs from right here wherewe're sitting, all the way up
to the Dakotas, and they willhear your case, along with 1,999
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other cases throughout the year, and three of those 11 will
break down your case and theywill give you a ruling on it.
Now, if you don't like thatruling, there is one more place
you can go.
It is actually the most supremeof possible places that you can
go.
Your case can be heard by theSupreme Court.
Now, if you don't like wherethat lands you, if you don't
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like their ruling in this.
I think at that point you justhave to go home.
I think it's over, but I almosthave this picture as we're
looking for those who willcondemn of the evil one just
roaming around looking for acourt, looking for a judge that
will hear his case, looking fora court, looking for a judge
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that will hear his case Up anddown, spouting off the evidence
against God's children, lookingfor any court that will bring
condemnation.
And wherever he can find aplace, he will spout out the
many things, the many sins thatyou and I have done, you and I
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who are children of God.
If he could just find acourtroom and a judge that will
hear him out, so he can tellevery detail of the mess we've
made of our lives, in our ownsin.
And when he finally gets to theSupreme Court, the Supreme of
Supremes, the God of theuniverse, when he gives the case
of Taylor Guerin and what he'sdone, he can finally plead his
case.
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The evil one can to the God ofthe universe and said God,
you've got the wrong guy.
You know this guy, taylor, andyou know the sins he's committed
.
You know just how broken hispast is God.
I've got the receipts and Icould roll the tape on just the
many ways he has rebelledagainst you, god.
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I know you think he's a childof God, but I've got all the
evidence I need to let you knowtoday, God, I'm doing you a
service today to let you knowthat this would-be child of God
he's not who you think he is.
He's a sinner.
And in that moment the judgelooks back and says this I've
counted him justified.
And in that courtroom, satanprobably says no, no, you didn't
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catch what I was saying.
He's sinful beyond belief.
Have you not seen his past?
Have you not seen hisbrokenness?
And the judge says I see theproblem here, because you
thought I was judging Taylorbased on his works.
No, no, my judgment is given toTaylor based on the finished
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work of Christ.
This courtroom doesn't look atTaylor's works as he tries to
earn salvation.
No, no, it looks at thefinished work of the perfect
sacrifice, the Son of God, whois without blemish and has died
and has risen from the grave.
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And now my servant, taylor, isa child of God.
Why?
Because he is now clothed inthe righteousness of Christ.
And so when I give thatjudgment of justified before God
.
I am basing that on what Christhas done and at that moment the
case is absolutely closed,because verse 34, who is to
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condemn?
And here's who we have behindus Christ Jesus is the one who
died More than that, who wasraised, who is at the right hand
of God, who indeed isinterceding for us.
There is the basis ofeverything that happened in that
courtroom that day that Tayloris justified because there is a
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justifier and the means ofjustification has come in the
person of Christ Jesus.
My favorite maybe, pictureoutside of the cross and
resurrection itself, ofatonement, of justification in
scripture might actually comefrom Leviticus, chapter 16.
And you're probably sayingdidn't see that coming, the
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greatest picture of the gospel,atonement, justification,
leviticus, chapter 16, becausethere was one day a year, the
day of atonement, when the highpriest would enter into the most
holy place and first he wouldmake a sacrifice for himself.
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You don't just walk in there,you make a sacrifice for
yourself.
And then you go into that holyplace and he would take with him
now hang with me.
He would take with him twogoats and one goat.
He would sacrifice there andthen sprinkle the blood of that
goat onto the altar, now withthe second goat, he would place
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his two hands on the head ofthat goat and symbolically, in
that moment, symbolically, he isplacing the sins of Israel onto
this goat.
I know this sounds a littlestrange, but hang with me.
He'd symbolically placed thesins of Israel, confessed sins,
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and they would symbolically goonto this goat.
And then here's what they woulddo with that one remaining goat
.
They would not sacrifice theother goat.
Instead, they would take thatgoat and they would cast that
goat out of the camp.
They would cast that goat outinto the wilderness, never to
return again.
And here's why this happened onthe day of atonement, because
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this was a picture of really twothings Number one, the means of
our atonement and number two,the effects of our atonement.
And number two, the effects ofour atonement, that the means of
our atonement is this that thisgoat would be a sacrifice for
sin, that blood would be spilledfor the sake of sin.
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Now the effects of theatonement are this that your
sins are now cast into thewilderness, never to return.
So that's the day of atonement,the means and the effects of
your atonement.
Now look no further than thework of Christ Jesus If you want
to see both the means and theeffect of your atonement, the
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means that the perfect son ofGod was sacrificed for your sin.
Sin was truly placed upon him,he truly died.
He was truly placed in thegrave.
Praise God, he truly rose fromthe grave.
The effects of that atonement,your own sin, are now cast into
the wilderness as far as theeast is from the west, and they
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will never return.
That is what justification is,because now, through the work of
Christ, you are justifiedbefore the Lord, god.
Who can bring a condemnationagainst that?
Who's got a word to speakagainst you that is better than
the word spoken by Christ Jesusat his resurrection, that your
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sin is cast into the wilderness,never to return.
And so here's the truth of yourpast.
Your past is secure in Christ.
And so everything in your past,everything, the good, the bad,
the ugly, all the sin, all therebellion, all the times you
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have run from your father andGod, all the times you have
tried to sit on the throne ofyour own life, all the times
that you have fallen short ofthe glory of God, and for every
one of us in this room that is avery long list of those kinds
of times, but in all of thosetimes there is a better word
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that speaks over it, and it'sthe blood of Christ.
And in Christ Jesus your pastis secure.
And so when you look over themovie of your life, of your past
, you may be tempted to say allI see is brokenness and guilt
and shame.
But, believer, be encouraged.
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If you are in Christ Jesus,I'll tell you what really exists
as you watch the movie of yourpast, it's the person of Jesus
Christ, clothed in hisrighteousness.
Your past is secured, but alsolook at this your present is
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secured in Christ.
Verse 35,.
Who shall separate us from thelove of Christ?
Shall tribulation or distressor persecution, or famine or
nakedness or danger or sword, asit is written, for your sake,
we're being killed all the daylong.
We are regarded as sheep to beslaughtered.
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Let's stop right there for amoment.
In verse 35, who can separateus right now, in this present
time?
And then he lists cantribulation do it Again?
Distress, persecution, famine,nakedness, danger, sword, all of
these things that are very realand present dangers To everyone
living in the church at Romeunder the thumb, under the hand
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of the watchful eye of theemperor.
All of these things are veryreal threats.
In verse 36, paul is actuallyreferencing Psalm 44, as the
psalmist is talking about theirown tribulation, their own
persecution for their faith.
And even back in Psalm 44,we're being persecuted, we're
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like sheep being slaughtered.
The persecutors are comingafter us and this is their life,
as the psalmist writes and Paulis proclaiming.
This is still life in thechurch at Rome.
There is persecution, there isdanger, there is sword, and even
in your own life.
Now you know very well thatthere is trial, there's
tribulation, there is suffering,and we've talked about it
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throughout our Romans 8 seriesthat you will suffer because
you're being persecuted for yourfaith.
You will suffer because youproclaim the name of Jesus.
You will suffer because of thesin and brokenness in this world
.
You will suffer because, again,we live in a world that is not
as it should be and not as itwill be.
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You will suffer again becauseof the consequences of your own
sin, my own sin.
There is suffering in this life, but what Paul wants to know is
can that separate us from thelove of God in Christ Jesus?
And then there's verse 37.
37.
No, in all these things we aremore than conquerors through him
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who loved us, that nothing,even these things, now notice
what Paul doesn't say.
He doesn't say this.
He doesn't say that because youare in Christ Jesus.
Famine, sword, nakedness,danger, destruction, that stuff
will never come Again.
You and I both know there'ssuffering in this life, but what
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he does say is, even in themidst of suffering like we talk
about in Romans 8, 28, that Godcan work all things for the good
of those who love him or calledaccording to his purpose.
That even in our sufferings,you and I are more than
conquerors through him who lovedus.
I think of Paul in anotherletter in Philippians.
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He's in prison, he's probablynearing the end of his life and
he doesn't know what's better.
Is it better for me to face myfinal fate, or is it better to
me to stay on this earth,probably in and out in prison, a
little longer?
And he says these wordswhatever it may be, to live is
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Christ.
What does he say next?
To die is gain.
One person says it like this tolive is Christ, to die is's
Christ.
And in your circumstances, youreally have two possible results
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.
If you are in Christ Jesus,whatever you walk through in
this life, there are twopossible results.
Number one is this that Christwill bring you through it.
And the second possibility isthis that Christ will bring you
through it.
Those are the two possibilitiesand there's not a third that
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Christ will bring you through itor Christ will bring you
through it.
And we've all set in thoseseasons of life where we've
suffered and we've seen this,that Christ has brought us
through it, at least up to thispoint.
Some things will.
This side of glory will neverfully be on the other side, but
up to this point God has broughtme through it.
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And then there's even somethings that will only fully see
the full reality of it on theother side when Christ brings us
home for eternity, where wewill live and dwell with our
Savior for eternity.
But here's the good news andhere's what Paul wants you to
understand that nothing canseparate you from Christ Jesus,
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because whatever happens in thislife, you win, because in
Christ Jesus you've already won.
And that's the good news of thegospel that not only has Christ
secured our past, but he hassecured our present.
But I want us to see this aswell your future is secured in
Christ Jesus.
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Let's end on 38 and 39.
For I am sure, notice that'sPaul speaking through the Holy
Spirit.
And he says I am sure, noticethat's Paul speaking through the
Holy Spirit.
And he says I am sure Not.
I've got a good feeling.
I think it could be this I amsure that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor rulers,nor things present, nor things
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to come, nor powers, nor height,nor depth, nor anything present
, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor
anything else in all creationwill be able to separate us from
the love of God.
In Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Your past is secure, yourpresent is secure, but for the
believer I want you to see thisyour future is secure.
Because in these two verses Paultries to give us the full
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extent of some of those optionswe might throw out to say this
thing could probably finallyseparate me from Christ.
And if Paul could just give usthe full scale of anything we
might could throw out that saycould separate us, and then show
us this that no, it is notpossible, then maybe in that
moment we can take someassurance, because death can't
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do it, life can't do it.
Angels or rulers probably righthere, not so much angels, the
little sweet angels in theChristmas pageant.
But these spiritual beings,that even those evil spiritual
beings that want to come to youand talk about your past and
your unworthiness and your sinand want to wreak havoc in our
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world.
Nor things present, noranything to come.
So what you have seen or areseeing or will see in the future
, there's no powers.
There's no powers human powers,spiritual powers.
There's not height or depth.
If he says, if I can just showyou all of creation, I'll show
that nothing can do it, noranything else in all creation.
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I'm thankful for that one,because you and I are probably
just stubborn enough to say, hey, but Paul didn't mention this
one.
I did know there was at leastthat one thing that could
probably separate me from Christ.
And so Paul says we'll getbeyond that by saying this nor
anything else If I forgotanything, if you tried to fill
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in the blank with anything, I'lltell you right now nor anything
else in all creation will beable to separate us from the
love of God in Christ Jesus, ourLord.
And here's what encourages methis morning that anything else
in all creation will be unableto separate us.
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The good news is this thatincludes me, that my own moments
of sinful rebellion.
I'm not talking about before Iwas a Christian.
I'm talking about after I was aChristian, when I've fallen
below the standard God has formy life, when I've sinned in
ways I'm not proud of, said thatstatement there's not sinful
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ways that I am proud of but butalways when I've done anything
that I feel like surely that'sthe time where God's going to
look at me and say, taylor,that's enough, I've got the
wrong guy here that nothing inall of creation can separate me
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from the love of God.
I'm thankful for how one pastorput it, and this one.
It's pretty in your face, buthe says this if you could lose
your salvation, you would.
Isn't that the truth?
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If you could lose yoursalvation, I'm not picking on
you, I'm talking about me, I'mtalking about all of us.
If you could lose yoursalvation, you would Think about
this the audacity of sayingthat it is possible to lose my
salvation based on anything I do.
And guess what?
I've kept it all the way.
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I've kept it through the end.
No, no, no, no.
I'm thankful for a gospel thatwon't even let me get in my own
way, but is held together by theSavior who holds me.
That nothing in my past,nothing in my present, nothing
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in my future will be able toseparate me from the love of God
in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
That is the truth of our gospel, that is the beauty of Romans,
chapter eight.
That's why we take four weeksto climb Everest, the Mount
Everest of scripture, to beencouraged, to be assured, to
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remind ourselves of our standing, though undeserved, our
truthful standing before our Godand Father.
Before our God and Father.
That's the good news of ourgospel.
And if Churchill can make acountry who is largely
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outmatched believe that theycould do just about anything and
make them assured that theycould win the war, how much more
can the risen Savior, jesusChrist, the war?
How much more can the risenSavior, jesus Christ, the
righteous, remind me, day afterday after day, that for now,
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unto eternity, there is nothingthat can separate me from the
love of God, that can separateyou from the love of God in
Christ Jesus, our Lord.
And that's your story, both nowunto eternity, for those in
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Christ Jesus, pray with me.
Lord Jesus, we thank you forthe gospel, thank you for the
assurance of salvation that wecan know beyond any shadow of a
doubt, based on the authority ofChrist Jesus, that we are yours
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both now and for eternity.
Let us live in that truth bothnow and forever.
Lord, if there is any in thisroom that needs to respond to
this message, the reality is weall do Respond through our
worship, respond to your wordjust through our own
encouragement, maybe justlifting up a prayer of
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thankfulness, of gratitude.
If there's anybody that needsto respond now, just by coming
and desiring to be a part ofthis church family, maybe
there's someone that, for thefirst time, wants to come to
know you and wants to, for thefirst time, experience the
forgiveness of sins, thatjustification that only you
offer.
Maybe today's the day, lord.
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If they desire to come down,I'd love to talk with them about
it.
Lord, if there's any who standin need of prayer and they would
come, lord, I'd love nothingmore than to pray over them.
But however we need to respond,would we do so even now?
And, lord, let us all respondwith worship in Christ's name,
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amen, would you stand?
And if you need to come downfor anything in any way, I'll be
right down front.
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