Romans 8: 33-39

(Romans 8: 33-39)

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.  Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Both the Roman church and Paul could live only on conviction. Although the Romans accepted the Gospel and even a church was established, the question of conviction was important to the Roman church, who wondered if they really lived like Christians in the center of the empire. Paul had a feeling of guilt for persecuting Christians on the right path in the past. So, he would have had to reflect on his thoughts and prayers on the subject of the assurance of grace several times in order to turn it into a feeling of debt, which is the driving force of his ministry now entrusted to him. Paul explains conviction.

 

In the text, the word “Luk” appears repeatedly. The church had someone opposed him, accused him, condemned him, and tried to cut him from the love of Christ. This could be a story of an external environment, or a whisper that despairs us day by day from within. Paul admitted that this reality exists. However, they do not stop at this and say that they must listen to the call beyond reality. Paul asks us to check our relationship with God as an answer to real problems.

 

Checking your relationship with God is a life that goes into Jesus Christ. It is to live with the life of Christ as a milestone and destination. That God did not spare His Son but gave it up for all of us, that we too can and should be willing to give it up. 『I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 』(Galatians 2:20)

 

The only thing that those who live for this will depend on is Christ Jesus, who always lives and asks for us. In Hebrews 7:25, "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them", 1 John 2:1 "My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous"

 

Paul's letter to the Roman Church was not a delusion in his head, but a history of life. Furthermore, through the word sword he had not experienced yet, it can be seen that the purpose of moving to Rome was not to live and be loved by everyone in a stable workplace, but to confess that God's love is sufficient and to be offered as a sacrifice of martyrdom. So he lived as a slaughtered sheep, slain for the Lord all day long.

 

Paul did not adequately cover and avoid the problem of conviction over guilt. He says we can win. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, .Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 』

 

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