Romans 8:31-39

Romans 8:31

There are Three Stages in this Challenge of Faith.

I. Who shall our accuser be? Nothing will stop the accuser's mouth, but the one mighty act of God's sovereign grace by which He acquits and justifies the sinner.

II. The adversary may accuse; condemn, he dare not. For Jesus, the Judge, is in His own person a threefold, fourfold answer to every charge against His people.

III. The Apostle flings down his glove to the forces of the world. What is his challenge but an echo to the calm strong words of the King? "In the world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

J. Oswald Dykes, The Gospel according to St. Paul,p. 273.

References: Romans 8:32. Homilist,vol. vi., p. 341; W. Cunningham, Sermons,p. 174; T. J. Crawford, The Preaching of the Cross,p. 23; Christian World Pulpit,vol. xvii., p. 256; H. Melvill, Penny Pulpit,No. 3114; G. Brooks, Five Hundred Outlines,p. 8. Romans 8:33 . Spurgeon, Evening by Evening,p. 210.