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Romans 8:33-34 (NLT)  Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. ³⁴ Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand, pleading for us. 

 

C. H. Spurgeon writes, " If God has justified a man it is well done, it is rightly done, it is justly done, it is everlastingly done. I read the other day in a print that is full of venom against the gospel and those who preach it that we hold some kind of theory by which we imagine that sin can be removed from men. We hold no theory, we publish a fact. The grandest facet under heaven is this—that Christ by His precious blood does actually put away sin and that God, for Christ's sake, deals with men on terms of divine mercy, forgives the guilty and justifies them, but according to the riches of His own mercy. This we have preached, do preach, and will preach as long as we live. "

 

As in Spurgeon's time, there are plenty among us today who are full of venom against the gospel.  There are plenty who will join Satan as the great accuser saying that we as Christians can't know that we are right with God.  They don't realize that it is not something that we do on our own or by our works.  It is something that God, through Jesus and the Holy Spirit working in us, does for us.  Justification and righteousness go hand in hand, God declares us "just" or not guilty, putting us in right standing before Him, not based on anything we have done, but according to His mercy.  We will have our ups and downs, our failures in this age, but there is forgiveness. 

 

Thankfully we can depend on God's promise concerning a future day when Jesus will return and make all things right between God and us forever.  Considering those first few words from Spurgeon, "if God has justified a man it is well done" brought to mind the old hymn "One Day He's Coming". 

 

Living He loved me, dying He saved me

And buried He carried my sins far away

Rising He justified freely forever

One day He's coming, oh glorious day!

 

 In the meantime, Jesus is at God's right hand, pleading for us.

 

In Christ,
Mike

 

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Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace  NIV

Romans 8:33-39  New Living Translation (NLT)

³³ Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. ³⁴ Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand, pleading for us.

 ³⁵ Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? ³⁶ (As the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.") ³⁷ No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

 ³⁸ And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. ³⁹ No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.