The Divine Closing Argument
Kenny discusses the powerful closing verses of Romans 8, emphasizing the divine assurance they provide to believers. He highlights that if God is for us, no one can stand against us, and that God’s ultimate proof of love is the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus Christ. Kenny explains that no accusation can stand against God’s elect, as it is God who justifies. He illustrates that Christ, who died and was raised, intercedes for us, ensuring that no condemnation can be brought against us. Kenny also emphasizes that nothing can separate us from the love of God, regardless of the trials we face. He encourages believers to recognize their identity as God’s elect and to be fully persuaded of their security in Christ. The message culminates in a call for personal reflection on whether individuals can affirm their own faith in the gospel and the assurance it brings. Kenny concludes with a prayer for spiritual insight and understanding of these truths.
Outline of Main Points
- Introduction to Romans 8:31-39
- God's Assurance: If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Ultimate Proof of God's Love: Sacrifice of His Son
- No Accusation Can Stand: Justification through Christ
- No Condemnation: Christ's intercession
- Nothing Can Separate Us from God's Love
- Call to Personal Reflection: Are you fully persuaded?
- Conclusion: Prayer for understanding and faith
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 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. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 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.
