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Romans 8:26-39

Good News Translation (GNT)

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26  In the same way the Spirit also comes to help
   us, weak as we are. For we do not know how
   we ought to pray; the Spirit himself pleads with
   God for us in groans that words cannot
   express.
27  And God, who sees into our hearts, knows
   what the thought of the Spirit is; because the
   Spirit pleads with God on behalf of his people
   and in accordance with his will.

28  We know that in all things God works for good
   with those who love him, [d] those whom he
   has called according to his purpose.
29  Those whom God had already chosen he also
   set apart to become like his Son, so that the
   Son would be the first among many believers.
30  And so those whom God set apart, he called;
   and those he called, he put right with himself,
   and he shared his glory with them.

   God's Love in Christ Jesus
31  In view of all this, what can we say?
   If God is for us, who can be against us?
32  Certainly not God, who did not even keep back
   his own Son, but offered him for us all!
   He gave us his Son - will he not also freely
   give us all things?
33  Who will accuse God's chosen people?
   God himself declares them not guilty!
34  Who, then, will condemn them?
   Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was
   raised to life and is at the right side of God,
   pleading with him for us!
35  Who, then, can separate us from the
   love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship
   or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger
   or death?
36  As the scripture says,

          "For your sake we are in danger of
            death at all times;
                  we are treated like sheep that are
                  going to be slaughtered."

37  No, in all these things we have complete
   victory through him who loved us!
38  For I am certain that nothing can
   separate us from his love: neither death
   nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly
   rulers or powers, neither the present nor the
   future,
39  neither the world above nor the world below -
   there is nothing in all creation that will ever be
   able to separate us from the love of God which
   is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.

   Footnotes
   Romans 8:28 in all things God works for good
   with those who love him;
   some manuscripts have
   all things work for good for those who love
   God.

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Commentary taken from
'The Applied New Testament Commentary'
(Kingsway)

The Future Glory

     Romans 8:26-39

One of the many things the Holy Spirit does for us, is to help us pray.
The Holy Spirit, dwelling within us, intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. Some Christians pray in tongues ( a spiritual language). Others simply cry out to God. If we ourselves do not make an effort to pray, the Holy Spirit certainly isn't going to help us! We must pray as best we can.

God will surely "know the mind" of His own Spirit. The Holy Spirit will always intercede for us according to God's will. Let it not be said of us that we worshiped God only with our lips!

In all things God works for our good.
God even uses the "bad" things in our lives to work for our good. In times of trouble, this verse is hard to understand.

We must never treat this verse lightly. All the things that happen to us here on earth, God will work for our good, in heaven.
The promise given here is given only to those who love God, who have been called according to his purpose.

We can fully trust Him to work for our good in all things. Before we were born, He predestined us and called us. We heard God's call, and believed in Christ.

More Than Conquerors (8:31-39)

If God is for us, who can be against us?
Satan can be against us. But in the end, he cannot prevail against a true believer.

God has given us many wonderful gifts.
And do we have to pay for any of these-spiritual blessings? No. To those who believe in Christ, all these blessings are given free!
Satan can bring any charge against us, but he can't condemn us. When Paul says that there is now no condemnation, he is talking about heaven, not earth.
God will listen only to Jesus Christ, our advocate.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
No one! Except for sin, a thing (which God did not create) can separate believers, in Christ, from God's love.

Here Paul quotes from Psalm 44:22.

Just as Christ died for our sake, so we also must be ready to face death all day long for His sake. Even death cannot separate us from God's love. We also must offer up our bodies, to God, as living sacrifices

Nevertheless Christians tend to forget that there is, in fact, one thing. And that one thing is sin.
If we continue knowingly in some sin and refuse to repent of it, that sin will most definitely separate us from God's love and bring upon us God's terrible wrath and judgment.

Friends, let this be the one great burning passion of our lives: to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus Christ.
There is no higher calling; there is no greater glory.

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