A summary from Pastor Robin V. Bassam’s sermon
In these few verses from Romans 8:35-39, there are three important questions:
Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?
Christ has called His own to freedom and liberty, and if we were able to look up into heaven or down into the dark abyss of the accusing devils, or look around at a hostile world and into conscience itself and ask, “Who can accuse anyone whom God has chosen and Christ has loved, died for, forgiven, cleansed, justified and now intercedes for heaven itself? Think of your worth to God. Your name is mentioned in heaven itself.”
Who is he who condemns?
It is Christ who died. Christ has paid the uttermost price, so that every judge must declare “Not guilty! Innocent! There is, therefore, now no condemnation”
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
If Paul should look around this world and all creation – the cruelty of man, the satanic power of the legions of devils and the demonic powers, and the rage of God-defying world, the united force of all fallen, sinful created things – and when Paul sees sinners, now as lambs in the arms of Jesus, Paul cries: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?”