If God says His chosen ones are acceptable to Him, can anyone bring charges against them? Absolutely Not.
Who can bring a charge against those whom God has chosen for Himself – who can bring an accusation against those whom God has elected for Himself? Absolutely no one because it is God who justifies us.
Romans 8 paints a clear picture to remind us that God chose and elected us for Himself. Therefore, no one can bring an accusation against us because the one who chose us justifies us and has given us right standing with Him.
Essentially, this is saying that if God says His chosen ones are acceptable to Him, no one can bring charges against them. So, who dares to condemn us when it is Christ Jesus who died for us – and even more than that – He was also raised to life and is at the right hand of God interceding for us – advocating for us before God.
Then, who or what will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written: For Your sake, we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. But in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We are the elect of Christ – chosen for His purpose and justified. He died to set us free, and His sacrifice on the cross has given us right standing with Him. It also frees us from any accusation brought against us. It does not stop there – He is also at the right hand of God, advocating for you and me right now!
You have an advocate in Christ Jesus! You are more than a conqueror!
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