Who Can Be Against Us?
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
We have shown in a previous article that God is for sinners
and desires their good. We have shown how He proved this by paying for
their sins Himself as God the Son at Calvary. But if this is true, how much
more must it be so with regard to His own children who have trusted Christ
as their Savior?
How often — and how significantly — the Apostle Paul uses
the words “for us” in this connection!
In Ephesians 5:2 we read that “Christ… loved us, and hath given
Himself for us.” In Romans 5:8 we are told that “while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us.” In II Corinthians 5:21: “[God] hath
made Him to be sin for us.” And in Galatians 3:13 we read: “Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us.”
And the love that brought Him down from heaven to die in shame and
disgrace for our sins is not affected by our many failures as Christians
now. In Hebrews 9:24 we read that our Lord has ascended to heaven “now
to appear in the presence of God for us.” In Romans 8:34 we learn that
He is “at the right hand of God” to “make intercession
for us.” And in Hebrews 7:25 we read that He is able to save us
“to the uttermost” because “He ever lives to make
intercession for us.”
Our failures now, after having trusted Christ as Savior, may — and
should — trouble our consciences and thus hinder our fellowship with
God, but this does not change the fact that we are God’s dear
children through faith in Christ, who died for all our sins. Unworthy
though we still may be, therefore, God would have us come into His presence
to be spiritually renewed.
“What shall we then say to these things? IF GOD BE FOR US WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?” (Romans 8:31).
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