31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be[i] against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 8:31-39

A. The Love of God in Christ’s Work: Objectively

Romans 8:31-35

1. Questions one and two – Romans 8:31

a. These things – Colossians 3:1

b. The God who is for us – Ex. 3:4-5, 12-14; 1 Peter 1:1-2

2. These things against us

a. People are against us – Psalm 56:3-4; 10-11

b. The world is against us – Matt. 13:22; 1 John 2:15-17

c. Satan is against us – Revelation 20:10

3. The Answer – Romans 8:31-32

a. The giving heart of God – Gen. 22:1-13; Rom. 5:6-11; 2 Corinthians 5:14-16; 1 John 4:7-10

b. The costly gift

– The love of God the Father who gave His Son

John 3:16; John 17:23

– The love of God the Son who was given

John 13:1; John 15:9-10

– The love of God the Spirit applying the Son given

Romans 15:30

c. The Greater to the Lesser – Philippians 1:6; 2:12-13; Romans 5:6-11