| SUMMARY: | These verses are the conclusion to the second major section of this letter in which Paul declares the righteousness demanded by God has been made available by faith in Jesus Christ apart from the Law. Paul asks, in light of all God has done, what more could we ask. We are eternally secure; no one can ever condemn us or separate us from His love. |
| I. The Question | VERSE 8:31 | |
| What then shall we say to these things? | (31a) | |
| II. The Answer | VERSES 8:31-39 | |
| A. No One Can Oppose Us: | ||
| 1. The Condition — If: | If God is for us, | (31b) |
| 2. The Question — Then: | who is against us? | (31c) |
| 3. (The Implied Answer — No one!) | ||
| B. God Will Grant Us All Things: | ||
| 1. The Condition — If: | ||
| a. Negative: | He who did not spare His own Son, | (32a) |
| b. Positive: | but delivered Him over for us all, | (32b) |
| 2. The Question — Then: | how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? | (32c) |
| 3. (The Implied Answer — He will!) | ||
| C. No One Can Condemn Us: | ||
| 1. The Initial Question: | Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? | (33a) |
| 2. The Condition — If: | God is the one who justifies; | (33b) |
| 3. The Next Question — Then: | who is the one who condemns? | (34a) |
| 4. (The Implied Answer — No one!) | ||
| D. Nothing Can Separate Us From the Love of God Through Christ: | ||
| 1. The Condition — If: | ||
| a. His Death: | Christ Jesus is He who died, | (34b) |
| b. His Resurrection: | yes, rather who was raised, | (34c) |
| c. His Ascension: | who is at the right hand of God, | (34d) |
| d. His Intercession: | who also intercedes for us. | (34e) |
| 2. The Questions — Then: | ||
| a. First: | Who will separate us from the love of Christ? | (35a) |
| b. Second: | Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? | (35b) |
| c. The Quotation: | Just as it is written, “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.” (Psalm 44:22) |
(36) |
| 3. The Stated Answer: | ||
| a. The Statement: | But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. | (37) |
| b. The Explanation: | ||
| (1) The Conviction: | For I am convinced that | (38a) |
| (2) The List: | ||
| (a) One: | neither death, nor life, | (38b) |
| (b) Two: | nor angels, nor principalities, | (38c) |
| (c) Three: | nor things present, nor things to come, | (38d) |
| (d) Four: | nor powers, | (38e) |
| (e) Five: | nor height, nor depth, | (39a) |
| (f) Six: | nor any other created thing, | (39b) |
| (3) The Security: | will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. | (39c) |