This week we are looking at one of the great treasures that is ours in Christ and that is that we are secure in Him. We are eternally secure. Nothing can shake us from the love of Christ. Those are wonderful things to consider.
Paul is building here one of the most comprehensive arguments found in the Scriptures to show us our security. We have already looked at two different sections in Romans 8:28-29 that He is working all things together for our good and our good is conformity to Christ. Then we have seen in Romans 8:30-31 that those He has predestined, he has called, and those he has called he has justified and those that he has justified he has glorified. Those are staked on the fact that the Lord has already given us the greatest of all possible gifts, that is His Son, so, why would He not give us everything? He has given us the Son, why not continue to give us the life that is found in the Son. This is Paul’s argument: because God has given the Son, He will definitely give us the life.
Now we move on where Paul still seems to be arguing with an invisible antagonist here who is questioning what Paul might be teaching and may be asking, what if you are saved now but you mess up badly or something shakes your faith, and you lose your salvation? So, Paul continues his argument against this antagonist in Romans 8:33 which says, “Who will bring a charge against God’s elect?” Now he has this idea of someone making a charge, or maybe in a courtroom scene. So, we are on trial here and someone comes forth and brings a charge against us. Basically, the charge is this: this person does not deserve eternal life. This person is not one that God should keep for His own. There has been a legal charge brought against us.
Romans 8:33 continues, “God is the one who justifies.” On the bench is God. God is not one who is going to be deceived by a very deceptive and well-scheming prosecutor or lawyer. He is not shaken by great arguments. He justifies. His justice is always right. Throughout the Scriptures one of the great teachings, we find throughout the whole Bible is that our Lord is no respecter of persons, His judgment is always right, He never takes anything from some other viewpoint that is not right. He knows what is right and He justifies. God is the One that justifies, so don’t get worried about what somebody else might say . . .
