As he reached the tip of Romans 8, Paul offered a triumphant closing argument, grounding Christian assurance in God’s decisive motion in Christ. As a result of God didn’t spare His personal Son, believers will be assured that nothing important can be withheld from them. Each cost is silenced by Christ’s dying, resurrection, reign, and intercession, Alistair Begg explains in his sermon “Assured in Christ.” Although struggling and opposition stay actual, they can not sever believers from Christ’s love.
Commenting on Romans 8:28 particularly, which he says “has the type of potential for what we would name a ‘shaving mirror verse,’” Alistair explains,
When it says right here “all issues,” watch out, particularly in your Bible research teams and in your own home. …
“‘All issues’ is an apparent instance of an expression in common phrases” that’s being “utilized in a restrictive sense” … in the identical means that we take verse 28, that “all issues for good.” “For good.” Who determines the nice? The Father determines the nice. What does the “all issues” imply? Does it imply that if you’ll observe Jesus, then you’re going to get a BMW 2002, and you’re going to get a regulation diploma, and also you would possibly get the woman as properly? No! He is aware of all of the issues which are needed for us. He is aware of all of the issues which are greatest for us. He’s our Father. …
Do you bear in mind the sinking feeling you had when on Christmas Day you had been ready for that prepare set, and also you took the prepare out of the field, and also you noticed the dreaded phrase “Batteries not included”? And a few folks obtained the concept that one way or the other or one other, that’s going to be our expertise. And Paul is saying, “Don’t be loopy! If God has given us his greatest in Jesus, will he not then additionally give you all that’s needed?” And he is aware of what’s greatest. The Father is aware of what’s greatest.
