Welcome to another week on Things Unseen.

If you're new to our weekday podcast, you're certainly very welcome indeed.

And we always have a theme that runs through the working week and last week we took a

kind of pretty quick helicopter ride through the whole of pause letter to the Romans.

And I signed off on Friday using a different metaphor from the helicopter one.

We've had the equivalent of a kind of city tour bus ride and I hope that all of us would

go back and look at the wonderful sights that we'd seen and spend more time on each one

of them.

So I thought it might actually be a good idea this week just to do that, to stay in Romans.

But this time to stop with just one verse and not the whole of 16 chapters.

Which verse?

Well, I've landed on Romans chapter 8 verse 30, very famous verse.

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified,

and those whom he justified he also glorified.

I'm sure you're familiar with this verse and perhaps you're also familiar with the fact

that it's often been referred to as the golden chain or perhaps the chain of salvation.

That expression goes back a long way, I think at least 400 years.

And you can see why it's been so popular.

It's as though Paul is describing four links and a chain that has been forged.

And you'll notice the sense of completion, even in the word glorified.

And when we read the words out loud, they exude a sense of certainty.

They sound like the thump, thump, thump of a well-disciplined troop of soldiers marching

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