Thank you. Find yourself haunted by mistakes from your past. Do regrets keep cropping up to threaten your security or cause you to doubt your salvation?

Well, Alistair Begg has a reassuring message for all followers of Christ today on Truth for Life.

We'll find out why we're secure in the finished work of Jesus in spite of our sins in the past, in the present, or even in the future.

Once I was lost, once I was a hell-bound person, once I was going in a completely different direction, and then the grace of God opened my eyes to see that that was true, and furthermore

made it clear to me that Jesus had done something wonderful, something necessary

in relationship to that. And I came to trust in Christ. I became a follower of the Lord Jesus

Christ, and as we sang in the hymn, and I didn't have in myself the strength to continue to

obey Jesus. He provided that also. And it is this, then, that Paul is affirming

as he comes to the end of Romans chapter 8. He provides for us a series of questions and affirmations,

and we resume our consideration of this closing section in verse 33, where he

asked the question, who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? Now, in the same way

as we saw in the last question, verse 31, if God is for us, who can be against us?

He was not saying there that nobody can be against us.

What he was doing was setting all opposition proportionately in the context of the fact that if God is for us,

then no matter who can be against us, it is ultimately of

insignificance. In the same way when he says, who will bring any charge against God's elect,

he's not suggesting that nobody may bring a charge, because the fact of the matter is,

even our own hearts accuse us, our friends oppose us,

our enemies seek to undermine us, and the evil one who's described in part in the Bible

as the accuser of the brethren is the one who comes again and again to say, well, you couldn't

possibly be a Christian.

After all, I can't believe that you just shouted at that person.

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