We are engaged at the moment in the study of the 34th verse in the 8th chapter of Paul's

Epistle to the Romans.

Who is He that condemneth?

It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again.

Who is even at the right hand of God, who also makeeth intercession

for us? Or you may read it as we've seen like this. Who is he that condemneth? Is it Christ that

died? Ye, Father, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also

make it intercession for us? Question one. Well, it doesn't matter which way you take it.

Now, we've seen that to the apostle in this verse is giving a fourfold answer to this challenge that he puts up in the words,

who is he that condemneth? It's the further working out of the challenge he's put in the words,

who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect. He is demonstrating that it is God that justifies,

and that the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, likewise can never be the cause of our condemnation,

though the judgment of the world is committed to him. He can never be the condemnation of those who are the called of God,

those who are the elect, those who are God's people. Well, now, we've already considered

the first two replies that the apostle makes to this query, this question.

Because Christ that died.

We saw the content of it.

Yea, rather, that is risen again, or that has been raised.

The one who, having been raised, it's inconceivable that he should be the cause of our condemnation.

But now we must come on to this third step in the argument, all of which remember is still designed to prove beyond any doubt or cavil or question whatsoever the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints.

In other words, it's the doctrine which teaches that if a man has been justified,

he is also already glorified, and that nothing can ever bring him from that position. It is all to prove that there is no such

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