God is for Us

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Romans 8:31 — “If God is for us, who can be against us?” Paul starts a new subsection in his letter to the Romans by claiming this promise. In this sermon on Romans 8:31 titled “God is for Us,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones unpacks this promise showing how Christians can truly rest in this absolute truth. There is not a matter of “if” or “but;” it is absolute certainty that the Lord is on the side of His children. By opening this new subsection, Paul is about to answer potential questions that may arise from his previous teaching. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones outlines several questions that Paul is going to answer before they cause dissention among the Romans. Paul brings this great doctrine in the scheme of ordinary, everyday lives. This one verse is once again proving Paul’s point that Christians have been saved and their salvation is secure in Jesus Christ. Because of that union with Christ, they have the Holy Spirit working in them and helping them toward future glory. This affirms that the Lord is in fact for the believer so there is no other power, circumstance, or person that could ever truly overcome them. Dr. Lloyd-Jones explains this in great detail and tells Christians to rest assured in this great promise.

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0:00.0	Well now then we come this evening to consider the portion of Paul's Epistle to the Romans in chapter 8, which begins at verse 31.
0:12.0	And I think it's best that I should read from verse 31 to the end of the chapter.
0:19.0	What shall we then say to these things, If God be for us, who can be
0:24.9	against us? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not
0:31.6	with him also freely give us all things.
0:40.4	Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?
0:42.4	It is God that justify.
0:44.5	Who is He that condemneth?
0:49.1	It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again,
0:51.3	who is even at the right hand of God,
0:53.2	who also makeeth intercession for us.
0:55.7	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
1:02.4	or peril, or sword? As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted
1:09.3	as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things,
1:13.9	we are more than conquer us through him that loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death
1:20.2	nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
1:27.2	nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
1:30.4	shall be able to separate us from the love of God
1:33.9	which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
1:37.6	Now then, it's clear that here we come to a new subsection
1:42.1	in this great eighth chapter of this epistle to the Romans.
1:49.0	Now you notice that I say we come to a subsection because I've been at pains to point out
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