We come this evening in our consideration of the eighth chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans

to the 32nd verse, the 32nd verse in the 8th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans,

He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all,

how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Now, we are engaged in, at the moment, in analyzing and studying and considering together

this last section or subsection in this great eighth chapter of this epistle. It starts at verse 31.

And as I was explaining last Friday night, what the apostle does from here to the end of the

chapter is to put up four kind of challenges to the great doctrine of the final perseverance

of the saints,

which he has been expounding in verses 28, 29, and 30.

Indeed, he's been expounding it right through the chapter,

but particularly in those three verses.

And what he does, of course, is to put up these challenges

in order that he may answer them, deal with them,

demolish them, and thereby undergird, reemphasize, prove still further his great contention

and establish his argument.

Now, last Friday night, we considered the first of these challenges,

the one that he puts in verse 31. What shall we then say to these things? Here's the first

challenge. If God be for us, who can be against us? The challenge is, who can be against us? The challenge is, who can be against us if God is false? In other words,

he puts up this question as to whether there is any possibility of any power ever appearing

or arising which could take us out of God's hands, or to use the language of

the 10th chapter of John's Gospel, he tries to envisage the possibility of any power

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