We know that all things work together for good, for those who love God and are

called according to His purpose. For those who meet for new, He predestined to be

conformed to the image of His Son that He might be the first born among many

brothers, those whom He predestined He also called, and those whom He called He

also justified, and those whom He justified He also glorified. What shall we say

to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us, and then the great

thirty-two. He did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, will He not with

Him surely give us all things? Who should bring any charge against God's

elect? It is God who justifies, who is to condemn. It is Christ Jesus who died, who

was raised, who is at the right hand of God who indeed proceeds for us, who

can separate us from the love of Christ. So tribulation or distress or

persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? No! In all these things, we

are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither

death nor life will stop, say it again, neither death nor life, nor

principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor

powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation. We'll be

able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord. I don't

think there is anything in human language that surpasses the greatness of

the realities of Romans 8. The God of Romans 8, the Christ of Romans 8, the

cross of Romans 8, the faith of Romans 8, the hope of Romans 8, the love of God in

Romans 8 are immeasurably precious beyond words.

There's a connection between the greatness, even the greatness and the beauty of

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