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Inseparable
Throughout this chapter the Apostle Paul has been comforting the hearts and encouraging the faith of the Lord’s people. He has done this by explaining the fulness of the gospel and the work of Christ in salvation. Paul has set before the church the everlasting love of God and all that God has done for us. He has spoken of foreknowledge and predestination, justification, conversion and the glory that awaits God’s elect.
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Together For Good
In Romans 8 Paul tells us all things work together for our good, that is, all things work together to deliver the glory God has promised to His beloved people. It is important to distinguish what is earthly good and temporal and what is spiritual good and eternal. The people of this world, being spiritually blind, measure joy and success in terms of earthly prosperity which is deceptive and fleeting. Spiritual men and women know with Paul, ‘that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us’.
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David Returns To Jerusalem
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Intercession For Us
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Intercession For Us
In the opening of this chapter the Apostle insisted that the church of Jesus Christ is under no condemnation for sin because Christ died in our place. Paul wrote, ‘There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus’. God transferred the sin of the elect onto the body of Christ on the cross and condemned it in the flesh of His Son. The sin of all for whom Christ died was laid upon Him, atoned for in Him and carried away by Him.
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Our Common Salvation
Jude in his little epistle uses an interesting and unique expression to describe the gospel. He calls it ‘our common salvation’. In doing so he encompasses all the stages by which God’s purpose of love for His chosen people is revealed in the covenant of grace. The phrase is a kind of shorthand. Jude does not unpack the elements of so great salvation here, yet by referring to it as the salvation common to all to whom he is writing, he shows it to be the whole work of God’s grace in the salvation of His elect.
