Christ Our Justification
Rev. Cornelius Hanko expounds Romans 8:34 to establish the threefold basis for Christian confidence in God's sovereignty: God as justifier of the elect, Christ as risen intercessor who condemns none of His own, and the assurance that flows from these truths. This sermon-article encourages believers to embrace Paul's bold declaration that if God is for us, no one and nothing can stand against us.
Rev. Cornelius Hanko (8 September, 1963) 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 maketh intercession for us (Rom. 8:34). At this point the apostle Paul had reached that grand climax of this ever-beautiful song of triumph as expressed in this eight chapter of the epistle to the Romans. Boldly, almost defiantly he asks, “If God be for us, who can be against us.” Paul, a man who experienced all kinds of...