The Choice Is Yours

Romans 8:33

"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of

God's elect? It is God that justifieth." 

          God has acquitted us. Who then can condemn us? The answer is that the Judge of all men is Jesus Christ. He is the one who has the right to condemn, but so far from condemning, he is at God's right hand interceding for us, and therefore we are safe. 

     In Rom 8:34, Paul is saying four things about Jesus. "He died"  "He rose again"  "He is at the right hand of God" and "He makes intercession for us there. Now the earliest creed of the Church, which is still the essence of all Christian creeds,  reads like this: "He was crucified dead and buried; the third day he rose again from the dead; and sitteth at the right hand of God from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead."  Three items in Paul's statement and in the early creed are the same, that Jesus died, rose again, and is at the right hand of God. But the fourth is different. In the creed the fourth is that Jesus will come to be the judge of the quick and the dead. In Paul the fourth is that Jesus is at God's right hand to plead our case. It is as if Paul said: "You think of Jesus as the Judge who is there to condemn; well he can and will for he died for that right. But it is your choice he is not there to be our prosecuting counsel but to be the advocate to plead our cause."

        Amen!!

Reading: (Rom. 8:31-39)

May God Bless You

And Your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry