ROMANS Study Guide

chosen us - He has given us His Spirit to live in us and freely redeemed us by faith alone. So, there is nothing to fear because all powerful God is totally committed to our salvation.

a. Paul now begins to declare that there is never going to be

any force or person or power that can forcibly separate us from

the Love and salvation of His chosen people.

1) He that did not spare heavens best will not hold back

anything we may need to walk confident in our relationship with God.

He is fully and totally committed to our salvation now and in eternity.

(vs.32)

2) God is the only judge, and he is completely satisfied with

what Jesus has done for us. Therefore, there is nothing or

anyone who can condemn us or separate us from God’s love

and eternal plan. Jesus has not taken a role of judging us but of

interceding for us. (vss.33-34)

3) Paul’s list of what cannot separate us from God…

a) Tribulation: hardship aimed at us, rejections, pain, b) Distress: being caught in a narrow place…pressed from both sides. c) Persecution: wrongly treated for Christ’s sake d) Famine e) Nakedness f) Peril: danger g) Sword: threat of death or death itself

4) Paul interrupts his thought right here and quotes Ps.44:22 - Even David

points out that the righteous will suffer at times for standing up for the

right - this should be nothing new. (vs.36)

a) But in tr uth we are “more than victors or conquerors” we will not

only overcome the forces of evil trying to separate us from God but

we will be transformed in the process into God’s Sons and

daughters. (vs.37)

b) Paul finishes his list… saying he was “persuaded”