Romans 8:31-34
How is God for us?
"He who did not spare His own Son but delivered Him up for us all." First, God is for us that He dealt with sin once and for all through the death of His Son Christ Jesus. The penalty for sin is death and He satisfied that demand by delivering up His own Son as us. The blood that was shed doesn't cover sin it takes it away. Our sin is taken away in the crucified Jesus.
"How will He not also with Him freely give us all things." I love this scripture. God didn't just send Christ to the Cross so that we might be forgiven of our sins, and then when we die we can go to Heaven. But through the redemption God blesses us continually with ALL things. Too many Christians are accepting "poverty" of all kinds in the name of Christ. But Paul tells us that with the gift of Christ flows all things. Blessing under the Old Covenant was wholly contingent on man's ability to live righteously. Which he could not. But because Jesus was obedient to the Father we get the Blessing of all things.
He is not for us because we act perfectly or do the right thing all the time. God is for us because His Son paid our debt and gave us the Holy Spirit.
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