ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
ing upon this theme. And his answer is, "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" (verse 34). God has taken His law into consideration. Against our deficit there is written all the atoning work of Christ. Jesus took our place, and that is why He is mentioned here. Do you see? He paid our debt. And God' can not condemn a man whose sins have been punished, a man whose debt has been paid. Moreover, the One who paid the debt has risen to witness to that fact. He. is "even at the right hand of God." Why? To make "intercession for us." There He is witnessing to the fact that every sin we have committed was punished when He hung on the cross. Are you not beginning to feel secure, my Christian friend? There is nothing that can be said against that. NO SEPARATION 8:35~39 Having settled this matter, Paul turns to the whole uni~ verse and says. "Is there any person or anything in this universe that can separate us from the love of Christ?" Then he throws out the challenge in verse 35: "Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril. or sword?" At a glance we note that all these things belong to the temporal realm. Can they separate us from the love of Christ? They seem to sometimes. I do not wonder that some people sneer at Christians. Prompted by Satan, our enemies can stoop to any falsehood or trick. To quote the inspired writer further, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter" (verse 36). But what our enemies say does not alter the fact that "in all these things we are more than con~ querors through him that loved us" (verse 37). Take, for example, the case of Latimer and Ridley, the martyrs in England during the Reformation. As they were Page 164]
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