God’s declaration over us silences Satan’s accusation against us. “If you really loved God, you would not struggle with this.” “There is no way God can forgive you for what you have done.” “Do you really think God loves you?” But, the voice of our enemy is silenced by the loud and powerful voice of Jesus. The Scripture teaches that Satan continually accuses those who belong to Christ (Revelation 12:10). Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies. Everything else is nothing compared to his Son, and He offered Him for us, so how will He withhold other things from us? The Father did not withhold the Son from you and He will not withhold His blessings from you. If we ever worry that we have exhausted God’s mercy, we should just remember that He has already given His best.
How will he not also with him grant us everything? He did not even spare his own Son but offered him up for us all. But because no one or nothing is greater than God, if God is for you, what does it matter if other things are against you?Ģ. If something could separate you from God, that thing would be God. If someone has 100 million dollars, it does not matter to them if the bottle of water at the grocery store is $1.69 or $1.39 because the 100 million is significantly greater than the cost of the water. Rhetorical Questions From Paul for Every Preacher 1. The rhetorical questions from Paul, and the answers he provides, profoundly confront the doubts we can have about the nature of God’s love.
The apostle Paul used this tactic, as he wrote Romans 8, to build the case that believers in Christ are never going to be separated from God’s enduring love. When you are at lunch with an ultra-healthy friend and you order a double patty burger and they order a kale salad and ask, “Are you going to eat that?” it is not really a question. For example, when Kaye has said to me, “Are you going to wear that?” it has not really been a question. There are questions that are not really questions, but statements masked as questions.
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