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CERTAINTY OF FAITH |
...because those who
are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear,
but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba,
Father."
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Now if we are children, then we are heirs - heirs of God and coheirs
with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we
may also share in his glory.
Romans 8, 14 - 17
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And we know that in
all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have
been called according to his purpose.
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the
likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also
justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who
can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how
will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is
God who justifies.
Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died - more than that,
who was raised to life - is at the right hand of God and is also interceding
for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship
or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who
loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor
demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will
be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
Romans 8, 28 - 39 |
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