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God chose us before time began, and that began a process. God called us, He justified us, and He glorified us. Note that “glorified us” assumes it has already happened. Man rebelled against God wanting independence, and became enslaved as a result. When we walk in humility with God we find that we have true freedom, and we will be glorified.
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We now come to the well-known final section of chapter 8. “If God is for us, who can be against us”, or “who is against us”. The thought is not so much can anyone be against us, as whoever is against us pales into insignificance compared to God. God is for us, so we have nothing to fear. There are two primary reasons for fearing separation from God. One, and actually the most important, is that God is against us. Now at one time we were enemies of God (Rom 5:10), He was against us. But now He is for us. In fact He was always for us, but expressing things in time He was against us because of our rebellion. The other is that events or outside forces may somehow get the better of us, separating us from God. But if God is for us, then no opposing force or circumstance can overcome God. For someone or something to defeat me they don’t just have to overcome me (which they could quite possibly do) they have to overcome God.
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