Sermons of Robert Murray MCheyne 14. Who shall Separate us

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“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us” Rom. 8:35-37.
In this passage there are three very remarkable questions:

1. “Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?” Paul stands forth like a herald, and he looks up to the holy angels, and down to the accusing devils, and round about on a scowling world, and into conscience, and he asks, who can accuse one whom God has chosen, and Christ has washed? It is God who justifieth. The holy God has declared believers clean every whit.
2. “Who shall condemn?” Paul looks round all the judges of the world — all who are skilled in law and equity; he looks upward to the holy angels, whose superhuman sight pierces deep and far into the righteous government of God; he looks up to God, the judge of all, who must do right — whose ways are equal and perfect righteousness — and he asks, Who shall condemn?. It is Christ that died. Christ has paid the uttermost farthing: so that every judge must cry out, There is now no condemnation.

3. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Again, he looks round all created worlds — he looks at the might of the mightiest archangel — the satanic power of legions of devils — the rage of a God-defying world — the united forces of all created things; and, when he sees sinners folded in the arms of Jesus, he cries, “Who shall separate us from the …