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Romans 8:30

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More Than Conquerors

28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,Some manuscripts And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God whoOr works together with those who love him to bring about what is good–with those who have been called according to his purpose.29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

31What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?32He 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?33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.34Who 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.35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?36As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”Psalm 44:22

37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,Or nor heavenly rulers neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,39neither 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.

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paulwhelms - (eBible Mentor) 6 months ago.

In this statement we can see and be encouraged by God's view of the salvation that we now experience as a process of growing, groaning, and glory. The encouragement is that those whom God promised to Abraham (Gen. 12:1-3, 15:1-6)--that is, we who believe--were in sight long before Abram was even born. Those who would become children of the promise -- who would become coheirs with Christ -- were chosen by the Father before the creation was ever spoken into existence through the same eternal Christ. This is God's way of doing things. Those whom God predestined were first called into salvation by the word of the Gospel (just as God called Abram with a promise), justified in their believing (just as God counted Abram righteous for his), and soon glorified as they received God's grace through perseverance in faith, hope, and love. If we are those to whom the Word of God has come, who share in the Holy Spirit and walk in this same faith of Abraham, we have great hope! We are the sheep that the Father has given to Jesus, whom he will never lose (Jn. 10:22-30). No one can snatch the child of God out of the Father's hand, and it is not at all His will that any should perish.

WileECoyote - (eBible Scholar) 5 months ago.

God does not pick and chose whom He will save and not save, but He saw with His omnipresence who would be saved and not saved. It says that whosoever, so He gives the chance to every person, but He gives us a free will; if it were His will everyone would be saved, and it is His will but He has given us a free will and sometimes our free will contradicts God's will and that is a sin. it says, whosoever will. sin = not doing God's Will.