“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 – it as the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.”
We know from the Scriptures that Satan is ‘the accuser of the brethren’ (Rev. 12:10). In fact his very name, in Hebrew, means ‘accuser’ or ‘opposer’. Any false accusation against a Christian, ultimately has a Satanic origin. Now, we all know that no Christian is perfect. Sometimes there may even be valid accusations that could be brought against us. But, praise God, He knew about these and He has made provision for them. Nothing we can fall into, will ever change the fact that God has justified us.
And which do you think is stronger: condemnation by Satan, or intercession by Jesus? Yes, we are all guilty of sin. But this is the amazing thing: every time we fall, the Lord picks us up. When we repent and ask for His forgiveness, He is quick to show mercy (1 John 1:9). Jesus stands before the Father on our behalf. When we sin and then ask for forgiveness, He reminds the Father how He has already paid for that sin on the cross. Now this is not a license for us to sin deliberately. How can we do that? – it would only add to the pain our Saviour endured on our behalf.
This verse causes us to remember the first verse of this chapter: “there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 8:1). We are not condemned by God, and no condemnation from the world or Satan can touch us. We are completely safe in the Lord.
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