Romans 8:31-39
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He 
  that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him 
  also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It 
  is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, 
  that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession 
  for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, 
  or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written,

For thy sake we are killed all the day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I 
am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor 
things present, nor things to come, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall 
be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Safe In God’s Hands, Part 2 — Pastor Lonnie D. Bell, Jr.
Romans 8:31-39
Sermon Series: Romans (56th sermon)
May 23, 2021

Deep Sheet: Sermon Study Questions
1.   How does Romans 8 produce confident Christians? How has your confidence grown as we’ve studied this chapter?
2.   How would you characterize the “love of Christ”? How does our culture replace this definition of love with superficial substitutes?
3.    Compare the different forms of suffering listed in v. 35 with Paul’s description of his own sufferings in 2 Corinthians 11:23-28. Have you considered suffering to be the norm for the Christian?
4.   What does it mean to be “more than conquerors”? How does this refer back to v. 28?
5.   What does it look like to confess / repent of / put to death doubting God’s love? How have you fought this sin in your life?
6.   How are vv. 38-39 comprehensive in scope? Why should this climax produce a fearless life?

References: John 15:13; Ephesians 5:2; Romans 2:9; 2 Timothy 3:12; Psalm 44:22; Romans 13:4; 8:28; 2 Corinthians 11:23-28; Ephesians 3:18-19; John 17:22-23; Romans 14:8; Colossians 2:15; Ephesians 1:21; Galatians 5:16.