Who Also Hath Made Us Able Ministers Of The New Testament - Part 2196

" ... who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." (II Corinthians 3:6)

"Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. 

Who is he that condemns? 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. 

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." (Psalm 44:22; Romans 8:36)

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 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." (Romans 8:33-39)

In Romans we are assured that even in the confusion that is continually before us, we are conquerors through Him that loved us. And consequently, there is nothing that is able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39) 

You see, when David wrote about the confusion in the Psalms, he was under the Old Testament, speaking forward to the promise which was yet to come. That is, the Son of man which is the Lord of glory! Thus, the absolute that we understand and believe is Jesus -- the prophesied Christ -- our Rock.  

From the scriptural account in Psalms, David writes about the confusion that is continually before him. 

"My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, for the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger." (Psalm 44:16) But David does not stop there. He offers hope and the promise of a coming Saviour who will never fail us, nor let us down in the day to day.

So, even in the adversities that we call life, David writes, "All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant. Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy way; though Thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. If we have forgotten the Name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search this out? for He knows the secrets of the heart." (Psalm 44:17-21)

It is in this context that we understand that even in the trials and tribulations of life, we can also attest  -- "Yea, for Thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter" -- knowing also, that in all things the world devises against us, we have not forgotten the Name of our God. We have not stretched out our hands to a strange god, or conversely, as the modern religious culture, divided our One Lord God and Saviour into three. 

Rather, in all things we worship and give praise and honour and glory to God our Saviour for He is -- the Great I Am -- the Lord Jesus -- the promised Messiah -- the Way, the Truth and the Life, the Bread of Life, and as such He is victorious over the snares of the enemy, if we only keep our eyes focussed on Him.  (Psalm 44:16-23)

Stand in the offering plate.