A Resounding No One

 

 

If God be for us

Who can be against us?

A resounding “No One”

Thanks be to Jesus!

 

Does it mean no opposition?

No, not at all,

Tribulations and trials

Will compass the called.

 

So, what does it mean

When it implies no one?

Don’t stop reading, friend,

Just continue to read on.

 

Romans chapter 8 verse 31

Is where we must go,

Let’s go there now

And see what it shows.

 

What shall we then say

To all these things?

In verses 18 to 30

Note the signet ring.

 

 

Therein is the seal

Concerning whose we are,

He who is for us

Exceeds all opposition by far.

 

This may appear simplistic

But it’s the Gospel truth

And throughout our trials

There is ample proof.

 

We may lose a battle

That we fight in the flesh

But when we fight in the Spirit

Our inner-man is refreshed.

 

For the born-again believer

There is no ultimate defeat,

Neither in this world or the next;

That’s worthy to repeat.

 

None can successfully oppose

Any child of God,

Never accept, my friend,

The lies of the king fraud.

 

Our position in Christ

Speaks to God’s everlasting love

And God’s indwelling Spirit

Says I am a child from above.

 

Who shall separate us

From the love of Christ?

The answer is a resounding no one,

No implement or device.

 

The devil knows this

But won’t ever stop from trying,

Even down to the point

That he knows we are dying.

 

Ours is an extraordinary position

And an unsurpassed privilege,

We possessed the Holy Spirit

As our accessed bridge.

 

 

He is our earnest deposit

And God’s eternal seal,

In Christ we have the victory

As God’s Word reveals.

 

Translated from darkness

Into God’s marvellous light,

Once blind in the past

But now we have sight.

 

We’ve been bought with a price:

A once for all sacrifice,

Compliments of Jesus Christ

Who willingly paid the price.

 

The price for our sin

And the cost of redemption

And now in Jesus Christ

We have eternal salvation.

  

We are accepted by God

Through His beloved Son,

We are heirs and joint-heirs

In His eternal kingdom.

 

No matter what circumstances

Life throws at us,

The victory is ours

In the name of Jesus.

   

 

Conceived in eternity

Before earth’s foundation was laid

The debt that was ours

Our empathetic Saviour paid.

 

Every battle he has fought

And every battle he has won

So that today we can rejoice

In that we are daughters and sons.

 

God’s plan is unfailing,

Therein is our success

And as sheep of His pasture

We can safely rest.

 

This is an astonishing truth

And a comfort to all:

Namely those the Bible refers to

As the saved and the called.

 

So, who can be against us?

A resounding “No One”!

Hence, in Jesus we can say,

“Satan, be gone!”

 

Stewart Russell © July 2020