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“If God is for us” (4) [Romans 8:31-34] Look at Romans 8:33 – “Who will bring a charge against God's elect? …” When we think of the “God’s elect” here, when did God choose? Romans 8:29 says that God foreknew. In other words, God chose before the creation of the world, before all things existed. Look at Ephesians 1:4 – “just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, ….” So, who are the people God has chosen? They are those who has become conformed to the image of God’s only begotten Son, Jesus Christ (Rom. 8:29). Here, the Son of God, the only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, not only died, but rose again (v. 34). Not only that, but He is the One who ascended into heaven, and sat at his right hand of God (Mk. 16:19; Heb. 10:12) to make intercession for us (Rom. 8:34). As God's chosen ones, we must imitate Jesus. The subject of all our wishe...