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“If God is for us” (10)       [Romans 8:35-39]                      Look at Romans 8:36-37: “Just as it is written, ‘FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.’   But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.”   Here, “it is written” refers to the Apostle Paul’s quoting of the words recorded in Psalms 44:22 – “But for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”   And “we” in Romans 8:36 refers to three things in context: (1) God’s elect (v. 33), (2) Those whom God justifies (v. 33), and (3) Those whom Christ Jesus at the right hand of God intercedes (v. 34).   When the Apostle Paul wrote to the saints in the Roman Church that this “we” who are being put to death all day long, “all day” refers to a whole day, but ultimately to a ...

Sheep are absolutely hopeless without a shepherd ...  "Sheep are absolutely hopeless without a shepherd:  that is a part of their foolishness.   They do not have the understanding that the shepherd has.   They do not know where to go to find pasture,  so they are not adequately fed.    They are thin and scraggly and are fainting  because they do not know where the best pasture is to be found." (Martyn Lloyd-Jones, "The Christ-centered Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones")