Romans 8:34

"Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.”

From Background Notes [BN] for November 12^th/13^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Condemnation only matters where a successful guilty verdict has been given by the Judge. No such verdict ever came, because “Christ died, rose, and sits at the right hand of the Judge!”

From that privileged place, he turns to God on our behalf. The verb, translated “intercedes”, is entugchanō, used earlier of the Spirit (8:27). Used here in the present tense, the word emphasizes the continual work of Jesus as our great high priest as Hebrews 7:25 explains. Matters of accusation, in the style of Satan against Job (Job 1-2) or Satan against Joshua (Zechariah 3) or Satan against the saints (Revelation 12), have ended with Christ’s ascension. Christ sits to represent the whole people of God in the council of God as God’s faithful Son. His presence with the Father testifies to the acceptance of his sacrifice, even as the resurrection is proof of God’s acceptance of the cross..[BN,19]

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