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The theme of the book of Romans is victory, even surpassing victory through Him who loved us. “Nothing can separate us from the love of God which is found in Christ Jesus our Lord,” Paul said. The church in Rome was living in difficult times; difficult and getting worse. They would need surpassing victory in the midst of troubles.
We are certainly living in difficult times today; difficult and getting worse. We need to know how to have surpassing victory in the midst of troubles also. In other words, these words are not just for the church at Rome, they are for us today.
The key to surpassing victory is understanding the relationship God wants to have with you. We read earlier in chapter 8 about that relationship; the Spirit bears witness with your spirit that you are a child of God. The Spirit helps you in your weakness, even interceding, praying to the Father, in your behalf. God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
And what can we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? “For I am convinced,” Paul wrote, “that nothing can separate us from the love of God that is found in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
That’s compelling. What an amazing relationship God desires. “I am convinced, I’m persuaded that God is able,” Paul wrote. God wants you to be convinced. In other words, it’s all about faith.
But what about Israel? Were they not God’s chosen people? Did something happen? Did they not receive the law and the commandments? Did they not receive the promises?
Yes, Paul would say, they had all those things. But they missed the point. They were pursuing righteousness through the law, but they did not arrive at that righteousness. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works.
Faith is everything. Israel had good news preached to them, just as we have had good news preached to us. But the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united by faith in those who heard it.
In other words, Israel missed the point. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. Instead of receiving the promises God gave through His Son, they took offense.
What Paul is saying is this. Don’t you miss the point. God wants you to have surpassing victory; the Spirit even bears witness with your spirit that you are a child of God. God helps you in your weakness. God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose. Therefore, if God be for us who can be against us?
The promises of God will profit you only when it is united by faith when you hear it. That’s what Paul is doing in these verses; he’s strengthening your faith so you will take hold of the promises of God and live according to them.
By the way, God is not finished with Israel. Paul loves Israel so much that he said in chapter 9 that if it were possible, he would stand accursed and separated from Christ if it meant the salvation of his brethren, the Jews.
I myself am a supporter of Israel. I stand with them because I know that God has not given up on them. And even though they stumbled over the stumbling stone and took offense at the Son whom God sent, though they were faithless, nevertheless, God remains faithful. His promises never fail. In the end, Israel will be restored, and they will receive Jesus as their Messiah when He returns at the end of the age.
The question is this; will you take hold of God’s promises? Will you live according to them? You will need faith; and in these verses, Paul intends to strengthen your faith.
- Have Zeal with Knowledge
 Paul says that he prays for them, for their salvation, because they have a zeal for God, but not in accordance with knowledge.
 Zeal is good. Many are lacking in zeal. But zeal without knowledge is not good.
Proverbs 19:2, It is not good to have zeal without knowledge; and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

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