Your Joy is Unspeakable

5. You Joy is Unspeakable (vs. 31-39)

Review: Your freedom is complete. Your adoption is final. Your hope is sure. Your help is unlimited. Your joy is unspeakable.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 33Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us? 35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36Just as it is written, “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED." 37But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You must believe that you are secure in God’s grace before you can be assured of your standing with Him. If you truly believe the word of God you will have this assurance. “Having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God” (Rom. 5:1, 2). If you are right with God, you are righteous, and with Paul, you can say, “His grace is sufficient for me” (2 Cor. 12:9). Christians are always quoting Paul saying, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” and “His grace is sufficient for me,” without giving enough thought to their actual standing with God. This reminds me of my little cousin who, intending to invoke God’s will said, “Lord we will go to grandma’s Sunday.”

If you are in Christ and confident of your standing with God, you are a righteous person, entitled to God’s blessings of grace, which include the freedom, adoption, hope, help and joy that we read about in this chapter. Having covered the first four of these subjects in previous essays, I now have the privilege of sharing with you the “unspeakable joy” that is yours by virtue of your calling. Following are Paul’s assurances of your security:

1. God is for you, just as all good father look after their children; who could possibly defeat you?
2. God gave His own Son for you; will He not also with Him give you all things?
3. Jesus died, was raised up and now intercedes for you before the Father; you are safe and secure in Him.
4. God justified you; no one can successfully condemn you in His presence.
5. Christ’s death and resurrection for you is your assurance that He loves you.
6. With this love and protection, nothing can separate you from God’s love.
7. You are more than capable of overcome anything that comes against you.
8. All of this is yours if you are right with God—if you are a righteous person.

How you feel at any given time neither reflects nor determines your standing with God. If you are right with Him you are a righteous person; your standing with God is based on what Jesus did for you, not what you have done for Him. This should give you assurance and overflowing joy, both for your own pleasure and as a witness to others of God’s love, Jesus’ sacrifice and your own new life in Christ.

If you are right with God you are righteous, and you may be sure of this: Your joy is unspeakable.

Joy Unspeakable , Words and Music by Barney E. Warren, 1900


I have found His grace is all complete, He supplieth ev’ry need; While I sit and learn at Jesus’ feet,I am free, yes, free indeed.

Refrain: It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, Full of glory, full of glory, It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, Oh, the half has never yet been told.

I have found the pleasure I once craved, It is joy and peace within; What a wondrous blessing! I am savedFrom the awful gulf of sin.

Refrain: It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, Full of glory, full of glory, It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, Oh, the half has never yet been told.

I have found that hope so bright and clear, Living in the realm of grace; Oh, the Savior’s presence is so near,I can see His smiling face.

Refrain: It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, Full of glory, full of glory, It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, Oh, the half has never yet been told.

I have found the joy no tongue can tell, How its waves of glory roll! It is like a great o’er flowing well, Springing up within my soul.

Refrain: It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, Full of glory, full of glory, It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, Oh, the half has never yet been told.