If Romans is the greatest letter ever written, then chapter 8 is the greatest chapter in the greatest letter. It’s the Everest of Paul’s monumental epistle.

In Romans 8, Paul makes several amazing claims about the gospel:

God frees us from sin (Rom. 8:2)God raises us from the dead (Rom. 8:11)God adopts us as sons and makes us his heirs (Rom. 8:17)

Having made these claims, he hits the pause button to ask, “What then shall we say to these things?” (Rom. 8:31). In other ...