The Triumph of Love: The Believer’s Victory Over Doubt

Great Chapters of the Bible

by John F. MacArthur Jr.

One Chapter. One Monumental Chapter.

Each volume in this new book series from bestselling author John MacArthur focuses on one great chapter of the Bible.

In The Triumph of Love, focusing on Romans 8, we see that there is nothing that shall ever “separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:39).

Taken from the MacArthur New Testament Commentary, this book equips believers with transforming truth by explaining how the Holy

Frees us from sin and death and enables us to fulfill the lawChanges our nature and empowers us for victoryConfirms our adoptionGuarantees our gloryAnd more

Our salvation was secured by God’s decree from eternity past and will be held secure by Christ’s love through all future time and throughout all eternity. In Romans 8, Paul allows absolutely no exceptions in regard to the believer’s security in Christ.

About the Author

John MacArthur is pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, California, Chancellor of The Master’s University and Seminary, and Bible-teacher with his global media ministry Grace to You. He has spent over fifty years preaching through every verse of the New Testament and much of the Old Testament, while being a featured speaker at conferences around the world. He has authored numerous best-selling books including The Gospel According to Jesus, The MacArthur New Testament Commentary series, and the expositional notes for The MacArthur Study Bible.

About the Series

The Great Chapters of the Bible series focuses on key portions of Scripture that establish the foundational truths of the Christian faith. John MacArthur methodically explains each verse of these monumental passages to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the life-transforming truth revealed in God’s Word. Exposition of the great chapters of the Bible will lead many to experience the blessing of knowing the Scripture in its fullness.

About the John MacArthur Publishing Group



The John MacArthur Publishing Group exists to produce biblical resources that bring the transforming truth of God’s Word to the lives of His people.

Genres: Theology, Christian

272 pages, Paperback

Published December 10, 2024

About the author

John F. MacArthur, Jr. was a United States Calvinistic evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You and as the editor of the Gold Medallion Book Award-winning MacArthur Study Bible. MacArthur was a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker, and served as pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California beginning in 1969, as well as President of The Master’s College (and the related Master’s Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.

Reviews

[hannah cottrill · Rating 4 out of 5]

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Encouraging and reassuring exposition of Romans 8. While it is a rather long-winded commentary, Romans 8 is a very rich and beautiful chapter that could probably be written about for several more hundred pages. It’s so good to be reminded of the extent of God’s grace and permanence of our salvation (and if anyone thinks believers can lose their salvation, Romans 8 refutes that notion pretty quickly!)

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perhaps the greatest tragedy of sin is that it blinds the sinner to the life-giving promises of God and predisposes him to trust in the false and death-giving allurement of Satan. Being a Christian is not simply being outwardly identified with Christ but being part of Christ, not simply of being united with Him but united IN him. True salvation will always produce true obedience. No excuse for sinning. There is no middle ground. He is either a child of God or a child of Satan. If er do not admit to sin, we delude ourselves and become still more susceptible to its influence. Have a heart fixed on God, meditate on God's Word, and commune regularly with God in prayer. The greatest blessing God's children will have in heaven will be the eternal presence of their God!!! Our eternal capacity to glorify God in heaven will depend on our willingness to suffer for God while we are on earth. No true believer need ever fear loss of salvation. Trials that come directly because of our relationship to Christ should be especially welcomed. Through suffering of all kinds and for all reasons, we can learn kindness, sympathy, humility, compassion, patience, and gentleness. Suffering helps us see and hate our own sin. But we are not Christians first of all because of what WE decided about Christ but because of what GOD decided about us before the foundation of the world. Jesus' sacrifice on the cross not only is the foundation of our salvation but also of our security. He could not grant eternal life and then take it away, because that would demonstrate that the life He had granted was not eternal. If a professing Christian turns his back on the things of God or lives persistently in sin, he proves that he never belonged to Christ at all. Such people have not lost their salvation but have never received it. It is while we still have THIS LIFE that we face tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword and the many other trials that Paul could have mentioned. But because we have eternal life in Christ, the threats during our present life are empty.!

Wow overall there is so much knowledge and information about Romans 8. I will definitely want to come back to this book when I study and go through Romans myself cause this book really goes into depth.

[Caden Colson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The content of this book by John MacArthur is from the MacArthur New Testament Commentary on Romans, and The Triumph of Love focuses on Romans 8 in particular. In MacArthur's classic expositional and pastoral style, he works verse by verse through Romans 8, highlighting the glorious and encouraging truth that nothing can separate true believers from God's love in Christ. This book is great as a devotional, with manageable sections and pastoral insights. Even having studied and taught through much of Romans 8 myself, this book was such a welcome review and encouragement to me, helping me to meditate afresh on the work of God's Spirit and the security believers have in His love.

[Blake · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent material. Encouraging. But if you have MacArthur New Testament Commentary on Romans 8, you have the book. Save yourself some money and just buy the commentary. Three star rating, not because the material was not good but only because of it being basically pulled out of Romans commentary.

[Kori · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5. Solid theological unpacking of the text, but kind of redundant considering that the same information is given in a more engaging and compact way in the study Bible and other sources.

[Paula · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deep teaching - verse by verse - as is expected from John MacArthur.