Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sep 9, 2026 · 6 min · 4 segments
Satan accuses the people of God day and night. We'll never escape his charges of sin and guilt by looking to our merits. Today, Sinclair Ferguson points out where we must go to find assurance against…
Sinclair B. FergusonHostI can't remember when or how it struck me that the famous series of questions Paul asks in Romans chapter 8 verses 31 to 35 all begin with the personal interrogative pronoun, the pronoun who, despite the fact that when he gives a list of the opposition the Christian experiences, more or less everything in it is a what and not a who.
But now, I can't read these great verses without reflecting on this striking feature of this amazing passage.
He keeps asking the question, who? And we've seen that the who about whom he is thinking is the one that Simon Peter describes as your adversary, the devil.
That's who Paul has in mind when he asks, who is against us? And it's also who he has in mind now when he asks, who shall bring any charge against God's elect? The fact is that many people did bring charges against Christians.
And there are several occasions when the apostles were actually brought before the religious or civil authorities to face accusations.
The accusations Paul is talking about here are those the devil brings against us.
Scripture tells us that these charges against us are made in the courtroom of heaven.
Remember Revelation 12, verse 10, the devil is the accuser of the brothers who accuses them day and night before our God.
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I can't remember when or how it struck me that the famous series of questions Paul asks in Romans chapter 8 verses 31 to 35 all begin with the personal interrogative pronoun, the pronoun who, despite the fact that when he gives a list of the opposition the Christian experiences, more or less everything in it is a what and not a who.
But now, I can't read these great verses without reflecting on this striking feature of this amazing passage.
He keeps asking the question, who? And we've seen that the who about whom he is thinking is the one that Simon Peter describes as your adversary, the devil.
That's who Paul has in mind when he asks, who is against us? And it's also who he has in mind now when he asks, who shall bring any charge against God's elect? The fact is that many people did bring charges against Christians.
And there are several occasions when the apostles were actually brought before the religious or civil authorities to face accusations.
The accusations Paul is talking about here are those the devil brings against us.
Scripture tells us that these charges against us are made in the courtroom of heaven.
Remember Revelation 12, verse 10, the devil is the accuser of the brothers who accuses them day and night before our God.
