Romans 8:33 “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.”
The “glorious gospel” of Jesus Christ (II Corinthians 4:4; I Timothy 1:11) is indeed more “glorious” than any other thing we might learn or come to know in this present life. It is the “glorious gospel” because no one can “lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect”. These “elect” are the same as those that God the Father “hath chosen” in Christ Jesus “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4). At the instant God gives His “elect” Spiritual Birth (John 3:1-8), they immediately lovingly know God and have a high reverence for Him, and sin becomes exceedingly shameful and heart-wrenchingly painful to them. But, the Blessed Gospel sweetly comforts them, because it declares that “God”, by the sacrifice of His Beloved Son, has already eternally “justified” His “elect” “by his blood” (Romans 5:9). Therefore, “we shall be saved from wrath through him” (Romans 5:9); that is, saved from God’s “wrath” against sin. On the last day of this present world, the “elect”, those whose names God has recorded in “the book of life”, will hear the voice of the Son Of God Command, “Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 25:34); and, in their Resurrected Bodies, they “shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (I Thessalonians 4:17). Our Lord and Savior has already met the judgement and paid the penal price for the elect’s Eternal Justification; thus, on the last day, God The Righteous Judge will see them just and fit for Eternal Salvation. But, in his prophetic vision, John saw that “whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:5). This is “the lake of fire” that the “elect” of God are saved from by the Sacrificial Death of our Lord Jesus Christ. To surely know this “glorious gospel” is to faithfully proclaim, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” (Romans 6:6).