God is FOR us for GOOD! Part 3 Romans 8:35-39
If you knew that your success was guaranteed, which of your dreams would you pursue first?
...If God is FOR us, WHO can be against us? Romans 8:31
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Romans 8:32
Who shall bring a charge against God s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Romans 8:33-34
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:35
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39
1. Who shall separate us? God s love is unbreakable!
So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate. Matthew 19:6
1. Who shall separate us? God s love is unbreakable!
2. More than conquerors God s love is transformational!
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [Shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:35
As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Romans 8:36
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, Romans 8:38
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [Shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:35
The Persevering Love of Christ! 1. Sustains us through Spiritual attacks. tribulations & distress
... to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness wrath and indignation, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek. Romans 2:8-9
The Persevering Love of Christ! 1. Sustains us through Spiritual attacks. tribulations & distress - Divine origin persecution - Human origin
Blessed are you when they revile and PERSECUTE you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they PERSECUTED the prophets who were before you. Matthew 5:11-12
Bless those who PERSECUTE you; bless and do not curse. Romans 12:14
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [Shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:35
The Persevering Love of Christ! 2. Sustains us through Physical attacks. famine, nakedness - Deprivation
... in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness - 2 Corinthians 11:27
The Persevering Love of Christ! 2. Sustains us through Physical attacks. famine, nakedness - Deprivation peril - Danger
in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 2 Corinthians 11:26
The Persevering Love of Christ! 2. Sustains us through Physical attacks. famine, nakedness - Deprivation peril - Danger sword - Death
Physical Experience Vs. Spiritual Reality
As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Romans 8:36
Physical Experience Vs. Spiritual Reality 1. Accounted as sheep for the slaughter: Physically written off
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37
Dr. William Hendrickson
Dr. William Hendrickson
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:28 & 37
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Yet in all these things we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS through Him who loved us. Romans 8:28 & 37
And we know that all things WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. Yet in all these things we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS through Him who loved us. Romans 8:28 & 37
Physical Experience Vs. Spiritual Reality 2. More than conquerors: Spiritually transformed into Christ-like Champs!
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38
The All-powerful, Everywherepresent Love of God! 1. Sufficient for the sum of our existence! neither death nor life - visible realities angels, principalities, powers - invisible realities
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38
The All-powerful, Everywherepresent Love of God! 2. Sufficient for the sum of our experiences nor things present to things to come: Time-bound realities nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation Space-bound realities
Our Response:
Yet in all these things we ARE more than conquerors through Him who loved us. Romans 8:37
Our Response: 1. Live life with tenacious confidence. 2. Love each other with passionate commitment. 3. Preach the gospel with unbounded courage.
If you knew that your success was guaranteed, which of your dreams would you pursue first?
...If God is FOR us, WHO can be against us? Romans 8:31