OUR FATHER FROM WHOSE LOVE WE CANNOT BE SEPARATED

The book of Romans chapter 8 verses 31 - 39, concludes the chapter with the apostle Paul expounding how awesome it is to be among Godˋs elect.  Paul asks that if God is for us, who could possibly successfully be against us? Who could possibly bring a valid charge against those who God has chosen for Himself for it is Him who justifies and who can possibly condemn those whom God has undertaken so costly a sacrifice to save us and furthermore, He who was sacrificed, sits at the right had of God and intercedes for us. 

What God has done for those He has chosen to make His own is beyong imagination and demonstrates how deep the love that God has for us actually is and that there is nothing in existance that can separate us from the love of God.

Paul then rhetorically proclaims that in view of this stupendous gift that God has given us, is there any contrary circumstance that we should be unwilling to undergo for the sake of Him who saved us?. 

Paul points out the prophecy that decribes the people of God being slaughtered all day long and being marked for slaughter and he indicates that this fate is an honor in light of what God has in store for those whom He has foreknown and predestined and called and justified and glorified.

There is nothing, even life nor death, nor angles nor principalities nor powers nor present things nor things in the future that can separate us from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ who has made us more than conquerors like himself.

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 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? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 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. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 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.

Amen

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