Because Of God's Love

Alba 2-27-2022

BECAUSE OF GOD'S LOVE

Romans 8:31-39

Dr. David Ferguson, the founder of Intimate Life Ministries, and his wife, Teresa, were brand new grandparents. . . anyone here know what that’s like?

Well, he told something about Teresa. He said when she is taking care of her little grandson, and she lays him down for a nap, you know what happens when that baby first starts to stir from his nap?

At the first sign that he might be waking up, he said, Teresa runs—RUNS!— to the side of his crib, so she can be there when his eyes open. Every time that little child wakes up is as thrilling as Christmas morning for her.

Do you know that’s the kind of God you have? One who loves you so much that He is aware of when you sleep and when you wake. He notices the trials and troubles you have, and He is available to give you the care you need, right when you need it.

All of this is because of God's love. Romans 8:31-39 tells us of the extent and power that God's love for us has. Turn there and lets read:

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.

These verses describe the height, depth and breadth of God's love for us. It is worth our time to look deeper into these verses to focus on the amazing love the Heavenly Father has for His children.

First, because of God's love:

1. God is For Us (If God is for us, who can be against us?)

And who is this God? He is the God of the Bible, the Creator of everything, the controller and sustainer of everything, the Only Wise God, Holy, Perfect in Love, Joy, and Peace! And this one and only God is for us who come under the banner of Christ.

Throughout the Bible, God expresses His love for His children in a million different ways. He created a luscious garden to live in, and He provided manna and quail in the wilderness.

He gave a land to live in, and He provided crops to sustain His people. And in an act that defies the comprehension of our feeble little minds, He sent His Son to the world.

A baby in a manger, and a man on a cross, are two things that can’t help but make us wonder at the amazing kind of love that God has for us. He loved us so much that He did not spare His own Son in providing a way for our sins' penalty to be paid.

Even in the Old Testament God is described as a God of love. For example: Psalm 36:7 says, “How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.”

But the most dramatic demonstration of God's love is seen in verse thirty-two of our text, “God did not spare His son but delivered Him up for us.”

Ephesians 2:4-5 echoes these words telling us that, “God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),”

When a world of lost mankind needed to be saved by a sinless substitute, the great God of the universe did not hold back His heart’s best Treasure, but was pleased to give Him over to a death of shame and loss on our behalf.

So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? Because verse 32 also says that if God has given us salvation in Jesus, “how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”