I Love My Savior Romans 8: 35-39
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.
What could move your faith away from trusting Jesus Christ? This list of experiences and persons that can’t separate the believer from God’s love in Christ was not just theory to Paul. It was rather personal testimony from ‘one’ who had personally survived assaults and emerged triumphant. So the question is, “Who or what, can separate you from the love of Christ? Notice, it’s not our love for Christ, but His love for us!
Hear, John 13:1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
His love isn’t wishy washy, His love for you isn’t based on your feelings, your emotional wellbeing, your actions, your appearance or even your thoughts, No! He loved you while you were a sinner. He’s in love with you!
I John 4:9-10 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Romans 8:35 ask every believer this question. Shall tribulation? A word used for pressure, not the normal pressure, but a squeezing.
II Corinthians 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
The word ‘light affliction’ in Greek means, a weightless trifle. Paul’s sufferings and persecutions were intense, but compared to God’s eternal weight of glory, the worst tribulation is weightless.
Shall distress, separate you from God’s love? Distress refers to being strictly confined in a narrow, difficult place or being helplessly hemmed in by one’s circumstances.
“It’s better to walk in the dark with God, than to walk alone in the light.”
Shall persecution, separate you from God’s love? This is suffering inflicted on you by men because of your relationship with Christ.
Verse 36, As it is written: “ For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Paul quotes this verse from Psalm 44:22 just to say once again, if you feel as though you are being killed all day long, the love of Jesus is greater!
Jeremiah. 31:3 – “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.”
A Sunday School teacher shared this text with her young pupils, “My yoke is easy. Who can tell me what a yoke is? She asked. A boy raised his hand and said, “A yoke is something they put on the necks of animals Then the teacher asked, “What is the yoke God puts on us?” A quite little girl raised her hand, “It is God putting His arms around our necks.”
I find it amazing that God loves me, and He loves you. His love reached out and saved us!
Listen to Paul once more brag on his God. Romans 8:37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Here a compound Greek word for, ‘more than conquerors’ means, to over conquer, to conquer completely. In other words, because of God’s love, we conquer completely!
One day, C.H. Spurgeon was walking through the English countryside with a friend. As they strolled along, the evangelist noticed a barn with a weather vane on its roof. At the top of the vane were these words: GOD IS LOVE. Spurgeon remarked to his companion that he thought this was a rather inappropriate place for such a message. "Weather vanes are changeable," he said, "but God’s love is constant." "I don’t agree with you about those words, Charles," replied his friend. "You misunderstood the meaning. That sign is indicating a truth: Regardless of which way the wind blows, God is love."
Romans 8:38-39TM I'm absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.
In saying, height or depth in verse 39, Paul was intend to describe all of space from top to bottom. However, then, Paul say’s, nor any other created thing. In other words, just in case any thing was left out, this would cover everything but the creator Himself.
Several years ago, Nathan and I was at a hockey game in Atlanta, at the Omni, Nathan begged me to allow him to go down and get some signatures. I give in and told him to remember where I was. I kept my eyes on him the whole time. Finally, my attention was diverted, I quickly looked down for Nathan, but he wasn’t to be found. I starred peered all around, only to see nothing, I walked down looking for him, I went up, the crowd seemed to expand, I felt panic, fear, dark, and finally, I hear a man call out my name. I look at him and there is Nathan.
Augustine put it, "He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us."
The greatest expression of God’s love you might ever see, is me.
II Corinthians 4:7 “We have this treasure in earthen vessels.” What does that mean to you? This is what it means to me- “Every time you meet the treasure you’ll bump into the earthen vessel.” (Never allow that to devalue the treasure.)
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