ROMANS 8

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 thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

NO SEPARATION

Apart from our beloved Saviour, the person who has suffered most for the gospel of Christ, was the Apostle Paul.

Everything that man could throw at him, was thrown at him. He suffered beatings, was whipped, was placed in prison and he was stoned till he was near death.

If anyone could ask this question it was Paul.  If anyone could give the answer then it was him.

In Verse 37 the word Nay means No, nothing at all can separate us from God’s love, nothing that man can do to us, will separate us, nothing that the devil will accuse us of will separate us from His love.

Remember who he was writing to, and he is quoting directly from Psalm 44:22, he is writing to the church in Rome, where Christians were daily been eaten by lions and under severe persecution. To them these words, must have been the most amazing comfort and likewise they are of the same comfort to us.

Remember that we cannot be separated from God’s love, He has set his love upon you believer, you are his beloved son/daughter, and nothing will ever change that.

In verse 37, Paul states that we are conquerors through Christ, we have victory over sin, over death, over circumstances and over the devil, not because of ourselves.. but because of one person and his sacrifice on Calvary.

AND HIS NAME IS JESUS

AMEN

Keith

ROMANS 8

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 creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

FULLY PERSUADED

WOW.. what a finish to these verses.

Paul states once again the theme running through these verses that nothing or nobody can take his salvation from Him.

He was an educated man and it took a vision from God to open his eyes, Paul before his conversion had been persuaded that these Christians were awful and that their faith was a disgrace, but here he is fully persuaded that the gospel is the truth.

This is what happens when someone meets God in a personal way and comes to trust Jesus. They become fully persuaded.

These words are the ones that every Christian can say, every one of you who is reading this and trusts in Christ, can repeat these words and know them to be true.

The question is are you fully persuaded?

Believer have you the same confidence that nothing can separate you from God’s love.. You need to believe these words and let them go deep into your spirit.

Maybe you have never trusted Christ as your Saviour, you aren’t persuaded at all, you can be, God offers salvation to all who are willing to humble themselves and admit that they are a sinner and come and kneel at the foot of the cross and ask for forgiveness.

Matthew Henry says this

A direct and positive conclusion of the whole matter: For I am persuaded, v. 38, 39. It denotes a full, and strong, and affectionate persuasion, arising from the experience of the strength and sweetness of the divine love.

Mr. Hugh Kennedy, an eminent Christian of Ayr, in Scotland, when he was dying, called for a Bible; but, finding his sight gone, he said, “Turn me to the eighty of the Romans, and set my finger at these words, I am persuaded that neither death nor life,” etc. “Now,” said he, “is my finger upon them?” And, when they told him it was, without speaking any more, he said, “Now, God be with you, my children; I have breakfasted with you, and shall sup with my Lord Jesus Christ this night;” and so departed.

In His closing letter to Timothy, Paul said these words

12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless, I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Job said these words in Chapter 19 of his book

25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth

Can you say these words.? I know that I can.

God bless you

Keith