Romans 8
Love Conquers All
Why all things work together for the good of those who love HIM
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Romans 8:35
When a bride and a groom stand at the altar
And vow that their love for each other will not fail in hardships till death
They are expressing the power of their love
This power of love is the foundation of God’s commitment to us
And in the same way our love for God causes us to be conquers
Over destructive powers
There is nothing more powerful than love
Love keeps us together with God
God’s love for us and our love for God
Guarantees that all things will work out for our good
Not even death can separate us from God
Because of love nothing shall separate us from God
That is why all things work together for the good of those who love Him
Love Conquers All
Romans 8:28 is so often quoted to comfort people
who are facing challenging times.
The context around this verse is telling us…
Challenging times of suffering will come.
Life will not always be a bed of roses
but sometimes a bed of thrones.
All is not good in this life,
Jesus, Himself, said…
“In this world you will have trouble.”
Verse 35 and 36 tell us we will
face things that are not good…
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall trouble or hardship or persecution
or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
Romans 8:35-36
If you have been in one of these situations,
you probably asked the question …
“What good can come out of this?”
Paul pulls out the stops.
He is not just talking about the day
you lost your job or got covid.
Paul is talking about the suffering of death.
How can Romans 8:28 be true?...
And we know that in all things God
works for the good of those who love him
We have to realize what is the “Good”.
The question in verse 35 is this…
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
The Good is Love.
Earlier verse 15 of Romans 8
we learned of God’s plan to adopt us.
Because of sin and the family of Satan
we come from…
We feel unworthy to be adopted.
Verse 28 says…
God works the good for those who love Him.
He says…
Those who love Him,
who have been called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28
God purposed to love us while
we were still unworthy because of sin.
In our unworthiness,
God calls us and He calls us
with a purpose.
The purpose is this…
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 8:29
God’s predestination plan is…
The same as it was in Genesis 1:26-27…
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
The predetermined plan of God is…
For us to be made or conformed into His image.
In Genesis 1:26…
Man and woman are made in God’s image
In Romans 8:30…
Men and women are called to be conformed into His image.
And in this verse,
we read what God did for us….
… he predestined,
he also called; those he called,
he also justified; those he justified,
he also glorified.
Romans 8:30
The confidence we have that God loves us
and is for us, comes from knowing…
He who did not spare his own Son,
but gave him up for us all — how will he not also,
along with him, graciously give us all things?
Romans 8:32
God has done all this for us
because He loves us.
He is not going to allow anyone to condemn.
After all this, Paul asks the question…
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Romans 8:35
When a bride and a groom stand at the altar
and vow that their love for each other
will not fail in hardships till death.
They are expressing the power of their love.
This power of love is the foundation
of God’s commitment to us.
In the same way, our love for God
causes us to be conquers over destructive powers.
There is nothing more powerful than love.
Love keeps us together with God.
God’s love for us and our love for God
guarantees that all things will work out for our good.
Not even death can separate us from God.
Because of love…
Nothing shall separate us from God.
That is why all things work together for
the good of those who love Him.
Scripture Reading
Romans 8:28-39 NIV
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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