What can stop the love of God?

Romans 8:35-39 teaches that it is impossible for the believer to be separated from Christ and his love. Nothing can stop Christ's love or separate the believer from his love (Romans 8:35).

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Tim Lehman

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God created us to have relationships. A key aspect of a healthy relationship is love. Love causes a person to thrive in life. No matter how great a relationship you have with another person, their love will fail from time to time. However, everyone who has a personal relationship with the Lord can be confident that his love never fails. Romans 8:35-39 teaches that it is impossible for the believer to be separated from Christ and his love. Nothing can stop Christ’s love or separate the believer from his love (Romans 8:35). Believers face various kinds of intense adversity. They face tribulation (affliction or trouble), but tribulation cannot separate us from the love of Christ. Believers face distress (anguish, hardship or calamity), persecution, famine (hunger), exposure, danger (2 Cor 11:26) and they may even face execution. Execution will take your life, but it will not separate you from the love of Christ. Paul personally knows that these things cannot separate him from the love of God. In 2 Corinthians 11:23-27, Paul shares about the many adversities he faced. These adversities did not separate him from the love of God. Christians will suffer and face persecution but they will never be separated from God’s love. The adversity believers experience is nothing new (Romans 8:36). Do not be surprised when you suffer for Christ’s sake. This happened to the godly saints in the Old Testament and the New Testament (Psalm 44:22; Hebrews 11:36-38; 2 Timothy 3:12). Nothing that enters our life is able or sufficient to separate us from God's love demonstrated at the cross. God’s love allows the believer to be a conqueror in adversity (Romans 8:37). God walks with us through every adversity and hardship. We do not merely survive or squeak by. We do not just succeed. We are more than conquerors! In Christ, we are super-conquerors. This verse emphasizes the absolute and overwhelming victory that God gives to the believer through Christ. Believers are supremely victorious because of their relationship with Jesus Christ. God allows nothing to separate us from his love (Romans 8:38-39). Paul considers some powerful threats in the universe, but none of them can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Don’t let suffering cause you to doubt God’s love. Suffering is designed to draw you closer to Christ and makes you more like him. You have nothing to fear. You are secure in God’s love. Paul could say this because he endured a multitude of afflictions and nothing separated him from the love of God in Christ Jesus. Paul considers the extremities of God’s creation. Nothing in life or death can stop God from loving us. Angels and rulers (principalities, demons) cannot separate us from God’s love. Nothing in the present and nothing in the future can triumph over the love of God. No power can separate you from the love of God and neither can the heights of space nor the depths of the oceans. In case you think you have an exception, Paul ends his list with “nor anything else in all creation.” This covers anything else you can possibly think of. Nothing can sever the believer’s relationship with God. The believer will face persecution from natural and supernatural forces, but none of them will prevail. Nothing can stop God’s plan and purpose for you.

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What should you do with this wonderful passage? First, you should make sure these wonderful truths apply to you. This magnificent promise of God’s love is only for those who have a personal relationship with him made possible through faith in Jesus Christ. If you know Christ as savior, you can be confident that God’s love for you is unchanging. You must meditate on and rehearse this marvelous passage in your mind so that you will be convinced of this truth. As you face suffering, hardship, and persecution, allow these trials to drive you to the loving arms of God.

The Rev. Tim Lehman, Shannon Baptist Church

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