BELIEVERS CAN NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD’S LOVE!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2022.

SUBJECT : BELIEVERS CAN NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD’S LOVE!

Memory verse: "Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" (Romans 8 vs 35).

READ: Romans 8 vs 31 - 39:

8:31: What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

8:32: 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?

8:33: Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

8:34: 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.

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?

8:36: As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

8:37: Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

8:38: For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 

8:39: nor height nor depth, nor any other created things, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

INTIMATION:

Have you ever imagined a separation from God? Your answer might be yes, because you have considered yourself not good enough for God. You will then say, "God will not save me." Your thought is that your sinful life will be a hindrance for you to receive salvation from Him. But it is not true! If God gave His Son for you, He isn’t going to hold back the gift of salvation! And He will not withhold anything you need to live for Him. If Christ gave His life for you, He isn’t going to turn around and condemn you! 

Christ had already chosen you, and gave His life for you because of His love for you, and quest for you to have life, and have it more abundantly. Have you ever imagined this show of love by God? Have you ever heard of any parallel, or equal show of love in history, and even now? Christ was spotless, perfect, and rich. For our sake, He became poor, accepted to be a propitiation for our sins, took all our sins; past, present, and future, on Himself, and paid the wages of our sin which is death (Romans 6 vs 23; Ezekiel 18 vs 4). His death was even a shameful death on the cross, just for us. 

By His death for our sins, He justified us, legally setting us free from sin haven paid the price for us. He did not stop at that. He descended to hell and met with our accuser, and greatest enemy, Satan. He engaged him there, defeated him, and stripped him of all powers. He took back His life and ascended into heaven where He sits at His position of authority—the right hand of God, and making intercession for us continually, as our Advocate before the Father. However, He is not there for the purpose of condemnation, but for the work of intercession on behalf of the saints. His continued intercession means that the Christian has the continual cleansing of sin by His sacrificial blood. 

He is our High Priest who sympathizes with our weaknesses, and ever ready to help us through the journey of life. When our accuser—Satan—accuses us, He reminds God of what He has wrought for us. No matter what happens to us, no matter where we are, we can never be separated from His love. Though believers may have to face hardships that Satan would unleash upon them in many forms, but they cannot separate the sons of God from their Father if they remain faithful. 

Though the hardships sometimes cause us to think that Christ has abandoned us. But far be it from the truth, it is impossible to be separated from Christ. His death for us is proof of His unconquerable love, which is an overwhelming assurance of our being totally secure in Him. No one, including Satan, or anything can stand against God to bring His people into eternal glory, except us when any of reject the offer Christ has given to us by His death as a propitiation for our sins. 

No one can bring a charge against the children of God except the One to whom the body of Christ belongs. No one has a right to condemn the members of the body except the One who saved them. However, since God loved His children and offered His own Son for them, then it is not logical to believe that He would charge His blood-bought children with sin. If Jesus gave Himself on the cross to save the Christian, then it is not logical to believe that He would turn and condemn those for whom He died.

Consequently, in Christ we are super-conquerors, and His love will protect us from any forces in the universe: principalities and powers, unseen evil forces like Satan and his fallen angels—the demons. We are completely secured in Him. God loved us so much so that He exchanged His Son's life of inestimable value with our worthless sinful lives. Whenever I imagine this act of God, I feel a chill run through my spines, with goose-pimples all over my skin. It is awesome!

When we comprehend the extent to which God went to bring us into eternal glory, then we begin to understand the love of God. When we understand how far Jesus had to come to get us, then we can appreciate the extent to which God had to go to save us. If the magnitude of God’s love does not motivate us into action, then certainly, we will be lost because we are loveless and unresponsive to the grace of God. We are ungrateful if we do not respond to His grace. Loveless and ungrateful characters have no place in eternal glory.

Prayer: Abba Father, I thank You for all You wrought for me in redemption out of Your unparalleled and unconquerable love for me. It is my desire to reciprocate this love You showcased for me. Engrace me, O Lord, with raw obedience to You in all things in my journey of life, in Jesus' Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!