’m glad you could join us again today. We are spending this whole week looking at one of the great treasures we have in Christ and that is our security in Him. Wouldn’t it be at tragedy if somehow, we could come to Christ and be redeemed and justified by Him and given all the promises that we have looked at over the last several weeks and then somehow lose it all and lose our place and position in Christ? That would be the greatest tragedy of all tragedies.
In Romans 8 Paul is building an airtight argument saying that that cannot happen to the child of God and that nothing can separate us from His love or rob us of our salvation.
We have looked at Romans 8:28-29 and found that we, as His children, have all things working together for our good. That good being that we be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. He has called us, justified us, and glorified us in Romans 8:30. We also know that no one can bring a condemnation against the elect of God as Paul tells in Romans 8:34 asking who can condemn us? No one can condemn us! We are now looking at Romans 8:35, “Who will separate us from the love of Christ?” There’s the big issue. Can someone or something separate us from the love of Christ? Here we have His love, and we are His, and He is working all things according to His will for our good, but can something come along and separate us from that love? He begins to talk about the possibilities and the possible enemies that could come along and separate us. He continues in Romans 8:35 saying, “Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” Notice, before we read the next verse, that Paul is talking about all sorts of possible struggles, turmoil, and difficulties in life. The most terrible things you can think of, can they separate us from the love of Christ? . . .
