THE GLORIOUS HOPE, Dr. Samuel Lee
NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM HIS LOVE
Passage: Romans 8:31~39  
Key verse: 38-39
More Than Conquerors
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things?(A) If God is for us,(B) who can be against us?(C) 32 He who did not spare his own Son,(D) 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(E) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns?(F) No one. Christ Jesus who died(G)—more than that, who was raised to life(H)—is at the right hand of God(I) and is also interceding for us.(J) 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?(K) Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?(L) 36 As it is written:
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors(N) through him who loved us.(O) 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither the present nor the future,(P) nor any powers,(Q) 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God(R) that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.(S)
Footnotes
- Romans 8:36 Psalm 44:22
- Romans 8:38 Or nor heavenly rulers
Cross references
- Romans 8:31 : Ro 4:1; 6:1; 7:7; 9:14, 30
- Romans 8:31 : Ex 3:12; Isa 41:10; Hag 1:13
- Romans 8:31 : Ps 56:9; 118:6; Isa 8:10; Jer 20:11; Heb 13:6
- Romans 8:32 : Ge 22:13; Mal 3:17; Jn 3:16; Ro 5:8
- Romans 8:33 : Isa 50:8, 9
- Romans 8:34 : ver 1
- Romans 8:34 : Ro 5:6-8
- Romans 8:34 : S Ac 2:24
- Romans 8:34 : S Mk 16:19
- Romans 8:34 : ver 27; Job 16:20; Isa 53:12; Heb 7:25; 9:24; 1Jn 2:1
- Romans 8:35 : ver 37-39
- Romans 8:35 : 1Co 4:11; 2Co 11:26, 27
- Romans 8:36 : Ps 44:22; 1Co 4:9; 15:30, 31; 2Co 4:11; 6:9; 11:23
- Romans 8:37 : 1Co 15:57
- Romans 8:37 : Ro 5:8; Gal 2:20; Eph 5:2; Rev 1:5; 3:9
- Romans 8:38 : 1Co 3:22
- Romans 8:38 : Eph 1:21; Col 1:16; 1Pe 3:22
- Romans 8:39 : S Ro 5:8
- Romans 8:39 : ver 1; S Ro 16:3
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1. "If God is for us, who can be against us?" (31-34)
Paul and Christians were persecuted by non-Christians wherever they preached the gospel of Christ. Anyone could be fearful and want to quit. But Paul knew God had chosen and justified them. God, who gave Jesus, will hold nothing back for us. Jesus, who died and rose again, is also interceding for us.
2. More than conquerors (35-38)
What could threaten to separate us from Christ's love: trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger or sword? Christians may look at times like sheep to be slaughtered. But Christians are actually more than conquerors through the love of Christ. No power in heaven or on earth can separate us from God's love in Christ Jesus.
Prayer: Lord, I have no reason to doubt or fear when I remember Jesus and his love that conquered hate and sin and death. Give me grace and courage to stand in Christ and conquer fear and hardships in his name.
One Word: We are more than conquerors through Christ's love