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(read 8:35-39).
We’ve just spoken about the wonderful care that God provides for us in salvation.
Which is laid out for us in vv31-34 of God being for us and if He’s for us
it doesn’t matter who’s against us.
God didn’t even spare His own Son but delivered Him up for us all,
so how’s He not going to supply everything we need to complete that work that He so sacrificially began?
There’s no charge that is going to stick against God’s chosen people because the Most High judge has already ruled in our favor.
We are out from under the condemnation of Almighty God in that Christ has been condemned already as our substitute.
Those are the wonderful and amazing facts of our salvation.
God’s care for us.
We come to another wonderful lesson for us to learn, which is:
Nothing can separate a believer from the love of Jesus, which is the love of God.
35 "Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36 "As it is written: Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
37 "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”
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Here’s the main thought:
It’s the usual portion for you and I, as followers of Christ, in the carrying out of our gospel duties to run into many troubles.
But that none of these troubles are able to dissolve the union between them and Christ.
(v35-36)
But that none of these troubles are able to dissolve the union between them and Christ.
And though the troubles are many, they will not slip but will overcome, yes more than overcome.
(v37)
The world’s values, entertainments, and sins are at odds with a believer’s great calling and destiny.
Yet all Christians can know that none of these things can triumph over them.
Like a mountain climber ascending a dangerous precipice behind his guide, secured only by a rope,
the Christian walks through life secured by the stout cord of God’s love.
Because the way is treacherous, any believer may often slip and fall.
But a disciple of Jesus Christ is secure,
because every Christian is bound to God by a gracious, unchanging, eternal, and indestructible love.
No one can oppose believers because God is for them.
There is no limit to God’s generosity to those He loves.
There is no ground on which to accuse believers.
And no one can condemn them.
All of this Paul has affirmed through his rhetorical questions as he has sought to sum up the thrust of his arguments in the first half of Romans.
I’ve entitled this message: “Is anything left?”
Is there anything at all that “can separate us from the love of Christ?”
God in the Son has set His love on a people of His own choosing and has provided a great salvation for them.
Since it is the sovereign God who has done this, can anything rob them of this salvation?
Are there circumstances that can cause Christ to turn His love away from us?
In other words, can anything possibly thwart God’s design?
There’s no greater circumstances can be imagined than the ones given here!
Let’s look at the Possible Price to be paid.
35 "Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36 "As it is written: Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.”
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The Holy Spirit records 7 possibilities to separation.
Suggesting something of the completeness.
These are great forces, yet although they are great, all of them will fail.
So let’s ask: “Can affliction”?
If you have a KJV it’s the word tribulation.
This is a word that has to do with pressure.
The English word tribulation comes directly from the Latin noun tribulum, which meant a “threshing sledge.”
In the ancient world at the time of the grain harvest, the stalks of grain were brought to the threshing floor and a wooden threshing instrument,
like a sled covered on the bottom with strips of metal, was dragged over the stalks to separate the heads of grain from the chaff.
ike a sled covered on the bottom with strips of metal, was dragged over the stalks to separate the heads of grain from the chaff.
This instrument was called a tribulum because it pressed out the grain.
This vivid picture produced the idea embodied in the word tribulation,
because circumstances frequently press down on people so forcefully and unremittingly
that it seems to them that they are being threshed like stalks of grain.
Perhaps you have experienced such harsh pressures.
Life has been hard.
You may have
been abused as a child, have
lost your job, have
been deprived of a husband or wife or other family member, have
undergone severe illness.
Your strength may be nearly gone.
But, says Paul, you may know that no tribulation, however severe, will separate you from Christ’s love.
Next word.
“distress”.
This is hardship.
This is a different idea.
This Greek word comes from two different words.
Boice, J. M. (1991–).
Romans: The Reign of Grace (Vol.
2, p. 985).
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
Which mean “narrow” (stenos) and “space” or “territory” (chōra) respectively.
So the idea is not so much that of being pressed down by circumstances, which is what “tribulation” means,
but rather that of being confined within a narrow and oppressive space.
You think of a man who is in a dead-end job.
He entered his company with hopes for advancement, but he is now in his late forties and has been passed over for promotions several times.
It is getting to where he cannot make a good lateral move, and he knows he will not move up much in the company, if at all.
Meanwhile, he is married, with a wife and children to support and a mortgage to pay.
He sometimes thinks of being free of these confining circumstances, but he knows that he cannot break free and still honor his commitments.
How are you to triumph in such circumstances?
The best way is to realize that Jesus Christ, the very Son of God,
has fixed his love upon you
and that nothing is ever going to separate you from his love.
You may be in narrow straits now, but you are an heir of heaven, and one day
your horizons will be as vast as the universe and as soaring as the stars.
Nothing will deprive you of this destiny, because nothing, not even distress (hardship), will be able to separate you from Christ’s love.
How about “persecution”?
This word contains the idea of being pursued by someone intent on our harm.
It denotes harm that is relentless.
What about such relentless persecutions?
Very few of us suffer much outright persecution today, though Christians in other parts of the world endure it.
But there are subtle persecutions, and there will undoubtedly be stronger and more outright persecutions
if the present secularizing trends of western life continue.
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