Word: Romans 8:31-39
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Notes: Who can stand against God, really? Even if one were to stand up to God against us, would it matter? Would they matter?
Word: … 34b Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Notes: Christ is not just sitting idly by as we face adversity. He is pleading our case, actually His case on our behalf. Who do you think is going to win that argument?
Word: …35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Notes: If Christ’s love cannot be separated from us, then it is always with us. If we are always loved by the most powerful and most gracious, what do we have to fear? We will all face at least some of these but will not face them alone. God does not run away from these things. He is not moved even an inch by hardships and adversity.
Word: … 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Notes: There is nothing that can separate us from God’s love. That doesn’t mean that He is just looking at us with a sense of pity saying, boy I wish they didn’t have to experience this. That would mean He is impotent. God is anything but impotent. He is Omnipotent. He is actively involved in us as we go through the adversity and hardships and trials. His power is with us, literally. We must recognize it, acknowledge it , and surrender to it and we will be more than conquerors.