Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39
A. The Love of God in Christ’s Work: Objectively
1. Question One
Rom. 8:31; Rom. 8:18-23; Rom. 8:28-30; Col. 3:1-3; Isa. 43:1-2; Job 13:15; Job 19:25
2. Question Two
Rom. 8:31-32; Rev. 12:10; 1 John 2:15-17; Gal. 5:16-17
3. Question Three
Rom. 8:32; Rom. 5:6-11; Rom. 8:1-3; Rom. 8:16-17; Phil. 1:29; John 3:16; Mark 14:36
4. Question Four
Romans 8:33; Rev. 12:10; Zechariah 3:1-2; Isaiah 50:8-9; 2 Corinthians 2:10-11; Ephesians 6:11
5. Question Five
Romans 8:34; Romans 4:22-25; Hebrews 9:11-15
B. The Love of God in Christ: Subjectively
6. Questions Six and Seven
Romans 8:35-37
a. The impossibility of separation from the love of God in Christ
– Union in Christ
Romans 8:1; 6:5-8; Ephesians 1:3-6; John 15:4-5
– Inability of forces against us
Romans 8:35b; 2 Corinthians 11:23-29
– Sovereignty of God fulfilling His purposes
Romans 8:36-37
b. Our growth in assurance for God’s love in Christ
Romans 8:38-39