Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

God for Us – Part 4

35 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, 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, 16-17; Phil. 1:29; John 3:16; Mark 14:36

4. Question Four – Rom. 8:33; Rev. 12:10; Zech. 3:1-2; Isa. 50:8-9; 2 Corinthians 2:10-11;

                                       Ephesians 6:11

5. Question Five – Rom. 8:34; Rom. 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: Psalm 44:22; Romans 8:28

b. Our growth in assurance for God’s love in Christ

Romans 8:37-39; Col. 2:1-3; Col. 4:12

– Realize what our union in Christ accomplishes and provides

Rom. 8:38; Col. 1:27

– Pursue full assurance in Christ of God’s inseparable love

Rom. 8:38; 2 Tim. 1:11-12; Jn 6:65-69, Jn 17:8; 2 Peter 1:3-10

– Renew our minds with the power of the Gospel

Rom. 8:38; Rom. 8:35, 37-39; 2 Peter 1:10-13; Rom. 1:16-17; Rom. 12:1,2