Thursday, March 10, 2016

Will Satan separate us from the love of Christ?

Rom 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Who?

Who is the mastermind behind ALL tribulation, ALL distress, ALL persecution? Who is at the heart of ALL that is evil? Seriously, ask yourself who.  If you believe in God, our heavenly Father, and His Only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit- then you know who is behind it all, who is at the heart of it all. And the WHO that is at the heart of all evil loves it when people FORGET his role in all of it. When we forget who is at the heart of every single trouble we have, we forget who is there to help us with every trouble we have.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Will Satan separate us from the love of Christ?

We will face- TRIBULATIONS.

Tribulations- hardship, great difficulty, affliction, distress, trials.

We will face- DISTRESS.

Distress- mental suffering, anxiety, unhappiness, hardship, problems, physical pain, danger.

We will face- PERSECUTIONS.

Persecution- unfair treatment, suffering felt by persecuted people.

We will face all manner of these, under every guise that exists. And the reason we will face all these assault is in fact to SEPARATE us from the love of Christ.

Yes, if we LOVE our God these things can be used for our ultimate good-

Rom_8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

These things WILL happen to us and if we LOVE GOD somehow beyond our ability to comprehend, through faith in our God, they will work for our good.  Satan would have them destroy us, rip apart our relationship with God.

Rom 8:35  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

WE- Christ followers are counted as SHEEP for the SLAUGHTER.  We are fair game when we are Christ's.  We are penned up sheep, easy to pick off, and Satan is the wolf in the sheep fold ready to do the picking. And if we are KILLED, if we are SLAUGHTERED for Christ as His sheep, then we are conquerors through our Savior! We are MORE than conquerors.

Rom 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We NEED to be persuaded as well that DEATH, LIFE, ANGELS, PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, NOT the PRESENT, NOT the FUTURE, HEIGHT, DEPTH, ANY CREATURE NONE of these things will be able to separate us from the LOVE of God which is in Christ Jesus our LORD!

Do we believe this?! We MUST believe this! We MUST!

Does believing any of this mean that we won't have tribulations, hardships, any and all difficulties life can throw at us- NO, it doesn't mean that at all! We can be among those who face the worst of life's agonies and some may take that to mean God is disappointed in us, that He has forsaken us. We know differently. We know that NOTHING can separate us from the love of God, NOTHING. We must believe, we must believe when we have no outward reason to believe, we must have FAITH, the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen.   And this is why we must LIVE in the PRESENCE of GOD, by his mercy and grace, His love always!

Amen!





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