Nothing Can Separate You From the Love of God! | Romans 8:31-39

Is There Anything that Can Divide You from the Love of God in Christ Jesus? Can Continuous Sin, External Forces, or Even Satan Separate You? Though at times it may seem like we're distanced from God's love, those are merely feelings. Feelings aren't always accurate or based on truth. Tune in to discover why nothing can ever sever you from the love of God.

 

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(0:00) Want to discover your freedom in Christ? Then listen in as Mike Stone and Kevin (0:06) Smith talk about it today on Grace Coach. Welcome to Grace Coach. My name is Kevin (0:13) Smith and I got my best friend Mike Stone with us today.

How you doing Mike? (0:18) I'm doing good. Good to see you. Good to see you too.

 

We are going to be talking (0:22) about Romans chapter 8 starting in verse 28 and going through the end of the (0:30) chapter and we are excited to get to it because it is talking about the love of (0:36) God and how secure we are in God's love. So I'll start off and just read a couple (0:45) verses in Romans chapter 8 verse 28 which says, and we know that in all (0:52) things God works for the good of those who love him who have been called (0:57) according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be (1:03) conformed to the likeness of his Son that he might be the firstborn among many (1:10) brothers.

 

And those he predestined he also called, and those he called he also (1:15) justified, and those he justified he also glorified. Yeah, there's a few things (1:22) here that jump out at me that I underlined. Of course that God works (1:27) together for the good of those who love God.

 

I mean he takes everything, good and (1:32) bad, things that are happy and sad, and he works them together for our good. I mean (1:38) that is just so wonderful to know even when it doesn't feel good, you know, and (1:45) it doesn't feel that God is there for us, but he's always there working everything (1:50) together for good. And then it says in 29 he knew his people in advance, and that (1:57) is like, wow, he didn't force us to believe.

 

He certainly did know in advance (2:04) who would and who wouldn't believe, and so that's mind-blowing to even think (2:08) about. And then the third thing is that he chose us to become like his Son. (2:14) That's my version.

 

And when I think about that, you know, I know we're not (2:21) going to perform miracles and raise the dead and do things like that, but it's (2:27) that the God of the universe was living in Jesus, and he was made and (2:37) born in the image of God's likeness. So when I think about that, we have now been (2:43) also made into God's likeness when we came to believe. We were not in the image (2:51) and likeness of God.

 

We were born in the image and likeness of Adam, but it says (2:56) that he chose us to become like his Son and now to be made in the image and (3:04) likeness of now Jesus. And that only means that the Spirit of God is now (3:10) living in us like it was living in him. Okay, clarify for me what you just said.

 

(3:17) God was living in Jesus? Yes. Chapter 14 of the book of John. Let me just go there (3:27) real quick.

 

The only reason why I'm saying that while you're going there is (3:35) because I don't want the audience to be confused that Jesus wasn't God. No, (3:43) he was God. Jesus was God in the flesh, fully God, fully man is what we (3:51) would say and believe.

 

Yeah, it says in John 14 20, on that day you will realize (3:58) that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. So God was in Christ (4:08) reconciling the world to himself, not counting men's or people's sins against (4:15) them, and so God was in Christ and now God is now living in a born-again (4:22) Christian. So that's how I look at the image of God, that the likeness in the (4:28) image or the Spirit of God is now living in us, and I love it.

 

All right, let's go (4:33) on to read Romans 8 31 to 8 34. I'll do that. What shall we say then about such (4:40) wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he (4:47) did not spare even his own son, but gave him up for us all, won't he also give us (4:56) everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one, (5:04) for God himself has given us right standing with himself.

 

Who will then (5:10) condemn us? No one, for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and (5:18) he's sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand pleading for us. (5:25) Amen to that. Says who dares accuse us? Who accuses us is Satan.

 

Absolutely. (5:34) He does that through people, through people who aren't saved. Yes, people are (5:41) trying to condemn us for our actions and behaviors and our belief systems.

 

Yeah, (5:49) well, I mean, I think he's up there accusing us to God too, but God's (5:56) basically, Jesus is interceding for us saying, I shed my blood for each one of (6:02) these people. Their sin is on me, and so the case is settled. And if you (6:10) didn't spare your own son, you know, if we bring that down to earth and think (6:16) about, if I sacrifice my son as God did, how much more would I, I would do (6:24) anything for you if I've done that, and I think that's what he's saying here.

 

(6:31) Absolutely. He has given us everything we need for life and godliness in Christ (6:36) Jesus. Well, that's the best thing he can do, and he gives us so much more.

 

I say (6:42) this all the time, you know, our family, our friends, our home, our health. I mean, (6:48) he's given us all this stuff, but the basis of it is Christ. That is the (6:55) foundation of everything.

 

Everything else is meaningless without Christ being the (7:02) foundation of what we have. So everything else is basically icing on (7:08) the cake. Jesus Christ is the cake.

 

So you think you're gonna have your cake (7:16) and eat it too, I suppose. I'm game for that. Well, in verse 33, it says that God (7:23) has given us right standing with himself.

 

That means we're in God's eyes. We are (7:32) perfectly right with him 100% of the time, and that is if you're in Christ, (7:39) because then you have the righteous one, Jesus, living in you. You know, it's not (7:44) that we do righteous things or whether we do righteous or (7:50) unrighteous things.

 

It's the fact that the righteous one lives in us, and that's (7:55) why we have this right standing with him all the time, because it also says that (8:00) Jesus will never leave us. The righteous one will never leave us. We're always (8:06) righteous, even though we don't feel like that might be true.

 

The Scriptures say (8:12) over and over and here in verse 33 that God has given us a right standing with (8:19) himself. Amen, and there's a saying that's very old saying, but at the foot (8:27) of the cross, the ground is level. Nobody is any better than anybody else.

 

We are (8:34) all righteous because of Jesus Christ. Billy Graham is no more righteous than (8:40) us. Mother Teresa, no more righteous than us, and it's not because of all the (8:47) things they've done.

 

It's only because they have received the gift of eternal (8:54) life through Jesus Christ by believing. Yeah, it's awesome. Verse 35 says, (9:02) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble, or hardship, or (9:07) persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, for (9:14) your sake we face death all day long.

 

We are considered as sheep for the slaughter. (9:21) No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For (9:27) I am convinced that neither death, nor life, neither angels, nor demons, neither (9:33) the present, nor the future, nor any powers, neither height, nor depth, nor (9:39) anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God (9:46) that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Very cool. Yes, the other day I was reading in (9:56) my little pocket Bible, and I underlined how many times God or Jesus or the Holy (10:05) Spirit, you know, in this last section, it was amazing how many, I mean, and this is (10:14) just the conclusion of it, but it's like God is doing all of this stuff. God has (10:23) done it in Christ, and he has made a way that is without separation.

 

We are solid (10:35) in our relationship with God because of Christ. There is absolutely nothing that (10:42) can separate us. No spiritual demons.

 

There's so many people out there, you (10:48) know, talking about demons and all the books that have been written. It doesn't (10:54) matter. They can't touch us.

 

We are secure in Christ. You know, there's two reasons, I (11:02) think, that nothing can ever separate us from Jesus Christ and the (11:10) love of God. One, Romans 835, it says that nothing will ever separate you from the (11:20) love of Christ.

 

But two, it's because we are forgiven people. Yes. All our sins (11:29) have been taken away, so what caused the Spirit of God to leave Adam in the (11:36) garden in the book of Genesis was sin, his disobedience.

 

He did exactly what God (11:42) told him not to do. What caused the Spirit of God to leave Jesus? It was our sins. (11:49) Yes.

 

Right? What's the reason why the Spirit of God will never leave us is (11:55) because all of our sins are taken away, and it's an impossibility. And so between (12:03) those two things, I'm like, of course nothing will ever separate you from the love of God. (12:09) Christ will never leave you.

 

John 10, 28, and 29, I give them eternal life, and they (12:17) shall never perish. Well, that's what eternal life is, right? That means you'll never perish. (12:24) Otherwise, it's temporal life.

 

No one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given (12:32) them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. Bam.

 

Either (12:41) that's true or not. Yes, it is true. No one is going to snatch this out of God's hand.

 

Well, (12:50) this chapter opened up with no condemnation, and it's concluding with no separation. (12:58) That's the book ends of chapter 8 in the great book of Romans, which I am so excited for. (13:08) Yes, it is amazing.

 

Paul wrote 80% of the New Testament, and there's a lot of people out there (13:18) who say, well, what about the book of James? Well, okay. Well, James was a Johnny come lately, (13:26) but still, I believe you can see the grace of God in the book of James without a doubt, (13:32) and that's for another podcast. But really, if you really concentrate on this New Testament (13:39) and read about the love of God, the forgiveness of God that he's living inside of you, (13:45) I'll never leave you or forsake you.

 

Your life will never be the same. Amen. (13:52) It will never be the same.

 

And as Romans 12 says, we're going to get to it in a few weeks, (14:00) to renew your mind on these truths. Yes. It's just a constant renewal of your mind.

 

(14:10) And that's the beautiful thing about God's word is that no matter how many times you read it, (14:16) you can just, because of what you're going through in your life, (14:22) it will hit you in a different way. You may miss something. It's amazing to study that the Bible (14:32) is like no other book in history.

 

It is the all time. They don't even put it on the bestseller (14:40) list because for years, it is the absolutely hands down most sold book in the world. Every year, (14:51) there are more Bibles bought than any other book, hands down.

 

They don't even put it on the list (14:57) anymore, which I think there's probably more going on there than that. But it is an amazing (15:04) book. And we hope that everybody just understands the major point of it.

 

And that is God's love for (15:12) you. Thank you for listening to Grace Coach. If you want to connect with us, (15:18) we would love to engage with you.

 

Email us at thegracecoach at gmail.com. (15:25) Visit our Facebook page or visit our website, gracecoach.org.

 

Is There Anything that Can Divide You from the Love of God in Christ Jesus? Can Continuous Sin, External Forces, or Even Satan Separate You? Though at times it may seem like we're distanced from God's love, those are merely feelings. Feelings aren't always accurate or based on truth. Tune in to discover why nothing can ever sever you from the love of God.

 

Transcript

(0:00) Want to discover your freedom in Christ? Then listen in as Mike Stone and Kevin (0:06) Smith talk about it today on Grace Coach. Welcome to Grace Coach. My name is Kevin (0:13) Smith and I got my best friend Mike Stone with us today.

How you doing Mike? (0:18) I'm doing good. Good to see you. Good to see you too.

 

We are going to be talking (0:22) about Romans chapter 8 starting in verse 28 and going through the end of the (0:30) chapter and we are excited to get to it because it is talking about the love of (0:36) God and how secure we are in God's love. So I'll start off and just read a couple (0:45) verses in Romans chapter 8 verse 28 which says, and we know that in all (0:52) things God works for the good of those who love him who have been called (0:57) according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be (1:03) conformed to the likeness of his Son that he might be the firstborn among many (1:10) brothers.

 

And those he predestined he also called, and those he called he also (1:15) justified, and those he justified he also glorified. Yeah, there's a few things (1:22) here that jump out at me that I underlined. Of course that God works (1:27) together for the good of those who love God.

 

I mean he takes everything, good and (1:32) bad, things that are happy and sad, and he works them together for our good. I mean (1:38) that is just so wonderful to know even when it doesn't feel good, you know, and (1:45) it doesn't feel that God is there for us, but he's always there working everything (1:50) together for good. And then it says in 29 he knew his people in advance, and that (1:57) is like, wow, he didn't force us to believe.

 

He certainly did know in advance (2:04) who would and who wouldn't believe, and so that's mind-blowing to even think (2:08) about. And then the third thing is that he chose us to become like his Son. (2:14) That's my version.

 

And when I think about that, you know, I know we're not (2:21) going to perform miracles and raise the dead and do things like that, but it's (2:27) that the God of the universe was living in Jesus, and he was made and (2:37) born in the image of God's likeness. So when I think about that, we have now been (2:43) also made into God's likeness when we came to believe. We were not in the image (2:51) and likeness of God.

 

We were born in the image and likeness of Adam, but it says (2:56) that he chose us to become like his Son and now to be made in the image and (3:04) likeness of now Jesus. And that only means that the Spirit of God is now (3:10) living in us like it was living in him. Okay, clarify for me what you just said.

 

(3:17) God was living in Jesus? Yes. Chapter 14 of the book of John. Let me just go there (3:27) real quick.

 

The only reason why I'm saying that while you're going there is (3:35) because I don't want the audience to be confused that Jesus wasn't God. No, (3:43) he was God. Jesus was God in the flesh, fully God, fully man is what we (3:51) would say and believe.

 

Yeah, it says in John 14 20, on that day you will realize (3:58) that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. So God was in Christ (4:08) reconciling the world to himself, not counting men's or people's sins against (4:15) them, and so God was in Christ and now God is now living in a born-again (4:22) Christian. So that's how I look at the image of God, that the likeness in the (4:28) image or the Spirit of God is now living in us, and I love it.

 

All right, let's go (4:33) on to read Romans 8 31 to 8 34. I'll do that. What shall we say then about such (4:40) wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he (4:47) did not spare even his own son, but gave him up for us all, won't he also give us (4:56) everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one, (5:04) for God himself has given us right standing with himself.

 

Who will then (5:10) condemn us? No one, for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and (5:18) he's sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand pleading for us. (5:25) Amen to that. Says who dares accuse us? Who accuses us is Satan.

 

Absolutely. (5:34) He does that through people, through people who aren't saved. Yes, people are (5:41) trying to condemn us for our actions and behaviors and our belief systems.

 

Yeah, (5:49) well, I mean, I think he's up there accusing us to God too, but God's (5:56) basically, Jesus is interceding for us saying, I shed my blood for each one of (6:02) these people. Their sin is on me, and so the case is settled. And if you (6:10) didn't spare your own son, you know, if we bring that down to earth and think (6:16) about, if I sacrifice my son as God did, how much more would I, I would do (6:24) anything for you if I've done that, and I think that's what he's saying here.

 

(6:31) Absolutely. He has given us everything we need for life and godliness in Christ (6:36) Jesus. Well, that's the best thing he can do, and he gives us so much more.

 

I say (6:42) this all the time, you know, our family, our friends, our home, our health. I mean, (6:48) he's given us all this stuff, but the basis of it is Christ. That is the (6:55) foundation of everything.

 

Everything else is meaningless without Christ being the (7:02) foundation of what we have. So everything else is basically icing on (7:08) the cake. Jesus Christ is the cake.

 

So you think you're gonna have your cake (7:16) and eat it too, I suppose. I'm game for that. Well, in verse 33, it says that God (7:23) has given us right standing with himself.

 

That means we're in God's eyes. We are (7:32) perfectly right with him 100% of the time, and that is if you're in Christ, (7:39) because then you have the righteous one, Jesus, living in you. You know, it's not (7:44) that we do righteous things or whether we do righteous or (7:50) unrighteous things.

 

It's the fact that the righteous one lives in us, and that's (7:55) why we have this right standing with him all the time, because it also says that (8:00) Jesus will never leave us. The righteous one will never leave us. We're always (8:06) righteous, even though we don't feel like that might be true.

 

The Scriptures say (8:12) over and over and here in verse 33 that God has given us a right standing with (8:19) himself. Amen, and there's a saying that's very old saying, but at the foot (8:27) of the cross, the ground is level. Nobody is any better than anybody else.

 

We are (8:34) all righteous because of Jesus Christ. Billy Graham is no more righteous than (8:40) us. Mother Teresa, no more righteous than us, and it's not because of all the (8:47) things they've done.

 

It's only because they have received the gift of eternal (8:54) life through Jesus Christ by believing. Yeah, it's awesome. Verse 35 says, (9:02) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble, or hardship, or (9:07) persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, for (9:14) your sake we face death all day long.

 

We are considered as sheep for the slaughter. (9:21) No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For (9:27) I am convinced that neither death, nor life, neither angels, nor demons, neither (9:33) the present, nor the future, nor any powers, neither height, nor depth, nor (9:39) anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God (9:46) that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

Very cool. Yes, the other day I was reading in (9:56) my little pocket Bible, and I underlined how many times God or Jesus or the Holy (10:05) Spirit, you know, in this last section, it was amazing how many, I mean, and this is (10:14) just the conclusion of it, but it's like God is doing all of this stuff. God has (10:23) done it in Christ, and he has made a way that is without separation.

 

We are solid (10:35) in our relationship with God because of Christ. There is absolutely nothing that (10:42) can separate us. No spiritual demons.

 

There's so many people out there, you (10:48) know, talking about demons and all the books that have been written. It doesn't (10:54) matter. They can't touch us.

 

We are secure in Christ. You know, there's two reasons, I (11:02) think, that nothing can ever separate us from Jesus Christ and the (11:10) love of God. One, Romans 835, it says that nothing will ever separate you from the (11:20) love of Christ.

 

But two, it's because we are forgiven people. Yes. All our sins (11:29) have been taken away, so what caused the Spirit of God to leave Adam in the (11:36) garden in the book of Genesis was sin, his disobedience.

 

He did exactly what God (11:42) told him not to do. What caused the Spirit of God to leave Jesus? It was our sins. (11:49) Yes.

 

Right? What's the reason why the Spirit of God will never leave us is (11:55) because all of our sins are taken away, and it's an impossibility. And so between (12:03) those two things, I'm like, of course nothing will ever separate you from the love of God. (12:09) Christ will never leave you.

 

John 10, 28, and 29, I give them eternal life, and they (12:17) shall never perish. Well, that's what eternal life is, right? That means you'll never perish. (12:24) Otherwise, it's temporal life.

 

No one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given (12:32) them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. Bam.

 

Either (12:41) that's true or not. Yes, it is true. No one is going to snatch this out of God's hand.

 

Well, (12:50) this chapter opened up with no condemnation, and it's concluding with no separation. (12:58) That's the book ends of chapter 8 in the great book of Romans, which I am so excited for. (13:08) Yes, it is amazing.

 

Paul wrote 80% of the New Testament, and there's a lot of people out there (13:18) who say, well, what about the book of James? Well, okay. Well, James was a Johnny come lately, (13:26) but still, I believe you can see the grace of God in the book of James without a doubt, (13:32) and that's for another podcast. But really, if you really concentrate on this New Testament (13:39) and read about the love of God, the forgiveness of God that he's living inside of you, (13:45) I'll never leave you or forsake you.

 

Your life will never be the same. Amen. (13:52) It will never be the same.

 

And as Romans 12 says, we're going to get to it in a few weeks, (14:00) to renew your mind on these truths. Yes. It's just a constant renewal of your mind.

 

(14:10) And that's the beautiful thing about God's word is that no matter how many times you read it, (14:16) you can just, because of what you're going through in your life, (14:22) it will hit you in a different way. You may miss something. It's amazing to study that the Bible (14:32) is like no other book in history.

 

It is the all time. They don't even put it on the bestseller (14:40) list because for years, it is the absolutely hands down most sold book in the world. Every year, (14:51) there are more Bibles bought than any other book, hands down.

 

They don't even put it on the list (14:57) anymore, which I think there's probably more going on there than that. But it is an amazing (15:04) book. And we hope that everybody just understands the major point of it.

 

And that is God's love for (15:12) you. Thank you for listening to Grace Coach. If you want to connect with us, (15:18) we would love to engage with you.

 

Email us at thegracecoach at gmail.com. (15:25) Visit our Facebook page or visit our website, gracecoach.org.