Post by clarkthompson on Aug 30, 2013 1:26:01 GMT
Romans 8:33-39
KJV(i)33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 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.
33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has forgiven us and given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? Will Christ? No! For he is the one who died for us and came back to life again for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us there in heaven. 35 Who then can ever keep Christ’s love from us? When we have trouble or calamity, when we are hunted down or destroyed, is it because he doesn’t love us anymore? And if we are hungry or penniless or in danger or threatened with death, has God deserted us? 36 No, for the Scriptures tell us that for his sake we must be ready to face death at every moment of the day—we are like sheep awaiting slaughter; 37 but despite all this, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us enough to die for us. 38 For I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels won’t, and all the powers of hell itself cannot keep God’s love away. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, 39 or where we are—high above the sky, or in the deepest ocean—nothing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God demonstrated by our Lord Jesus Christ when he died for us.
Inc. Tyndale House Publishers (2012-05-25). The Living Bible (Kindle Locations 41732-41739). Tyndale House Publishers. Kindle Edition.
These are my thoughts please share yours.
33 We as Christians are justified thru Christ and because of there our faults are not held against us by anyone. This is not to say we are able to get away with anything because we are made just in Him. It is to say we are not held accountible on judgement because He was judged for us.
34 Christ stands before us against the evils of this world. I remeber reading Job the think that most stood out to me was how Job asked for advocate, Christ is our advocate.
35 Nothing can seperate us from God's love except our sin but, as believers are sins are under the blood. Even though people may not have come to Christ, Christ loved them enough for them to have a option of coming to Him for salavation. As believers most things we go thru can strengthen our relationship with Jesus and our love for Him grows with our faith but, His love is constant.
36 Some have died for Christ and been hurt for Christ but, what He gave is nothing compared to what we can give Him back but, it is all we can give is our all.
37 We can over come martyedom thru Christ raising us to Himself. While scars from serving Him may remain they give us praise to His name. We overcome anything the world can throw at us by following Him. Paul overcame stonings, shipwrecks and other things, we to can over come and still serve as Paul did.
38 We should stand on the truth of the word and God's will and not waver. Now we will stumble because we are in flesh but, we are to repent and learn from are errors. We should not let anything change the way we see the truth. God' word is true and anything that goes against His word and will is not worth having us fall. I will let all man be a liar and say God is true.
39 We are His and nothing can take us from Him.
