Not Even The Powers Of Hell

Meditations on Romans 

August 30, 2021

Not Even The Powers Of Hell

If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

Romans 8:31b

Read Romans 8:31-39

I am not sure there is another passage in the entire Bible that exceeds the beautiful prose in this closing passage to Romans 8. We could camp out here for a while, but for today, I just want to share three insights. First, let the ground of your life in Christ be in verse 31b quoted above. The wonder of what God has done for us in Christ Jesus is proclaimed in verses 31-34 and assures us we can now and for all eternity rest in God’s love for us.

Secondly, the wonder of the power and beauty of God’s New Covenant relationship with us is proclaimed in the middle section, verses 35-37. The Old Covenant included blessings and curses (See Deuteronomy 11). Under the Old Covenant, the bad things coming into the life of Job was the basis for Job’s friends to accuse him of having sin in his camp. Bad things, curses, were evidence of sin and sin cut you off from God. Living under the New Covenant, and over and against the Old Covenant, Paul asked a rhetorical question, “Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.”

Paul then closes this passage with a catalog of all the forces that we encounter in life and concludes “nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

My Takeaway: God is for me. Who can be against me, and is more powerful than God? There is none! Nothing can separate me from God’s love for me in Christ Jesus. What else do I need to know? I think I’ll sing the Doxology.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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