Who Shall Separate Us From Christ
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” (Rom.8:35).
There
have been individuals who thought the doctrine of the believer’s
eternal security in Christ to be a dangerous heresy. They countered
every Scripture on the subject with another to refute it. But in each of
these cases it was this great truth, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ”, that finally persuaded them.
It
is significant that the Apostle Paul never tells us about his love for
Christ, but he is always telling us about Christ’s love for him and for
others! The Law commands: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God”, but grace puts it the other way, telling us how deeply God
loves us — and this begets love in return. The Apostle experienced
discouragements that would have caused him to give up the work of the
Lord a thousand times, but he could not. Why? He says, “the love of Christ constraineth us?”(II
Cor. 5:14); it bore him along like a strong tide. No doubt he had this
very thing in mind when he continued writing in Romans 8.
“For Thy sake we are killed all the day long…accounted as sheep for the slaughter” (Ver.36).
And therefore defeated? Far from it!
“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us” (Ver.37).
Not only do we win the battle; we are “more than conquerors”, for these adversities serve to draw us into still closer fellowship with Him, thus enriching our Christian experience.
When
people or nations engage in battle, generally no one wins; both lose.
But Paul’s personal experience serves as the foremost example that in
the Christian life, “tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril [and] sword”bring us more than victory when borne for Him who loved us.
Thus this great chapter opens with “no condemnation” and closes with “no separation”, and the Apostle, gathering all the forces of creation together, whether they be time, space, or matter, declares that none
of them can separate us from “the love of God, which is [manifested] in
Christ Jesus” (Vers.38,39). Whether it be death or life, heavenly
principalities, things present or things to come, height or depth or any
other created thing — none of them, nor all together — can threaten our
security or separate us from the love of God, which He has manifested
to us in Christ Jesus.
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