New Testament - Romans 8:31-39 - Nothing Can Separate
Channel: Calvary Chapel Windward
Date: 13/03/2016

New Testament - Romans 8:31-39 - Nothing Can Separate - CC Windward - Pastor Tim

New Testament - Romans 8:31-39 - Nothing Can Separate - Calvary Chapel Windward - OAHU, HAWAII - Pastor Tim Newman - From Local Olelo / Oceanic / Time Warner Cable show "A View from Calvary" - Episode #: - Original Air Date:  04/08/2013 A.D.


PASTOR TIM's NOTES:


Romans 8:31-39
“Nothing Can Separate”
1. It is because God is CONSISTENTLY for us.
VS. 31
Who can be against us?
If God is for usThe
word if here in the Greek means if and it is so.
We would translate it with the word since.
Judg 6:13
 Num 11:14-15
Ps 27:1-5
2. It is because with one CONCLUSIVE act God demonstrated his love for us.
Vs. 32
The argument here is from the lesser to the greater.
If when we were sinners, God gave us His best, now that we are God’s children, will He
not give us all that we need?

Matt 6:28-30
 Eph 1:3
Paul’s point;
Since we have received the incredible gift of God’s Son and salvation in him, it is
ridiculous to suppose God will not give us everything else we need.
4. It is because God does not CONDEMN us.
Vs. 34
As our High Priest, Jesus can give us the grace we need to overcome temptation
and defeat the enemy (Heb. 4:14–16).

Heb 7:25
Luke 22:31-32
Kent Hughes put it this way,
If we are to be condemned, it will have to be over Christ’s dead and now
resurrected body, which actually is the basis of our salvation! How is that for
confidence?
5. It is because CIRCUMSTANCES cannot separate us.
Vs. 35
Not only can CIRCUMSTANCES not separate us; they can actually be used for
good.
6. It is because we are more than CONQUERORS.
Vs. 37
The word conquering in the Greek is where we get our term victor or victory. But here it
means super conqueror.
Not even death, even death by the sword can separate us from the love of God.
2 Cor 12:8-10
2 Corinthians 4:17

2 Cor 4:17
Heb 11:33-12:2
We would say that both groups were more than conquerors.
And the writer of Hebrews says that both groups provide for us a cloud of witnesses.
7. It is because nothing CREATED or even supernatural can separate us.
Vs.38-39
And what is Paul persuaded of and nothing will change his mind?
Nothing can separate us from the love of God that’s in Christ Jesus.