The Inseparable Love of God (1) [ Romans 8:38-39 ] Why can nothing separate us from the love of God? 1. Because God’s love is eternal. Romans 8:29a says: “For those whom He foreknew…” The word “foreknew” refers to before eternity began —before the creation of heaven and earth . The phrase “those whom He foreknew” does not simply mean knowing about someone intellectually, but rather loving them. In other words, it refers to “those whom God loved from eternity past.” Amos 3:2a says: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth.” If “known” merely meant intellectual knowledge, that would imply that God only knew Israel and did not know the other nations—which cannot be true, because the all-knowing God lacks knowledge of nothing. Therefore, “I have known you only” means “I have loved you only.” God loved Israel among all the nations of the earth. Hosea 13:5 says: “I knew you in the wilderness , in the land of great drought.” The “wilderness” was where the Israelite...
은이나 숨겨진 보물을 찾는 것처럼 우리는 하나님을 아는 지식을 추구해야 합니다.
은이나 숨겨진 보물을 찾는 것처럼 우리는 하나님을 아는
지식을 추구해야 합니다. 우리는 지혜로운
하나님의 말씀을 소중히 여겨 그 말씀에 귀를 기울이고 그것을 이해하려고 노력해야 합니다. 그리할 때 하나님께서 우리에게 지혜를 주시며 지식과 깨달음도
주시므로 우리는 하나님을 경외하는 것이 무엇인지 깨닫게 될 것이며 하나님에 대한 지식도 얻게 될 것입니다(참고: 잠언 2:1-6, 현대인의 성경).
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