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...
I must be very cautious when my heart becomes hardened.
I must be very cautious when my heart becomes hardened (Exod. 10:1, 20, etc.).
If God just gave me over (Rom. 1:24, 26, 28), my heart can only become hardened.
The responsibility I must diligently undertake is to melt and break my heart with God's words, like fire and a hammer (Jere. 23:29).
I should continuously use God's word, the sword of the Spirit (Eph. 6:17), to pierce my heart and conscience diligently (1 Sam. 24:5, 10; Acts 2:37).
In this way, I need to plow my heart, which is like unplowed ground (Hosea 10:12).
I pray that the Holy Spirit will continually remove the stony heart from me and grant me a tender and obedient heart (Ezek. 36:26).
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