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...
Why does God make us
helpless and put us in trouble?
Job considered them to
be the children of fools,
the lowest of society,
even younger than himself,
who were as contemptible
as guarding dogs,
and they did not
hesitate to ridicule,
mock, and despise him
from a distance,
even spitting in his
face.
He thought this showed
that God had made him
powerless and brought
him into distress
(Job 30:1, 8-11).
Why does God make us
powerless and bring us into distress?
Could it be that God
wants us to fully realize
how helpless we are as
human beings?
Is it so that God might
compel us
to rely entirely on His
omnipotence?
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