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...
We must guard our hearts
and not betray the wife
we married when we were young.
The
purpose for which God made us one with our wife is to have godly children.
Therefore, we must guard our hearts and not betray the wife we married when we
were young.
This is God's Word: "I hate divorce, and I hate a man who covers his wife
with violence.
So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth."
Nevertheless, among us, there are those who have been unfaithful to the wife
they married when they were young, failing to keep their vows to her
(Ref.: Malachi 2:14-16).
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