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...
왜 예수님의 제자들인 우리는 실족하는 것일까요? 어쩌면 그 이유는 우리가 하나님의 말씀대로 더욱 힘써 우리의 부르심과 택하심을 굳게 하지 못하고 있기 때문이 아닐까요?
[참고: (베드로후서1:10) “그러므로 형제들아 더욱 힘써 너희 부르심과 택하심을 굳게 하라 너희가
이것을 행한즉 언제든지 실족하지 아니하리라”]. 그리고 어쩌면 그 이유는 우리 마음에 하나님의 법이 없기 때문일 수도 있지 않을까요? [참고: (시편
37:21) “그의 마음에는 하나님의 법이 있으니 그의 걸음은 실족함이 없으리로다”].
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