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 should we suffer? “but the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it” (Matthew 14:24). Why do we Christians suffer? How should we understand our suffering? What is God's will? Why does God make us or allow us to suffer? What is the purpose of suffering? Our God has a profound knowledge that our human being cannot fathom (Ps. 92:5; Eccle. 3:11). We cannot fathom the things that He does (Job 5: 9; Ps. 145: 3). We cannot understand His will fully. We don’t know why God allowed Job to suffer (Job 1:13-19; 2:7-8), why He threw the great wind on the sea so that the ship that Jonah was aboard was about to break up because of the great storm (Jonah 1:3-4). Who could understand the will of God fully who gave suffering to Job and to Jonah? So this is what Apostle Paul said in Romans 11:33-34...