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“If God is for us” (9)       [Romans 8:35-39]       Look at Romans 8:35 – “Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”  What kind of person is “us” here that cannot be separated from the love of Christ?  We can think of it in three ways:   (1)     The “us” refers to those whom God has chosen (Rom. 8:33).   When did God choose us?   Look at Ephesians 1:4-5: “just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will.”   God chose us before all things were created.   God has predestined us according to the kind intention of His will.   So, who can separate us from the love of Christ?   No one!   Never! ...

  In their distress “But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found by them” (2 Chronicles 15:4).           It is easy to be discouraged when we are in distress. If we falter in times of trouble, we are showing that our strength is limited (Prov. 24:10). Therefore, we should not be discouraged. Rather, we must cry out to God in times of trouble (Ps. 120:1). We must always strive to pray in times of trouble (Rom. 12:12). In doing so, God will answer us (Ps. 120:1).           When we look at Chronicles 15:4, the Bible says “in their distress”. Here, “in their distress” means in those day of Israel when “it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil” (v. 5). In those days “One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress” (v. 6). At that time the people of Israel we...

  When I am greatly afraid and distressed     “Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed  …  "Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children”(Genesis 32:7a, 11).     Are you afraid of death?  Are not you afraid of your own death as well as the death of your family members?  If you are afraid in a turning point of life and death and don’t know what to do in that crisis, what would you do?     In Genesis 32:7a, 11, Jacob prayed to God when he was greatly afraid and distressed.  The reason why Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed was because the messengers whom he sent before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom (v. 3), told the news that Esau was coming to meet him with 400 men (v. 6).  So Jacob prayed to God when he was greatly afraid and distressed a...

  Why does God troubling us  with every kind of distress?     “One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress” (2 Chronicles 15: 6).     What is "reform"?  What is the reform that many pastors are crying for?  According to Pastor Seo Moon-kang, who have translated the various works of the Puritan's books in his lifetime and introduced them to this world, said that reformists are those who want to reform themselves first and foremost (Internet).  I totally agree.  How can we reform our homes and the church without reforming ourselves?  So what must we do to reform ourselves?  First of all, we must go back to the Scripture.  And we must live the Word of God.  That was what happened during the 16th century Reformation.  Therefore, if we really want reformation, we must return to the Word of God....