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 are we in need? “Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the LORD. And the LORD said, "It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death” (2 Samuel 21:1). The world is in financial need nowadays. Hence, many people are suffering from extreme stress and they are under financial pressure. In addition to this economic deprivation, too many people are experiencing mental and emotional need. Therefore, many of them are mentally and emotionally unstable and show different kinds symptoms. But the most serious of all this poverty is that the whole world is in spiritual need. It seems to be this world is in a state of spiritual illusion as people are pursuing many different kinds of spirituality and the world is in spiritual emptiness. Why did this ‘spiritual famine’ come to us? Why? Wh...