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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! ...

To be under tribulation   "To be under tribulation means to be under pressure, and to persevere means to remain under pressure.   Persevering through tribulations results in proven character, which is God's goal for us."   (NEIL T. ANDERSON, "OVERCOMING DOUBT")

This world is ... "This world is the place where we are constantly being called upon to exercise faith, to trust in God's promise against the evidence of our senses.   Suffering is the path of discipleship that God has chosen and designed for us.   This world is a place of trial and tribulation that constantly whets and prepares our hearts for the glories of the world that is yet to come."   (Iain M. Duguid, "Living in the Gap between Promise and Reality")