Romans 8:31-39
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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David: Your comments today on Romans 8:18-25 with a little stretching give me an excuse to ask a question that continues to bother me as a life-long Presbyterian who still has some doubts that just do not seem to want to go away.
I am a recent subscriber so I have no idea of whether you might have covered this in the past.
I know the Bible says we have to accept Jesus as our savior and as part of our triune God for salvation, that Jesus died for all, and that God is omnipotent. Then how can God be omnipotent if He cannot save someone who has never heard of Jesus, or who is so grounded in another faith that he or she does not recognize Jesus as his or her savior?
Dave Fish
St Andrews choir since 1977gre3y