Saturday, February 8, 2020

Paul Summons All Our Foes

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38, 39

"Thus he was persuaded of this truth by revelation, by argument, and by experience; and I should like you to notice that he was not only persuaded that none of the powers he mentions will separate us from the love of Christ, but that they cannot do it.

He puts it thus, they are not able to separate us.
Yet these are the strongest forces imaginable—
death,
life,
angels,
principalities,
powers,
the dreary present and the darker future.
Paul summons all our foes, and sets them in battle array against us, and when he has added up the total of all their legions, he says that he is persuaded that they shall not be able— shall not be able, mark you, — to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Charles Spurgeon