Passage: Romans 8:35-39 Speaker: Pastor Jon Kopp Series: Supernatural Living for Natural People
Speakers: Jon Kopp - In today’s passage, Paul wants us to see all the enemies of the child of God “swirling around us. He wants us to imagine the worst case scenarios. He wants us to ask the tough questions, to see if the love of God remains credible even then. And he admits, Yes, life beats us up. We get bloodied all along the way. But in it all, there is a love that will not let us go. God’s love will not allow our faith to die, because his love undergirds our faith. We waver. We weep. We agonize. But, we get back up again and say, ‘I will trust God. He must have a good reason for this. I go on with God.’ Why do we do this? Why don’t we give up on God? Because God loves us. His love created our faith. His love undergirds our faith. His love is deepening our faith. And He is going to bring us by our faith through all our afflictions, more like Christ and more fit to be with Christ.” (Raymond Ortlund)