“5 Questions for a Loving & Enduring Relationship with Jesus”
That’s what we’re looking at this weekend as we conclude our series on Romans 5–8.
The questions are Paul’s. There are more than five in the passage, but we’ll combine a few.
It’s one of the greatest passages in the Bible.
Here’s how the great New Testament scholar N.T. Wright describes it:
“The end of Romans 8 deserves to be written in letters of fire on the living tablets of our hearts.”
You might want to read (or reread) it before you come this weekend:
“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: ‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:31-39)
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