Notes of Faith April 17, 2026
Pastor’s Pen Pulpit Series: Romans 8
July 21, 2002
“NO SEPARATION” Part II
Romans 8:33-37
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Paul continues teaching on the subject of no separation from God. In verses 8:33-35 he asks three challenging questions:
1. Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? He answers his question. God is the one who justifies. The only one who has a legitimate right to charge us has declared us righteous. Enough said.
2. Who is the one who condemns us? Again consider the logic. The only one in the universe who has a right to condemn us died for us. More than that He was raised from the dead as proof that our sins are gone. In addition He ascended to the right hand of God and there He intercedes for us.
Note: The Holy Spirit prays within us (Romans 8:26-27). Jesus Christ prays for us. The Father’s ears are open to both sets of prayers.
3. Who will separate (put space between) us from the love of Christ? Last question. The remainder of the chapter answers that question for us. Paul suggests several possibilities. “Will tribulation, or distress or persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” It seems that if anything could separate the Christian from God from the standpoint of the worldly mind, these could.
Paul goes back to the Old Testament to show that the believer has suffered for Christ throughout time. He quotes from Psalm 44:22:
For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.
Note: In the midst of these things – in the thick of the battle - we conquer overwhelmingly. We conquer and more through Him who loved us.
What does this mean – we more than conquer? We will not only conquer, but we also gain the prize for overcoming! This is done through Jesus who loves us.
In our next Pen Pulpit we will take a look at the finale of this fantastic chapter. Until then, God bless.
Love to you all,
Pastor Charles Covington
Deut 7:8-9
But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.
Jer 31:3
3 The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying:
"I have loved you with an everlasting love
John 15:9-11
9 "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
Eph 5:1-2
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Rom 5:5
The love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Rom 8:39
(Nothing) will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 John 4:9
By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
Jude 21
keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
2 Cor 13:14
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God (the Father), and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
We clearly see here an expression of the triune nature of God, one God, three persons.
We should also see in these verses that there is nothing that can separate us from the love of God. He is faithful. His love never ceases. He will never leave or forsake us. Trust in Him for salvation from His wrath, to enter into the glory of His heaven and your eternal resting place. Give Him praise for His love for you, His eternal care and provision for life with Him… forever!
Pastor Dale