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NOTES for Rom 8:38-39

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38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 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.
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In fact, every Christian witness is always by the witness of the Kingdom. It is not surprising: because the main task and the main sense of the earthly ministry of the Savior was to bring the Kingdom in the world, and Its main affair afterward, as today, and until His return in glory, became the cultivation of the Kingdom in our world being transformed, but not yet transformed. But it is possible to witness about the Kingdom differently, and one of the central becomes the witness of this love, which penetrates into it.

There is nothing surprising here: because the Savior spoke Himself about mutual love, as about "a new commandment". It would seem, what can be new in what is old, as the world? And were few things said about love before the coming of Christ? But all the same, there is something new and important in the words of Jesus. Certainly, love (at least, in the sense, in which this word is used in the biblical books) supposed always, above all, a certain relation to the neighbor, relation, in which only good was wished to this neighbor.

But Jesus speaks about something bigger: he speaks about the Kingdom, where love is not simply a relation, but the environment of life of the inhabitants of the Kingdom, this spiritual environment, without which there is no kingdom. Love is, in a certain sense the basis of the Kingdom, its spiritual substance, just as natural substances form the environment of our non transformed world. And if somebody joined the Kingdom, became its inhabitant, dived completely into this spiritual environment, it is indeed already completely impossible to remove him from there.

For, the Kingdom does not belong to our world, does not live according to its laws, it enters our world, transforming it, changing its nature, but changing it, it does not become a part of it, the element of this old order of things, which it is called to transform. It is not surprising that in the non transformed world there is not such power, which could influence the relations linking man to the Kingdom and to his inhabitants. But connects them the relation of love, this love, of which the Savior Himself gave example to His followers and which people of righteous life belonging to various Christian confessions, demonstrated many a time. The love, which nobody will indeed take away from man, unless he shall deliver it himself.

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For Rom 8:31-39
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 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.
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The words of the apostle Paul always strike us with their astonishing power and confidence. After reading this passage, no...  Read more

The words of the apostle Paul always strike us with their astonishing power and confidence. After reading this passage, no doubt remains that the Lord truly will not abandon us under any circumstances. The love of God is so great and strong that nothing on earth or in heaven, nothing around a person or in his inner world, can overcome it. These words can lift a person from the depths of despair and give him strength to go on.

If the confidence of Paul, who did not even meet Jesus during His earthly life, could be so absolute, then how strong must the faith have been of those who saw the light of Tabor. Clearly it was this burning faith, and not the moral and ethical system of Christianity, that made the appearance of the Church possible.

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For Rom 8:18-39
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 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.
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Truly, we are saved in hope. Hope sustains us when we are in conflict with the world and in difficult moments of life. But what do we hope for?...  Read more

Truly, we are saved in hope. Hope sustains us when we are in conflict with the world and in difficult moments of life. But what do we hope for? First of all, that nothing will happen to us apart from the Father’s will; we hope for adoption in the Son and for the Spirit, who will support us in our weaknesses and guide us in prayer. In short, hope in your God always. If we keep this constantly in mind, experience will soon convince us that such hope does not disappoint.

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For Rom 8:18-39
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 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.
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Continuing the theme of the Kingdom and the spiritual wholeness of the human being, Paul draws attention...  Read more

Continuing the theme of the Kingdom and the spiritual wholeness of the human being, Paul draws attention to the fact that the Kingdom, although it has already entered the world, has still not been revealed in it completely. Therefore the faithful still do not know the Kingdom in all its fullness, for which for now they can only hope (vv. 24-25). It would seem that they can be at peace regarding the promises given to them by the Savior. According to ideas commonly accepted in those days among learned rabbis, the people of God, like the Messiah Himself, had been conceived by God even before He created the world. Paul transfers this idea to the Church, seeing in it the new people of God, and he regards all who belong to it as those who, by God's mercy, have become part of the plan that guarantees them the attainment of the fullness of the Kingdom (vv. 28-30).

If so, then all whom God has brought into the Church through Jesus Christ can truly be at peace: they have entered the number of those whose path was determined by God already at the beginning of time. But on the other hand, as long as the Kingdom has not been revealed in all its fullness, evil still partly rules in the world. There is not yet wholeness, not only in human nature but in creation as a whole, so that until the complete transfiguration of the world not only the human being but all the rest of creation is doomed to suffer (vv. 18-21). It is no accident that the apostle, when speaking of the body, again turns to the idea of "redemption," or more precisely, ransom: just as a slave can obtain freedom only if he is ransomed into freedom, so the body too must be "ransomed," liberated from the slave-like dependence in which sin holds it (vv. 22-23).

Seen this way, sin becomes not only a person's guilt, but also his misfortune: with all his heart he would like to attain the Kingdom in all its fullness, but he cannot do this until the Savior frees him, just as a slave, however much he desires it, cannot free himself from slavery unless he is ransomed. Those who have entered the Church and become sharers in the Kingdom receive a kind of advance, but they do not receive it for no reason: this gift becomes the consequence of the choice they have made, after which suffering is inevitable insofar as the world lies in evil (vv. 17-18). The advance they have received allows them to share in the Kingdom already when it would appear that they are not yet ready for anything of the kind, since sin still nests in their nature. But now their whole life is already determined by the Savior's will and unfolds according to the laws of the Kingdom, so that resistance to the sin in which the world lies also becomes, for them, resistance to their own sin. That is why the Risen One no longer condemns His faithful for their sins (vv. 31-34). As we can see, a person's relationship with God and with the Messiah sent by Him is determined only by that person's own choice, and if the choice has been made rightly, nothing can tear him away from Christ and from the Kingdom (vv. 35-39). Not even his own sin, which has not yet been fully overcome.

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