Present and Powerful Love

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Nothing will separate us from the love of Christ because Christ is alive and is still loving us right now.

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0:00.0	September 6th, present and powerful love.
0:06.4	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
0:09.8	Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
0:16.7	Romans 8.35. Notice three things in Romans 8.35.
0:24.2	1. Christ is loving us now.
0:30.1	A wife might say of her deceased husband,
0:33.3	nothing will separate me from his love.
0:36.8	She might mean that the memory of his love will be sweet and powerful all her life.
0:44.8	But that is not what Paul means here.
0:47.9	In Romans 8.34, it says plainly,
0:51.2	Christ Jesus is the one who died.
0:53.7	More than that, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God,
0:59.2	who indeed is interceding for us.
1:02.5	The reason Paul can say that nothing will separate us from the love of Christ
1:08.3	is because Christ is alive and is still loving us right now.
1:14.1	He is at the right hand of God and is therefore ruling for us.
1:22.0	And he is interceding for us, which means he is seeing to it that his finished work of redemption
1:29.2	does, in fact, save us hour by hour and bring us safely to eternal joy.
1:37.2	His love is not just a memory.
1:40.0	It is a moment by moment action by the omnipotent living son of God to bring us to everlasting joy.
1:51.8	2. This love of Christ is effective in protecting us from separation
2:00.0	and therefore is not a universal love for all,
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