Are You Fully Persuaded Of An Inseparable Love ?

Amen. It's good singing.

Let's turn in God's Word to Romans chapter 8.

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I'm going to break into the chapter.

We're going to read from verse 28 through to the end, Romans

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chapter 8. As you're turning to the place,

just want to inform you that at the month of February, then we

will return to our studies and 1st Thessalonians, and then

we'll slowly work our way through dealing with chapter 5.

So do you remember that in prayer?

And I appreciate that. But just for today we will turn

to this portion Romans chapter 8.

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Let's read from verse 28. Let's hear God's word for those

online, the words that come up on screen, reading of course,

from the King James Bible, Romans 8.

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,

for whom He did for know, He also did predestinate to be

conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first

born among many brethren. 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. What shall we then say to these

things? If God be for us, who can be

against us? He that spared not his own Son,

but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with them also

freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the

charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yeah,

rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of

God, who also maketh intercession 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, as it is written, for thy sake?

We are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for

the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are

more than conquerors through Him that loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor

principalities, nor powers, their things present, or things

to come, their height, their death, the only other creature

shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is

in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.

We know God will stamp with His own approval and blessing this

reading of His own precious, infallible Word.

My text this morning is taken from Romans chapter 8, verses 38

Romans 8:38

and 39. Paul says, For I am persuaded

that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,

nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, their height

nor depth, the other creature shall be able to separate us

from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now my theme today is in the form of a question.

Are you fully persuaded of an inseparable love?

Are you fully persuaded of an inseparable love?

Notice that this text comes at the very end of one of the most

wonderful chapters in the whole of the Bible.

Romans chapter 8 stands as one of the great mountain peaks of

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Holy Scripture. It begins with the words in

verse one. No condemnation, and it ends

with the words, no separation. And our text is the very summit.

This text is the top of that very mountain peak, and it

extolls and highlights the unsearchable, unchangeable,

eternal life transforming love of God for us in Christ Jesus

our Lord. 1 Commentator by the name of James Montgomery Bush

used the analogy here of a mountain climber.

Think of a mountain climber tied to his guide with a rope.

The root is treacherous. It's difficult.

He often slips and slides, sometimes he even falls, but the

rope that ties is secured to the mountain guide, and he doesn't

fall to his death because of that rope.

Now the Lord Jesus Christ is our mountain guide, who never slips

or falls the rope that ties as securely to him as his great

love for us, as seen in his atoning death for us on the

cross. You see, I want you to

understand that the apostle Paul doesn't write these words from

an ivory tower of comfort, but from the battleground of

affliction, the chapters filled with words suffering, groaning,

weakness, persecution, death. Yet it rises to this triumphant

confession. Nothing can separate the true

believer from the love of God in Christ, and a grasp of that

truth will transform your life To the extent that you

understand it, to the 10th. The extent that you fill your

heart and mind with this truth, to the extent that you feel it

in your soul, to the extent that you live with it in a deep sense

of reality, you will live in victory over temptation, over

sin, and you will be enabled to joyfully persevere in the midst

of trials and troubles. Now, this is not mere

sentimental optimism. This is a gospel certainty.

Paul doesn't say I hope, or I think, or I feel.

Look at the text, verse 38. For I am persuaded.

The old apostle stands fully assured.

He's absolutely convinced because this love that he's

writing to us about, it doesn't rest or reside in US per SE.

This love is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What does he say? Nothing nor any creature shall

be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ

Jesus our Lord. Now I want you to think of this.

Paul, under divine inspiration, brings us up this mountainside.

He brings us to the summit, and he does so by a series of seven

rhetorical questions. Look at chapter 8, verse 31.

It's asked this if God be for us or or verse 31.

What shall we say then to these things?

There's the first quest. Notice the question mark the

second question, verse 31 B if God be for us, who can be

against us then he tells us in verse 32, he that spared not his

own son, but delivered him up for us all.

Here's the question, how shall he not with them also freely

give us all things? Here's the 4th question, verse

33. Who shall lay anything to the

charge of God's elect? Notice the question mark.

Then we have verse 34. Who is he that condemneth?

And he gives us the answer. It is Christ that died.

Yeah, rather that is risen again is even at the right hand of

God. He also make up intercession for

us. And then he asks this 6th

question, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

And then he adds, these words shall tribulation or distress,

or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword.

And there after sword, you've got the 7th question.

Mark 7 rhetorical questions. And then the apostle Paul does

something amazing. He quotes from Psalm 44 verse

Psalms 44:22

22. He says as it is written where

Psalm 44 verse 4022, For thy sake we're killed all the day

long. We're counted as sheep for the

slaughter. He quotes this verse to show

that experiencing and during these trials and troubles, even

death and martyrdom for Christ's sake, is nothing new for God's

people. And then he boldly affirms the

words of verse 37. Nay, and all these things we are

more than conquerors through him that loved us.

And then he answers our text. He concludes with his firmly

settled conviction. For I am persuaded that they

their death nor life, their angels, their principalities,

their powers, their things present, their things to come,

their height and their depth. Any other creature shall be able

to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus

our Lord. To sum up, this is what he's

saying. God's great love for us in

Christ Jesus our Lord enables us to be more than conquerors.

Though we face trials and troubles, though everything that

we face in life's journey comes against us, we can still be more

than conquerors. So we're thinking this morning,

are you fully persuaded of an inseparable love?

And I have three points. One, Paul's persuasion is a

settled conviction. If you look at verse 38, Paul

says for I am persuaded that see Paul writes here, he he speaks

with the language of a settled conviction.

For I am persuaded. Why is he persuaded?

Not because of particular feeling in his him, his heart

and mind. Not because he is hopeful, like

hoping against hope. No, the words imply certainty,

for I am absolutely certain I am fully persuaded.

And the word persuaded in the Greek New Testament is put in

the passive case. That means that the word

persuaded implies a conclusion reached after a process.

Paul is saying I have come through a process of persuasion

that has led me to this settled conviction.

This persuasion has been reached after a process of testing and

trials. This persuasion has been forged

in the furnace of suffering and the facing of persecution and

near death experiences. He hasn't persuaded himself.

Someone else has persuaded him. He has persuaded.

He is passive in this process, and as a result of this process

of persuasion, he has come to this settled conviction.

He's absolutely certain he is beyond doubt.

He is brought to this conclusion by the evidence God has put

before him and the evidence goes all the way back to Romans

Romans 8:28

chapter 8 verse 28. Listen to these words 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.

This certainty didn't arise from Paul being in an emotional

state, it arose from God's sovereign purpose.

It's interesting in verses 30 or 29 and 30, Paul brings home 5

great truths. If you think of the words who

are the called according to his purpose.

And then he talks about a people that God did for no, a people

that God did predestinate, a people whom God called, a people

whom he also justified, and a people whom he also glorified.

And since all that has happened, and in light of this golden

chain that cannot be broken, Paul is drawn to this great

conclusion and no other conclusion.

And we'll ask the question what he's fully persuaded off.

And here's the answer. For I am persuaded that they,

their death nor life, their angels, their principalities,

their powers, their things present, their things to come,

their height and their depth, or any other creature shall be able

to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus

the Lord. Nothing shall be able to

separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our

Lord. That is Paul's persuasion.

Paul's persuasion is a settled conviction.

Now let me ask the question, Do you know the love of God which

is in Christ Jesus our Lord? It's the love of God which is in

Christ Jesus the Lord, the rope that binds you, the rope that

ties you to the heavenly guide going up the mountainside.

I want you to think of a ship. It's left the harbour, we'll

call it the harbour of birth. You're sealing out towards the

harbour of death. That ship is going to be beset

by many violent storms. It's going to be tossed

violently. There's going to be the fear of

the loss of life. There's going to be despair.

There's going to be hardship, but in the midst of those

storms, if you have an anchor that holds secure, then your

ship will not be destroyed. Your ship will not drift.

And that anchor is the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus

our Lord. So I'm changing the analogy from

a rope tied to a mountain guide to an anchor in a ship.

Remember, the apostle Paul is writing to born again believers.

They're suffering hardship. They've got trials and troubles.

They've got persecutions. They've been put out of their

homes. Their possessions have been

taken from them. They face death.

They face martyrdom, All because of their love and loyalty to

Jesus Christ. All because they've been sealed

by God's free, sovereign grace, All because they're fully

committed to Christ and Christ's gospel.

And Paul is equipping the Saints of God with the knowledge that

not only can they persevere in the face of these trials and

troubles in life for Christ's sake, but we can be made more

than conquerors in all of these things.

The apostle Paul's persuasion is a settled conviction.

Paul's persuasion is also a scriptural conviction.

When I think of the words in verse 39, nor height, nor death,

nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the

love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I'm writing over that text. No separation, nothing can

separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our

Lord. You see, we live in a world that

thinks that Bible believe in Christianity is just one of the

big religions in the world on a par with Judaism or on a par

with Islam. It is not Bible believe in

Christianity is the only true religion in the whole world, and

I could preach a whole sermon in that, but you're not.

But Bible believe in Christianity is different from

all the rest of the world religions.

And there's many reasons why it's different, but here's one

Ephesians one verse 6 talks about being accepted in the

beloved. And our acceptance in the

beloved begins and takes place at the moment of true

conversion, when we're born of the Spirit and washed in the

blood and brought into a saving union with Jesus Christ.

So our acceptance begins and takes place at the start of

having a relationship with God, and we discover at the start of

that relationship that salvation is of the Lord, that salvations

by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone as

revealed in the Scriptures alone.

We've heard the call repent ye and believe the gospel and we've

received Christ by faith and we've rest upon him alone for

salvation and we discover something wonderful.

We discover not only that we can have an audience with God and

access into his presence and we can come and ask him for things

in prayer, but we discover this and this is a wonderful message

that we are accepted in the beloved.

It says to the praise of the glory of his grace, for in he

had made us accepted in the beloved.

Our acceptance is in Christ, and God accepts us in Christ at the

beginning of the Christian life, not the end.

And that's one of the great reasons as to why Bible belief

in Christianity is different from all the religions of the

world, because the religions of the world are a workspace

religion. Bible belief in Christianity

proclaims that the work is done and the work is done by Christ.

And the moment we receive Christ by faith and rest on Him alone

for salvation, we're accepted in him as legally righteous.

That's the whole theme of justification.

This world's not getting better. Some people believe that the

world is getting better and all trials and troubles will

gradually come to an end, and people will begin to love God

and they'll live out the sermon and the mind.

And as they do so, the world will gradually change and the

people will become good and moral and uprighted.

And at the end of their days, then they'll be accepted,

thinking about good deeds outweighing the bad deeds.

God will be the judge. That that's the thinking of

many. But that's not the teaching of

Bible and Christianity. That's not the teaching of Paul.

Look at Paul's teaching. The world's not getting better.

People are not becoming good and morally upright.

People are not on a process of being accepted through good

deeds. Look at verse 36 as it is

written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long.

We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

No people will be LED as sheep to the slaughter.

That is, God's people will face martyrdom.

God's people will not be delivered out of all trials and

troubles. Trials and troubles will not be

removed from life's journey. Note the words here.

Paul says Frank, persuaded that neither death.

Paul commences with this final climax with the extremes of

human existence. One day we will all face death.

Death is the last enemy. Dost thy fear?

Death is a good question, and it's one of the believers

greatest fears, and yet it is rendered Paris.

Even if we're martyred, who shall separate us from the love

of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,

or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword.

For I'm persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor

principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to

come, their hate, their death, nor any other creature, shall be

able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ

Jesus. Who shall separate us from the

love of Christ? 3539 Separate us from the love

of God, which is in Christ Jesus the Lord.

Who's the US here? Do you see this?

Nothing shall be able to separate us.

That's the people whom God for knew.

That's the people whom God predestinated.

That's the people whom God called and justified and

glorified. God's love to them alone is

important. Not only is God a God of love,

but God is also a God of wrath against all others whom he has

not for you predestinated, called, justified, and

glorified. And here's the chief question

you have to ask on the journey. Am I the Lords?

Am I one of God's people? Do I belong to Christ?

Am I in Christ Jesus the Lord? You see people today say they

believe in the love of God. They never darken the door of

the church, never read their Bible.

They reject the great truths about the Lord Jesus Christ and

His personal work. They neglect, reject His

incarnation, don't believe he's the Son of God.

They reject his virgin birth. They reject his sinless life.

They reject his atoning death from the cross.

They reject his bodily resurrection.

They reject his ascension to glory, his universal priest of

the second coming. They reject that the God of the

Bible is a God of rather hate, sin, a God who punishes sin, and

God must punish an either in his Son or in the Sinner.

And you see those who say that God is love or we believe in a

God of love, they don't understand the Bible.

They don't understand Bible, believe in Christianity.

Let me explain John 3 and 16. For God so loved the world that

he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him

should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I want to tell you this now listen to me carefully.

No love of God can be known except in and through Christ

Jesus our Lord. The love of God is always in and

always through. Jesus Christ was speaking to one

of the men at the Junior Youth on Saturday and Friday night.

He was showing me 21 articles penned by a particular Unitarian

church close by. The first one is God.

Is love undefined? Of course.

But many have their own conception of what that

scripture means. God is love.

So I'll ask the question this morning.

Is it a holy love? Is it a just love, a righteous

love? Is it a love that's always and

only seen in Christ? And I don't care who they are, a

Christian, a church, you cannot know the love of God apart from

Jesus Christ. You can't divorce the love of

God from the love of Christ. Do you know him?

Do you believe in him? Believe in his incarnation, that

He's the Son of God, His virgin birth, his sin, his life, his

attorney death. The Bible teaches Galatians 4:00

and 4:00. But when the fullness of time

was come, God sent forth his Son, made under the law to

redeem them that were under the law. 2nd Corinthians 521 For he

that is God have made him, that is Christ to be sin for us, who

you know, sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in

him, and the penalty for sin, and the punishment where sin was

dealt with and atone for in the death of Christ.

And the only way we can know the love of God is in Jesus Christ.

All the love of God comes to us through Him alone.

Look at verse 35. Who shall separate us from the

love of Christ? We'll link it up with verse 39.

Separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus

our Lord. The love of Christ, verse 35,

and the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, are one

and the same. And what really matters is not

our love to Him, but that's important.

But what really matters is God's love to us because that's what's

in view here, God's love to us. Notice God's great love for us

is not diminished or terminated by our failures, our sins, our

followers, our shortcomings. Yes, our love for Him waxes weak

and weans, but this is an all powerful love because our love

or our salvation depends on God's choice of us, God's call

to us, God's hold on us, and it goes all the way back to God

choosing us in Christ before the foundation of the world.

Ephesians 1 and 4. Remember, He has called us

according to His purpose, to be conformed to the image of His

Son. In fact, He loved us and His Son

so much, He delivered His Son up for us all.

And that's what we read in Romans chapter 8 and verse 32.

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He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all.

How shall He not with them also freely give us all thanks?

He did all that for us when we were yet without strength, when

we were sinners, when we were ungodly, when we were enemies.

And if He did that for us in this state and condition, then

how much more will He now by His life continue to save us until

the day we finally enter heaven? It's an all powerful love.

I'll tell you more than that. Christ has proved His love for

us. Look at verse 34 in that He died

for us in that sinful condition, and the power of Christ's love

holds us up and guarantees our continuance to the end.

It's a purposeful love because Christ stayed for His church,

not merely so that the Church could be forgiven of all sin of

thought. Word indeed, but that Christ

ultimately might present her to himself, perfectly cleansed,

perfectly washed, perfectly purified.

And that's exactly what we read there in Ephesians chapter 5.

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Listen to these words in Ephesians 5.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church

and gave himself for it. Note the word, that which is a

demonstrative, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the

washing of water by the Word, verse 27.

Here's another demonstrative that he might present it to

himself. A glorious church, not having

spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be

holy and without blemish. Christ set His heart on His

church for this end. His love was all powerful.

His love has been proven by His death in the cross, and His love

is a purposeful love. His love was not conditioned on

our worthiness or our performance.

It is His love that is in view, not our love for Him.

Notice God's love for us is not threatened or diminished by all

sorts of adversity. 835 less a possible list of things that

will try to separate us from the love of Christ, tribulation,

distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword.

Remember the quotation from the Old Testament, Psalm 44, verse

Psalms 44:22

22? You see, these tribulations do

come. They have come to many people.

They will come. Why?

Well, often times they come because we're Christians,

because we're born again, because we're God's people.

And sometimes we fear and the fear is this that is the result

of some of these severe trials and troubles.

We shall feel the Lord or, or that we'll fall away and and

that these trials and troubles will separate us from the love

of Christ. And Paul is teaching, no, God's

love for us is rock solid. It's like a foundation and

whatever we face and when the trials and troubles come, we

must come again and continually to the love of God, which is in

Christ Jesus our Lord. The word tribulation is a

general word for trials and troubles.

The word distresses. Here's in light of these

tribulations, the heart and mind can have a feeling of strange

emotion. And these feelings, of course,

come whenever we we battle through these trials and

troubles. Think of an old soldier and he's

captured, he's a prisoner, he's put into the cell and what they

used to do, they used to get heavy weights and put it on his

chest and and they would distress him until he was

crushed to death. At other times they took old

soldiers and put them into cages and sails where there was no

room to stand, no room to sit, no room to lie, and it caused

great distress. That's the picture there.

Think of the word persecution, pursuing someone to do them

harm, verbal persecution, physical persecution, famine,

nakedness, extreme poverty and deprivation, all because of 1's

love and loyalty to Christ. Some countries, of course, you

can't get a job if you're a Christian, you can't provide for

your family basic needs. Why?

Because you profess the name of Christ.

What about the word perils here? That has to do with dangers.

Because of a man's labour for Christ, he he faces danger.

And think of the word sword. It has to do with martyrdom.

It has to do with execution, again due to 1's love and

loyalty to Christ. But notice what Paul says, verse

36 as it is written. For thy sake we're killed all

the day long. We're counted as sheep for the

slaughter. I've already emphasised that

this is nothing new to God's people.

God's people have experienced martyrdom down through the

centuries from the very first martyr, which remember, was

able. Listen to me carefully.

Trials and troubles will come even though you're a child of

God. Notice these words, for I'm

persuaded that neither death, death will come come eventually.

Death will usher us into God's presence, he mentions, nor life,

Life with all its complexities, with all its anxieties, with all

its pressures. Often times life is even a

bigger threat than death because in this life we have to suffer

the allurements and the enticements of the world.

We're tempted to sin and thought and word and deed, and we do sin

and thought and word and deed, and that's where we feel and

that's where we get most distressed, Spurgeon said.

I'm not so much afraid of dying as I am of sinning.

That is 10 times worse than death.

And God's children do sin. And God's children do fall into

a state of worldliness and they can grow cold for a time and

they can be careless of the things of God.

Place of prayer, Bible reading, the House of God, attendance at

the House of God on the Lord's Day.

They can get out of the habit of coming.

And if they're fit and able, they should be here.

We encourage them to come. Just don't sit at home if you're

fit and able and should be present amongst us.

But we do sin. But let's remember the Lord and

love take steps to convict us, to discipline us to to restore

us. Why?

Because life cannot permanently separate us from God's love.

And these trials and troubles that come, they don't single the

absence of God's love. They are proofs that God loves

us. You think of a Goldsmith and he

gets some gold. He puts it into the fire to melt

it down. The fire doesn't destroy the

gold. No, it, it purifies it.

And you see, trials and afflictions that come don't

separate the believer from God. Love these trials and troubles.

I'll tell you what they do. They help to refine our faith.

It it, it drives us deeper to our knees and a deeper

dependence on the Lord. Notice what else he says very

quickly here. Nor angels, nor principalities.

That's neither holy angels nor fallen principalities, neither

Satan nor a host of demons can separate us from the love of God

in Christ. Isn't this a very bold

confession in a world where true believers often feel spiritually

assaulted? But Christ is sovereign, Christ

re and supreme. Christ is our Saviour.

He adds this nor powers, nor things present, nor things to

come, present circumstances or things that will happen to us

tomorrow in the future before we die as we live out our life.

Think of the mountain gig and up the mountain and you're

beginning to slip and fall, but you're hailed by the rope that's

attached to the gate. And that rope is the love of God

in Christ. And what is Paul saying here?

Nothing in this present age or nothing in the world to come.

He's sweeping across time and space.

He's thinking of anything that could possibly happen to us.

All unknown things. No bad circumstances now are in

the future, can separate us from God's great love for us.

Neither height nor depth, nor any creature, even us.

We're believers in Christ. We're full of weakness.

We're human. We're full of doubts and fears.

We're sin, but nothing can sever the love of God, which is in

Christ Jesus our Lord. Nothing in heaven, nothing in

hell. It's his love for us that's the

rope, not our love for Him. And one final thing, because our

time is gone. Paul's persuasion is not only a

settled conviction, it's not only a scriptural conviction,

but it's also a spiritual conviction.

Listen to this as we finish the love of Christ, the love of God,

which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

This is a divine love. This is a demonstrated love.

It's in Christ Jesus, the one who gave himself for us in the

cross, who died on atoning death for us.

It's a defined love. It's only in Christ.

It's always in Christ, and it's a durable love.

So there's a little outline. It is divine, demonstrated,

defined, and durable. It's eternal.

It's unbreakable, It's unchangeable.

It's unfathomable. So let me say this as I finish.

When trials and troubles come into your life as they have

done, those trials and troubles are not designed to separate us

from God's love. It's not a sign of God's

abandonment that he's allowed them to come.

It's a sign of sonship. Why does He allow trials and

troubles to come? Well, trials and troubles expose

the weakness of self-reliance. Trials and troubles drive us to

pray to God. Trials and troubles draw us to

trust in the Lord at all times. Trials and troubles are designed

to help the conformers to Christ, the fellowship of his

suffering. And trials and troubles are

designed to make us more than conquerors.

Don't look at yourself, don't look at the situation you face.

Look to the Saviour. Think of the love of God which

is in Christ Jesus the Lord. See, here's a question as I

finish. Is it not possible that under

the weight of such trials and troubles we will feel, we will

fall away? Are we not weak?

Are we not in the flesh? Are these not powerful enemies

that are designed to bring us down?

What did Paul say? Ned and all these things.

We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Not loves, but loved. It's past tense.

See, Paul just doesn't answer this objection.

He rubbishes it. Are we able to stand up?

Are we able to overcome all of these trials and troubles?

Anything that we face completely?

The answer is yes. So I put it to you this morning.

Let every true believer be fully persuaded.

Not because life is easy. No, because God's love is

sovereign. Because God's love is a

redeeming love. Because God's love is an

electing love. Because God's love is eternal

and unbreakable and unchangeable and unfathomable.

And this persuasion is only found in Christ Jesus.

Trials and troubles will come, but let's remember, let's be

fully persuaded. Paul's persuasion is a spiritual

conviction. May the Lord bless you this

morning. Thank you for coming, thank you

for listening. I pray the Lord will take these

few words. I I hope it's been

understandable to you, but it's been something that's been on my

heart and it's difficult when you're trying to expound such a

deep passage all just in one sermon.