An Ember for Easter

For the Love of God

By Dean Fulks, March 31, 2024

Romans 8:28 – And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.



God is way ahead of you



Romans 8:29 – For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.



Romans 8:31 – What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?



Nothing in our lives is wasted



Romans 8:32-34a – He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died…



God is far behind you



Luke 2:21-24 – And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”) and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”



Romans 8:34b – More than that, who was raised…



Romans 8:35 – Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?



Romans 8:37 – No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.



If God is behind you in the past and ahead of you in the future, He must be with you in the present



Romans 8:38-39 – For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.



God’s love is THE



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