“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He
who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is
God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more
than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or
danger or sword”

Romans 8:31-35

How do we really rediscover God’s love?

Words for Love:

• “I love sushi” to “I love my Kids”
• Eros = romantic love
• Phileo= closeness, loyalty; it communicates familiarity.
• Agape= a selfless love.

Stories for Love:

• Well Known, Prodigal son
• Hosea & Gomer

Love in it’s purest form just is.

GOD’S LOVE IS:

• “I just love you”
• How are we, broken people, to understand that?

“What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?”

Romans 8:31

Who can be against us?

• Romans 8:32 -To God “He who did not spare his own Son.”
• Genesis 22:16 -To Abraham “You did not spare even your own son.”
• Romans 8: 33 -“Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.”

“ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to
life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.”

Romans 8:34

“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.”

Romans 8:35-39

“If you want a yardstick to measure the love of God, don’t look at your circumstances. You look at the cross.”