SERIES IN ROMANS
Loved, Held, His. The unbreakable love of God. Romans 8:28-39. Nov 23rd 2025
Rom 8:28-39 (CEV)
28 We know that God is always at work for the good of everyone who loves him.[a] They are the ones God has chosen for his purpose, 29 and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so his Son would be the first of many children. 30 God then accepted the people he had already decided to choose, and he has shared his glory with them.
31 What can we say about all this? If God is on our side, can anyone be against us? 32 God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won't he freely give us everything else? 33 If God says his chosen ones are acceptable to him, can anyone bring charges against them? 34 Or can anyone condemn them? No indeed! Christ died and was raised to life, and now he is at God's right side,[b] speaking to him for us. 35 Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, suffering, and hard times, or hunger and nakedness, or danger and death? 36 It is exactly as the Scriptures say,
“For you we face death
all day long.
We are like sheep
on their way
to be butchered.”
37 In everything we have won more than a victory because of Christ who loves us. 38 I am sure that nothing can separate us from God's love—not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present or the future, 39 and not powers above or powers below. Nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love for us in Christ Jesus our Lord!
Romans 8:28-39. Nov 23rd 2025
Loved, Held, His. The unbreakable love of God.
1. God is at work in all things V28.
“And we know that all things work together for GOOD to those who LOVE God, to those who are called according to His PURPOSE.
2. God’s purpose is unstoppable v29-30
The unbroken chain of God’s salvation plan for the world and for us.
· Foreknown
· Predestined
· Called
· Justified
· Glorified.
Your salvation is not held together by your grip on God but by God’s grip on you.
3. God is for us, always. V31-34
The cross is God’s everlasting declaration: “I am for you”.
4. Nothing can separate us from the Love of Christ.
Nothing can separate us from God’s love through Christ Jesus. We just need to accept our identity as loved and accepted by Him and live as though it’s the most transformative truth we have known.
Living in the security of God’s loved is a life lived in assurance not fear. We can know that we are:
Loved, Held and His.
