Like our elder Brother Jesus, the Firstborn among many brethren, we are born from above. He is the Son of God who lives in heaven and walked on earth. We too live with Him in heavenly places as we walk the earth by the Spirit who was given to us. Today sin cannot separate us from God because sin has been confined to the flesh which has been forever cut away from who we are. Today NOTHING can separate us from God’s love:
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes 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? …For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:31-35; 38-39)1
(from pages 165-166 of Unveiling Jesus)
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1Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission.
