"For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit."(Romans 8:3-5)
"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 Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.' (Psalm 44:22)
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 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, not any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:35-39)
God's love is steadfast toward believers. Paul was persuaded: nothing would be able to separate himself (or these) from their love of God in Christ Jesus. Yet distresses, famine, peril or sword, tribulation and persecution will come to test our love. "Who" is someone, or entity, that brings the trial. These will attempt to separate us from our love of Christ. Remember! It is our righteous requirement to walk according to, consistent with, the Spirit. We resist through faith, hope, love, patience and peace: steadfast in the faith.
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