Who Can Separate You?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:35

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Have you ever noticed that:

-tribulation is a WHO?

-distress is a WHO?

-famine is a WHO?

-nakedness is a WHO?

-peril is a WHO?

-the sword is a WHO?

WHO do you think the WHO is?

Most importantly...What does the Word of God say about that WHO?

 Romans 8:32-39 tells us:
God’s Everlasting Love
³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² 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? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ 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. 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 Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

³⁷ Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who 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 created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God told us in John 10:10:

 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. 

The thief is satan, and we can always earmark his work by seeing if it involves killing, stealing and destroying of any kind.  "He is a created thing."  

That belongs under our feet.

Luke 10:19 - Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 

Psalm 91:13 -  You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

 Paul told us in II Corinthians 10:3-6

 ³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. ⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, ⁵ casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, ⁶ and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

Matthew 16:19 tells us: 
“And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Luke 11:2 says: 
So He said to them, “When you pray, say:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.

I am thankful that Paul wrote to the Ehesians in 1:15-23

Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom

¹⁵ Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, ¹⁶ do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding^[c] being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power ²⁰ which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
²² And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, ²³ which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

The Weapons of our spiritual warfare
Ephesians 6:12-18
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints

So - 
-after God raised Jesus from the dead He gave Him mighty power.
-that power is said to be to those who "believe" - our inheritance, as His saints.
-that power is far above all principality and power and might and dominion....speaking of the demonic.
-in Luke we are told we are given authority over ALL the power of the enemy (satan).
-we are not fighting against flesh and blood so our weapons are not carnal but are MIGHTY in God for pulling down strongholds, and casting down every argument that would exalt itself against the knowledge of God's Word.
-in Luke we're told to pray that His kingdom to come on earth as it is in Heaven.
  --is the Who, famine, in Heaven?
  -- is the Who, nakedness, in Heaven?
  -- is the Who, peril, in Heaven?
  -- is the Who, tribulation, in Heaven?
  -- is the Who, distress, in Heaven?
  -- is the Who, the sword, in Heaven?

We must remember that everything that is stealing, killing or destroying our lives, is authored by the "thief" - satan. 

We MUST know, as part of the Body of Christ, what Jesus bought for us, what our inheritance is.

We MUST know, and be confident in the weapons we have, because we're not fighting flesh and blood, but the demonic, and that those weapons are powerful, and able to put and keep satan under our feet.
 We MUST know what our spiritual armor is to use. (Ephesians 6:13-18)

We MUST know that God has told us that when we pray His Word, It goes out to accomplish what it was sent to, and will not return Void. (Isaiah 55:11) 

We MUST know, that THIS is the confidence we have when we pray the will of God that He listens to and goes about to perform what we have petitioned Him for.  His Word IS HIS WILL, His last will and testament to all His Believers. (I John 5:14, 15)

We MUST also remember that greater is He that is in us, as His Believers, than he that is in the world (satan)  (I John 4:4)
  
We MUST remember that you and I are made OVERCOMERS by the BLOOD of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.  (Revelation 12:11) 

I want YOU to know that Nothing that satan can do, or try to do, can ever separate you or I from the LOVE OF GOD. 

  And if we have any sin in our lives, we're to confess it to Him and He's faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  (I John 1:9) 

That puts us into a position to do the following -----.

All that is left is to -
.....submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. (James 4:7)

satan would have everyone of us to believe that this is all a bunch of hogwash...because he knows that when any one of us lays aside God's Word, we are disarmed.  That's all he's after DISARMAMENT.

Matthew 21:22 - “And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
Ephesians 6:13 -  Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Isaiah 54:17 -  No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their righteousness is from Me,"
Says the LORD.

Do you have a WHO threatening you? 

The Lord is [uncompromisingly] righteous; He has cut asunder the thick cords by which the wicked [enslaved us].

Psalm 129:4