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April 25
Saturday


AGAINST
THE WALL

READ:
Romans 8:31-39
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Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ?
__Romans 8:31-39
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On April 25, 1915, soldiers of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli peninsula expecting a quick victory. But fierce resistance by the Turkish defenders resulted in an 8-month stalemate during which thousands on both sides were wounded or killed.

Many of the ANZAC troops who were evacuated to Egypt visited the YMCA camp outside Cairo where chaplain Oswald Chambers offered hospitality and hope to these men so broken and disillusioned by war. With great insight and compassion, Chambers told them, "No man is the same after an agony; he is either better or worse, and the agony of a man's experience is nearly always the first thing that opens his mind to understand the need of redemption worked out by Jesus Christ. At the back of the wall of the world stands God with His arms outstretched, and every man driven there is driven into the arms of God. The cross of Jesus is the supreme evidence of the love of God."

Paul asked: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" (Rom. 8:35). His confident answer was that nothing can remove us from God's love in Christ (vv.38-39).

When we're up against the wall, God is there with open arms.
__David McCasland
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````````````````God knows each winding way I take```````````````
````````````````And every sorrow, pain, and ache;````````````````
`````````````````His children He will not forsake__````````````````
```````````````He knows and loves His own. __Bosch``````````````
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God's love still stands when all else has fallen.

***************Today's Bible Reading __ Romans 8:31-39**********

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.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

In this passage, Paul affirms the security the believer has in Christ
Jesus by asking and answering seven questions. Paul reminds us that
God protects us (v.31), saves us (v.32), and no longer condemns us
(vv.33-34). Three times, he talks about christ's love (vv.35,37,39).
No wonder Paul triumphantly declares, "we are more than
conquerors through Him who loved us" (v.37). __Sim Kay Tee