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“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 creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
— Romans 8:38–39 (KJV)
The central theme here is the unbreakable love of God expressed and secured in the Lord Jesus Christ. The song simply echoes this mighty proclamation:
> “Nothing can separate us
> from the love of God
> in Christ Jesus our Lord…
> His love holds us forever.”
This is not sentimental language. It is a legal, covenantal, spiritual reality grounded in the finished work of the cross and enforced by the authority of God’s Word.
Paul does not say, “I hope.” He says, “I am convinced,” “I am sure.” This is the language of a man who has passed through intense spiritual conflict and emerged with a settled, unshakeable assurance.
If we are to walk in victory, deliverance, and maturity, we must move from vague feelings to this same God-given conviction: that nothing in all creation has the power to sever us from God’s covenant love in Christ.
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Romans 8 is the summit of Paul’s teaching on the gospel. The earlier chapters unfold a legal process:
By the time we reach Romans 8, Paul has moved from the conflict of “O wretched man that I am” (7:24) to the triumph of “No condemnation” (8:1) and “More than conquerors” (8:37).
### Paul’s Situation
Paul was not writing from a life of comfort. He catalogues his sufferings:
This man knew what it meant to face death, persecution, spiritual opposition, and the full range of human and demonic hostility. Yet he declares:
“I am convinced… nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
### The Flow of Romans 8
Notice the sequence:
1. No condemnation to those in Christ (8:1).
2. The indwelling Spirit testifies we are God’s children (8:14–16).
3. Suffering with Christ leads to being glorified with Him (8:17–18).
4. All creation groans for redemption (8:19–23).
5. The Spirit helps in our weakness (8:26).
6. God works all things for good (8:28).
7. God’s unbreakable purpose: foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified (8:29–30).
8. Then the great questions:
Our key verses (8:38–39) are the final, climactic answer:
Nothing. No one. No event. No spiritual being. No present circumstance. No future threat.
Paul does not ignore suffering. He names it—tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, sword (8:35)—and then proclaims: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” (8:37)
The unbreakable love of God is not proven by the absence of trouble, but by God’s faithfulness in the midst of trouble.
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Two key expressions deepen our understanding: “persuaded” and “separate.”
### 1. “Persuaded” – *pepeismai* (πέπεισμαι)
“I am persuaded that…” (Romans 8:38)
It could be paraphrased:
“I have been brought to a settled conviction, and I remain in that state.”
This is not mere optimism or emotional uplift. It is a Spirit-produced certainty grounded in revelation and tested in experience. The Holy Spirit bears witness in the believer’s heart (Romans 8:16) to the reality of this unbreakable love.
When the song says:
> “For I am convinced…”
it echoes this Greek nuance of a settled, enduring assurance — not easily shaken by feelings, circumstances, or attacks.
### 2. “Separate” – *chōrisai* (χωρίσαι)
“Shall be able to separate us from the love of God…” (Romans 8:39)
“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder (*chōrizō*).”
This word suggests:
Paul’s statement is precise:
No created thing has the power to tear you out of this covenant union with God’s love in Christ.
The love of God is not a vague atmosphere. It is a covenant bond God Himself has forged “in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
The question is not: “Do I always feel His love?”
The question is: “Can anything break the bond that God has established in Christ?”
The answer is: No. Nothing. No one.
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We will move through the scriptural lines echoed in the lyrics and expose their spiritual content.
### “For I am convinced that neither death nor life…”
Two totalities: death and life.
Christ has “abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel” (2 Timothy 1:10).
Both the crisis of death and the complexity of life are powerless to break our union with God’s love in Christ.
Psalm 23 reflects the same truth:
Whether at the grave or in the office, in a hospital bed or at the height of ministry success, the love of God in Christ maintains its hold.
### “Neither angels nor demons / nor angels nor rulers…”
The song alternates language, echoing Romans 8:38 and ESV style: “angels nor rulers.”
Satan can accuse, tempt, harass, intimidate. He can seek to cloud your awareness of God’s love. But he cannot annul the covenant love that has been sealed in the blood of Jesus.
Colossians 2:15 says Christ “spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”
The love of God in Christ is a victorious love that has already confronted and defeated the entire kingdom of darkness.
### “Neither the present nor the future / nor things present nor things to come…”
Two dimensions of time:
Many believers are paralyzed by the fear of “What if…?”
Paul answers: No future scenario can arise that will break the bond of God’s love in Christ.
This is anchored in God’s character:
God’s love is not experimental. It is eternal, pre-planned, unchanging:
Your future is already encompassed within an eternal love that preceded your existence.
### “Nor any powers / no power, no thing…”
“Powers” translates dynamis or is grouped with other spiritual authorities. The point is: any force with operative strength.
Many believers struggle under fear of curses and occult workings. We must be clear:
Curses are real. Demonic power is real. But over and above all stands the covenant love of God in Christ.
Galatians 3:13:
“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us…”
No power that operates within the created realm can rise above the redemptive act of the cross. The love that motivated the cross (“God so loved the world…”) is stronger than any curse released against you.
### “Neither height nor depth…”
Two spatial extremes:
Psalm 139 echoes this:
> “If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:
> if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.” (Psalm 139:8)
Believers can experience profound lows—depression, grief, spiritual attack. Paul is not naïve. He himself “despaired even of life” (2 Corinthians 1:8). But even in the depths, the bond is intact.
In Ephesians 3:18–19, Paul prays that we may comprehend:
> “What is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
> And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge…”
Note the same dimensions: height and depth bound up with the love of Christ. God’s love fills even the extremes of our experience.
### “Nor anything else in all creation…”
Here Paul closes every loophole. If it is created, it is included here. This applies to:
Only God is uncreated. His love originates in His own eternal being, and He has chosen to fix that love upon His people in Christ.
Anything that might oppose you is, by definition, inferior to the God who has loved you. “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4)
### “Will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Notice the phrase: “the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
There are three essential truths here:
1. Source: It is the love of God – not human love, not church love, not self-love.
2. Location: It is in Christ Jesus – not in religion, not in moral performance, not in self-improvement.
3. Lordship: It is in “Christ Jesus our Lord” – the love is experienced under His lordship.
Outside of Christ, we are under wrath (John 3:36). In Christ, we are established in love. The love is not fragile; it is as strong as the Person of Christ Himself, who is both fully God and fully man.
When the song repeats:
> “Nothing can separate us
> from the love of God
> in Christ Jesus our Lord.
> No height, no depth,
> no power, no thing—
> His love holds us forever.”
it is not wishful thinking. It is a musical confession of a legal, covenantal reality.
“His love holds us forever” corresponds to John 10:28–29:
> “They shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand…
> no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.”
You are held by the Father and the Son. The grip that holds you is not your own; it is God’s.
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This truth must move from doctrine to experience. It calls for a response in four main areas.
### 1. We must renounce false sources of security.
Many Christians attempt to secure themselves by:
These are all created things and therefore unstable. Hebrews 12:27 speaks of a shaking of all created things “that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.”
The unshakable center is the love of God in Christ. We must consciously say:
### 2. We must align our thoughts and words with God’s verdict.
Spiritual warfare is largely warfare over what we believe and say.
2 Corinthians 10:4–5:
> “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
> and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ…”
The enemy will bombard you with thoughts like:
Your weapon is the spoken Word. Use Romans 8:38–39 as a sword. Replace fearful internal statements with proclamations rooted in this text. Faith is released as we say what God has said.
### 3. We must submit to the lordship of Christ.
The love of God is “in Christ Jesus our Lord.” This is crucial.
Assurance is not given to those who simply want comfort while continuing in rebellion. It is given to those who bow to Christ’s lordship.
How do we “keep ourselves” in the love of God? By abiding in Christ through obedience, confession of sin, staying in the Word, and walking in the Spirit. Not to earn His love, but to remain in the place where that love is experienced and enjoyed.
### 4. We must allow this love to cast out fear.
1 John 4:18:
> “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear…”
Notice: it is *perfect love*—God’s love, not ours—that expels fear. As we meditate on and confess Romans 8:38–39, fear loses its grip. Fear of death, fear of the future, fear of rejection, fear of curses—all must yield to the revelation of God’s unbreakable love.
A practical step:
For example:
“Fear of death, you will not rule me. I am convinced that neither death nor life can separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus my Lord.”
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### Proclamation
Speak this aloud, slowly and deliberately:
> I declare that God’s Word is true.
> I am in Christ Jesus, and there is now no condemnation for me.
> I am persuaded that neither death nor life,
> nor angels nor demons,
> nor things present nor things to come,
> nor powers, nor height nor depth,
> nor anything else in all creation,
> shall ever be able to separate me
> from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus my Lord.
> I renounce every false security, every lie of abandonment, every fear of the future.
> I take my stand in the unbreakable, everlasting love of God.
> His love holds me forever,
> and in this love I am more than a conqueror,
> through Him who loved me.
> Amen.
### Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ,
I thank You that You loved me and gave Yourself for me.
Heavenly Father, I thank You that You have set Your love upon me in Your Son.
I ask that by the Holy Spirit You will write Romans 8:38–39 deeply into my heart.
Where there has been fear, replace it with the revelation of Your unchanging love.
Where there has been insecurity, establish me in the certainty of Your covenant.
I choose to trust Your Word above my feelings, above my circumstances, above every accusation of the enemy.
Bring every thought in me into obedience to this truth:
that nothing can separate me from Your love in Christ Jesus my Lord.
I submit to the lordship of Christ, and I rest in His finished work.
Let this assurance become my armor in every battle,
my anchor in every storm,
and my testimony to a fearful world.
In the name of Jesus,
Amen.
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