Security In Christ

Romans 8:38-39

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

This Truth is an astonishing comfort to the believer and a frightful judgement to the unbeliever because what this passage is essentially saying is that nothing but The Creator himself is able to separate us from His love. If we are in Christ, no physical death or angels (refers to fallen angels or demons, see Ephesians 6:12, Colossians 2:15, and Jude 6) or rulers or powers of this world who may persecute us, “nor height nor depth” (refers to time and astronomical space) or anything else of this world would be able to separate us from the love of Christ. It is not our love for Christ, but His love for us that is so spectacular and permanent and perfect. To go deeper into this we can look at John 13:1…

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

“to the end” means “to perfection”, with perfect love for all of eternity. It also refers to the glorification of our souls in heaven, when we are completely perfected and sinless because of the righteousness of Christ and are permitted and embraced to enter the eternal kingdom. God loves the world (refer to John 3:16) and sinners with the compassion that is derived from His common grace (see Matthew 5:44-45 and Titus 3:4), but Jesus loves his own (see 1 Peter 2:9) with a perfect, eternal, purifying fervor (see Ephesians 5:25 and 1 John 1:7 & 9).

The scariest and most tragic fate for unbelievers at the end of their earthly life is not that they would be eternally separated from God. It would be God exacting his full wrath (the full wrath that Jesus suffered for Christians) unto that person’s soul for all eternity for all of their transgressions against Him and they would curse Him and the full wickedness of their hearts would be crying out for more wrath. That’s what we have been saved from. That is the security we have for putting our trust in Jesus Christ as being full God, fully man having lived the perfect sinless life we could not and then dying on a tree (from which The Cross was made, see Galatians 3:13, 1 Peter 2:24, and Acts 5, 10, 13) to pay that penalty for us then resurrecting after three days victorious over evil for all of eternity.