Nothing seperates us from the love of God

 

Lyrics of the song:

Nothing separates us from the love of God.

Nothing separates us from the love of God. No heights, no depths, no darkness.

Just as a father guides his child with love, everything He does is good.

He gives us peace, not like the world. Your heart should not tremble.

We have no fear because He is with us and grants us peace and calm when there are storms.

He gives us His grace, even though we do not deserve it. His grace is unconditional.

I say joyfully that I have been forgiven. There is no condemnation for me.

His anger is slow and His grace is great. Every day we breathe here,

it is time to repent and receive Jesus and life.

Nothing separates us from the love of God.

What do you think about the current earthquakes in Turkey and Syria?

People seem separated from God, but is there still hope?

Well, I need to divide your question into two parts:

1. Why are there currently earthquakes in Turkey and Syria and wars in Syria and Ukraine?

2. Why have we separated ourselves from the love of God?

We can read about the earthquake and the war on the Internet, in the newspaper, and also in the Bible. You might be wondering: What?

But this part of the Bible you are talking about was written 2,000 years ago.

Yes, but Jesus told his friends when they asked Him about the signs of His coming:

And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginnings of birth pains.

Mark 13:7-8

One of the reasons these terrible things happen is that God wants to warn us. We are not separated from His love, but a loving God wants to take care of us and warns us that we must go to Him and not expose ourselves to the danger of losing our souls.

In an old hymnal, there was a very good song that I love. They removed it from the book, and it is not in the modern version because people today do not want to hear that doom awaits those who reject Christ. The title is: Awake, you secure world, awake and the text encourages us to hurry and believe in the Gospel because one day it could be too late.

Therefore, we must listen to the voice of God and not harden our hearts. The Bible says that everyone is called at least two or three times in their life to come to God. We do not want to reject His gentle voice when He calls us.

God has redeemed me from going down to the pit, and I shall live to enjoy the light.

God does all these things to a person—twice, even three times—to turn them back from the pit, that the light of life may shine on them.

Job 33:28-30

God gave Adam and Eve the choice to obey or disobey, and they chose disobedience.

The test was a tree with fruit they were not allowed to eat. The consequence of eating the fruit would be death. God told them clearly.

And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Genesis 2:16-17

But God had an enemy who wanted to destroy humanity and told them a lie:

The devil’s promise was: You will be like God, and they wanted to be like God.

The devil did not even force them to eat the fruit. They wanted to be like God and ate the fruit voluntarily.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

Genesis 3

But in the end, they saw they had been deceived and did not become like God, and their relationship with God was broken.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3

But here God showed His love by giving them a plan of salvation: He promised to one day send the Messiah who would die for them on the cross.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.

Genesis 3

This is God’s love in action, and nothing will separate us from this love. God loves me so much; He does not want me to die and go to hell. His will is that all people come to repentance and live forever.

Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’

Ezekiel 33:11

Please tell the listeners: When we face terrible situations, like parents losing their children or people losing their jobs, both are actually separated from God’s love. What should they do?

After Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, people were born with sin.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

Romans 5:12

There was something in them that compelled them to sin; they could not get rid of sin. It was in their hearts, and although many did not want to sin and wanted to do the right thing, they could not avoid it. And so they were thrown out of the beautiful Garden of Eden and had to live in a world that held work, sweat, thorns, and many sad situations for them.

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 3

The first parents to lose a son named Abel were Adam and Eve. And it was a very difficult situation because he was killed by his jealous brother Cain.

Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Genesis 4

The first person to lose their job was Cain as a result of his murder. His work would never again bear fruit; that was the condemnation he received.

The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 4

How could Adam and Eve deal with this sad situation without completely breaking down? Their third son, Seth, was born, and in those days people began to call on the name of the LORD.

Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.” Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 4

When we suffer so much that we can hardly bear it, we turn to Jesus. He is the Man of Sorrows and Suffering. He was fully God and fully man. He lived like us, he suffered from heat, thirst, and hunger like us, they tortured him, placed a crown of thorns on him, and crucified him. He hung on the cross for six hours, his disfigured face seemed no longer even human. He was abandoned by his Father and the Holy Spirit in heaven because a holy God could not communicate with him while he bore the sin of the world.

1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.

9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Isaiah 53

When we have pain, Jesus knows how we feel, and only he can give us the strength to continue living and alleviate the pain. Jesus is the love of God in person. Even if we do not deserve what God has given us, why do you think God still grants us his grace?

This is the great difference between religions and philosophies and the Christian faith:

Religion tells one that something must be done, one must be a good person, and then they have the right to receive something positive. And there are good people, better and worse, and worse people, in religion there are different levels. The Bible tells us that we are all on the same level. We are all sinners. It does not matter if I only had a bad thought or if I was a murderer. God places all of humanity on the same level: Everyone is a sinner and no one can stand before the holiness of God. A preacher once preached: The only reason you haven’t committed murder is because you weren’t brave enough or didn’t have the opportunity.

So we are all on the same level and all our good deeds are just a drop in the ocean, but Jesus comes and says: I set you all free, just receive my love and my work that I did for you on Golgotha.

6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.

8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Romans 5

So we do not earn anything by doing something, but by God’s will we receive everything just by repenting of our sins and accepting that Jesus died for them.

3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior,

4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,

6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.

1 Timothy 2

Can you tell me how this song came about?

I don’t remember. As I mentioned in the last program, I like to recite and meditate on Bible verses in my songs, because no text can be better than the sweet word of God.

Sister Ingrid, please tell me a little true story about this song. What is something special you have learned in your life? How have you experienced God’s love?

Once, I had a crisis in my life and stopped praying, reading the Bible, and going to church. I no longer had any Christian friends and was not living according to the Holy Scriptures. But I was in my apartment, and at some point, I knew that I needed to go to a church. So I went to the Assembly of God in Valparaíso, and there it was preached to me that the lost daughter returns home.

When I got home, I wrote the song “The Prodigal”.

Shortly after, I regularly met with Christian friends to converse the teachings of the Bible, and about a year later I met my husband, who is also a Christian, and we enjoy sharing our faith and God’s word together.

At that time, I saw that I can leave God, but he does not leave me, he waits for my return. And when I come, he stands there with open arms and a love that no human can imagine.