Heidelberg 26

BRom. 8:31-39

³¹What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? ³²He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? ³³Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. ³⁵Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.” ³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹nor 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.

The Heidelberg reminds us here two important things- Gods power and love. He is Almighty and He is willing to help.  His power is softened by His love and His love is strengthened by His power.    Q. What do you believe when you say, “I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth”?  A. That the eternal Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,  who out of nothing created heaven and earth  and everything in them,1 who still upholds and rules them  by his eternal counsel and providence,2 is my God and Father  because of Christ the Son.3 I trust God so much that I do not doubt  he will provide whatever I need for body and soul,4 and will turn to my good whatever adversity he sends upon me in this sad world.5 God is able to do this because he is almighty God6 and desires to do this because he is a faithful Father.7 Y <<