Les Feldick Bible Study

Why can no power on earth or in heaven separate us from God's love?

Because those who have the blood of Christ applied are under the blood. God redeems and protects by that blood, just as Israel's firstborn in Egypt were safe behind the blood on the door. Therefore no power on earth or in heaven can remove them from that protection, and nothing can separate them from God's love in Christ Jesus.

Les explains that because Adam fell, God lost us and must redeem us, and redemption comes only by blood—the one thing God can use to purchase mankind’s redemption. Christ Jesus was sent to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, and the only way to experience that redemption is by putting faith in the blood of Christ. That is why Paul goes back to the Passover night in Egypt: just as the Jewish family in Egypt was safe and the death angel could not touch the firstborn because of the blood on the door, so those who have had Christ’s blood applied cannot be touched. Les then points to Romans 8, where Paul says we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us and is persuaded that neither death, life, angels, principalities, powers, things present, things to come, height, depth, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. The reason is that we are under the blood, and no power on earth or in heaven can take us from under that blood protection; as Israel was safe in Egypt, believers are safe today.