No. According to Romans 8 and Les Feldick's teaching, nothing in all creation can separate a believer from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
God Himself justifies His elect and holds them securely. Christ died, was buried, and rose again, and believers are placed in Him by an act of God. Neither death, life, angels, principalities, powers, present trials, future events, height, depth, nor any other creature can separate us from that love.
Romans 8:38-39 — This is the direct biblical declaration that no created thing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:33-39 directly answers this question. The Scripture asks, "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth." It then asks, "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." The basis of our security is not our own performance but Christ's death, resurrection, and intercession. In Romans 8:35 the question is asked, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" The answer follows in verses 38-39: "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." The answer is total and comprehensive: no created thing in all of existence has the power to separate us from God's love.
Les Feldick begins with Romans 8:33 and the word elect. He explains that election is an act of choosing, and God has chosen every believer. He says a person cannot come to God on his or her own prerogative, yet there is also the whosoever will side. The most important point for Les is that God, not any human authority, justifies. A believer does not have to give an account to a neighbor, boss, husband, or wife. Les then moves through the closing verses. He says these verses absolutely hammer home the security of the believer: once God has elected us and we have responded, nobody can touch that salvation because it is all what God has done. He describes believers as under the blood of Christ, safe as the Israelites were in Egypt. Because believers are in Christ by an act of God, they cannot take themselves off the cross, nor can anyone take them out of His hand. He is persuaded that neither death, life, angels, principalities, powers, things present, things to come, height, depth, nor any other creature can separate us from God's love. Finally, Les guards against a wrong response. He says this trusting is not license; grace is not license. The same chapter that gives this security also asks whether tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword can separate us from the love of Christ — and the answer is that none of them can.
Les Feldick teaches that Romans 8:31-39 absolutely hammer home the security of the believer. God does the choosing, God does the justifying, and God does the keeping. He says, "Once God has put the finger on us, has elected us, we have responded of course, and we've entered into His tremendous salvation, then who in the world can touch that? Nobody can touch that, because it's all what God has done." For Les, being under the blood means no power on earth or in heaven can take a believer from that blood protection.
Les says no. He asks, "Would God elect someone who somewhere down the road would choose to reject Him? I can't see it happening." He also points out that believers cannot take themselves off the cross or put themselves on it; it is an act of God that places a person in Christ, so no one can take a believer out of His hand. The believer's part is faith, and that faith is not something we work at or hang on to with our own energy.
God justifies His elect, and He is the one who determines who believers are. Les stresses that it is not a neighbor, boss, husband, or wife who determines a person's standing; believers do not give an account to any of them. Scripture asks, "Who is he that condemneth?" and points to Christ who died, rose again, and intercedes at God's right hand.
God Justifies His Elect
Les shows that the word elect means chosen, and that God — not any human authority — is the one who justifies and determines the believer's standing.
The Security of God's Completed Work
Les says that once God has elected a person and he or she has responded, no one can touch that salvation because God has done it all.
Under the Blood of Christ
Les explains Romans 8:38-39 by saying believers are under the blood and safe, just as the Israelites were safe in Egypt.
Saving Faith Takes God at His Word
Les teaches that true saving faith trusts God's promise, so believers can know they are His and no one can take them out of His hand.
Salvation Is Not Held by Human Effort
Les says the whole transaction of salvation is God's work, and believers are not supposed to hang on by their own energy.
Security Is Not License
Les quotes Romans 8:35 and reminds believers that grace-based security is not license to sin.
God Places Believers in Christ
Les teaches that God's act places a believer into Christ and no one can take themselves off that cross, so there is no condemnation.
Does God Choose Who Gets Saved? Romans 9 & Election Explained
So always temper this with the fact that we can't comprehend this, even though God's Word says it, until we're a believer. And then it is a point of assurance. It is a point of rejoicing. Look, I'm secure in the body of Christ because God chose me. Let me give you another analogy. I don't remember the man that wrote it. I read it years ago, and I had to struggle with it.
Romans 8:33: Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
This verse establishes that God alone is the one who justifies His chosen people.
Romans 8:34: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Christ's death, resurrection, and intercession mean that no one can condemn those He died for.
Romans 8:35: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
The question lists the worst possible hardships and asks whether any of them can separate us from Christ's love.
Romans 8:38-39: 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.
This is the climactic statement that no created power or circumstance can separate believers from God's love in Christ.
Because salvation is entirely God's work. Les teaches that God elects, God justifies, and God places the believer into Christ, and the believer is under the blood of Christ. Romans 8:38-39 declares that no created thing can separate us from that love.
No. Les says grace is not license. The believer's security rests on God's work, but that security is meant to lead to trust and obedience, not to sinful behavior.
Les used the picture of the Israelites in Egypt, safe under the blood of the Passover lamb. In the same way, believers are safe under the blood of Christ, and no power on earth or in heaven can take them from that protection.
No. Romans 8:35 asks whether tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword can separate us, and Romans 8:38-39 answers that none of these things can.
Watch the Teaching: Can Anything Separate You from God's Love? Romans 8:33-39