35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8: 35-39
The Church has endured for twenty centuries because of ordinary believers having the courage to risk dying for Christ. Death is never a separation from Christ for those who love and follow Him.
It is of course easy to write the above words in safety and security. Those Christians in Damascus, however, are demonstrating that what Paul in Romans 8 wrote is only the simple, and awe inspiring, truth.
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