[0:00] In all these things, we are through him that loved us. Amen. Hallelujah.
[0:11] That's his eternal word. We praise him for that. Maybe Simms and I may have read this before, but again, it's a great thing to be a conqueror in everyday normal life.
[0:26] It's a much greater thing to be a conqueror in all these things. So I think that's where God wants to take us, right?
[0:41] Everyday life, we can conquer, we can overcome. But when we're in the midst of trials and challenges and stress and discouragement, and if I could say this, you know, I continue to think that, well, let me put it this way.
[0:58] If we believe the word of God, then we are assured that the book of Revelations will unfold.
[1:10] And it will be very intense. Yes? Yes? If we believe the word of God, then we should consider, well, the time might come where we can't buy ourself unless we receive the mark of the beast.
[1:28] Now, in the midst of that, I think it actually says, I don't have it in my notes, but those that overcame, even then, right? Those that overcame, all those things.
[1:40] So there will be a people that will be more than conquerors as all these things come upon us. I'm saying that to say that, you know, in all reality, we should prepare mentally.
[1:54] And I think Peter talks about that. Doesn't use those exact words, but if you study it, I don't know if I can quote it, but arm yourself with this mind.
[2:07] I guess what it says, arm yourself with this mind. And I think it talks something about how Christ armed himself. For the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross, despising its shame.
[2:21] He set his face like a flint towards Jerusalem. He knew that's where he was going to face all these things. Yes? But he didn't shrink back. He set his face like a flint towards all these things.
[2:35] And for us to become mighty soldiers, mighty warriors, we should say, God has, is, will prepare us for such a time as this.
[2:47] And we will be mighty in battle. And we will not shrink back from all these things that may come upon us. And we shouldn't say may.
[2:58] They will come upon us. To what degree? We don't know. And I personally think we should always be praying that we could escape these things that are coming upon the earth. And Jesus said that, I believe, because he knew how intense this can be.
[3:14] So I personally think that it's our duty to pray, God, make a way for us to escape these things. And when I think of escaping these things, I personally don't really expect that we're going to be raptured out of here before the tribulation.
[3:30] We may. You know, God, I think God can do it either way he wants to, since he's God. And since Jesus himself doesn't know the hour that he's coming, I think people that have it all figured out may know more than God does.
[3:51] But when we pray, God, we'd be found worthy to escape all these things. I envision that the way God may work in our lives, if we're found worthy of that, is that in the midst of all these things, we're experiencing grace and miracles that is just amazing.
[4:12] Are you following me? That we haven't necessarily been taken out of the world that we're not in the midst of these things that are happening. But we are experiencing miracles and amazing grace of God that we hear about people being burned at the stake and praising God when they're doing that.
[4:32] You know, to me, they were, they escaped the, being overcome in that. So, again, as I'm sensing that God, you know, would speak to us that in all these things we're more than conquerors through him that loved us.
[4:52] You know, perhaps one of the things that the reason is God is speaking to us about that because he wants us to be prepared mentally for all the things that we may face in the future.
[5:02] With the full persuasion, I know in whom I believe. Yes? I know in whom the God, I know in whom I believe.
[5:14] I'm persuaded. I know he's a God of love. I know he can and he wants to. Like he said to the leper, if you can, if you will, you can.
[5:27] Jesus said, I want to, I will. And that we would be rooted and grounded in his love with the full persuasion, I know in whom I believe.
[5:40] And the same person that said that, I may have preached on that before. It was actually Reggie that kind of provoked me to study some of that out when he preached along those lines.
[5:51] And I think the same person, which was Apostle Paul, said, I know in whom I believe and am persuaded. You know, the same person was saying, who are you, Lord?
[6:04] Didn't know who the Lord was. You know, and other statements that you see that. But he came to the place where I know who God is. I'm not saying, who are you, Lord?
[6:14] You know, I'm still seeking maybe a greater revelation, but I've come to the understanding of who this God is. And I'm loved by him. Galatians says that.
[6:28] Who loved me. Paul said, who loved me. Not who loved us, but who loved me. Gave himself for us. So that we, as his sons and daughters, would be fully rooted and grounded, fully persuaded.
[6:44] Though the mountains begin to tremble. Though any other creature would come and attack us. It's fine. Because we're covered.
[6:57] We're covered. Regardless if there's giants that come upon the earth. And we're saying, where did these creatures come from? You know, we've never seen anything like that before.
[7:08] That's fine. We're covered. Because God. There will not be any creature manifested that's greater than God. We know that. There won't be any manifestation of any God or any creature or any foreign objects or any UFOs that is going to conquer.
[7:30] God or the people of God. Because God dwells inside of us. So, I don't have a deep, profound message this morning about being more than a conqueror.
[7:44] I just hope it's an inspiration. And that my wife and I can leave this place today. Head back to our hometown. Ourselves being encouraged with all of you.
[7:56] That the body of Christ, including myself, is like, we're ready. We're convinced that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.
[8:08] And not in an arrogant way, but with confidence in God. Having no confidence in the flesh. Not being boastful. And not being overly confident.
[8:21] Not in ourselves. Because that can be very dangerous. He that thinketh, he standeth. Take heed lest you fall. But with humility and full confidence.
[8:33] That through him that loved us. And only through that. We will. We are. We shall be. More than conquerors. This person says, and again, William Gurnall.
[8:47] He's a great writer from years back. Maybe two or three hundred years ago. I'm not exactly sure. It says, the saints' enemies.
[9:02] The saints' enemies. We're thinking about God fighting for us. Us being victorious in him. He says, the saints' enemies have a battle that they can never win.
[9:19] Yes? That's our enemies. Have a battle they can never win. They have a great battle that they can never win.
[9:36] If the almighty power of God is the almighty power of God engaged on the behalf of the saints. On their defense. He's asking the question.
[9:47] Surely then. And they use, you know. A little different words than we use today. Surely then they have a hard pull.
[9:58] We're sure they have a great difficulty at hand. Right? Talking about the saints' enemies. God's enemies. They've got a hard pull. They've got a difficult task. And he's already established that they're not going to be able to win.
[10:12] Even if all the rulers of the earth in Psalms chapter 2 take counsel together. And have their meetings. And say, we will not let this man rule over us.
[10:24] Psalms chapter 2 is pretty powerful. I'm kind of bringing in some new tips. But that's their mindset. Is we will be God. And we're going to cast off all restraints. Psalms chapter 2.
[10:35] Very powerful. Prophetic word, I believe, for our day. That's the day that we're living in. Is there is no God. And, well, we are God. And we're not going to yield to these Christians, God.
[10:46] Because we want to do it the way we want to do it. And we want to be, oh, you say I'm a woman. But it doesn't mean nothing. I want to be a man. I'll be a man. That's how stupid the world has become.
[11:02] That's how foolish people are without God. Those that say there is no God are fools. But it's real. We live in that world where we're dealing with fools.
[11:17] But at the same time, in Psalms chapter 2, getting back to William Gurnall here after a bit, but bringing in some thoughts in the meantime. In Psalms chapter 2, what's God doing as the rulers of the earth are taking counsel together with all their plans and with their strategies and with their declaration?
[11:37] What's God doing? It says he that sits in the heaven is laughing at them. And then right away it says, and then he gets angry at them.
[11:49] So he's not laughing at them like, okay, this is kind of funny. He's laughing at them. How can you be so silly? To think that you're going to overcome my power, my glory.
[12:02] How can you be so foolish? And he's laughing at them, you know? Like some little ants, you know, think they're going to overpower Enos, you know?
[12:16] And Enos is like, look, if I want to, I can just stamp on you and you're done. And you're laughing at them like because they're having their discussions like we're going to overcome this guy. You know, there's 300 of us.
[12:27] And you're like, yeah, really? That's kind of funny. But then they start biting at you and you get angry at them, you know? And that's what God does. He gets angry. And he gets very wrath, wrath, fool.
[12:42] And when God gets angry, you don't want to be that he's angry at you. You want to be on his side. And then he says in Psalms chapter 2, and yet I have set my son on his holy mountain.
[12:57] I've declared the decree. You're saying you're going to rule the earth, but I have set my son, Jesus Christ, as the king of kings and the Lord of lords. In the midst of that, he says, I believe, to the church, ask of me, I will give you the heathen for your inheritance, the ends of the earth for your possession.
[13:17] So as these things are unfolding, as the book of revelations is unfolding, as they're making all their strategies to destroy the church, destroy Christianity, to overpower God, God says to the church, ask of me.
[13:34] I'm going to do an amazing work. I'll give you the ends of the earth for your possession. Souls are going to come into the kingdom. You'll have people coming into the church. You'll say, well, where did these people come from?
[13:47] You'll see the hand of God. Again, the saints' enemies have a great battle that they can never win. Is the almighty power of God engaged on the behalf of the saints' defense?
[13:59] Surely then, the enemies of the saints have a difficult task. The saints' enemies who meddle with them are so far outmatched.
[14:14] There's not even a chance. Isaiah makes a pretty bold statement. Don't have it in my notes, but he's like saying, I wish I'd remember how it's saying, but okay, come.
[14:31] He's talking to his enemies. Come, you want to fight? Okay, come. Not in arrogance, but we should have that confidence.
[14:44] When our enemies rise up against us, we're not running. Now, we always inquire of God, and God says to David, okay, turn away from them, because wait until, you know, until you hear the rustling in the mulberry trees.
[15:00] I believe that was the angels going ahead of David, I believe it was. But we're confident. And we see that they are meddling.
[15:12] If they're meddling against the saints of God, they're meddling with something that's so far above their match, that the almighty power of God, which is engaged for the believer's salvation, as William Kernel says, is as deeply obligated.
[15:35] I added a couple of my words. But William Kernel says, God is as deeply obligated as his almighty power is engaged on our behalf.
[15:53] Okay, that's, he takes responsibility to defend us. He is just as greatly obligated. I'll read it word for word. I kind of changed it a little bit.
[16:03] He's just as deeply obligated to bring those that oppose his purposes to their execution and to their damnation. God is just as deeply obligated.
[16:19] His enemies, the enemies against the church, God will bring them to their damnation and to their execution. And there will be no match when they oppose God's judgment.
[16:36] When they stand up and say no, the time will come when they'll cry out to the rocks to cover them. When the Son of God arises with fire in his eyes as a lion of the tribe of Judah.
[16:56] He continues to say what greater responsibility than keeping an oath. God himself is under an oath to be the destruction of every unrepentive soul.
[17:09] That oath which God swear in his wrath against the unbelieving Israelites, that they should not enter into his rest, concerns every person that opposes his purposes.
[17:23] How fearful a thing that it is to fall into the hands of the almighty God. He says no tongue can express how awesome and fearful it is to fall into the hands of the almighty God and no weight could bring upon you that great depths.
[17:45] I want to just think a little bit more about the book of Revelation. This one I read some years back, had in my journal.
[17:57] When we're thinking about being conquerors, this person says, they were right in their faith. He's talking about a people.
[18:09] They went forth conquering and he would conquer. But he says, you can be right in your faith, but you can be wrong in your expectations.
[18:25] We've talked about all these things. The wrong expectation that we can have is when we think about being more than conquerors, we can think that we're going to avoid all these things.
[18:41] Are you following me? So he's talking about a people that read the book of Revelations, that can be right in their faith, that they will overcome, they will be more than conquerors.
[18:55] In fact, if you read the book of Revelations, numerous times it says, he that overcometh, he that overcometh, he that overcometh. But this person is saying, we can be right in our faith, wrong in our expectations, where he says, as you read the book of Revelations, you see visions of war, famine, death, must intervene.
[19:18] It was through these, these famine, death, visions of war, that the conqueror would be proved to be more than a conqueror.
[19:29] And I think he's probably thinking some of the book of Revelations here, where it says, I saw and behold a white horse, he that sat in him, that had a bow and a crown, was given to him, and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
[19:46] Same chapter, and there went forth another horse, that was red, power was given to him, sat therein, to take peace from the earth, and they should kill one another, and there was given unto him, a great sword. I saw under the altar, the souls of them that were slain, for the word of God, and for the testimony, which they held.
[20:04] So it's talking about two things. A conqueror, who goes forth to conquer. It's also talking about a people, that are being slain for their faith. It's through these things, that we can be more than conquerors.
[20:19] Can you say amen? It's not by being just delivered, from all these things. So what does it mean to be, a conqueror? I checked the dictionary.
[20:37] To be a conqueror, to overcome, to subdue, to reduce, to reduce something, to take authority over, to conquer it, to subdue it, till resistance is no longer made.
[20:53] You've conquered it. Till resistance is no longer made. To overcome, to vanquish something. To overcome as difficulties.
[21:05] To surmount as obstacles. To overcome those obstacles. You run through troops, you leap over walls. To subdue whatever opposes.
[21:17] We're talking about being a conqueror. To overcome, to subdue whatever is opposing you. To overcome difficulties or obstacles. Again, I looked up the word conqueror, and this is what I found.
[21:32] One who conquers. One who gains a victory. One who subdues, and brings into subjection or possession. The man who defeats, his, Anton, my God, help me with that one, my, antagonistics.
[21:52] Somebody, thank you. Antagonistics. I got it. A man who defeats, in combat.
[22:07] I'm going to try to say it again, because I might get lost here. A conqueror, as is the general, or admiral, who defeats, his enemy.
[22:17] Now, I jumped ahead of myself, earlier today. I told you this, little jewel, this little gem, it's not talking about being a conqueror.
[22:36] Is it? It's talking about something more than that. Something other than that. Saying more than a conqueror. Are you with me? This is an amazing thing, that God, through his son Jesus, through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, makes you more than that.
[22:58] So, more than that, I think the children, Kimberly, do you know this? Two plus two is what? Four, right? Okay, that's, but we're talking about something more than that.
[23:12] So, it's not four anymore, right? It's something different. Two plus two is four. You got it right. Good job. But the Bible is not speaking about just that.
[23:26] It's speaking about something else, something beyond that. More than. More than. More than. That means something more, right? Something else.
[23:36] Something greater than what has been stated. Two plus two is four. That's been, but now we're talking about something beyond that. I don't have any deep revelations of that, but I started thinking, maybe, maybe something, and I'll bring something up shortly in my message.
[23:55] And I don't know that we're going to go a long time, just to let you know, but this person says, what does it mean to be more than a conqueror? And that's not necessarily getting to my thoughts on being something more than a conqueror.
[24:09] Although, yes, this is kind of a pretty good truth. A.B. Simpson. I don't know if I want to read that whole thing, but it's talking about a decisive victory to be more than a conqueror.
[24:26] John said he used to smoke, and then you got victory over that. Yeah.
[24:37] I didn't yield to it that time, right? So you conquer. But you were not at that time more than a conqueror. You won some of the battles, right?
[24:51] When you said that, I was thinking about alcoholics outside of the church, maybe even sometimes in the Christianity. The mindset is, you know, through some of the programs, like what is it, AAA, the mindset is, if you've been an alcoholic, you can come to this program, and the mindset is, we'll help you overcome, but you will always be an alcoholic.
[25:15] Okay? You'll always struggle with it, is the point. You don't have to yield to it, but you'll always struggle with it. So, you can conquer, but that's not being more than a conqueror.
[25:27] The Bible teaches that such were some of you, but now you're washed. The Bible doesn't teach that once you're an alcoholic, you'll always be an alcoholic. Once you smoke cigarettes, you'll always need to fight against that.
[25:42] It doesn't teach that. And I believe that's part of the element of being more than a conqueror. And so, A.B. Simpson says, that there are certain battles that you fight, that you win the battle, but it comes back again, and then you have to fight the battle again, and then you win the battle again, and you win that battle, you're a conqueror, but it keeps coming back, and it wears you out.
[26:11] Yes? That's what A.B. Simpson, I'm kind of expounding, adding some of my work. But eventually, it really wears you out, because you're continually fighting that battle.
[26:22] And yes, you're being a conqueror, but to be more than a conqueror is a decisive victory. It's done. It's finished. I've won this battle, and I'm not going to need to fight it anymore.
[26:34] It could be pornography. You know? It could be depression. It could be discouragement. You know, our sister, you know, it's like it's done. She's more than a conqueror.
[26:46] At one time, she was a conqueror, because I would hear, oh yeah, she's done pretty good. I was like, hallelujah. But, I think now, she's become more than a conqueror, because it's done. It's not something that she has to keep fighting every week.
[27:00] And you become more than a conqueror. It's a decisive victory that you want in this battle. I mean, you think about it, in real war, right now in Gaza, they're, you know, potentially maybe Russia, Russia, Ukraine, you know, is Russia winning?
[27:20] You know, it seems like they're winning, but it's still not. They haven't been more than a conqueror by any means. Right? Maybe they're conquering. But they're not more than a conqueror. There are decisive battles in the world's history conflicts whose issues settle the future of the empire of a world.
[27:40] No danger of that contest ever being renewed again. And again, A.B. Simpson says, that is when you're becoming more than a conqueror.
[27:52] I don't know where I got this statement, if I got up with it myself or not, but think about this. What Christ has done for us is greater than anything that will ever be done against us.
[28:07] What He has done for us. And we could go to the Scripture again in the Romans 8. If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son. That's what He did for us.
[28:20] Delivered Him up for us all. How shall we not with Him freely give us? How shall He not with Him freely give us all things? I would like to say that God has raised you up, us up, for such a time as this.
[28:40] And if God has raised us up, who can be against it? We will prevail. If we're doing things that God has not called us to, you know, we're going to get weary.
[28:58] We will get worn out by all the opposition and all the devils. But if God is for us, all the opposition, all the devils, they will be conquered.
[29:14] For sure. If we're abiding in God, we're just doing what God has asked us to do. And God says, I'm going to build this church and the gates of hell are not.
[29:27] And God says even to one of His servants, the battle's not yours. You don't have to fight in this battle. You just start praising me. That's the reality.
[29:37] And what is it? Chronicians chapter 20? Prophecy was, the battle's not yours. The battle belongs to the Lord.
[29:48] And we can say today, you know, the battle has been won through the Lord Jesus Christ. And we can rest in Him. If God be for us, John Wesley says, who can be against you?
[30:05] Are all of them together stronger than God? Is the question. John Wesley asks. All the demons, all the men that would oppose us.
[30:21] I thought of this when I was thinking about who could we look at as being more than a conqueror? And maybe somebody has some thoughts on that. Who could you look at?
[30:31] And I thought of a couple different people. The ultimate one, I thought of Jesus Christ. And I have a little application there. But I thought of Joseph in prison.
[30:45] And it was like, you're reading in prison. He's in prison. Well, he finds favor there, but he's in prison. And the next thing you know, he's the ruler over all the land. It was like, whoa!
[30:57] It was more than a conqueror. Didn't just come out of prison. You know, next thing you see is, you're just reading there, and it's like, what is it, a chapter later or two chapters later?
[31:07] And it's like, there he is. I wrote in my notes, as I was reading Genesis 39, and it says, the Lord was with him, and that he was in prison.
[31:27] The keeper of the prison was there. And then I was reading Genesis 41, about the same man. It says, Pharaoh said to him, look, I've set you over all, the land of Egypt.
[31:41] And I wrote in my notes, wait a minute, I thought he was in prison. And now it's saying, Pharaoh is saying, I've set you over all the land. And I was like, well, he certainly was a conqueror.
[31:57] I think he was more than a conqueror. I was thinking of Paul. They stoned Paul. Drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. However, the disciples stood round about him.
[32:09] He rose up, came into the city, came into the city, and so on and so on. And the reason I thought about that, because I heard years back, I don't know if it's real accurate, but the person was more a study, you know, time frames.
[32:22] I don't know if you'd call it historian, but studied the Bible from knowing time frames. And his conclusion was, when it talks about Paul having the abundance of revelations, he thinks it was, some of that was when he was stoned and left for dead.
[32:41] That's perhaps when he had the abundance of revelations. And I was thinking again of people that, something amazing that came out of their great difficulty, being in prison.
[32:52] I thought of Stephen, being more than a conqueror. Is this not being more than a conqueror? He's preaching to them, and they're angry at him, and they're gnashing on him with their teeth.
[33:08] You know? That's what it says. They gnashed on him with their teeth, but he, being full of the Holy Ghost. Can you say praise the Lord? But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, he looked up steadfastly into heaven, and he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
[33:27] Somebody said, usually Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God. No, here he's standing, like one of his servants is being gnashed upon with his teeth, with their teeth. And he sees, he's full of the Holy Ghost.
[33:41] He's not being defeated by any means. He sees the glory of God. He sees Jesus standing there, at the right hand of God. And he said, behold, I see the heavens open, and the Son of God standing on the right hand of God.
[33:57] I thought of this statement about Jesus. It's talking about the cross, the blood of the cross. I don't know the exact words. But he, having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
[34:16] Ultimately, we see the life of Jesus Christ being more than a conqueror. And then this is the thought I had. He said he could have called 10,000 legions of angels.
[34:30] And I think if he'd have done that, he'd have been an overcomer. He'd have been a conqueror. Right? But perhaps, when he yielded to the death of the cross, he became more than a conqueror.
[34:46] Because now, he overcame death itself. So I think there's probably a truth there that I haven't had a lot of time to meditate on. But then I thought of the verse that, you know, Joe, if you seek to save your life, you might be able to overcome some things, and not need to face certain things.
[35:05] You seek to save your life, you can be an overcomer. But is it possible if you lose your life, you will find your life, and you will be more than a conqueror?
[35:19] If we seek to save our life, if we call 10,000 angels, if we avoid that straight and narrow path, that difficult path, and if we walk on the Broadway, and we, you know, put money in the bank, and all kinds of things to, you know, find pleasure in this life, and go on lots of vacations, and, you know, put ourselves in the position to be victorious, maybe we'll be conquerors.
[35:48] But what if we seek to lose our life, embrace the cross, and humble ourselves, and be transparent with each other, and take counsel from each other, and take correction from each other?
[36:00] Is it possible then we'll be more than conquerors? Rather than just being a conqueror. Again, I'm intrigued by thinking, what is it to be more than a conqueror?
[36:17] All right, let's stand to our feet. I think we'll close here just in a little bit, and have a couple. I trust there'll be some. Maybe I should read this yet.
[36:33] Beloved, are we thus fighting the good fight of faith, resisting the devil, and rising up for God against them that do wickedly? Are we looking upon our adversaries, and our obstacles, as things that have come, not to crush us, but to be put aside and become tribute to our successes, and our master's glory?
[36:54] There's things that God may allow in our life, and rather than looking at them as great obstacles, we look at them that these are some of all those things that I overcome, and I actually go deeper in God.
[37:13] Thus, again, I'm reading A.B. Simpson. Looking upon our adversaries, our obstacles as things that have come, not to crush us, not to destroy us, but to be put aside and become a tributary to our successes, and to our master's glory.
[37:33] Thus will we be more than conquerors through him that loved us, and as the prophet beautifully expresses, I think this is the verse that I was trying to quote earlier.
[37:46] Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded. They shall be as nothing, and they that strive with you shall perish. You will seek them, and you will not find them, even them that contended with you.
[38:01] They that were against thee will be as nothing, as a thing of naught. A.B. Simpson continues to say, when God allows the enemy to appear in our lives, it is so that we can do him an eternal injury, and thus glorify God and be workers with Christ in destroying the works of the devil.
[38:27] God allows you to go through certain things, not so that you're conquered by it, but so that you can actually overcome those things, and be co-labors with God that you, with God, are seeing the works of the devil destroyed.
[38:44] God says in one place, I love the Jeremiah chapter 3 or chapter 10, I think it's chapter 10. God says numerous times in that one verse, I think it's about 10 times, he says, I will with you, with you I will, I will with you, with you I will.
[39:01] He's talking about destroying enemies, and he says, I'm going to do it with you. It's inspiring. God is looking for a man who will be a soldier, who will fight, and who will stand up and say, greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world, and I'll be a mighty soldier of Jesus Christ.
[39:28] You are a conqueror. You can do all things through Christ who gives you the strength. Can you say amen? Ephesians 6 says what? Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
[39:43] I'm going to close here shortly. But I hope that God releases us today and puts a fire in our bones that we are, we will be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
[40:00] And through him that loved us, surely, in all these things, we will be more than conquerors. The gates of hell will not prevail against us.
[40:14] No weapon formed against us is going to prosper. You are his battle axe and weapons of war. I'll just read the scripture again.
[40:25] And then we will, I might turn the camera to James, I think. That's good for us to close with just reading the scripture, right?
[40:37] Talks about being, Romans chapter 8, this is what we've been preaching from, one of those verses. Talks about being conformed to the image of his son. As I mentioned a little bit this morning, you know, this is who the promise is for, those who are being glorified, sanctified, walking in righteousness, conformed to the image of his son, that you might be the firstborn among many brethren, those whom he predestined, he called, and those who he called, he justified, those who justified, he glorified.
[41:09] And what will we say then to these things? If God is for us, who could be against us? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him, with him also freely give us all things?
[41:25] Who's going to lay anything to the charge of God's elect? Who's going to accuse the elect of God? Those who have been redeemed by his blood, those who are loved by him, those who are not walking in the flesh, but in the spirit.
[41:47] I think earlier in the chapter, it talks about that. Who's going to lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.
[41:58] Who's going to condemn those that God has justified and has justified? Who's going to condemn if God justifies? It is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
[42:17] Think about it. If that's his position, and we're being sanctified by him, who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
[42:28] shall tribulation, shall distress, shall persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or pearl, or sword.
[42:45] I had it in my notes, I think, if we didn't get there, which is fine. Hebrews 11, is that the chapter of faith? Yeah. You think of all the things they went through?
[42:59] I wish I'd have them right here in front of my notes, but amazing. Stone to death. Sawn asunder. Refusing to compromise.
[43:11] I believe they became more than conquerors because they refused to compromise. So, if he's seated at the right hand of God making intercession for us, if he justifies us, he's going to separate us from his love.
[43:32] If he that began a good work in us said he's going to finish it, well, really, we're being killed every day as sheep of the slaughter.
[43:44] But, in all reality, in all these things, we're more than conquerors through him that loved us.
[43:56] And really, I'm persuaded that not death, not life, not angels, not principalities, no powers, not the things that I'm currently going through or the things that I'm going to go through.
[44:12] No height, nor depth, nor any other creature is going to be able to separate us. I like that word, us. Us, the church, right?
[44:26] We're not just being selfish with this encouragement that God has given us. We're a body. And we're saying, we are more than conquerors.
[44:37] Not me. We're going to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
[44:48] Thank you.