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More Than Conquerors: God's Love Guarantees Nothing Can Stop Us
August 28, 2025 · 36 min
Drawing from the Greek word "huper nikao," John Mark reveals that Christians don't just succeed – they succeed with success to spare, running victory laps around life's challenges
Series "Pastor Talks" with John Mark Caton August 28, 2025 · 36 min · "Pastor Talks" with John Mark Caton
Drawing from the Greek word "huper nikao," John Mark reveals that Christians don't just succeed – they succeed with success to spare, running victory laps around life's challenges ...more Show the full description Show less Drawing from the Greek word "huper nikao," John Mark reveals that Christians don't just succeed – they succeed with success to spare, running victory laps around life's challenges
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More Than Conquerors: Living in Victory 0:00 Imagine God's house today? Amen, it sure sounded like it. Welcome to you and those of us who are joining online. Man, we have been in the middle of a series the last couple of weeks entitled More Than a0:11 Conqueror. And we're really taking it straight from Romans chapter 8. We have been journeying through Romans chapter 8 this whole month and we close today, with a powerful statement. If you remember, week 1,0:23 we set, we talked about how to live free in a guilty world. And we're talking about that idea that yeah, we are guilty absolutely. Condemned never because of God's grace and because of God's love. Then the next week0:35 we looked at the idea, of the mindset that we have. We have a choice, even as believers. We have a choice, we can live with our mindset on the things of the spirit and what the spirit desires. But we can also, as0:46 children of God, Paul talked about that struggle in his own life. We can also live with a mindset set on things that would please the flesh. So we'll talk about that week 2. Last week, we talked about the reality there0:58 are hard things that come our way. Our hurts are absolutely real, but our godly hope has a longer shelf life. It's forever. And then today we come to this1:09 idea, we are more than conquerors. Let's read it, I've read it to you every week. Now we get to talk about it today. Romans chapter 8 verse 37. Here's what Paul says, now he's1:21 had 36 verses that we've journeyed through a lot, I'm gonna remind you of a couple of them here in a second. But he says, now, don't ever forget this, know in all these things, everybody say these things. These1:33 things. There are things that come in our life. He says there are, in all these things, we are more than conquerors. More than conquerors. And so I I love this idea that that if God is for1:44 us, Satan picked the wrong fight. K? God is for you, Satan picked the wrong fight. Why? Because he says, regardless of all these things that happen in your life, we1:56 are more than conquerors. How? Because I'm awesome? Nope. Through him who loved us. I love that phrase more than conquerors. 3 English words, it2:08 actually comes from 1 Greek word. But this Greek word is so powerful that it took 3 English words to translate it. And and here's the Greek word. It is the Greek word hupernikao,2:20 alright? Huper, we got our English word hyper from it, or over or beyond. And nikhao means to rule over, to reign over. It's why Nike chose2:33 to name their shoes Nike. They wanted to rule or reign over the tennis shoe world, or the athletic clothing world and that's why they chose the world. That's the word right there. But Paul says in all the things2:45 that we go through, we don't just succeed, he says we succeed with success to spare. In other words, we run laps around satan, ultimately we'll run laps around why, why? Not2:57 because of how good I am, but because of what God said. And then remember as we're looking at this book, we started saying man, this chapter, Romans chapter 8 has 2 bookends. It starts at the very beginning3:09 with the idea of there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. And yeah, guilty yes, condemnation no, but it ends with what we're gonna talk about today, there is no separation for the believer3:21 from the love of God. You say how can that be? Well we're gonna look at that in the next couple of moments, just how can it be that I can never be separated from the love of Christ? Some people say well3:33 could I lose my faith, could I walk away from my faith, could I sin enough? Well God looks down at John Mark and says yeah, I kinda thought he was gonna turn out better, I'm out. Right? No. He says there's no separation3:45 for those who are in Christ. So let's just jump down and let me refresh you on where we've been. If you missed any of these, go listen to them online. This chapter is just packed with all kinds of3:56 godly wisdom and God's love. Here it is, verse 1. Therefore, there is now, everybody say now. No condemnation. And that word now, it's in the tense that it meant the now4:08 was yesterday, the now is today, the now is tomorrow, and tomorrow is tomorrow. So there is always now no condemnation for those. Who those? Those who are in Christ Jesus.4:21 That means that we are guilty, yes, but condemned never. Remember in John chapter 8, Jesus had been teaching and the Pharisees and the Sadducees were always looking to trip up Jesus. And they brought a4:32 woman in John chapter 8 who was caught in adultery. Everybody say caught. Okay, it was not a question, she was caught in adultery. Now there's a lot that we can think about this, well if she was caught in adultery there4:44 had to be a dude, so where's the dude? Well, let's don't go there. The point was, these guys were just trying to trap Jesus. So they roll in, they throw this lady on the ground, say this woman has been caught in4:55 adultery, The law says we stone her, what do you say? What they were trying to do is get Jesus, who they knew of as a man of grace and compassion and love, to overrule the law, therefore they could call5:07 him a blast they could, accuse him of blasphemy and ultimately reject him. Says Jesus didn't even respond to them. He sat down and began to write something in the dirt and it says slowly 1 by 1 those pharisees began to5:19 walk away. Said pastor, what did he write down? I don't know. A lot of great theologians have given wild speculation of maybe he began to write down the sins that those men had committed or he wrote something else. We5:30 don't really know. But whatever he wrote in the sand, as they started reading it, they just kind of said I'm out. 1 at a time, I'm out, I'm out. And then Jesus looked at the woman guilty,5:42 caught in adultery, and he asked, where did those who condemn you go? She goes, I don't know, they walked off. Then Jesus responded, neither then do I condemn you.5:54 Go and sin no more. So wherever you are today, whatever you did this week or whatever you're gonna do this week, can I tell you that's still Jesus? If you are in Christ, he says neither6:06 do I condemn you, now go sin no more. Then we talked about the mindset that we can have. Either settle on the flesh or the spirit. That was week 2, Romans chapter 8 verse 5. Says those who6:18 live according to the flesh, do what? They have their mind set on what the flesh desires. What is that? Sin. To please self, to reject6:29 God's wisdom and reject God's way. He says you and I can have that same mindset. As a matter of fact, you go back 1 chapter before this, Romans chapter 7, Paul says I've got this war6:41 raging in my mind and in my body. Those things I don't want to do, I often find myself doing. And those things I want to do, I often find myself not doing. Let me6:53 tell you what, that is the testimony of everybody in this room. I guarantee if you just look, probably don't even have to look too far. My guess is there are some people in this room, you have some things that you said7:04 I'm never gonna do that again until you do it again. You understand what I'm talking about? I mean, we, your pastor has some things like that. Then I'm like, you know what, I just need to cut that out. I just need to,7:15 and I need to just get rid of that. I'd be healthier. Chips and sausage, just walk away. Right? And I do, I walk away until the next time. Jean and I, we'll,7:27 we'll, we'll pump each other up for some Tex Mex. And as we're getting in, we're going, so alright now listen. She goes, listen alright let's do this. Let's make a commitment right now. 1 basket.7:40 Just just 1 basket. Every once in a while she goes like wild crazy, goes I got an idea. Let's tell them not to bring chips. Then I'm like, then let's go go. Let's7:52 go some place else, right? There are things that I know I would be healthier if I didn't have, the chips, but it's really not that first basket that kills me, it's the fourth basket that shows up right before8:04 the fajitas do. And I go, I shouldn't eat and all that, right? But I continue to eat, right? Those things that are there. And so Paul says, listen, those who have their minds set on the things of the flesh, will8:15 ultimately fulfill the desires of the flesh, but those who live according with the spirit have their minds set on the things of the spirit. And we talk about this idea that stretching from Canada through the Rocky8:26 Mountains down into Mexico, there is something called the continental divide. It said if water or rain, or snow, or something, ends up just a couple inches to the west, it's8:38 ultimately gonna go out to the Pacific Ocean. Couple inches to the right, it's gonna end up in the Atlantic eventually. And so for you and I, it really means that we have to constantly start resetting my8:50 mind to make sure I'm leaning towards the things of the Spirit and not leaning away from the Spirit. Because here's what happens, just like water is determined by the9:02 direction that it falls, same thing with you and me. My thoughts, my actions, my sin, my failures, and and9:14 ultimately 1 side, flesh, always leads to sin and death. The other side, the spirit, will always lead to life and joy in your life, in your family's9:25 life, in the life of your church, and those around you. Alright, so let's jump forward, let's continue to remind ourselves where we've been. And so as children of God, here's what happened. The Spirit you receive, that's9:37 the Holy Spirit, notice it's capital S, is the Holy Spirit that you received does not make you slaves. In other words, when God saved us, none of us deserved9:48 it. Paul in Romans chapter 3 says there is none righteous, no not 1, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. None of us deserved it. God absolutely could have said, I'm gonna save you, but you're gonna10:00 be a slave to me. But instead God said, no I've got something much better for you. He says the spirit you receive does not make us slaves so that you live in fear again. Man, that's not it. He10:12 says rather, the spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. Then in other words, he says I made you a full part of the family. I didn't make you a slave, I didn't say you can just show up in the house,10:24 but you're gonna stay over there in a corner or closet or something like that. He goes, no no, I made you a son. So when we talk here in a few seconds about being more than a conqueror, child of God,10:35 understand this, we don't fight for our victory, we fight from our victory. Do you understand the difference? Alright? I am not trying to earn my victory or earn God's10:47 love or earn God's grace or earn my sin, that would be fighting for my victory. But since I already have God's grace, I already have God's spirit, I already been made a child of God, I'm an10:59 heir of Christ, we're gonna see here in a second, I'm fighting from my victory, not for it. So let's continue to read on. So notice what he says, and by this the spirit11:11 that we've received as children of God, as sons of God and daughters of God, we can cry Abba Father. That means we can go to God and pretty much call him daddy. Just that warm, I need you11:23 dad. You ever had 1 of those ladies, you ever had 1 of that moment you just pick up the phone as you grow up or whatever and you just give a call and say mom, I just kind of need you for a second. Dad, I need you for a11:34 second. Have a conversation with God. He says do that verse 17. He says now if we are children of God, then again we've adopted we've been adopted. We are11:46 heirs heirs of God and co heirs with Christ. So as we move towards this idea we're going to talk about today of what it really takes and what it really means12:00 to be a child of God and a conqueror, don't ever forget that when you got saved the Spirit of God adopted you into God's family. You belong to God's family. You can12:11 go to your Father, your Heavenly Father, the same Father that spoke the world into existence, and you can call him daddy. The Holy Spirit confirms that you belong to him and reminds you over and over12:23 again through conviction and confirmation, hey, you're kinda living for the flesh and not for the Spirit. Man, you know this sin is gonna hurt your family, it's gonna hurt your character, it's gonna hurt yourself, it's12:35 gonna hurt your vocation, something like that. The Holy Spirit is constantly talking to us. Then when we feel like nothing, the Holy Spirit reminds us, hey don't forget, you are an12:47 heir of God. Your debts in the past have been cleared completely from the books. When you journey forward, not only are you gonna be considered an12:58 heir of God, you will be a joint heir of Christ, and he says, and here's your inheritance, glory that is eternal. So child of God, don't ever forget who you are in13:10 Christ. Now, let's go to Romans chapter 8 verse 28 and following this, what we looked at last week. And he says, and therefore, we know that in all these things, everybody say in.13:22 Not from, man. Through them, in them, in all these things, God works for the good of those who love Him. Now notice, love is not sentimental here, it's sacrificial. God showed13:34 up and did something for you. It secures us. His love for us is eternal, who have been called according to God's purpose. Now notice we talked about this last week, the 5 golden links of the chain of salvation. For13:46 those God foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son. Now, if you wanna know why God saved you, that's the goal. That you would be conformed to13:58 the image of his son, that's what it is. God didn't save you so you would sit soaking sour. God saved you so that you would be conformed to the image of His Son. What does that mean? That you would be loving and caring,14:10 you would speak the truth, you would serve others. Man, you wouldn't think more highly of yourselves than you ought to. That man, we would just worship God in a powerful and real way. That's why He saved us. He says to14:21 be conformed to the image of his son. Now jump down to verse 30. He says and those he predestined, notice this, he also called and those he called he also justified and those he justified he14:33 also glorified. That's the 5 links. Before you ever took a breath, God knew your last step. He foreknew you. Then he predestined you to become a child of God. He put14:45 together the plan, none of us deserved salvation but God said, here's the plan, you can't save yourself I'm gonna send my son to die for you so you can be saved. Then he says here call people. Everyone up to everyone in14:56 this room, everyone online, you have been called by God to salvation. The question is, have you said yes? And then when you say yes to God, it says he justifies us, that means he declares us righteous.15:09 He wipes away the sins of the past, the present, and those you will commit in the future, and we ultimately receive the glorification we look for. And so that's where we are. So that's why we can enter into this passage,15:21 Romans chapter 8 verse 31 to 39, understanding we are more than conquerors. Why? Because God's guarantee for us. Not my love for him, but because15:33 of his love for us. So let's give a couple of thoughts. If we are, how do we know that we can become more than conquerors? Well let me give you 4 thoughts. Because number 1, if God is for us,15:45 who, everybody say who. Who can be against us? So notice what he says in Romans chapter 8 verse 31. He says, what then shall we say in response to these things? Now, let me just stop you15:57 real quick. As we read through these next 9 verses or so, you're gonna see some who's and some what's. Some who's and some what's, alright? The who's, who can separate me from the love16:09 of God? Let me give you 3 options. Everybody say 3. Some people believe that who can separate me from the love of God? Sometimes God will look down and just kind of be16:21 done with you. You know, God someday all of a sudden looked down at John Mark and said, kinda thought he was gonna turn out a little better than that. Right? I know a lot of y'all, I've been your pastor for 30 years, a16:31 lot of y'all thought, meh, we kinda think the same thing, right? Thought he was gonna turn up a little more. See some people believe that God will look down at you and just go, Yeah, I think, I16:43 I I I think he should've turned out a little better. But he didn't. Some people think the who is Satan. Somehow Satan can tempt you so much that he can snatch you16:55 out of the father's hand. Hand. Some people think the who is you. That all of a sudden someone could get so fed up with God and so fed up with God's grace, that the who17:07 could turn around and walk away from God. And so the who is, some people believe God just said I had enough, some people believe that I could just say I'm done and17:19 could walk away, and others say, no, Satan. Satan can draw you away and draw you off sides where God says they no longer love you. So those are the who potential, we're gonna talk about those in a second. What about the17:31 what? Hey, there are some whats, everybody say what. There are some whats, some things that come in our lives that cause us to doubt God's17:43 love for us, right? Everybody in this room, everybody online, you've got some whats in your life. Anybody ever, man you've served God, you've loved God and all of a sudden17:54 some horrible thing happens in your life? And it's a what? You know like God if you love me. You you ever18:06 go through something in your life and when you begin to pray you're like, God if you love me how how could you let this happen? You know, to my mom or my dad or my son or18:18 my daughter or to my spouse or, you know, how can I lose my job? There are times in our lives that the what's that show up can break us. So I love what18:30 Paul is saying here. He goes, there's no who's and there's no what's that can separate you from the love of God. So let's continue to read the flow and notice what we see. If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans18:42 chapter 8 verse 31. He says, What then shall we say in response to these things? He says if or since God is for us, don't miss this, everybody18:54 say for us. God is not neutral in your battle. God is for you. I want to say that again, God is not neutral in your battle. God doesn't sit there19:05 next to Jesus who is seated at the right hand of the throne, he says I've saved him, now let's see how this turns out. He says no, God is for us actively. He says God is for us,19:18 who can be against us? There's another who. He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also along with him graciously give us all things?19:30 Now, the who and the what's means a real enemy. Remember the story in the Old Testament of David? David fought against Goliath. Let me tell you what, Goliath was a real enemy. He he was such a19:41 formidable opponent that all of the soldiers in Israel, as long as the king, as well as the king in Israel saw at the time, they were fearful of this amazing giant. And every day the giant would come out and says, I19:53 gotta deal. If 1 of you wants to come out and and fight against me, whoever wins, the other group will serve the other ones. He says, if I win, y'all will serve us, the Philistines. If you win, we will serve20:05 you as the children of Israel. Everybody in the, in the Israeli army was fearful, including the king. David shows up bringing some food, he hears the taunt, he hears them making20:17 fun. And David says, hey, who's gonna go fight this guy? They go, well none of us. David says, I'll do it. Let me tell you, when David rolled out on the battlefield against Goliath, it was a real enemy.20:28 Children of God, listen. We have real enemies and real battles and real fights. Some of them are who and some of them are what's, but they are real fights. This was a who and it was20:40 a big 1. And remember what happened. David looked at him and he says, you come at me with a shield and a sword, but I come at you how? In the name of the20:52 Lord. Listen, we have real enemies in our life, Paul acknowledges those. If you go look at at Paul's life, Paul didn't just have bad days, he had bad decades. How many of you know what21:04 I'm talking? Anybody in the middle of a bad decade? It's not just a day, it's a decade. I Man, Paul had it all. He he struggled with it all. So I want you to know, even though God is for you, you will have to face21:16 real enemies, but because of God's grace, you don't come at those enemies with sword and a spear, you come in name the Lord just like David did. And I can only imagine, remember God's not neutral, he is for us.21:28 Sure David knew how to use a sling and he knew how to use a stone and he had worked and he had practiced, but I can also imagine that when he let it go, God just sent an angel to say pop Goliath right there.21:42 And when? So child of God, how can you be more than a conqueror? Don't ever forget, God is for you. And he's not neutral in the fight.21:54 He is fighting on your behalf. He's not just seeing how things turn out. He's making sure things happen. Here's the second reason you and I can be guaranteed we're more than conquerors. Christ has justified22:06 us. That means he's declared us forgiven, just as if we had never sinned so no 1 can condemn us. Remember, the who's and the what's? No 1 can condemn us. Here it is, verse22:18 33. Who will bring any charge against God's elect? Well, I don't know about you, but Satan's pretty good at bringing charges.22:31 Myself, I'm pretty good at reminding me of failures. How many of you have a pretty good memory when it comes to your own failures? Boy, I do. Man, I'm reminding myself all that, God, I22:42 shouldn't shouldn't have said that or shouldn't have done this or this. Man, always, who will bring a charge against the Lord's elect? Satan, self? Against those who have been chosen by God? It22:54 is God who justifies, he declared us righteous. See, if I declare myself righteous, I'm a liar. And I have no power to actually forgive sins. He says, but listen when God23:06 declares us righteous, just as if I'd never sinned, he gives us the right standing. Man, just think about it. There is no 1 in this room who could pass a23:18 background check for God. Do you get it? If God ran background checks, said hey let's see how John Mark did, maybe he'd get saved and get the job as being 1 of my23:29 children. Can I tell you John Mark would not pass a background check when it comes to being saved by God? But neither would you. Even the best person you know, if their23:41 background had to determine their salvation, nobody passes and no 1 gains salvation. So, notice what he says, who will bring any charge against God's elect? There are a lot of charges to bring, but God has chosen you.23:53 It is God who justifies. So every time satan says, hey did you hear this about John Mark? Jesus says, I got that. Alright, over and over. He says, who's gonna bring a charge against God's elect? He says, no 1. He says,24:05 it doesn't matter. Christ Jesus who died, he paid the price. More than that, who was raised to life is at the right hand of the throne of God and is24:17 interceding, he's whispering into the Father's ear every day on your behalf and on my behalf. What an incredible thought. So you say, alright what about self?24:29 What if I take off and become wildly sinful? Or what if I walk away from God? What if I do this or what if I do that? Hey, how many of you remember the story of the prodigal son24:42 in scripture? Remember the prodigal son? He he was a child of the father, he was a son of the father, he didn't wait for his father to die. He went to his father and said, you know I've I've kind of enjoyed living here,24:51 but I'd love to do my own thing. He says, so give me my inheritance, I'll go. He goes, if you remember this story, you can find it in Luke chapter 15. He goes out to Vegas, essentially, alright? With his25:02 buddies and they sit there and they spend all their money. It says in wild and crazy living with the wrong people doing the wrong things in the wrong place, when he should have been with the father, the right people25:13 doing the right thing in the right place. And it says, he goes out there spends all of his money. Well guess what happened to the friends that were with him when he lost all of his money? They left.25:25 They moved on to someone else who had more money. And it says he's sitting there and he's he's eating what he's feeding the pigs that's gotten that bad. Instead of him being at the father's palace in the place, he25:37 is out there in, eating pigs food. And he comes to his senses, I I love that, the way it says it in the original language. It says he came to his senses. And and25:49 maybe there's some people here today that that they've gone a long way from God. And the best thing you can do and the best thing I can do in those seasons of sinful26:01 disobedience is come to our senses. And here's what he came to in a sense. He says, you know what? The servants in my father's house have it better than this. He says here's what I'm gonna do, I'm26:12 gonna journey back to the father and I'm gonna just ask him to take me back, not as a son, but as a servant. Remember what happens, he shows back up, the father is not neutral, remember,26:24 God is for us. Says, the father saw him a long way off, said hey, get get the animal ready, spruce up the tent, bring out the best stuff, we're about to have a party because this son who was26:36 gone is coming back home. And that prodigal son understood this, hey what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas. How many of you know what I'm talking about? Cause he came back broke,26:48 barefoot and beaten down. And he grows into the father's house expecting nothing. And he looks around and sees the balloons and the flyers and the tents set up and26:59 said, this is for you. Here's the question, was there ever a time that the prodigal son was not still the father's son?27:12 No. He absolutely was still the father's son, right? He just wasn't doing the right thing and in the right place. So when he came back,27:24 God didn't say I'm gonna re son you. He says my son has returned home and so maybe you have someone in your, in your family, maybe it's a husband or a wife or a son or a daughter, or someone else27:36 you love, and they're journeying the wrong way. And you say, they used to be a Christian, I wonder if they're a Christian now. How do you determine the difference?27:45 Just like the prodigal.27:47 If they come home, you know they're a believer. Get it? It's real vogue if you're on social media right now, it's real vogue for people27:59 to deconstruct online. You say, Pastor, what does deconstruction mean? Just ask your kids, I'll promise you they know. It's that there's people online, social media, Instagram, whatever, TikTok or whatever, they will say28:11 something like, hey I grew up in church and and now that I grew up in church I no longer believe that stuff, and the Jesus they taught me in church is not the Jesus I know, because the Jesus I know they're essentially28:22 saying, I made him up. And so I walked away from traditional faith and now I have my own faith and my own personal relationship with28:34 Jesus. Well what do you know about Jesus that's not found in scripture? There's always a key element in this. There's usually a sin that they want to28:47 enjoy without condemnation that goes along with it, that they found in a traditional church that just teaches through God's word. Now you say, pastor,28:59 did all of those people lose their salvation, or did they never have it? Here's the key. Do they ever come back? See because29:11 I absolutely believe and I'm already beginning to see stories of people that pursued their own, remember their fleshly desires, deconstructed online and now they're reconstructing online.29:23 Because they're understanding that they're ending up in the pigsty of the world and satan's taken everything from them, and the 1 thing they want is to journey back to the father. So you go back in the new testament29:35 times, John. John even said this, he says listen, they went out from us proving they were never 1 of us. Did29:47 you get it? That means there are people that can come to church and sing some songs and act act a little Christian and look a little Christian for a while, but then they walk away and if they never come back, they29:58 probably never were 1 of us. So thought number 1, we know we're more than conquerors because God is for us. Thought number 2 is this, we have been justified, our our30:10 sins have been forgiven. Here's number 3, in all things we're more than conquerors. Here's verse 35, pick it up and now I want you to understand from verse 35 to verse 39,30:22 the term for love changes. It changes to that wonderful word, agape. In other words, that sacrificial, unconditional, eternal love that God has for you and me. So30:34 here it is. He says who, there's another who, who shall separate us from the love, the agape of Christ? The sacrificial, unconditional love of Christ. Who's gonna do that for30:46 us? Now notice, he says shall trib trouble? Here's some whats. Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword. Man, Paul didn't have bad days,30:58 he had bad decades. Those are all his problems. There were a lot of whats that came Paul's way that could've caused him to doubt God's love for him. That could've caused him to to run away from the faith.31:10 But Paul says, listen there's no who and there's no what that is gonna remove me from God's grace and God's love. So read on. He says no, everybody say no. Alright, can any of those take us away?31:22 Absolutely not. He says in, not from, all these things, we are more than conquerors. Hupernikayo, succeeders with success, despair.31:34 Through him who loved us. Man, if you think about the things that Paul went through, it says he was imprisoned, he was flogged, he was he had 39 lashes given to him a number of times. He was stoned, he31:46 was beaten, he was shipwrecked, he was snake bit, he was naked. I'm telling you, he would have been an incredible reality show. But you would have wanted to watch it, not participate in31:58 it. He said the gentiles hated him, the jews hate him. He says, but know in all these things we are more than conquerors. Well how can that be? Here's where we close,32:10 because nothing can separate us from the love of God. Tap in for the next 1 minute, let me just read this to you. Paul goes through all these things, hardships, trials,32:22 he says but I am convinced. Everybody say convinced. I am convinced. It's almost as gone from a preaching to a pastoral tone. A reflective32:34 tone, and my prayer is maybe there's some of you here that that that you've been chasing after the world like the prodigal, or you're you're in trials and you're troubles and tribulation and Paul just turns preacher on32:45 you, turns from preacher to pastor on you. He says, child of God, become convinced that neither death nor life,32:57 nor angels nor demons, neither things that are present, nor something in future, nor any power, neither height, nor depth, nor anything33:09 else in all of creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is found in Christ Jesus our Lord.33:22 What an incredible thought. Paul is sitting here saying that if you are a child of God right now,33:34 nothing will ever ever ever ever separate you33:41 from the love of God.33:43 There's no who that can snatch you out of the Father's hand. There's no what you can go through that will cost you33:55 salvation. There's nothing in the present you can do or in the future that can get you out of God's hands. I love in John chapter 1034:07 verse 28, Jesus was having a dialogue and he says hang on. You asking if people can fall away? He goes, not after they're truly saved.34:21 Jesus, they said how do you know that? And he goes, well I give them eternal life. And once I give them eternal life, no 1 can34:32 snatch them out of my hand. A child of God, regardless of the who's or the what's in your life that wanna pull you away from God, you can never be snatched out of the hand of the 1 who34:44 died for you and saves you. But then if you just read a couple verses on, he says and by the way, I'm strong but the father34:56 who's greater than them all also has us in his hand. So child of God, we want to walk with the Lord.35:09 We want to fight from our victory and not for it. But the question becomes is have you ever come to a moment in time in your life where you've trusted Jesus Christ as savior, Lord?35:21 I want to invite everybody in the room and everybody online just to bow your heads and do business with God. I think everybody here wants that moment, that season where we have35:33 confidence that whatever comes my way, nothing can separate me from the love of God. God, thank you so much for Romans chapter 8.35:45 Thank you so much for the Apostle Paul just taking us to the mountain of your grace and your love that is not temporary but is eternal. God thank you for the35:56 glory that you bring, God thank you that nothing can separate, divide us, disconnect us from your love and your grace ever. There's no who and there's no what36:10 that removes me from being your child. In Jesus name we pray, amen and amen.In this video 0:00 More Than Conquerors: Living in Victory
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