MORE THAN CONQUERORS

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• MORE THAN CONQUERORS
• ROMANS 831-39

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• Ro 831-39
• 31 What then shall we say to these things? If
  God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did
  not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for
  us all, how will He not also with Him freely give
  us all things? 33 Who will bring a charge against
  God's elect? God is the one who justifies 34 who
  is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who
  died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the
  right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 35
  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution,
  or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36
  Just as it is written, "For Thy sake we are being
  put to death all day long
• We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
• 37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly
  conquer through Him who loved us. 38 For I am
  convinced that neither death, nor life, nor
  angels, nor principalities, nor things present,
  nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height,
  nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be
  able to separate us from the love of God, which
  is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• NASB

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• Eight things we are assured of from Romans
  chapter 8

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• 1. There is no condemnation to those who are in
  Christ Jesus v. 1-11
• 2. We have been adopted into Gods family v. I5 -
  We are His children and He is our Father. Sense
  of belonging and permanence.
• 3. We are joint heirs v. I7
• 4. We have received the Holy Spirit as a
  guarantee of our final and ultimate redemption V.
  23.
• 5, The Spirit intercedes in our prayer life when
  we dont know what to pray. V 26-27
• 6. God is always at work in the circumstances of
  our lives that we might be conformed to the image
  of Christ. 28
• 7. Those who believe have been justified v. 30
• 8. Those who have been justified are assured
  they we will be glorified v.30

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• There is a 9th assurance we have.
• GOD IS FOR US! V. 31

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• Because God is for you no one can prevail
  against you.
• No one, no thing, no circumstance, no situation.

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• 1. God has withheld nothing from us. V. 32

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• God gave you everything necessary for salvation
  - Jesus Christ.
• He gives you everything necessary to live that
  salvation in this world - His Holy Spirit and all
  the ministry the Spirit does in us and for us
  including the inspiration of the written Word to
  us.
• He has not withheld the glory of eternal life
  which will result in living in perfect harmony
  with Him in the future.

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• 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
  Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy
  has caused us to be born again to a living hope
  through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
  dead, 4 to obtain an inheritance which is
  imperishable and undefiled and will not fade
  away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are
  protected by the power of God through faith for a
  salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• 1 Pet 13-5 NASB

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• 2. God will allow nothing and no one to condemn
  us.

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• Who can bring a charge against us? V. 33
• Who can condemn us? V. 34

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• God who is our judge has already deemed us
  justified not by anything weve done or will do
  or can do, but only through Christ.

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• Condemnation also fails because Jesus Christ
  saves us from all condemnation by his death,
  resurrection, exaltation and continued
  intercession.

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• The conclusion God is for us, and nothing can
  ultimately prevail against us.
• We can overcome because of the cross, where God
  demonstrated the ultimate degree of His love by
  delivering Christ to face the penalty of sin for
  us.
• God declares that the righteous demands of His
  Law have been fulfilled in the righteousness of
  His Son.

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• 3. God will allow nothing to separate us from
  His love v.v. 35-39

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• Who can separate us from the love of Christ?

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• Because nothing can separate us from Christs
  love, in all things we are victorious through
  Christ.

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• 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor
  life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things
  present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor
  height, nor depth, nor any other created thing,
  shall be able to separate us from the love of
  God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Rom 838-39 NASB

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• Taken in context these verses provide a strong
  statement in support of the doctrine of eternal
  security.

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• There are those who believe who believe we are
  wrong in this interpretation and that there is a
  difference between the love of God Paul talks
  about here and the life of God he described in
  Eph 418.
• 17 This I say therefore, and affirm together
  with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as
  the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their
  mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding,
  excluded from the life of God, because of the
  ignorance that is in them, because of the
  hardness of their heart Eph 417-18 NASB

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• Those who believe in eternal security
  acknowledge there is absolutely no doubt sin
  separates us from God.
• There is no doubt that the unrighteous will not
  inherit the kingdom of God.

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• We would agree that God by definition is love (1
  Jn 48), and His love is universal. In other
  words He loves all of His creation including the
  unsaved.

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• Gods universal love is not the love Paul is
  referring to in verses 38 and 39.
• The love Paul writes about here is the love God
  has for those who are in Christ.

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• While the Bible is clear sin separates us from
  God, and that God loves all humanity, the other
  side of the biblical message of Gods love is the
  cross

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• In the New Testament through the incarnation of
  Christ the spotless Lamb of God came into the
  world to atone for sin, all sin and to take it
  away that what atone means (Rom 610 Heb 1010)
  in ultimate fulfillment of Gods love.

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• For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is
  the power of God for salvation to everyone who
  believes. . ..
• Rom 116 NASB

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• The love of God demonstrated through the cross
  makes the life of God possible or available to
  all humanity, however, it only imparts the life
  of God to those who believe.

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• Paul used two words in 323-24 to describe the
  believers position justified and redeemed ,
  bought with a price and declared righteous.
• Not on the basis of anything we have done. The
  basis for both redemption and justification is
  solely the cross of Christ.

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• "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been
  forgiven, and whose sins have been covered.
• "Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not
  take into account.
• Rom 47-8 NAS

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• He who was delivered up because of our
  transgressions, and was raised because of our
  justification. Rom 425 NASB

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• For the death that He died, He died to sin,
  once for all Rom 610 NASB
• For Christ also died for sins once for all, the
  just for the unjust, in order that He might bring
  us to God. . .
• 1 Pet 318 NASB

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• The conclusion is that in the context of Romans
  love moves from a general or universal concept
  which God has for all humanity to a specific
  meaning. This specific love is equated with
  salvation which God has given those who have
  believed in Christ.

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• We are eternally secure because our security is
  through Him by Him and in Him.

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• Does that mean believers dont have to fear
  hell? Yes.
• Does that mean we can just live any way we
  choose once we are saved?
• Certainly not.