{"id":10215,"date":"2011-11-27T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2012-01-04T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:27:20","slug":"more-than-conquerors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2011\/11\/27\/more-than-conquerors\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Conquerors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cNo, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.\u201d
\n— Romans 8:37<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The apostle had enumerated certain things which, to the obscure eye of faith, and to the yet obscurer eye of sense, would appear to make against the best interests of the Christian, regarded either as evidences of a waning of Christ\u2019s love to him, or as calculated to produce such a result.<\/p>\n

He proposes an inquiry\u2013\u201dWho shall separate us from the love of Christ?\u201d\u2013and then proceeds to give the reply. That reply sets the question entirely at rest. He argues, that so far from the things which he enumerates shaking the constancy of Christ\u2019s love, periling the safety of the Christian, or shading the luster of His renown, they but developed the Savior\u2019s affection to him, more strongly confirmed the fact of his security, and entwined fresh and more verdant laurels around his brow. \u201cNo, in all these things we are more than conquerors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough Him that loved us.\u201d Here is the great secret of our victory, the source of our triumph. Behold the mystery explained, how a weak, timid believer, often starting at his own shadow, is yet \u201cmore than a conqueror\u201d over his many and mighty foes. To Christ who loved him, who gave Himself for him, who died in his stead, and lives to intercede on his behalf, the glory of the triumph is ascribed. And this is the song he chants: \u201cThanks be to God, which gives us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through the conquest which He Himself obtained, through the grace which He imparts, through the strength which He inspires, through the intercession which he presents, in all our \u201ctribulation and distress, and persecution, and famine, and nakedness, and peril, and sword,\u201d we are \u201cmore than conquerors.\u201d Accounted though we are as \u201csheep for the slaughter,\u201d yet our great Shepherd, Himself slain for the sheep, guides His flock, and has declared that no one shall pluck them out of His hand. We are more than conquerors, through His grace who loved us, in the very circumstances that threaten to overwhelm.<\/p>\n

Fear not, then, the darkest cloud, nor the proudest waves, nor the deepest needs\u2013in these very things you shall, through Christ, prove triumphant. Nor shrink from the battle with the \u201clast enemy.\u201d Death received a death-wound when Christ died. You face a conquered foe. He stands at your side a crownless king, and waving a broken scepter. Your death shall be another victory over the believer\u2019s last foe. Planting your foot of upon His prostrate neck, you shall spring into glory, more than a conqueror through Him that loved you.<\/p>\n

Thus entering heaven in triumph, you shall go to swell the ranks of the \u201cnoble army of martyrs\u201d\u2013those Christian heroes of whom it is recorded, \u201cThey overcame him by the blood of the Lamb.\u201d
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