More Than Conquerors in God's Love

Minister:
Date: PM
Text: Romans 8:35-39
Psalters: 25, 358, 266, 407
Confession of Faith
  1. The struggle.
    1. The struggle consists of the devil’s attacks against God’s elect by his use of: temptations, tribulations, distress, persecution, peril, sword, death, life, fallen angels, powers, things present and things to come.
    2. The object of the struggle is to destroy God’s elect spiritually so they think that God has or will stop loving them.
      1. Note that this is not about our love for God, i.e., whether we will stop loving God.
      2. Rather the question is whether God’s love endures all our sins, as well as the trials, assaults, and tribulations.
  2. In the face of all these difficulties, we are to be persuaded of something which is contrary to our feelings and all efforts.
    1. To be “persuaded” is to have reached a settled and confident conclusion after much consideration.
    2. This settled conclusion was brought about by the evidence God set before Paul and me.
    3. That about which Paul and I are persuaded is that nothing can “separate us from the love of God which is in Christ.”
      1. God’s love is the power of God’s favorable attitude to the unlovable and unlovely which is effectively changes us so that in Christ we are lovely.
      2. Consider the activity of God’s love.
  3. The wonderful result is that we are “more than conquerors” (not just a conqueror).
    1. Nothing, in life or death, is able to separate us from God’s abiding, unconditional love in Christ.
    2. The idea is that we are hyper-conquerors (literal) and completely victorious, so the result was never in doubt.
    3. Let us look above the opposition and the battle and see God, His love, and then see the power, the unconditional nature, and the eternity of His love.