More Than Conquerors in God's Love
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
11/13/2016 PM
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Text:
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Romans 8:35-39
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Psalters: |
25, 358, 266, 407 |
Confession of Faith |
- The struggle.
- 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.
- The object of the struggle is to destroy God’s elect spiritually so they think that God has or will stop loving them.
- Note that this is not about our love for God, i.e., whether we will stop loving God.
- Rather the question is whether God’s love endures all our sins, as well as the trials, assaults, and tribulations.
- In the face of all these difficulties, we are to be persuaded of something which is contrary to our feelings and all efforts.
- To be “persuaded” is to have reached a settled and confident conclusion after much consideration.
- This settled conclusion was brought about by the evidence God set before Paul and me.
- That about which Paul and I are persuaded is that nothing can “separate us from the love of God which is in Christ.”
- 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.
- Consider the activity of God’s love.
- The wonderful result is that we are “more than conquerors” (not just a conqueror).
- Nothing, in life or death, is able to separate us from God’s abiding, unconditional love in Christ.
- The idea is that we are hyper-conquerors (literal) and completely victorious, so the result was never in doubt.
- 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.