More Than Conquerors – The Saturday Morning Post by Pastor Ted Stahl
Good morning. Did you get to read Romans chapter 8 today with the Second Milers? Romans 8:28 through 39 is one of my favorite passages. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:28 – 39)
We are more than conquerors. If God be for us, who can be against us? Nobody can stand against God. We can go forward for the cause of Christ and nothing can stop us. Why don’t we? We trust the Lord for our salvation, why not His cause? I think it’s fear. Remember when twelve, one from each tribe of Israel went to check out the promised land. All but two, Caleb and Joshua, gave a bad report that discouraged Israel from going over Jordan. They feared the giants in the land. And then what happened? God had Moses lead the children of Israel through the wilderness, for 40 years, until all that rebelled were dead. Only then was Israel allowed to cross over into the promised land. They didn’t believe that God would go over before them to fight, that the battle was His.
We all reach a point in our lives when we either trust Christ with our lives, or don’t trust Him. Our Lord only wants the best for His children. Are you going to be like Joshua and Caleb, or like the other ten; an encourager, or a discourager? If you want to be an encourager, the Lord has laid on our preachers heart to knock on a multitude of doors today. We’re meeting at the church, and leaving at 11:00 am. Be an encourager: be there – early.
Peace. (Romans 8:15)
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