LESSON 23 MORE THAN CONQUERORS


Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 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 8:35, 37–39

Who or what can ever keep Christ’s love from us? When we have trouble or calamity, when we are persecuted, is it because He doesn’t love us anymore? And if we are hungry, or penniless, or in danger, or threatened with death, has God deserted us? No, for despite all these things that believers may experience; the fact that He who was God became a man loving us enough to die for us, forever proves God is on our side.

I have become absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, neither messenger of Heaven nor monarch of earth, neither what happens today nor what may happen tomorrow, neither a power from on high nor a power from below, nor anything else in God’s whole world shall be able to separate us from the love of God, in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38, 39 Phillips

“Him that loved us”

God’s attitude of love:

You are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and [when sinners turn to You and meet your conditions] You revoke the [sentence of] evil against them. Jonah 4:2 AMP

The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. Jeremiah 31:3

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Titus 3:3–5

For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. John 16:27

Proof of His love:

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:10

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us…. 1 John 3:16

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6–8

While we were yet in weakness [powerless to help ourselves], at the fitting time Christ died for (in behalf of) the ungodly. Now it is an extraordinary thing for one to give his life even for an upright man, though perhaps for a noble and lovable and generous benefactor someone might even dare to die. But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us. Romans 5:6–8 AMP

God’s love the power:

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:1–6

Quickened—Made alive; revived.

Conversation—General course of manners; behavior deportment; especially as it respects morals.

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15

“Conquerors through Him that loved us”

Come unto God by Him:

Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25

 By Him we are justified:

 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. Acts 13:39

Believe—To entrust (especially ones spiritual well being to Christ). Acknowledges Jesus as his Savior and devotes himself to Him.

• Though Him we are saved

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. John 3:17

Saved—To save, i.e. deliver or protect.

Saved from wrath through Him:

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Romans 5:9

Wrath—God’s wrath is His holy and just indignation against sin. The just punishment of an offense or crime.

Live through Him:

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 1 John 4:9

Triumph in Him:

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 2 Corinthians 2:14

Overcome the wicked one in Him:

I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. 1 John 2:13, 14

Made righteous in Him:

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 2 Corinthians 5:21

Crucified in Him:

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Romans 6:6

Victory through Christ:

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57

“More than Conquerors”

Conquerors—To gain a decisive victory.

In the book of Revelation in the messages to the seven churches there are promises made to the overcomer. And that which we are to overcome, and conqueror can only be in Christ. By Christ’s strength we can overcome the following failures, sin and compromise, as outlined in Revelation chapters two and three.

 • Loss of Christ our first love

• Spiritual coldness

• False doctrine and false theories

• Spiritual blindness

• Self-confidence

• Loss of piety and zeal

• Tribulation and suffering

• Prison

• False believers

• Doctrine of Balaam, covetousness and greed for gain, working with unbelievers to bring a downfall to the people of God.

• Doctrine of Nicolaitans, doctrines that corrupt the faith of the people of God.

• False prophecy and teaching

• Spiritual fornication

• Spiritual slumber and death

• Worldliness and sin

• Formality

• Defilement

• Forgetfulness and neglect of the truth

• Denying the name of the Lord

• False believers

• Hour of temptation

• Spiritual lukewarmness

• Spiritual nakedness

• Spiritual blindness

• Poverty of soul

What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?] He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things? Romans 8:31, 32
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