Romans 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Romans 7:15, 18-20 – 15For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 18For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
Romans 7:24-25a – 24O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Romans 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
If you have given your life to Christ, you are never lost and you can never lose. You are victors of the highest measure!
Romans 8:37-39 – 37Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
OUR VICTORY IS INDESCRIBABLE
Romans 8:35-36 – 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
Romans 8:37 – Yet in all these things we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS through Him who loved us.
We Are Ultimate Conquerors
“more than conquerors” (hupernikao) – virtually untranslatable
- Root word (nikao) – to conquer, to come off victorious (“NIKE”)
- Prefix (huper) – over, beyond, more than (“SUPER”, “HYPER”)
It Declares What We Have Overcome
John 16:33 – Tribulations of the World
Romans 3:4 –False Accusations of Others
Romans 12:21 – Evil
1 John 2:13, 14 – The Wicked One
1 John 4:4 – False Teaching
1 John 5:4, 5 – The World
Revelation 12:11 – The Accuser
Revelation 15:2 – The Beast of the Tribulation
It Describes What We Have Obtained
Revelation 2:7 – The Tree of Life in the Paradise of God
Revelation 2:11 – Immunity From the Second Death in Hell
Revelation 2:26 – Power Over the Nations
Revelation 3:5 – Heavenly Garments and the Confirmation From Christ Before God and His Angels
Revelation 3:12 – A New Identity in Christ
Revelation 3:21 – A Seat Beside the Throne of Jesus
Revelation 21:7 – A Heavenly Inheritance and an Eternal Relationship with God
We Are Undeserving Conquerors
Romans 8:37 – Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors THROUGH HIM who loved us.
Romans 8:31-34 – 31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Ecclesiastes 3:14 – I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it that men should fear before Him.
OUR VICTORY IS IRREVERSIBLE
Romans 8:38-39 – 38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“I am persuaded” (peithos) – To be convinced of a truth without wavering. An action that has taken place once and for all, never to be revisited.
No Circumstance in Life Can Separate Us
neither death nor life
No Controlling Force Can Separate Us
nor angels nor principalities nor powers
John 10:28-29 – 28“And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.”
No Calendar or Clock Can Separate Us
nor things present nor things to come
John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have EVERLASTING life.”
“everlasting” (aionios) – A continued duration that is without end, or lasting forever
1 Timothy 1:17 – Now to the King ETERNAL, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
God is infinite or timeless.
Revelation 22:13 – “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”
God is omniscient or all-knowing.
Psalm 147:5 – Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.
1 John 3:20 – For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
No Chasm of Space Can Separate Us
nor height nor depth
John 10:11 – “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.”
Psalm 139:7-8 – Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
No Created Thing Can Separate Us
nor any other created thing
You are a Saint of God.
1 Corinthians 1:2 – To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who ARE SANCTIFIED in Christ Jesus, CALLED to be SAINTS, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.
You are a New Creation.
2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
You are Being Transformed.
2 Corinthians 3:18 – But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, ARE BEING TRANSFORMED into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Jeremiah 32:40 – “I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts that THEY MAY NOT TURN FROM ME.”
Matthew 7:21-23 – 21“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’