Romans: Lesson 17 – Victory

Romans: Lesson 17 – Victory

Celebrating Our Victory in Christ

Scripture Focus: Romans 8:26-39 (NASB)

In this triumphant and celebratory lesson, Chris Pope arrives at one of the most powerful and comforting passages in all of Scripture. Paul declares that no matter what our life circumstances are, we have victory in Christ. The Spirit helps us in our weakness, interceding for us with groanings too deep for words. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Chris reminds us that if God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son will freely give us all things. Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Neither tribulation, nor distress, nor persecution, nor famine, nor nakedness, nor danger, nor sword. In all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

This lesson is a celebration of the victory we have in Jesus. Nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. No matter what we face, we are more than conquerors. Celebrate that!

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Scripture Focus:

Romans 8:26-39 (NASB) – "In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? Just as it is written: 'For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.' But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."