- God's Everything for Us
Romans 8:32-39
When you love someone, you want to give to that person whether it is your time, attention, or resources. God did not just love us in words, He demonstrated His love through actions.
Romans 8:32 ESV
[32] He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
In fact, God gave us His everything. Jesus was God's everything. Jesus died but also was raised from the grave by God and now He sits next to God advocating for us.
Romans 8:33-34 ESV
[33] Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. [34] Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
When we sin, we put doubt in our minds. We feel that we will be separated from God's love. Yet, this and no other situation will separate us from God's love.
Romans 8:35 ESV
[35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
The victory God talks about is the restored relationship that we have with Him because of His Son's obedience.
Romans 8:37-39 ESV
[37] No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. [38] For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, [39] nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Other victories may give us joy, but it will last for a short time. The victory we experience through Jesus's salvation is everlasting. This is why Paul says, "...we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." - Kingdom Planted Seeds
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