More Than Conquerors.

 More than conquerors through Christ.

We live for eternal things, not temporal.

When we are caught up in the temporal we are not caught up in the eternal.

IF we are Christians our focus must be on the eternal and we forget this all the time-- all the time.  Satan focuses our lives on the temporal in any way he possibly can- from the smallest, to the greatest possible way Satan will work things so that we lose sight of eternity. 

We are truly more than conquerors through Christ, and we conquer the temporal through Christ. 

We aren't going to be filled with earthly riches and have the best lives here in our temporary lives. We are going to suffer in many various ways- large and small. We have conquered all the suffering by the realization that eternity is ours. We suffer now, endlessly, we can't escape the many millions of ways of suffering in this temporary life, we just can't. The suffering doesn't mean that we are abandoned by God. We are held always in the arms of our Great Shepherd, right now, as a once lost, but now blessedly found sheep. And we will be held by Him until that day we truly enter miraculously, abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

We must believe in the promises of the UNSEEN. This is faith, belief in the UNSEEN, belief in the ETERNAL which is UNSEEN.  More than conquerors through CHRIST.  All by His grace!

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'In Christ are mercy and truth met together. The same hand that holds the law, holds the pardon also. 

Brethren, remember this, that when the law was spoken from Sinai in thunder tones, it was in the hand of a mediator, even our Lord Jesus Christ. Then the same hand which holds the justice and that which convicts of sin, holds also the pardon. Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ.

"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." That idea of "much more" which is so prominent in chapter five, is found again in these verses.

We often hear the expression, "If I can only get inside the gates of heaven, I will be satisfied." I am so thankful that we don't have to just get in, as if we wished to apologize for our presence after we were there. Why not? Because He has promised that "an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."

"We have enemies to contend with," says one. Don't talk about them or your trials and temptations, but talk of the power of Christ. All power has been given to Him. so when we wrestle, we will remember that it is not an even-handed battle, but we fight a fight of faith and the power is given unto us whereby we can be more than conquerors through Him that loved us and gave Himself for us. Where sin abounded, there did grace much more abound.