08-24-08 #Disciple Bible Study entitled " More than conquerors "

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<Tigre_branco> tonight's Bible study is entitled "More than conquerors"

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<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:28) And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:29) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:30) Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:31) What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

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<Tigre_branco> What shall we say to these things? The rest of the chapter is a hymn of triumph over this assurance of salvation.

<Tigre_branco> If God be for us. What has been shown shows that he is for all who love God. If he is on our side, we must prevail.

<Tigre_branco> Or as someone once said : If God's for us who cares who's against us

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<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:32) He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

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<Tigre_branco> He that spared not his own Son. If he gave his Son to die for us, it is impossible that he should refuse us anything that will help or bless us. He has nothing he values more than his Son.

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<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:33) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

<SSteacher> Amen

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<Tigre_branco> Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? No one can, since God himself has justified them.

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<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:34) Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

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<Tigre_branco> Who is he that condemneth? There can be no condemnation (Rom_8:1) since Christ died . . . is risen . . . and maketh intercession for us. There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.

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<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:35) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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<Tigre_branco> Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Can anything? Can the sufferings of the Christian calling in a time of persecution, such as the prophet described and the early Christians suffered

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<Tigre_branco> Romans 8:36) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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<Tigre_branco> As it is written. In Psa_44:22. Will such persecution lead us to abandon Christ?

<Tigre_branco> (Psalms 44:22) Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

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<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:37) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

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<Tigre_branco> Nay. Not all these sufferings can lead us from Christ, for in all these things we are more than conquerors. We overcome by the aid of him that loved us.

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<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:38) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor prin****lities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

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<Tigre_branco> For I am persuaded. No hostile power of the universe can lead us away, is the apostle's holy confidence.

<Tigre_branco> Death nor life. These adversaries seem to advance in pairs. Death is named first, because death by martyrdom threatens.

<Tigre_branco> The next pair is angels, and prin****lities and powers. "The angels" are good angels, while malignant angels are meant by the other terms.

<Tigre_branco> Nor things present, nor the things to come. The present or the future.

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<Tigre_branco> (Romans 8:39) 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.

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<Tigre_branco> Nor height, nor depth. Perhaps, the things which exalt us and the things which cast us down. Things high and things low.

<Richard> amen

<Tigre_branco> Nor any other creature. Any other created thing.

<Tigre_branco> Shall be able. None of these, "I am persuaded," shall have power enough to tear us away from Christ, by causing us to apostatize.

<Tigre_branco> The love of God, which is in Christ. God's great love for us is all shown through Christ. Nowhere has Paul shown more exultation, more overflowing emotion, than in this close of a profound argument, which shows the complete and full salvation of those who believe upon Christ and are found in him