Offering Hope: That Produces Fearless Joy

Romans 8:37. Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.  

Paul is speaking of the things that might seem likely to separate or wedge in between the saint and the love of God;… but none of them is able to wedge in between the love of God and the soul of the saint.  

The bedrock of our Christian faith is the unmerited, un-understandable marvel of the love of God displayed on the Cross of Calvary. 

Paul says this is the reason we are more than conquerors in all these things, super-victors, with a joy we would not have but for the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us. 

The surf that distresses the ordinary swimmer produces in the surf-rider the super joy of going clean through it.  

Tribulation, distress, persecution, produce in us the super, fearless joy. We are more than conquerors through Him in all these things, not in spite of them, but in the midst of them.  

The saint never knows the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it. “I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation,” says Paul. 

The experiences of life, terrible or monotonous, are powerless to touch the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

The Church is Offering Hope, real, relevant, everlasting and FEARLESS HOPE through the Gospel. 

– Pastor T. H. Sheppard