Victory

Romans 8:37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

            The keynote of the text is “Victory.” It is the characteristic of all God’s works, that whatever he does, he does abundantly. There is always something in excess; a David’s cup that run over, or a Joseph’s bough which run over the wall.

            Every miracle was done over flowingly. The lame man not only walked but leaped. When the daughter of Jairus was raised to life, Jesus commands that “something be given her to eat”; and the very fragments of His feedings are “twelve baskets full.”

            Christ came into this world “that we might have life, more abundantly.” The life in union with him is a truer and a greater life than unfallen life, than any angel’s life could ever have been. “We are more than conquerors.”

I.                   Consider how Christ was “more than Conqueror.”

1.      In his death

a.       A prayer for his enemies

b.      A provision of the filial tenderness for his mother

c.       A free pardon to a sinner.

d.      The largess of a kingdom with a royal hand.

e.       These were the achievements of the dying man, Christ Jesus. “More than Conquerors.”

2.      In his rising

a.       The victory would have been complete it that body had come forth the same, but he did more.

b.      The body was more beautiful, more spiritual than the body which was laid in the grave.

3.      In his ascension and exaltation.

His ascends but does not leave his followers to weep, for he is more with them than before, he is exalted, and none is orphaned. He is “more than conqueror.”

II.                The believer is more than Conqueror

1.      In the contest with Satan, God undertakes that His people shall not be overcome, and more, that they shall overcome and put the enemy in fear. “He will flee from you.”

2.      Then a sin overcome necessarily becomes a virtue. Satan is foiled with his own weapons, and Israel enriched with the spoiled of Egypt. That too much speaking will become eloquence for Christ, that temper will make zeal.

3.      The Christian would not exchange the dark memories of sorrow and bereavement for the sunniest of the world’s hours.

a.       There was so much of Christ in them, so much of a tranquil mind, so much of heaven that he comes of the sorrow “more than conqueror.”

b.      And so when we die, like a ship, at high tide, pressing full sailed into port, “an entrance is ministered unto us abundantly” into the kingdom. The world conquers the church is “More than conqueror.”