The Reality of Total Victory

LifePoint Church Chicopee

Text: Romans 8:31-39

Summary: God’s plan for our salvation is nothing short of total and complete victory!

Romans 8:31–39 (The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language)

31So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose?

32If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us?

33And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen?

34Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us.

35Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

36They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

37None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us.

38I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow,

39high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

2 Corinthians 1:20 (NLT) For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Amen” (which means “Yes”) ascends to God for his glory.

· Gods Yes brings Gods righteousness in Christ so there is NO Condemnation because of sin.

· Gods Yes gives the Spirit of God who empowers us to live so there is NO Obligation to the law.

· Gods Yes delivers the blessed Hope of Jesus Christ so there is NO Fear in our sufferings.

· Gods Yes ensures the fulness of the Love of Christ so there is NO Separation from God ever.

1) God is for us. V31

31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

“When you are confident in the One who is For You, you stop worrying about who is against you!”

Isaiah 41:10 (NLT). Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.

2) Christ has died for us. V32

32He 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?

Romans 3:23–25 (NLT) For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

24Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. 25For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin.

People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood.

3) God has justified us. V 33

33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

Romans 5:17 (NLT). For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ.

4) Christ himself intercedes for us. V 34. He is Savior, Mediator

34Who 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.

5) Christ loves us. V 35-39.

A -We are confident through the Struggle.

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

36As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

B – We are confident of victory.

37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

C - Fully Convinced of Gods Promise! V 38-39.

38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor 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.