Good morning. Are you ready today to be more than a conqueror? The reason I ask that question is because the passage we're going to look

at today on the morning mindset is telling us we are more than conquerors through

Jesus Christ who loved us.

You see Paul is trying to orient our thinking through what he's writing here

around the truth of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ and that really

is what this morning mindset is all about. We want to approach today with our

minds oriented around the truth of God.

Amen, that's what we're about.

So Paul has just listed this whole list of things

that come into our lives at times tribulation, distress, persecution,

and then other very extreme things, famine, nakedness, danger, sword, things that could come against us,

and cause us to think that perhaps Jesus doesn't really love us.

And that's a dangerous place to be, isn't it?

Questioning, whether or not Jesus really loves us.

Because if Jesus doesn't really love us,

we are then placed into a position of hopelessness. There's just nothing in life that is

secure at that point. And what Paul is doing is he's trying to assure us that in spite of those kinds of things.

We can be absolutely confident that Jesus does love us.

And so he's just listed all these things, and he says they cannot separate us from the love of

Christ. He says in all these things. So even when you're experiencing those kinds of issues in your life,

we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. You see Jesus' love goes deeper than just the

momentary circumstances of your life.

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