Thank you. Sometimes in the depths of suffering, our faith might falter.

We may be tempted to doubt God or his goodness.

Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg considers why the Apostle Paul was completely

confident about the steadfast love of Christ and why we can be equally convinced. We're in

Romans chapter 8. Well, by the time we reach verse 37, which is essentially where we arrive this morning,

Paul's rhetorical questions have come to an end. And he's moving to a grand finale. And in doing so,

he makes these two great declarations. He has affirmed the fact that

nothing will separate us from the love of Christ. It's important for us to recognize that it is

the love of Christ, not our love for Christ, but Christ's love for us. It's not as encouraging,

if it were, about our love for him, which frankly can ebb and flow. But the love of Christ

towards us and for his people is an unerring love, and it is without any variableness

or shadow due to change, and nothing separates us from the love of God for us. And so, having

identified these things which we said this morning, would challenge our happiness and challenge

our security, trouble or hardship, or persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, sword.

As it is written in the Old Testament, as we read from Psalm 44, the people of God have faced

death all day long. They have been regarded as sheep to be

slaughtered. He then says, triumphantly, no, no, no, in all these things, we are more than conquerors.

It's as if he actually invents another Greek word. He uses a word, which is a compound word.

He's not happy just to say we're conquerors. He declares that we are more than conquerors.

The word he uses is the word that gives us our word hyper. We are hyper conquerors through

him who loved us. And only this heightened word can do justice to describing the victory that

is ours in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. And it is important for us to realize that he's not saying

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