In Rom 8:37 we find these most wonderful and impressive words, "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." It was and is the voice of a conqueror who gave us this forceful passage of scripture and his power to speak in such a manner was the direct result of his determination to know nothing among his associate save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. God is all powerful and when He sets out to do something, there is none that can stay His hand. It is through the use of the divine power that we can become more than conquerors. Since this power is so mighty and is available to any and all who earnestly seek it, why do we not have a militant and powerful church on earth? It is because of great religious forces in the earth today have, by their tradition and human leadership, separated the people from this power. Human leadership alone is not able to call this power down from heaven. It takes Holy Ghost leadership through consecrated and devoted men, as was the apostle Paul, who are willing to let God have His way completely in their lives.

Paul was so great a conqueror over sin and the devil that it was said of him that he turned the world upside down. He was strong enough in Jesus Christ to wage a spectacular attack upon the strongest fortifications of the devil. He stood out against the great institution of paganism in his day almost single-handed and saw its great stronghold crumble and fall one by one. He surely was more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ. While it is true that we all cannot have this Holy Ghost power in the same measure that Paul did, every one of us can be more than conquerors over sin and the devil; for God promises never to leave nor forsake us but will be with us to the very end. Even the weakest saint can successfully run the Christian race, for Jesus said of His followers, 'My sheep hear my voice, and I know them and they follow me; and I give them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." God is ever standing at our-side to give us the power to successfully overcome every attack of the devil if we will earnestly seek His assistance.

The Spirit is Our Intercessor

Rom 8:26---The spirit helpeth our infirmities---The Spirit is our Comforter and Guide, and we must strive earnestly and sincerely to stay close enough to God so that we can feel His guiding hand upon us. If we will acknowledge Him in all our ways and lean not to our own understanding, He promises to direct our paths. Prayer is more than just saying words. It takes the anointing of the Spirit to make our prayer effective.

Verse 27---He maketh intercession for the saints---It is wonderful indeed to have the Spirit of God dwelling in our hearts so that He can direct our every activity and to help us to know just what and how we should pray. The closer we get to God and the more time we spend in prayer the more we are going to enjoy the blessings of salvation.

Verse 28---All things works together for good---When we are earnestly and sincerely serving God to the best of our knowledge and ability He is going to take the best of our knowledge and ability. He is going to take the best of care of us and He will not let anything come our way except what is for our own good. Therefore, we must praise Him for every trial that comes our way and strive with all of our hearts to get the good out of each trial that He desires us to get. This will give us that joy unspeakable and full of glory that Peter tells about.

God is Our Protector

Rom 8:31---If God Be For Us---We now that God is all powerful and that there is nothing too hard for Him. Therefore if we are on His side, what have we to fear? David realized the great protecting power of God and he said, "The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man," God is our very best friend and no one ever made a mistake by putting his trust in Him.

Verse 32---He that spared not His own Son-This surely proves the great love of God for the lost men on the earth by the sacrifice of His only begotten Son on the cruel cross of Calvary. This should greatly increase our faith in Him and help us to really believe that He will not withold any good thing from His trusting children.

Verse 33---Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect---God's elect are those that are living pure and holy life acceptable in the sight of God, and the world will not be able to justly lay any wrongdoing to their charge.

Verse 34---Who is he that condemneth---It is the godly life of Jesus Christ and his followers that condemns the world of sin. The sinner, as he takes note of the righteous life of the saints, will be condemned for his life of sins. The victory of Jesus Christ over death and His ascension to heaven at the right hand of the Father verifies the perfection of the example He left us to follow.

God Has Power To Keep

Rom 8:35---Who shall separate us from the love of Christ---There is nothing that can separate us from God if we will only have the will to walk the strait and narrow way. In this case the old saying, "Where there is a will there is a way" is absolutely true. God is ever standing at our side to give us the grace and courage to be a conqueror over every onslaught of the devil. He will never leave us or forsake us, and if the ordeal takes our life He will give us the grace to go through and land us safely in heaven, which is the grandest deliverance anyone could possibly have.

Verse 36-For thy sake we are killed all the day long---This is a quotation from Psa 44:22. God's true followers have always been the victims of persecution and always will be as long as the world stands, according to 2 Tim 3:12, "Yea and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."

Verse 37---We are more than conquerors---God's unlimited power is always at our disposal when we call upon Him with earnestness and sincerity. It is sin and the devil that we are to be conquerors of and God promises us that if we will steadfastly resist the devil he will have to flee. Therefore we can always have the victory over the devil because God's Word says so.

God is Faithful

Rom 8:38-39---Paul certainly knew from experience that there was no power great enough to separate the true and devoted child of Christ from the love of God. He had endured and conquered every attack that the devil could bring against him. He probably suffered the greatest persecution of any man that ever lived, but through it all he was able to rejoice and praise God that he was counted worthy to suffer for his Master's sake. God is no respecter of persons and He will do just as much for every one of us if we will set our faces like a flint with a determination to go through. Paul truly was a conqueror of the first rank and when he was about to leave for heaven he summed up his victory thus, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." And the most wonderful part of it all is that he is still enjoying to the full his victory over sin and the devil. I do hope that every reader of this remark will determine in his own heart and soul that by the grace of God he is going to meet dear brother Paul in the New Jerusalem.

The study of this lesson certainly should impress us with absolute truth of the Master's words to Martha when she desired Mary to leave Jesus' company and come and help her with the serving. He said, "Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Our eternity-bound soul is our most important possession and its welfare should, by all means, be our greatest concern.