Romans 8: 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Paul summarized all the sufferings of this present time, all the things that can attack the believer, and said in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us. YHWH has made the believer more than a conqueror.
Few of us have realized that our combat is with the eternally defeated one. How few Christians know that Satan was eternally defeated when Jesus arose from the dead, that He couldn’t have risen until Satan was disarmed of all authority, and that Jesus was to be the Head of an unconquerable body!
Sin-consciousness had been the outstanding enemy of the believer, but there is no ground for it anymore. We have been made legally perfect in Christ.
If one knew that sin and sins were put away when they were born again, that there was no past that could ever confront them again, it would change their life completely.
2 Corinthians 5: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Everything that we have ever been and everything that we have ever done was put away, our sins were remitted. Our nature that has led us to sin has changed. A new nature has taken its place. The blood has cleansed us. We are now utterly one with Christ. We are complete in Him.
Colossians 2: 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
THE FATHER’S WORK
Colossians 2: 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.
That completeness is a result of the finished work of Jesus on the cross.
Ephesians 2:10: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.”
The Father couldn’t create anything in His Son that wasn’t perfectly well pleasing to Himself. We have been created in His Son.
The actual working out of that is described in 2 Corinthians 5:17–18: “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ.”
That new creation is a new species that stands complete and perfect in the Father’s presence. This new creation is as perfect as the first creation was in the garden. The difference is that this new creation is a son, an heir of God, and a joint heir with Jesus Christ.
You can see what this means. It puts us into the same class with Jesus—as conquerors.
Romans 8: There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
These verses were written for us, the new creation people.
Romans 8: 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
In these four verses we have the assurance of the Father’s being for us, and that He has freely given us all things that pertain to godliness and to a life of victory in this present evil age in which we are living. He challenges anyone to lay anything to our charge. We are God’s elect. God has recreated us; God has justified us. God has made us who we now are.
In the thirty-fifth verse it says, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?”
It can’t be done. You are more than a forgiven sinner. You are a recreated son of God, a master of demons. In the mind of the Father you are utterly one with Jesus. But it doesn’t end there.
Your triumph, your victory, makes it possible for you to stand in the Father’s presence just as though you were Jesus Himself.
Do you know what is to be understood in that? If you can stand in the Father’s presence without condemnation, you can stand in the presence of Satan or demons without fear. You are Satan’s master.
2 Corinthians 5: 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
We have become the righteousness of God in Christ, and by becoming the righteousness of God in Christ we have become masters of all unrighteousness. We are the masters of the forces that have made unrighteousness.
Do you know what Righteousness means here, it means the ability to stand in the Father’s presence without the sense of guilt or inferiority, or condemnation.
You are superior to the forces of darkness. You are a master of everything that is evil.
John 1: 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
“For of his fullness we all received, and grace for grace.” What is that fullness? It is what Jesus is in Himself. That is what made Him who He is.
When you received eternal life, you received the very thing that makes Jesus what He is.
You received of the Father His very nature; so, if you have received into your spirit that which makes God what He is, you are like Him.
When the church recognizes this, it is going to revolutionize the whole structure of the church.
Jesus and Paul spoke the Father’s words. That is what made Jesus omnipotent. The same omnipotence is in the Pauline Revelation for us. You can say, “I am what He says I am.” He has said that you are His child, and you are what He says you are.
1 John 3: 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Now “in all these things we are more than conquerors” (Romans 8:37), and we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.
There is no earthly power or demonic power that can separate us from the Father’s love that was in Jesus. You are His own, and He is yours.
Let us go over some facts on which you can build an unchanging consciousness of victory. These Scriptures that I am going to use are all familiar to you.
Colossians 1: 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and transfered us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
You have been delivered out of Satan’s dominion by the new birth. You have been translated into the family of God by the new birth.
When that took place, everything that pertained to the old life was crucified with Christ.
Satan’s dominion ended right there. Everything that Satan brought into the world by Adam’s transgression has been nullified and brought under the dominating power of the new creation in Christ.
There is a perfect redemption. When your heart knows it as you know the difference between hot and cold, Satan’s dominion over your life ends.
2 Corinthians 5: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Do you notice something? “The old things are passed away.” What are the old things? They are failure, weakness, fear, and a sense of unworthiness. They have stopped being.
What are you? You are a branch of Christ. You are a part of Christ just as the branch is a part of the vine. Christ is in you, The living Word, and the Word is God.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 15: 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
The same characteristics that were manifested in Jesus’ earth walk can now be manifested in you.
All it requires is that you abide in Him and his word abides in you. And you speak the word as boldly as Jesus did.
1 Timothy 6: 12 Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and for which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you 14 to keep the commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession.
Our battle is described in the twelfth verse: “Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life.”
Jesus fought the good fight of faith; the battle is the Lord’s and He won it two thousand years ago.
We enforce that defeat. We confess the defeat of the enemy and our own victory in Christ.
The good fight of faith is not a struggle on your part. It is a recognition and a confession on your part of the victory that you and Yeshua won over the adversary in that great substitutionary battle that took place before He arose from the dead.
Revelation 1: 18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
You were identified in that. You were crucified with Him. You were buried with Him. You were raised with Him. You conquered the enemy with Him.
With faith upon this foundation, you can face your enemy without fear. “You are the righteousness of God in Christ.”
Just as Jesus said, “I am the vine, ye are the branches” (John 15:5); “I am the light of this world” (John 8:12); you can say, “I am who YHWH says I am.”, “I can do what YHWH says I can do.”
Philippians 4: 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
We are moving out of the realm of weakness into the realm of victory; and you can say, “I am more than a conqueror, for I am complete in Him who is the head of all principalities, and powers”
1 John 4: 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
You are born of God, created in Christ Jesus. You are now a master. You are becoming God-inside conscious. You are learning to let the Holy Spirit have His place in you.
In the past we have given freedom to our human feelings and have said things that at the time were unseemly, now we are giving place to the One who is shedding abroad His love, His very nature and life into our hearts.
We are saying, “Holy Spirit, take charge of my speech, my thinking. Govern all the faculties connected with reason and teach me how to live as the man Jesus Christ lived.”
You have a legal right to YHWH’S nature and abilities in Jesus’ name.
John 14: 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
You are acting in the place of the Jesus now. You have unsheathed the sword of the spirit, this living Word, and in your mouth that living Word becomes a dominating force as it was in the mouth of the Jesus.
You see, you are united with Him. He is the Vine and you are a branch. You grew out of Him. You were created in Him. And you are continually joining your spirit to his so that the Spirit is filling you and flowing through you.
Romans 6: 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
That new man has taken the place of the old man. There is a vital, absolute union between your spirit and the Spirit of Christ. It is as vital as the branch is vital in its union with the vine. You bear His name now.
He has made you who and what you are, and you recognize the legal aspects of redemption, and you are allowing them to operate in you vitally (To give God’s life full reign).
If you talk bad about yourself and talk about what you are not, you deny the glory of Jesus’ finished work on the cross and you give place to the enemy. Our words either empower the enemy or the Holy Spirit.
We must first be established in our legal identify in Christ before you can walk it out.
It is a little difficult with all the Christians around you that are magnifying your weaknesses and failure, but you must magnify your union with Christ and come into a oneness of spirit by continually joining your spirit to His that you can be continually filled.
The Holy Spirit is our very strength on this day. He is your ability.
Psalm 23:1 YHWH is my shepherd; I shall not fail or lack 2He makes me to lie down in green pastures.
We need to visualize ourselves as we literally are in Christ. We must get rid of the old pictures that we had in our minds of ourselves, and see ourselves as YHWH sees us.
We need to enter the victory of the battle that was won in Christ.”
“What would you do if sin had never been in your life?” Then you have a picture of how the Father see’s us, acts toward us, as though we had never sinned.
1 Corinthians 1: 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
We need to make the word personal.
“My Father is faithful to me. He has called me to come and walk with His Son, to live with Him, to carry on the Son’s work in His absence. He has called me to fellowship with Him.”
Verse 9 “God is faithful.” Faithful to whom? He is faithful to His Son who made it possible for us to be born again, to become His children.
The Father acts as though sin had never been as far as I am concerned. When He recreated me, He forgot all about my past. Why, the new creation has no past. It is a “now creation.”
HOW MUCH DO YOU REMEMBER?
- Explain what being a “conqueror” can mean to the believer.
- Show the difference between God’s first creation and the new man.
- Explain John 1:16 fully.
- On what authority can the new creation say, “I am what He says I am”?
- Give Scripture and discuss how the believer builds a stable consciousness of victory.
- What was the secret of Jesus’s victory?
- Explain Romans 6:5 fully.
- How can the child of God rob Him of the glory of His finished work?
- What is the Father’s attitude toward the recreated ones?
- What does the term, “In the Beloved” reveal?