We often live in defeat.  We live as if God didn’t love us.  We live with little power.  Honestly, we live just like everyone else does.

But this passage (Rom 8:28-39) is like smelling salts:  It wakes us from our slumber.  If we apply faith as this passage calls us to, we will live radically different lives.

Rom 8:37  “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”

The phrase, “more than conquerors“ means to gain a surpassing victory.  Not just plain victory, but literally we are hyper–conquerors.   We are like a “winner on steroids“.  And a winner through and in Christ.

We are winners with Almighty God on our side (vs. 31).  We are winners with a God who won’t hesitate to give us whatever we need (vs. 32).  We are hyper-winners who are justified, aquitted, not guilty in Christ (vs. 33).  We are conquerors at peace with God and with no condemnation ever hanging over our heads (vs. 34).  We are overcomers who can never be separated from the incredible, passionate love God has for us (vs. 35).  We are hyper-conquerors over our greatest enemy:  death (vs. 39).

How do we win?  Christ.  Only and always Christ. “Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Cor 15:57)

Albert Barnes says, ““We gain the victory.  That is, they have not power to subdue us;  to alienate our love and confidence; to produce apostasy.  We are the victors, not they.  Our faith is not destroyed; our love is not diminished; our hope is not blasted. But it is not simple victory; it is not mere life, and continuance of what we had before;  it is more than simple triumph;  it augments our faith, increases our strength, expands our love to Christ.”