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Victory in Christ

Posted by appolus on April 12, 2025

Who, I ask you, who can separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall trial? Shall agony? Shall persecution or hunger or nakedness or danger or the edge of the sword?
It is written—For Your sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

And yet—yet! In all these things, not outside of them, not after them, but in the very midst of them, we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

I am fully persuaded—utterly convinced—anchored with a faith that will not be shaken,
That neither death, nor life,
Nor angels nor demons,
Nor rulers nor tyrants,
Nor the present agony nor the looming shadow of the future,
Nor the height of ecstasy nor the depths of despair,
Nor anything that has ever been created in heaven or on earth or beneath the earth
—none of it, nothing—
shall be able to sever us, to tear us, to pry us loose from the love of God which is ours in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Oh, do you see it, saints?
We are more than conquerors—not just survivors, not merely enduring, but victorious with eternal weight—in every circumstance.

Whether clothed in splendor or stripped bare in affliction,
Whether seated in honor or cast into the pit of shame,
Whether celebrated or scorned,
Whether fed at a banquet or starved in a wasteland,
Whether on the mountaintop or in the furnace—we overcome.

And we do not boast in our own strength. No! We walk humbly before men when they praise us. And we fall humbly before God when they revile us. For in the kingdom of God, victory and defeat are not what the world claims they are.

The cross proves this.

For at the hour when Jesus hung stripped, beaten, nailed to a tree—when the world saw only ruin,
He was in fact winning the greatest victory ever known in heaven or on earth.
He triumphed over sin. He broke the power of death.
He shamed the powers of darkness and bore the full weight of the wrath of God.
And He did it not by avoiding the humiliation—but by embracing it, enduring it for the joy set before Him.

And now, because He conquered, we too conquer.

Because He stood, we stand.

Because He rose, we rise.

So let the sword come. Let famine rage. Let persecution howl. Let all hell be loosed against us.
We will not be moved.
For we are more than conquerors—not in ourselves, but in Christ Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

And nothing—nothing—shall separate us from His love.

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The Truth shall make you free

Posted by appolus on March 17, 2015

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (Joh 8:31-32)

Here in this chapter we find a fascinating encounter between Jesus and the Jews who ” believed in Him.” So we are left in no doubt from verse 30 and 31 that these are Jewish believers in Him. This is what we call followers of Jesus today isn’t it, believers. I have never liked that term for the saints, for it is clear from this passage that one can be believers in what Jesus has said and yet not be saved, and actually, persecutors of Jesus and the saints. Now I want you to note what these Jewish people claim and what Jesus acknowledges as true. In verse 33 they say ” We are Abraham’s descendants.” In verse 37 Jesus says ” I know that you are Abraham’s descendants.” So there we have it, it is an established fact that they are descendants of Abraham. Yet in verse 39 they make another claim they say that Abraham is their father and in the same verse Jesus disputes that. So, these believers are descendants of Abraham but they are not his children nor are they Gods children. Well if they are not Gods children, if Abraham is not their earthly father and God is not their heavenly Father, then who is their father? In verse 44 Jesus answers the question unambiguously “You are of your father the devil and the desires of your father you want to do.” The end result of this encounter between Jesus and His believers? Verse 59 ” Then they took up stones to throw at Him.” They attempted to murder Jesus.

Now, what would Jesus say to ” believers,” in our day? Would the same people not claim that they are Christian descendants? Would they not bring out their heritage as a defense of who they are? Would they not point to their household, their church, their denomination, their water baptism in defense of what they claim? Yet, as we have seen, one can be a descendant but this is far different from being a child. You can be a descendant but not be a child of God. The circumcision of the flesh is without meaning, only the circumcised of heart are the children of God. Being born into a Christian household, being raised in a certain denomination, attending your church faithfully all of your life, all of this is the circumcision of the flesh. Only those born twice, born again from above, can claim to be a child of God. All others are mere descendants and are of the flesh and are ultimately the enemy and persecutors of those of the Spirit. The illegitimate child of the flesh is the persecutor of the legitimate child born of the Spirit. It is an ancient an eternal dividing line that is soon to come to a head. When challenged with the truth, the very truth that could set them free, as we saw in John chapter eight, the children of the flesh will seek to kill the children of the Spirit.

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