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Now let’s see here in Psalm 27:1.  Notice David’s attitude.  When you go before God and present to Him a problem that you have, get the encouragement from the Psalms so that you can have this attitude also, that will glorify God.  And look at it as a challenge to you individually that God will fight your battle for you.  Because you see there are some things that you cannot figure out on your own.  And there are many times when we go through trials that if we try and work it out our way, it’s not going to work just like it didn’t work with the children of Israel. 

Now notice David’s attitude here.  “The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?”  The truth is brethren, you don’t have to be afraid of anything or anyone or any circumstances.  What you need to do is worship God in awe and fear and love from the heart.  “…The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?  When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.  Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.  One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after…” (Psa. 27:1-4).  Here’s how you keep your perspective always.  You keep your eye on the ultimate goal just like David did.  Why are you here?  Why has God called you?  Where are you going?  What is God going to give you? 

Notice, he answered it right here.  “One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after [that is in all these trials and difficulties]; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.  For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret [place] of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock” (vs. 4-5).  That’s what to look to brethren.  That’s the kind of attitude that we need.     

“And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in His tabernacle sacrifices of Joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.  Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me” (vs. 6-7).  And He did. 

And here’s what it’s going to result in.  Let’s go over to verse 11.  “Teach me Thy way, O LORD…”  Now that’s the whole theme of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  Not our way, which is filled with sin and leaven, but God’s way, which is filled with righteousness and unleavenedness.  “…And lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.  Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies…”  Will God won’t do that if you’re trusting in Him.  “…For false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.”  Now these are part of the words of Christ.  “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  Wait on the LORD…”, same message as Exodus 14 – stand still, see the salvation of the LORD.  Here it is, “Wait on the LORD.”  “…Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD” (vs. 11-14).

Now let’s come to the New Testament and see the battles that we are to fight.  These are the battles concerning Satan and the world, which we need to overcome.  And the battles then concerning the self, and how we overcome the self.  So let’s go first of all to Ephesians 6 and let’s see the battles that we are fighting.  Because you see Satan is fighting against the Church.  He’s accusing us day and night before our God.  He is accusing us of all of our sins and all of our weaknesses, you see, but we overcome him with the blood of the Lamb, and the word of our testimony, and we love not our lives unto death, you see.  That’s how we overcome. 

Now here are the tools that we are to use in this battle, Ephesians 6, and notice how similar this is to Exodus 14 when Moses told the people, “Stand still, see the salvation of the LORD.”  And who was coming after them, but Pharaoh and all of his soldiers.  And that’s just like Satan and all of the demons.  So we have the parallel, Old Testament and New Testament. 

Now here’s what Paul said here beginning in Ephesians 6:10.  “Finally my brethren, be strong in the Lord…”  Now you may be weak in the flesh.  You may be old, you maybe feeble, but you can be strong in the Lord.  And that’s how to do it.  Don’t rely on your own strength.  Don’t rely on your own devices.  Don’t rely on your own ways because if you do then you are a ready target for Satan to pick you off.  “…And in the power of His might.  Put on the whole armour of God…”  And that whole armor of God comes from prayer, through study, through fasting, through living, through letting the Holy Spirit lead you. 

And that whole armor is called a panoply, it covers you just like an all encompassing shield and here’s what it does.  “…That ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil [or the subtleties that he has, that he brings upon you].  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood…”  And that should be “for we wrestle not against flesh and blood only”,  because we have our own flesh and blood to battle against in other people that we have to also be confronted with to overcome in our relationships with people.  Sometimes that will happen. 

But we are battling against or wrestling against “…principalities [now those are the chief demons of Satan the devil], against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world...”  And as we go down through this occult age, which is coming and building up to the time of the end where the whole world is going to worship Satan the devil, we are going to be walking in a world of darkness more than ever before and we need the light of God.  We need the protection of God.  We need the power of God.  We need to have the whole defense of God covering us, you see,  “…against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph. 6:10-12).   Now there are two ways to translate this:  against wicked spirits in high places, which is true.  And they are the ones who are leading the institutions of the world.  Satan rules the world.  And also this is against wickedness of spiritualities.  In other words not only just the demons but wicked spiritual attitudes that are out there. 

Now here’s what we are to do.  “Wherefore take upon you…”  So it’s something we are to do.  We are to be actively involved in this.  Not complaining, not going against God.  Not feeling sorry for ourselves, but looking to God in strength and hope knowing that He will fight our battles for us.  We are to take the whole armor of God, “…that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day…”  And the evil day is any day that you’re having a trial and difficulty, not just the time of the end.  “…And having done all to stand” (vs. 13).  Just like Moses told the children of Israel, “Stand still and see the salvation of God.” 

“Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth…”  Take the word of God and make it such a part of you that it is just like your loins are covered with truth, because you know all the laws of God, you know all the commandments of God, you know the truth of God, you know the truth of the plan of God, you know the truth of the salvation of God, you know the truth of your ultimate destiny.  And let that strengthen you because you see, your loins are very important because an enemy can come in and with an arrow, just like it happened with Josiah, bang, right into a weak part where the armor wasn’t and he died.  So likewise an arrow, or putting a knife under the fifth rib, as it were.  And it just takes one stab wound into the heart and you’re a dead duck, physically speaking, ok?  So have your loins girt about with the truth, that’s to protect all of your inward parts. “…And having on the breastplate of righteousness…” (vs. 14). Now not only that, but to cover that.  You have your loins girt with truth but then you have the breastplate of righteousness.  What is the righteousness that God gives us?  It is the imputed righteousness of Christ, as we have seen.  It is the perfect gift of righteousness that God gives that we live in that.  That we have applied to us.  That we ask God to help us to grow and overcome in it. 

“And you’re feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace…” (vs. 15).  Always walking in God’s way.  Always living in the gospel of Christ.  And being able to have that testimony within you that you also give to other people.  That’s all a part of growing and overcoming.  Now you’re not to make yourself obnoxious like the Protestants do, but if someone asks you a question give them the answer.  Now there are some who, they were asked, “Well, why do you keep the Sabbath?”  Well they said, “It’s a little more complicated than you think”, so they gave them the first four tapes on the Holy Sabbath.  And now some of these people have been called and converted as a result of that.  So you can do that.  A woman also gave a Passover book to someone who said what is that.  Gave her a Passover book and now she’s all excited about the Sabbath and the Holy Days.  She said, “I want to know about the Holy Days.”  Listen brethren, you can have your own, as it were, preparation of the gospel of peace that you’re walking in to help and serve other people.  That’s part of the testimony that you have for Christ, that God is God and Christ is Christ.  And there’s nothing wrong with that.  That’s perfectly right, as a matter of fact.  That is right, that is good, and that is proper.  And that is something that you should do.  Now sometimes you’re going to be rebuffed.  Well that’s just all part of it.   

Now notice, “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked [one]” (vs. 16).  Now the shield of faith, what you do it’s like being in battle.  And you’re watching the arrows come, and you’re going bing, bing, bing, turning them away so they don’t get to you.  That’s why when you’re seeing things that are evil and wrong on television, you take the remote and you click it out of the way and get it out of your mind so you’re not polluting your mind with it.  And keeping your mind on Christ, because a lot of the fiery darts of the wicked one for lust and temptation come right through that boob-tube in your living room.  And now then you’re stuck with the though in your mind.  We’ll show you what to do with that a little later on. 

“And take the helmet of salvation…”, in other words just like we’ve been going through in the series on the “Heart/Mind Connection”, guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issue of life.  So that’s why you have the helmet of salvation so that you protect your mind, you protect your thoughts.  And that that’s how you do by always keeping your mind on the goal of being in the Kingdom of God.  Never wavering, never giving up, never backing down on it, never giving in to discouragement’s or letting down.  “…And the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God” (vs. 17).  That’s why you are to know the word of God, to understand the word of God, to live the word of God.  To let it be such a part of your heart and mind and soul and being that that’s how you think, that’s how you live, that’s how you walk.  Now it doesn’t make you, as the world would think, as a religious freak.  Because as we are going to see, the best way to overcome is using the love of God.  That is the ultimate in overcoming. 

Now verse 18, “Praying always [not just whenever, but always] with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance [and that means endurance and continuing at it, and continuing, and continuing, and continuing, and continuing and never letting up] and supplication for all saints.”  Now when that happens brethren, and when we do that, God is going to do what ever He desires to do but we have to be ready.  We have to be willing.  We have to be unleavened.  We have to let Him fight our battles for us so that we can see what we need to do and how we need to do it.  So we need to stand and have all the armor of God.

Now here’s how we are to overcome our personal problems as we apply the word of God and live our lives.  Now here’s what we are to do.  Let’s come to Ephesians 4, turn back just a page.  Now lets pick it up here in verse 17.  “This I say therefore, and testify in the LORD, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind…”  And what happens to them?  “Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart” (Eph 4:17-18).  So we don’t go back and be conformed to the world.  And that’s the whole lesson of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  We are called out of the world. We are led out of the world.  That’s why the Exodus took place, started during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, to show that you are coming out of the world, and out of these things. 

“Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.  But ye have not so learned Christ…” (vs. 19-20).  Now here is a great, great lesson.  You can’t take the ways of the world and wrap them into Christian living.  And too many people have done that with psychology and sociology.  They try and make it acceptable, but that is Satan’s way not God’s way.  You can’t crossbreed psychology and the word of God.  The word of God has it’s own method of what people might say is psychology, which is different from the world. 

Verse 22, “That ye put off…”  Now just like it is putting out leaven.  “…Put off concerning the former [conduct] conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed…”  And that renewal is every year.   That renewal is every month.  That renewal is every week and every day, as it were, but especially during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  We are to let this to be a renewal, a rededication to God.  But “…be renewed in the spirit of your mind…”  And we’re going to see how we do that in just a bit.  “That you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” (vs. 22-24).  So you let God work in you, Christ in you to create in you that new man in true righteousness and holiness by the Spirit of God by the word of God, by the love of God, to do the things that that He wants.  That’s how it’s accomplished.

Now notice we also have some putting off to do.  We put off concerning the former the conduct.  Now verse 25, “Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.  Be ye angry, and sin not…”  Don’t have the anger of the world to where you go sin.  “…And let not the sun go down upon your wrath” (vs. 25-26).  Now I need to stop here and comment.  Never go to bed mad, because all you’re going to do is toss and turn and writhe in your own self-pity and bitterness.  Just like the children of Israel, what did they do when they got the news about the promised land, and how tall the inhabitants were, and how great the cities were walled up.  What happened?  They cried all night.   So likewise with you, don’t let the sun go down on your wrath.  And it’s important to understand, do not carry the sin of today into tomorrow.  And don’t go back and re-listen to it and rehash it and relive it.  Go repent and forget it and put it aside, because tomorrow is a new day.  And tomorrow is a new start.  Because what happens here in verse 27, “Neither give place to the devil.”  Now how do you give place to the devil?  By boo-hooing just like the children of Israel.  By accusing God.  By accounting God’s way as evil.  That’s how you give place to the devil. 

Now notice some more instruction, verse 28.  “Let him that stole steal not more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may gave to give him that needeth.  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth…”  That’s a constant thing of needing to grow in and overcome.  Let’s continue on here.  “…But that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”  In other words to encourage them, to uplift them, to inspire them.  And brethren, that’s something that God wants us to do.  God wants us to be inspired to be in the Kingdom of God.  To be edified and uplifted that we want to get into it, you see.  “And grieve not the Holy Spirit…” (vs. 28-30), by going out and sinning.  See because the reason is, we are sealed with it until the day of redemption.

Now verse 31, “Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice…”  In other words if you walk by the Spirit as we have covered, you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.  And all of these things are the lust of the flesh.  “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you” (vs. 31-32).  It wasn’t for your sake that you were forgiven.  It was for Christ’s sake because He died for you.  Do you understand that?  Do you realize that?

Now let’s come to Colossians 3 and let’s see here again, we have the same thing, to put off carnality, to put on righteousness.  Let’s begin in verse 8.  “But now ye also put off all these…”, we are to get rid of these behaviors.  And this is the thing that takes time.  This is a lifetime of overcoming.  And we all have to admit that we haven’t arrived yet.  Because as we are in the flesh we still have human nature.  And as long as we have the law of sin and death within us as we have seen, we need to be aware of these things and be working to put them off.  And we are going to have our triumphs and we’re going to have our failures, but we never need to give up you see.  “…Put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication our of your mouth.”  Here is kind of a repetition of what we covered in Ephesians 4.  “Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him” (Col. 3:8-10).

Now notice verse 12.  Once you get that out all these things that you’re to put off is the leaven to get out, and to put in the unleavenedness of righteousness.  Now here it is.  “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved [that is holy and beloved of God], bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering…”  Now notice these are all fruits of the Holy Spirit.  “Forbearing one another…”  Don’t be so quick to judge.  Don’t be so quick to condemn.  Forbear.  “…Forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.  And above all these things put on [love] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”  Now we will see when you do that you will be able to overcome greatly because it is the love of God, which is the greatest thing, and the greatest weapon, and the greatest tool.  “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly…” (vs. 12-16).  And that is being filled with the unleavenedness of Christ, and that is what we need to constantly do brethren.  

Now let’s go to 2 Corinthians 10 and let’s see how we are to do this. Because there is a process that the Bible reveals on how we grow and overcome and cast out these thoughts, put in the right thoughts, how to recognize them, what we need to do with them, and to put it all together.  And this is all a part of Christ fighting our battles for us. Because if we use the Spirit of God within us, and we use the word of God to fight these battles and do it this way then God is fighting our battles for us because He’s leading us with His Spirit. 

Now let’s pick it up here in 2 Corinthians 10:3.  Now I’m going to read from my translation of it but you can follow along right there in the King James.  “For while we are walking in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh.”  You can’t overcome spiritual things by physical means.  You can’t overcome spiritual things by carnal or fleshly means.  “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but powerful through God to the casting down of strong holds” (2 Cor. 10:3-4, AT).  Now that’s where it needs to begin.  Do you have some parts of your mind which you might consider a stronghold that has a hold upon you that is very difficult to bring under control?  Well you see you have to cast it down. 

Verse 5, “Casting down imaginations [and that’s where all sin begins], and every high thing that is exalting itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought unto the obedience of Christ.”  That’s what it needs to be.  That is how you do it.  Bring every thought into captivity so when something comes along that is a temptation or that is a sin, that is a wrong thought, you just immediately in your own thoughts grab that and cast it down.  Ask God to help you, strengthen you, forgive you, and to get it out of your heart and mind.  You have to cast it down you see, and you bring every thought into the obedience of Christ.  Which is what?  Of love, and joy, and peace, and longsuffering, and gentleness and goodness, and kindness and meekness, and temperance against such there is no law. “And having in a readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience has been fulfilled” (vs.  5-6).  Now that’s how you do it. 

Now let’s go to James 1 and let’s understand how these things come so you can recognize them, and how you can begin to put these thing out.  Now James 1:13, “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, and neither tempteth He any man [with evil].”  He sets before you choices: good and evil, righteousness and sin.  He says, “Choose.”  So when these things come, “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed” (James. 1:13-14, KJV).  So these things, the fiery darts and missiles of Satan the devil come flying in to tempt you.  And when you are drawn away with your own lust…now it appeals to your lust and you’ll just say, “Well now that’s interesting, let me…”, you know.  Now your lust is being involved here, you see, and enticed so there’s an entrapment.  Now at any point here when the temptation comes, when the lust rises up, when the enticement is there, you can bring that into captivity and cast it down.  Cast down that imagination, cast down that thought and bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. 

Now if you don’t here’s what happens, verse 15.  “Then when lust hath conceived [and brings forth], it bringeth forth sin…”  So of this whole process that I have described temptation is not a sin.  An evil thought of lust coming into your mind is not sin if you cast it down and get rid of it.  It can be sin if you are enticed and let it develop and grow and conceive and then it brings forth sin, you see.  So now we are talking about how to overcome before you sin and all of this is part of the mind of Christ. 

Now let’s go to 1 Corinthians 13 and let’s see how that love is the perfect way to overcome.  Let’s begin in verse 1 and notice that the love of God…  Now that’s why we stress the love of God, that Jesus said the first and primary and most important commandment is that you are to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all of your strength, because this is how you overcome.  Then that leads to the second love of loving your neighbor as yourself.  And then with God’s Spirit in you that leads to the third love of loving the brethren as Christ has loved us, and we are to love each other that way.  And I think the greatest point of leaven that we have in the Church of God today, and I’m meaning all the churches wherever they are, that too many brethren are so busy-bodied in going along with their own carnality and their own doctrines and their own self-willed way that they are hating one another, and squabbling against one another and what is happening?  They are devouring one another as Paul said in Galatians 5.  So love is the perfect way out of this.

Verse 1, notice what it does.  “If I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1, AT).  Not as, but you have become.  In other words when your vanity gets so overwhelming, you become a thing not a person.  That’s what it’s talking about here.  And you have no regard for it.  But you see if you have love and that love comes from God then you can overcome being that. 

Now notice verse 2.  “If I have the gift of prophecy [and everybody loves prophecy] and understand all mysteries [and people want to know mysteries, don’t they?], and all knowledge [all want to have knowledge], and if I have all faith [and everyone wants to have all faith] so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.”  And you can be guaranteed this: that if you grow and overcome in love then you will have the faith.  Then you will have all of these things that is being described here see. 

Verse 3.  “If I give away all my goods…”  Now the King James adds the words to the poor, but it doesn’t mean that.  You can give away your goods for all kinds of causes.  “And if I deliver up my body to be burned [a total human sacrifice], but do not have love, it’s profited me nothing [because it’s vanity].  Love is patient and is kind…”  You see how you overcome?  If you have the love of God you will learn patience.  If you have the love of God you will learn kindness.  If you bring all of the thoughts and the captivity to the obedience of Christ, then you have the love of God.  “…Love envies not, does not brag on itself, does not puff itself up…”(vs. 3-4).  See you won’t be self centered.  You will be Christ centered.  You will be happy when other brethren are able to succeed and go ahead and do whatever it may be, you see. 

“Love does not behave itself disgracefully…”  You will have the right behavior.  There won’t be these embarrassments, you see.  “…Does not seek it’s own thing…”  In other words  it doesn’t have a secret hidden agenda.  And I think that’s the biggest problem within individual brethren and ministers, they have hidden agendas.  They have something that is their own.  They are not willing to repent of that last vestige of themselves, to give themselves to Christ completely.  So they’re still seeking their own.  The love of God helps you to overcome that.  “…Is not easily provoked…”  So with the love of God you’re able to control anger.  You are able to resist the temptation of getting in  there to do your own thing, and your own restitution.  “…Thinks no evil…” (vs. 5).  Now that is something, isn’t it?  That will help you overcome evil thoughts.  And this means, thinks no evil in imputing motives to other people. 

“Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth…”  Why?  Because it’s always seeking the truth.  Because it knows that iniquity brings sorrow and sin.  “Love bears all things…”, meaning that you can go through any trial, any difficulty, any problem, and you can bear all things because you know that the Lord will deliver you out of all your troubles.  “…Believes all things…”  That is believes all the things of God that is right and good and true.  “…Hopes all things…”  Always remember one thing:  regardless of how bad the situation is, as long as there is life there is hope.  And go back and look at the example of Abraham, who against hope hoped in hope.  Why?  Because he had the love of God, see.  “…Endures all things.  Love never fails…” (vs. 6-8).  So this is the perfect ingredient for overcoming.  If you love God, and love the truth, and love His word, and love the brethren, and love your husbands, and love your wives, and love your children you’ll overcome as never before because it never fails. 

Now “…whether there be prophecies…”, which people strive after.  And these are the prophecies of men.  They fail.  “…Whether there be tongues, they shall cease…”  When we’re born into the Kingdom of God we’re going to have a new spirit language.  “…Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away [and be replaced with the greatest knowledge of God].”  Now here today “…we know in part, and we prophesy in part.  But when that which is perfect may come, then that which is in part is set aside.  When I was a child [Paul said], I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child” (vs.8-11).  And that’s what we need to do brethren.  We need to grow up in Christ and put away all these childish and carnal and silly and foolish things that we do.  That’s how we overcome.  That’s how Christ fights the battle for us.  That’s how we do the things that are right before God. 

What a wonderful thing that God has made that we can overcome and grow like this.  What a wonderful thing that there is not a single obstacle or anything to hold us back.  Nothing brethren.  We then are more than conquerors, as we will see.

“For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.  Now I know in part, then I shall know exactly as I also have been known.  Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love.  But the greatest of these is love” (vs. 12-13).  And that’s why it’s so important.

Now let’s go to Romans 8 and see how this applies in overcoming all our troubles.  Let’s go to verse 28, and this is important.  So as this Feast of Unleavened Bread comes to an end and we continue on in the world and continue on in growing and overcoming and living our Christian lives, and go through the trials and difficulties that we do, we have to understand that God will fight our battles for us and there can be nothing against us.  “For we know that for those who are loving God [on a continuous ongoing basis] all things are working together for good for those who are called according to His purpose [which you have been].  Because those whom He did foreknow He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His own Son.”  Now if you get discouraged think on this verse.  Predestinated to be conformed to the image of His own Son Who shines like the sun at full strength.  For Him to be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8:28-29, AT).

“By Whom He predestinated those He also called.  Whom He called, those He has also justified, and those He has justified He has also glorified.”  You’ve been glorified with the Spirit of God now, you will be glorified with the full measure of the Spirit of God at the resurrection.  “What shall we say to these things?  If God is for us, who can be against us?”  Nothing can be against us.  “He Who indeed did not even spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not grant us all things together with Him?  Who shall bring an accusation against the elect of God?  God is the One Who is judging.  Who is the one who is condemning?”  See even judgments and accusations against us cannot stand.  “Christ is the One Who died.  But rather He is the One Who has been raised, Who is at the right hand of God making intercession for us” (vs. 30-34).  That’s why Christ will fight our battles for us.

“Who shall separate us from the love of God?”  Because you see that’s the greatest in overcoming.  “Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?  According as it has been written, For your sake we are killed all the day long.  We are reckoned as sheep for the slaughter.  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors [or overcomers] through Him that has loved us” (vs. 35-37).  That’s how Christ fights our battles for us, because we love Him and He loves us.

Now this is the persuasion that we need, and notice how different this is from the children of Israel who complained and criticized.  Verse 38, “For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (vs. 38-39).

So brethren in your life stand still, see the glory of the Lord for He shall fight for you and deliver you out of all your troubles.