We come to the last two verses of Romans eight, verses thirty-eight and thirty-nine. He ends this the way he started this portion of the epistle, strongly positive about all the word of God in the life of a believer. All of His works are marvelous and you can be fully confident in the greatness of your God and what He has provided for you in Christ.
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Some people think that there is no Satan. Perhaps the following story will be instructive to them. Once there was a boxer who was being badly beaten. Battered and bruised, he leaned over the ropes and said to his trainer, “Throw in the towel! This guy is killing me!” The trainer said, “Oh, no, he’s not. He’s not even hitting you. He hasn’t laid a glove on you!”At that point, the boxer wiped the blood away from his eye and said, “Well, then, I wish you’d watch that referee. Somebody is sure hitting me!” 1 There is an enemy loose on planet earth who’s trying his best to lay his gloves on you. But, you can overcome all of his hindrances in Jesus Name.
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When Lord Nelson reported to the British Office of Admirals his great victory over the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile, he said that “victory” was not a large enough word to describe what had taken place. When Paul spoke of the victory which through Jesus Christ he had won over all the ills and adversaries and temptations and woes of life, that greatest of all words, “conqueror,” was not sufficient to describe it; and therefore he said, “more than conquerors, through him that loved us.” 1 Today, we are going to answer the question, Are you a colossal conqueror through Jesus? He thinks you are. The question is, do you agree with Him?
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Believers are at different levels in their spirit walk with God. Spiritual growth is a lot like physical growth. We are all in the process of becoming and growing. On many Bible subjects, believers differ on how they should live and act according to those scriptures. There are believers who don’t believe you have to rebuke the devil, Is this true? Is this what the scriptures teach? In today’s podcast, we are going to drill down into this and endeavor to show you from the Word of God that you can and should rebuke demons in Jesus Name.
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Have you ever been to the place where it seems like you are at your wit’s end? One trial after another, one difficult place after another. ‘What’s going on’, you think? The Apostle spoke of these kinds of days as he experienced several periods of time in his own walk. In Romans 8:36, he talks about what it’s like to have a really bad day. He lays all of this out in verses thirty-five and thirty-six in Romans eight. There’s hope for sure. Great ready to shout.
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The great and prince of preachers, Charles Spurgeon struggled with the issue of sickness. He said, “Be thankful for the providence which has made you poor, or sick, or sad; for by all this Jesus works the life of your spirit and turns you to Himself. 1 Spurgeon believed in poverty, sickness and sadness as being the will of God. In fact, he suffered with a disease called gout. He was a great preacher with a great disease. But, Spurgeon was wrong about sickness. Jesus is the Healer. Satan is the oppressor.
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In the previous two week’s, we mentioned how Paul wraps up Romans chapter eight with six concluding questions. Those questions are; What shall we then say to these things?; If God be for us, who can be against us?; He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?; Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?; Who is he that condemns?; and Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? In today’s post, we deal with the very last question of these six questions which appears in Romans 8:35.
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There was a show on the Food Network called ‘Throw Down’ where a renowned chef would travel and challenge the best cooks at their own favorite specialty. Jesus issued Satan His own version of a Throw Down. It was a geographic throw down and we are going to look at in this week’s Light on Life podcast as we continue to look at Jesus majestic victories over the host of darkness.
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A form of exorcism is a daily occurrence at a Miami hospital treating several hundred patients a month who ask to have evil spirits driven from their bodies. “Usually, we treat 600 to 700 a month,” says Dr. Hardat Sukhdeo, director of Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Crisis Intervention Center. “But last month we had 900 people come for help … we worked our tails off—maybe there was a strong pull from the moon or something.” The belief that demons can infiltrate a person’s body is old hat to the Jamaicans, Haitians, Bahamians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans who live in the Miami area, he said. The patients are given strong tranquilizers to calm them; then staff members try to soothe away their fears. 1. Tranquilizers and TLC are not how you deal with demons. It’s the Name of Jesus that get’s it done. What can we learn about the power of the Name by looking at how Jesus dealt with demons?
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In Paul’s final segment which ends at verse thirty-nine, the apostle caps off the entire chapter of Romans eight with the primary motivation for all he has discussed up until now, the love of God. He does it with six power packed questions.
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In this week’s edition we are going to break into the series we are doing on the Name of Jesus. You know we have engaged this series for many weeks now and we are going to pick it back up next week. But in this week’s Light on Life, we have a special guest in our studio and we are going to be doing a special podcast with our special guest. His name? Maxwell Abishai. Maxwell is a missionary to the nation of Ghana. We are going to interview him. We are going to talk about Missions. We are going to talk about the Great Commission. We are going to talk obeying Jesus words and going into all the world and preaching the gospel and making disciples of all nations. We are going to talk about establishing the gospel among the Muslim people of Ghana. A special Missions podcast. That’s what we are talking about in this week’s Light on Life.
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