Lenten Sermons on Romans 8
When the Bible describes what it feels like to be encountered by God, it often uses metaphors of rescue. God frees us from the snare of the fowler or lifts us from the pit and sets us in the broad and open space or pulls us from the waters that have come up to our neck and places us on solid ground. God saves. God makes irrelevant what threatened to destroy us. In Romans 8, Paul depicts how God’s saving work is accomplished in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and concludes this great discourse with the proclamation that Jesus has made us “more than conquerors” through his love for us. In other words, Jesus didn’t just win the war, but lifted us into a whole new existence where our metaphors of battles and triumph and the victors and the vanquished become irrelevant. Paul essentially declares that life makes sense only when we look at it through the lens of God’s steadfast love. During Lent we will explore what it means to be “more than conquerors” as we try on those lenses that enable us to see our world in a brand-new way.
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