Scriptures for Victory #26

In Romans 8, having discussed what God does in and through us through His Holy Spirit, Paul brings things to a conclusion in verse:

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The first statement is concise and to the point:  If God is for us, who can be against us? For many of us, most of the time, that is enough.  But Paul builds to a crescendo as he mounts up the evidence to support it, using a series of questions: If God gave His Son, He won't hold back on giving us anything else we need; if the great accuser brings false charges against us, the Holy Spirit is our Advocate, Christ is our Intercessor, and God is Judge; if our sin, which separated us from God can be taken care of and cured by His love, then there is nothing else that can separate us from Him. Then comes the climax of the paragraph: 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. God will give the victory, through His love, His strength, His Son, His Spirit, which is greater than any challenge.