“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: ‘For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ Yet, IN all these things we are more than conquerors THROUGH Him who loved us.” [NKJV emphasis mine]
To be a conqueror, or Super Conqueror as promised in this passage, we must have something to conquer, things like tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword. The Word of God promises that as we face these things we will have victory.
The victory we have, however, is not a victory we generate on our own. It is bestowed and sustained by God. Perhaps the most important words in this passage are the two small prepositions that set the parameters of our victory.
Yet IN all these things – IN is the Greek preposition EN and is the state in which something operates from the INSIDE (within).
THROUGH Him who loved us – is the preposition DIA and is the channel through which something occurs.
What that means is that we don’t become conquerors by avoiding difficulties nor by surrendering to them, nor by watching others go through them, nor by trying to self-generate enough courage to face them on our own.
We become super-conquerors when we are WITHIN those difficulties—right in the midst of them. And we become super-conquerors not through our own strength, wisdom, and power, but THROUGH Christ Jesus “who loved us.” Amen and Amen