There will be times where our world will be turned upside down.

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• There will be times where our world will be
  turned upside down.

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• There will be times where our world will be
  turned upside down.
• In these times we even despair for life, we feel
  crushed. (Psa 1434-5)

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• (Psalms 1434-5 NKJV) - Therefore my spirit is
  overwhelmed within me My heart within me is
  distressed. 5 I remember the days of old I
  meditate on all Your works I muse on the work of
  Your hands.

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• There are many things that can bring this on.

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• There are many things that can bring this on.
• It is not a sin to find yourself in despair. God
  will allow such test to come upon us. (Luke
  2231-32)

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• (Luke 2231-32 NKJV) And the Lord said, Simon,
  Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he
  may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed
  for you, that your faith should not fail and
  when you have returned to Me, strengthen your
  brethren.

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• It is crucial that we respond by faith! In these
  times we are talking about survival. It is
  possible for our faith to fail.

8
There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• Even if things are going well for you now, do not
  ignore this lesson!

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• Even if things are going well for you now, do not
  ignore this lesson!
• So much is already determined by the kind of
  faith we have already developed. (1 Pt 17)

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• (1 Peter 17 NKJV) - that the genuineness of
  your faith, being much more precious than gold
  that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may
  be found to praise, honor, and glory at the
  revelation of Jesus Christ,

11
There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• Those who today serve God only when they feel
  like it will find it nearly impossible to do
  right at these times. They are an accident
  waiting to happen.

12
There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• In building a local church we must not try to
  make things as easy as possible.

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• In building a local church we must not try to
  make things as easy as possible.
• This will make people as weak as water. The time
  of trail will reveal it. (1 Cor 311-14)

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• (1 Corinthians 311-14 NKJV) - For no other
  foundation can anyone lay than that which is
  laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone
  builds on this foundation with gold, silver,
  precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• 13 each ones work will become clear for the
  Day will declare it, because it will be revealed
  by fire and the fire will test each ones work,
  of what sort it is. 14 If anyones work which
  he has built on it endures, he will receive a
  reward.

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• How sad it is for Christians to despise the
  discipline that will make them strong.

17
There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• How sad it is for Christians to despise the
  discipline that will make them strong.
• Often the results are not seen for years.

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There will be times where our world will be
turned upside down.

• What would you do if ..

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Make God Your Refuge

• What kind of God do you serve?

20
Make God Your Refuge

• What kind of God do you serve?
• Often the scriptures speak of knowing God. What
  does this mean? (Titus 116 1 Jn 48)

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Make God Your Refuge

• (Titus 116 NKJV) - They profess to know God,
  but in works they deny Him, being abominable,
  disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

22
Make God Your Refuge

• (1 John 48 NKJV) - He who does not love does
  not know God, for God is love.

23
Make God Your Refuge

• Every step of the Christian life teaches us to
  trust in God and not in ourselves. (Prov 35-6)

24
Make God Your Refuge

• (Proverbs 35-6 NKJV) - Trust in the LORD with
  all your heart, And lean not on your own
  understanding 6 In all your ways acknowledge
  Him, And He shall direct your paths.

25
Make God Your Refuge

• The conversion from the world to Christ must
  involve this kind of faith. (Col 212)

26
Make God Your Refuge

• (Colossians 212 NKJV) - buried with Him in
  baptism, in which you also were raised with Him
  through faith in the working of God, who raised
  Him from the dead.

27
Make God Your Refuge

• The real question is how we have developed this
  faith. Some Christians have long stopped trusting
  God. Will you obey Him without question?

28
Make God Your Refuge

• Those who know God will draw as close to Him as
  they can in these times.

29
Make God Your Refuge

• Those who know God will draw as close to Him as
  they can in these times.
• It is great to know that God will deliver! (Psa
  1434-12)

30
Make God Your Refuge

• (Psalms 1434-12 NKJV) - Therefore my spirit is
  overwhelmed within me My heart within me is
  distressed. 5 I remember the days of old I
  meditate on all Your works I muse on the work of
  Your hands. 6 I spread out my hands to You My
  soul longs for You like a thirsty land. Selah

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Make God Your Refuge

• 7 Answer me speedily, O LORD My spirit fails!
  Do not hide Your face from me, Lest I be like
  those who go down into the pit. 8 Cause me to
  hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in
  You do I trust Cause me to know the way in which
  I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You. 9
  Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies In You I
  take shelter.

32
Make God Your Refuge

• 10 Teach me to do Your will, For You are my
  God Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of
  uprightness. 11 Revive me, O LORD, for Your
  names sake! For Your righteousness sake bring
  my soul out of trouble. 12 In Your mercy cut
  off my enemies, And destroy all those who afflict
  my soul For I am Your servant.

33
Make God Your Refuge

• Abraham had this kind of faith. (Heb 1117-19)

34
Make God Your Refuge

• (Hebrews 1117-19 NKJV) - By faith Abraham, when
  he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had
  received the promises offered up his only
  begotten son, 18 of whom it was said, In Isaac
  your seed shall be called, 19 concluding that
  God was able to raise him up, even from the dead,
  from which he also received him in a figurative
  sense.

35
Make God Your Refuge

• There is a great strength you have when you know
  these things! (Heb 135-6)

36
Make God Your Refuge

• (Hebrews 35-6 NKJV) - And Moses indeed was
  faithful in all His house as a servant, for a
  testimony of those things which would be spoken
  afterward, 6 but Christ as a Son over His own
  house, whose house we are if we hold fast the
  confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to
  the end.

37
Make God Your Refuge

• God wants us to turn to Him even when our sin is
  the cause of our despair. (Psa 10643-46 Psa
  517-10)

38
Make God Your Refuge

• (Psalms 10643-46 NKJV) - Many times He
  delivered them But they rebelled in their
  counsel, And were brought low for their iniquity.
  44 Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
  When He heard their cry 45 And for their sake
  He remembered His covenant, And relented
  according to the multitude of His mercies. 46
  He also made them to be pitied By all those who
  carried them away captive.

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Make God Your Refuge

• (Psalms 517-10 NKJV) - Purge me with hyssop,
  and I shall be clean Wash me, and I shall be
  whiter than snow. 8 Make me hear joy and
  gladness, That the bones You have broken may
  rejoice. 9 Hide Your face from my sins, And
  blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a
  clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit
  within me.

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Make God Your Refuge

• Humbly Turn to God so you may Learn.

41
Make God Your Refuge

• Humbly Turn to God so you may Learn.
• Some of the best lessons of life are learned at
  these times.

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Make God Your Refuge

• Humbly Turn to God so you may Learn.
• Some of the best lessons of life are learned at
  these times.
• Job came to see God clearly, he was blessed. (Job
  425-6)

43
Make God Your Refuge

• (Job 425-6 NKJV) - I have heard of You by the
  hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You. 6
  Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and
  ashes.

44
Make God Your Refuge

• There are those who never learn from adversity.
  (Prov 2722)

45
Make God Your Refuge

• (Proverbs 2722 NKJV) - Though you grind a fool
  in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed
  grain, Yet his foolishness will not depart from
  him.

46
Make God Your Refuge

• In order to learn we must keep thinking and keep
  seeking.

47
Make God Your Refuge

• Now we must pour out our hearts to God in
  worship! He wants to carry this burden.

48
Make God Your Refuge

• Now we must pour out our hearts to God in
  worship! He wants to carry this burden.
• David learned the power of worship both before
  and after. (2 Sam 1219-23)

49
Make God Your Refuge

• 2 Samuel 1219-23 (NKJV) - When David saw that
  his servants were whispering, David perceived
  that the child was dead. Therefore David said to
  his servants, Is the child dead? And they said,
  He is dead.

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Make God Your Refuge

• 20 So David arose from the ground, washed and
  anointed himself, and changed his clothes and he
  went into the house of the Lord and worshiped.
  Then he went to his own house and when he
  requested, they set food before him, and he ate.
  21 Then his servants said to him, What is this
  that you have done? You fasted and wept for the
  child while he was alive, but when the child
  died, you arose and ate food.

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Make God Your Refuge

• 22 And he said, While the child was alive, I
  fasted and wept for I said, Who can tell
  whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the
  child may live? 23 But now he is dead why
  should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I
  shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

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Make God Your Refuge

• When you come to know God like this you will be
  blessed.

53
Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Mistakes made here could destroy you.

54
Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Mistakes made here could destroy you.
• God knows this and seeks to help, so should other
  Christians. (Heb 1211-13)

55
Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• (Hebrews 1211-13 NKJV) - Now no chastening
  seems to be joyful for the present, but painful
  nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable
  fruit of righteousness to those who have been
  trained by it. 12 Therefore strengthen the
  hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13
  and make straight paths for your feet, so that
  what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be
  healed.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• You bear a responsibility too! You must be
  determined to heal this wound and not make it
  fatal. Listen!

57
Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• You bear a responsibility too! You must be
  determined to heal this wound and not make it
  fatal. Listen!
• Do not quit the Lord. (Heb 1035-38)

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• (Hebrews 1035-38 NKJV) Therefore do not cast
  away your confidence, which has great reward.
  36 For you have need of endurance, so that
  after you have done the will of God, you may
  receive the promise 37 For yet a little
  while, And He who is coming will come and will
  not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith
  But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure
  in him.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Some will stop coming to services or go to a
  group they know are wrong doctrinally.

60
Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Some will stop coming to services or go to a
  group they know are wrong doctrinally.
• Others will stop being active in the Lords work
  and fade away.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Some will stop coming to services or go to a
  group they know are wrong doctrinally.
• Others will stop being active in the Lords work
  and fade away.
• Those who quit God have denied themselves their
  only hope. Sadly many will deny quitting the
  Lord when that is exactly what they have done.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Cast off all excess weight in your life. (Heb
  121-3)

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• (Hebrews 121-3 NKJV) - Therefore we also, since
  we are surrounded by so great a cloud of
  witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the
  sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run
  with endurance the race that is set before us,

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
  of our faith, who for the joy that was set before
  Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
  has sat down at the right hand of the throne of
  God. 3 For consider Him who endured such
  hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you
  become weary and discouraged in your souls.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Because you must survive, things that have a
  value but are not essential must be cast off.
  (Acts 2718-19)

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• (Acts 2718-19 NKJV) - And because we were
  exceedingly tempest-tossed, the next day they
  lightened the ship. 19 On the third day we
  threw the ships tackle overboard with our own
  hands.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Here you will show where you true priorities lie,
  and here you will live or die spiritually.

68
Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Here you will show where you true priorities lie,
  and here you will live or die spiritually.
• God describes this as a purifying process for our
  hearts as well.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Here you will show where you true priorities lie,
  and here you will live or die spiritually.
• God describes this as a purifying process for our
  hearts as well.
• Here you must get away from those who will only
  hurt your survival.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Job had to put away his wifes advice. (Job
  29-10)

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• (Job 29-10 NKJV) Then his wife said to him, Do
  you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God
  and die! 10 But he said to her, You speak as
  one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed
  accept good from God, and shall we not accept
  adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his
  lips.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• Here is where your associates can make you or
  break you. Do they seek to stir bitterness or
  point you to Gods way? Some never recover
  because of their friends. Who is the loser
  here? (Prov 254-5 Prov 2622-26)

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• (Proverbs 254-5 NKJV) - Take away the dross
  from silver, And it will go to the silversmith
  for jewelry. 5 Take away the wicked from before
  the king, And his throne will be established in
  righteousness.

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• (Proverbs 2622-26 NKJV) The words of a
  talebearer are like tasty trifles, And they go
  down into the inmost body. 23 Fervent lips with
  a wicked heart Are like earthenware covered with
  silver dross. 24 He who hates, disguises it
  with his lips, And lays up deceit within himself
  25 When he speaks kindly, do not believe him,
  For there are seven abominations in his heart

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Give Diligence to Staying Faithful

• 26 Though his hatred is covered by deceit, His
  wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• We should rejoice in our adversity, why?

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• We should rejoice in our adversity, why?
• Because we are like Christ. (Acts 541-42 Phil
  127-30)

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (Acts 541-42 NKJV) So they departed from the
  presence of the council, rejoicing that they were
  counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. 42
  And daily in the temple, and in every house, they
  did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the
  Christ.

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (Philippians 127-30 NKJV) - Only let your
  conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so
  that whether I come and see you or am absent, I
  may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in
  one spirit, with one mind striving together for
  the faith of the gospel,

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• 28 and not in any way terrified by your
  adversaries, which is to them a proof of
  perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from
  God. 29 For to you it has been granted on
  behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but
  also to suffer for His sake, 30 having the same
  conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in
  me.

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• Because we know God will prevail to bring good.
  (Rom 828)

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (Romans 828 NKJV) - And we know that all things
  work together for good to those who love God, to
  those who are the called according to His purpose.

83
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• Because of a clear understanding of our hope. (1
  Pet 16-9)

84
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (1 Peter 16-9 NKJV) - In this you greatly
  rejoice, though now for a little while, if need
  be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7
  that the genuineness of your faith, being much
  more precious than gold that perishes, though it
  is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor,
  and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,

85
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you
  do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with
  joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9
  receiving the end of your faith the salvation of
  your souls.

86
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• There are times Jesus asked His disciples Do
  you know believe? Here is where we know. (Gen
  2212)

87
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (Genesis 2212 NKJV) - And He said, Do not lay
  your hand on the lad, or do anything to him for
  now I know that you fear God, since you have not
  withheld your son, your only son, from Me.

88
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• It may be we must find answers at this time.

89
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• It may be we must find answers at this time.
• Heaven will seem more beautiful than ever in
  these times. Pain will not last. (1 Cor 729-31)

90
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (1 Corinthians 729-31 NKJV) - But this I say,
  brethren, the time is short, so that from now on
  even those who have wives should be as though
  they had none, 30 those who weep as though they
  did not weep, those who rejoice as though they
  did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did
  not possess,

91
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• 31 and those who use this world as not misusing
  it. For the form of this world is passing away.

92
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• Because God will use us in a future work.

93
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• Because God will use us in a future work.
• Our faith is perfected. (Jas 12-4)

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (James 12-4 NKJV) - My brethren, count it all
  joy when you fall into various trials, 3
  knowing that the testing of your faith produces
  patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect
  work, that you may be perfect and complete,
  lacking nothing.

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• Our wisdom is increased. (Jas 15 2 Cor 13-4)

96
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (2 Corinthians 13-4 NKJV) - Blessed be the God
  and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
  of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who
  comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may
  be able to comfort those who are in any trouble,
  with the comfort with which we ourselves are
  comforted by God.

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Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (James 15 NKJV) - If any of you lacks wisdom,
  let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally
  and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

98
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• Our influence for good is greater. (2 Cor 127-9)

99
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (2 Corinthians 127-9 NKJV) - And lest I should
  be exalted above measure by the abundance of the
  revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to
  me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be
  exalted above measure. 8 Concerning this thing
  I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might
  depart from me.

100
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• 9 And He said to me, My grace is sufficient
  for you, for My strength is made perfect in
  weakness. Therefore most gladly I will rather
  boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ
  may rest upon me.

101
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• What is this life really all about?

102
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• What is this life really all about?
• We will give our real answer in times of despair.
  Where are you? (2 Cor 48)

103
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (2 Corinthians 48 NKJV) - We are hard pressed
  on every side, yet not crushed we are perplexed,
  but not in despair

104
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• Suffering when accompanied by a living faith will
  always work out for good! (Rom 831-37)

105
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• (Romans 831-37 NKJV) - 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 delivered Him up for us all, how shall
  He not with Him also freely give us all things?
  33 Who shall bring a charge against Gods
  elect? It is God who justifies.

106
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who
  died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even
  at the right hand of God, who also makes
  intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us
  from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
  distress, or persecution, or famine, or
  nakedness, or peril, or sword?

107
Look to the Future Good that God will Work in You.

• 36 As it is written For Your sake we are
  killed all day long We are accounted as sheep
  for the slaughter. 37 Yet in all these things
  we are more than conquerors through Him who loved
  us.