Okay, now this evening we have
Joshua chapter 10. And as I usually do, I start
out each message by giving you a title for the message and it
kind of sets the tone for the message. I'm taking the title
from verse 14 and verse 42. The last part of verse 14, Joshua
10, the last part of verse 14, for the Lord fought for Israel. Now, you remember that scripture
in Romans, if God be for us, who can be against us? If the
Lord fights for his people, they're gonna win. They're gonna win. And then again, over here in
verse 42, it says the same thing. And all these kings and their
land did Joshua take at one time. Because the Lord God of Israel,
He's the Lord God of Israel, He fought for His people. Now, He's the same yesterday,
today, forever. He does not change. God is still
fighting for His Israel. I'm not talking about that nation,
Israel. I'm talking about his spiritual
people, the elect of God. He's still fighting for his people. The Lord fought for Israel. Now, it was true in Joshua's
day, right? It was true in Moses' day, too.
You remember there was a day, this was true in the day of Moses,
when the Lord delivered Israel through the Red Sea. You remember
they were up against it. Pharaoh and his army was barreling
down on them, the Red Sea in front of them. They couldn't
go to the right hand, to the left hand because of the mountains.
What are they going to do? They couldn't fight. They couldn't
turn back. The Lord fought for them. In
Exodus 14, 13 and 14, Moses said unto the people, fear you not,
stand still, see the salvation of the Lord which he will show
to you today for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you
shall see them again no more forever. Remember what happened
when the Egyptians went down in their chariots and horses?
You remember what the Lord did? I love this scripture. He took
the chariot wheels off. He took the wheels off, and then
the water came in on top of them. You see, He controls even the
axle nut on the chariot. Somebody forgot to tighten them
up when they greased them. And the Lord caused all that
to happen. He took off the wheels and drowned
them off. So it was true in Moses' day. It was also true in Joshua's
day, God fought for them and won the victory, sent great hailstones,
stopped the sun and the moon in their course, and God fought
for Israel. I read a couple of weeks ago
from Psalm 44, the Lord got the victory for them, for they got
not the land, in possession by their own sword, neither did
their own arm save them, but thy right hand, thine arm, and
the light of thy countenance, because thou had favor or grace
unto them." True in Moses' day, true in Joshua's day, it's also
very true in the days of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus
Christ has won the victory, the spiritual victory for us over
all our spiritual and natural enemies, sin, Satan, death, hell,
and the grave. Thanks be to God who has given
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul said, we're
more than conquerors through him that loved us and gave himself
for us. The apostle Paul, he writes this
in Colossians 2. Let me just read it to you. And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you
all trespasses, blotting out the handwritings of ordinances
that was against us, which was contrary to us. He took it out
of the way, nailing it to his cross. Having spoiled principalities
and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over
them himself, by himself. We are indeed conquerors in Christ. Thanks be unto God who has given
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord our God
has spared no expense in securing and accomplishing our salvation,
has he? Has he spared any expense the
salvation he accomplished, the salvation of his elect? 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? When he by himself
purged our sin, he sat down at the right hand of the throne
of God. The Lord Jesus Christ loved the church. He bought it
with his own blood. He loved the church and gave
himself for it. He spared no expense for our
salvation. He gave his own life's blood. That's a comforting thought,
is it not? The Lord God of Israel shall fight for Israel. He will live to intercede for
us right now. Several things I want to look
at in these first 14 verses. Verse 1 through verse 4. This man by the name and it came
to pass and we know all this comes to pass by the decree of
God. When Abinai Zedek king of Jerusalem
had heard how Joshua had taken Ai and utterly destroyed it. as he had done to Jericho and
her king so he had done to Ai and her king and how it happened
that Gibeah made peace with Israel and were among them that they
feared greatly because Gibeon was a greater city than Ai and
the men were stronger men of war and Adonai Zedek he feared
greatly. This man was a king in a city
that came to be known as Jerusalem and he served as a ringleader
for these four other kings and he gathers this league together
to wage war against the new friends of Israel, the servants of Israel,
these men of Gibeon. Now, I just read that name, Adonai,
Zedek, and Jerusalem. And the first thing when I read
that, and I've read this many times, and looked at it carefully,
and I thought, who is this man? Who is this man? I mean, he says
he's king in Jerusalem. Well, what came to be known as
Jerusalem in the early days, it was known as Salem, Salem. But his name means, Adonai means
Lord, Adonai means Lord. And Zedek means righteousness. So his name means the Lord of
righteousness. Now, isn't that interesting?
But he knew nothing of the Lord or of his righteousness. Some
have speculated that he was a descendant of Melchizedek. Adonai Zedek kind of sounds like
Melchizedek. Now, some have speculated that
he was a descendant of Melchizedek. Remember Melchizedek was known
as King of Salem. Remember? King of Righteousness
who met Abraham. In Hebrews 7, 1, this Melchizedek,
king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham
returning from the slaughter of the kings, and he blessed
him. Now, if this man, Adonai Zedek,
be a descendant of Melchizedek, if that be so, we see that salvation
does not run in bloodlines. Even though he is great, great,
great, great, how many generations back, I don't know. many generations
back, even though his great, great, great, great grandfather
may have been Melchizedek, who believed God, who trusted in
the Lord Jesus Christ for all salvation. But we see again that
salvation does not run in bloodlines. As many as received him, to them
gave he right and power to be sons of God, even to them that
believed on his name. But we see they believe on his
name who were born of God. But it's not of bloodlines, nor
of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but it is
of God. So because your father or your
great-grandfather or our many generations back was a believer
doesn't mean that you're gonna be a believer. Now my father,
and his father, and his father, and as far as I know running
my bloodline back all the way to England, as far as I know
none of my ancestors were believers. The Lord had mercy on me. I did
find one time, this is interesting, I did find one time years ago
back in the 1600s there was a man by the name of Thomas Harding.
who was burned at the stake for the gospel. Now he may have been
a relative of mine, I don't know, I claim him. But being, if you're a believer,
it doesn't guarantee that your son or daughter will be. The
Lord will have mercy on whom he will. This man, Adonai Zedek,
had a good name, didn't he? But he was a sinner who hated
God. and wage war against God, against God's people. You see,
the carnal mind has not changed. It's still enmity against God.
Remember from our study in Romans, For to be carnally minded is
death, because the carnal mind is enmity against God, not subject
to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are
in the flesh cannot please God. Cannot the carnal mind receive
but not the things of the Spirit of God. Now, look at verse 4,
Joshua 10 verse 4. Zedek said to these other kings,
these other four kings, come up unto me and help me, that
we may smite Gibeon, for it had made peace with Joshua and with
the children of Israel. Now this man was a ringleader
in opposition to Joshua and Israel, And when he heard what happened
to Ahi, when he heard what happened to Jericho, and the great city
of Gibeon was an ally to Joshua, and Israel, he feared greatly,
you see that in verse 2, that they feared greatly, they feared
greatly, but they did not submit to God. They did not bow to God. You remember from our study in
Romans 3, There is no fear of God before their eyes. They feared
Israel, but they didn't fear the God of Israel. There is no
fear of God before their eyes. Now, this man doesn't, even though
he fears greatly, he does not fear God. Even though he fears, he does
not surrender and sue for peace. It only incited him to war against
Gibeon. Now, if you read over in chapter
13 or chapter 14, we run into the scripture that says that
God hardened their heart. That's why they didn't surrender.
God hardened their heart. Now, here's a lesson, a gospel
lesson for us here. Marvel not if the world hates
you. The world hates you, our Lord
said, you know it hated me before it hated you. Because Gibeon
allied himself to Israel, they hated not only Israel, but Israel's
new friend, the Gibeonites. Those that take a stand for the
gospel will be attacked by the enemies of God, and most of the
time it's the religious crowd. True in our Lord's day, Those
who hated him the most were the most religious people, weren't
they? The Pharisees, the Sadducees, the scribes. They sought to destroy
the Lord Jesus Christ. True in the Lord's day and true
in the apostles' day. You read through the book of
Acts and Paul was hunted and hounded and persecuted in every
city he went. Everywhere he went and when he
preached the gospel, two things always happened. A riot and a
revival. Many times he was beaten, many
times he was put in prison, many times, one time they stoned him
and drug him out of the city as a dead man. Some think he
did die, but God raised him up to continue preaching the gospel.
Yea, he said in 2 Timothy, from a Roman prison, he writes this,
yea, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution. Now he's not talking about living
morality. And nobody objects to morality,
do they? He's talking about taking a godlike
stand for the gospel. Now that's what they hate. And
the religious people hate it the most. The most vicious attacks
I've ever had over the gospel of God's sovereign grace have
not been from the drug addict or the drunk. It's been from
the religious crowd, from the preachers that I've run into
in my day. Now here's the second thing,
verse 5 and 6. This is most interesting. When
all these five kings confederated to gather against the city of
Gibeah and encamped around it. They probably surrounded it.
They made war against it. Look at verse six. The men of
Gibeah sent unto Joshua, sent to Joshua to the camp of Gilgal
saying, slack not thy hand for my servant. Come up to us quickly
and save us and help us for all the kings of the Amorite that
dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us. Boy, they
cried out for help. They were in trouble. They probably
were surrounded, completely surrounded. When the people of Gibeah find
out that Adonai Zedek and the other king plan to attack, make
war, and destroy them, their recourse is to cry out to Joshua. Joshua, his name means our savior,
God, our savior. Come up quickly and save us and
help us. Slack not thy hand. We're your
servants. Remember chapter nine, how many
times I pointed out, they said, we're your servants. We've made
league with you. We've surrendered to you. We've
submitted to you. We're your servants. Look back at chapter nine, verse
25. Remember, Joshua said, I'm going
to make you water boys and wood choppers. You're going to serve
us in the house of God around the altar. You're going to bring
the water. You're going to pack the water. You're going to chop
the wood. And they said, that's fine for us. Look at verse 25,
Joshua 9. Now behold, we're in thy hand,
as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us. You do it. We are your servants. Now, they cry for help. They
know they cannot defend themselves. They know they cannot save themselves.
They're surrounded. They're outnumbered. They're
outmanned. Now, we see a picture here, don't
we? Here's another gospel nugget for you. Is not that also true
of every believer? when our enemies seek to destroy
us, or when the trial we are going through greatly discourages
us and seems to defeat us, what do we do? What do we do in those
times? Well, in the bad times and in
the good times, we all should always call upon the name of
the Lord. We all should pray without ceasing
and in everything give thanks. What are we to do? Call upon
the name of the Lord. He is our refuge and strength
in the time of trouble. Now I'm gonna show you, David
did this repeatedly. If you look at Psalm 3, you remember
from our studies in 1 and 2 Samuel, how David was Oh, he said, I
feel like a hunted bird. He said, there's one step between
me and death. His enemies were constantly hounding
him, hounding him. He had to leave Jerusalem. He
had to hide out in a cave. And he cried to the Lord in his
trouble, Psalm 3. Lord, verse 1. How are they increased
that trouble me? Many are they that rise up against
me. Many be they which say of my
soul, there's no help for him in God. But thou, Lord, art my
shield for me, my glory the lifter up of my head. I cried unto the
Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. I lay
down and slept. And I wake for the Lord to sustain
me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have
set themselves against me round about. Arise, O Lord, and save
me. O my God, Thou hast smitten all
mine enemies upon the cheekbone. Thou hast broken the teeth of
the ungodly. Salvation belongs unto the Lord. Thy blessing is upon Thy people.
Now, stay with me. Turn to Psalm 27. And we could
read many of these psalms. Psalm 27, remember, the Lord
is my light and my salvation. Verse 1, whom shall I fear? The
Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? When
the wicked, even my enemies, my foes, came upon me to eat
up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should camp
against me, my heart shall not fail. Though war should rise
against me, in this I'll be confident. One thing have I desired of the
Lord, and that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of
the Lord, to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He
shall hide me in His pavilion, in the secret of His tabernacle
shall He hide me. He shall set me upon the rock,
and now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about.
Therefore will I offer in His tabernacle sacrifices of joy.
I will sing, yea, I will sing praises to the Lord. And we could
read many others, but let's look at one more. Turn to Psalm 46. Last time we were flooded and
I was sitting on the top of my stairs thinking that, didn't
think the water was going to stop. I thought I was going to
drown that evening, but this verse came to me in a very strong
way. Psalm 46 verse 1. Carried in the midst of the sea,
though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains
shake with the swelling thereof, there is a river, the stream
whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place, the tabernacle
of the Most High. God is in the midst of her. She
shall not be moved. God shall help her and that right
early." Boy, those are sweet promises, aren't they? Cry unto
the Lord. Now, what's going to happen? What's going to happen here?
They cry unto the Lord and look what happens. And Joshua ascends. Joshua ascended from Gilgal,
he and all the people. You see the Lord is not slack
concerning his promises, is he? He's not slack concerning his
promises. The Lord has promised us that
he will never leave us, he will never forsake us. He said, lo,
I'm with you always, for in that he himself hath suffered being
tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted. The sweet
promises of God. I was shuffling through some
papers, kind of cleaning up a little bit on my desk the other day,
and I ran across this little bulletin article that I'd clipped
out of a bulletin. It must have been 30 years ago,
because the paper is yellow. But here's what it says, this
by an old English preacher, the promises of God are like the
clothes we wear. If there's life in the body,
they warm us, but not otherwise. You get it? If there's life in
the body, the clothes we put on, you put a coat on a dead
man in the wintertime, it's not going to help him. But if there's
life in that body, you put a coat on him, it's going to warm him.
And here's what he says, where there is living faith, God's
promises afford warm comfort. When there's life in us in Christ,
his promises afford warm comfort, exceeding great and sweet promises
of the gospel. Now, verse 7, 8, 9, Joshua to the rescue. The Lord always
stands ready to defend and deliver his people. Joshua ascended from
Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the
mighty men of valor. And the Lord said to Joshua,
Fear them not, for I have delivered them into thy hand. There shall
not a man of them stand before thee. Joshua therefore came unto
them suddenly it went up from Gilgal all night, and the Lord
crushed them." Now, couldn't Joshua just stayed home
in Gilgal and just let the Lord take care of, let the Lord crush
them? No. God uses men and means to
accomplish His purpose. That's right. Notice a quick
response. Joshua and his men march all
night. They pull an all-nighter. They
march all night 20 miles from Gilgal to Gibeon, and then they
fight all day. They fight all day. The followers
of the Lamb endure hardness as a good soldier. They're ready
to fight for the cause of God and His truth. You remember the
Apostle Paul said, to fight the good fight of faith. He said,
I'm ready to depart. I fought a good fight. I am ready
to lay down and depart to be with the Lord." This is a sweet
promise of the Lord to deliver them. And the Lord crushed them,
defeated them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter,
and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhorn, and
smoked them in Adzika and Bekeda. Fear not, I have delivered them
into thy hand. Oftentimes, many times to the
scripture we read the promise, turn to Isaiah 43. He said, fear
them not, fear them not. Remember, we have no reason to
fear the Lord. He's with us, we're one with
him. For believers now, Isaiah 43,
look at verse one. But now thus sayeth the Lord
that created thee, O Jacob, he that formed thee, O Israel, fear
not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name,
thou art mine. When you pass through the waters,
I'll be with thee. Through the rivers, they shall
not overflow thee. When you walk through the fire, thou shalt
not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For
I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. I
gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Sheba for thee. Since thou
wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable. I have loved
thee. Therefore will I give men for thee and people for thy life. Fear not. Verse 5, I am with
thee. I will bring thy seed from the
east and from the west. I will gather thee. The Lord
gave Himself for our sins that He might deliver us from this
present evil world according to the will of God our Father,
to whom be glory both now and forever. The Lord has delivered
us from our sin, has He not? Do you fear your sins? Do you
fear the condemnation from your sins? Absolutely not. In Christ, our sin has been dealt
with. The Lord has delivered us, He
is delivering us, and He will yet fully and finally deliver
us. Listen to this promise, 2 Corinthians
1, 9 and 10. Paul said, we had the sentence
of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,
but in God which raises the dead, who delivered us from so great
a death, and doth deliver, in whom we trust that he will yet
deliver us. Isn't that precious? Joshua's
response to the call of those servants of Gibeah was, because
of that covenant of peace made with them. You remember back
in chapter nine, verse 15, Joshua made peace with them and made
a league with them to let them live. And the princes of the
congregation swearing to them, they had a covenant agreement
and arrangement between the men of Gibeah and Joshua and the
men of Israel. And Joshua responds to rescue
them and to save them because of that covenant. because of
that covenant. It was a covenant of peace that
God had made, a covenant of peace. Now, here's the thing. That is the
exact reason the Lord Jesus Christ hears the cry of his elect and
spares them by his grace because of that covenant, because of
that covenant. only because of that covenant
of mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ given unto us before the foundation
of the world. The Lord hath appeared, Jeremiah
said, the Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, I have
loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness
I have drawn thee unto myself. The God of peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great shepherd
of the sheep to the blood of the everlasting covenant. The only reason we have salvation
is because of those covenant mercies in Christ called the
sure mercies of David, ordered in all things and ensured this
is my hope and all my salvation. Now, verse 10 and 11. And it came to pass, verse 11,
they fled from before Israel. And when they're going down to
Bethlehem, that the Lord cast great stones from heaven upon
them at Adzika. And they died, and there were
more which died with hailstones than they which the children
of Israel slew with the sword. God bears And he bars no holes, no hole
barred. He'll do whatever it takes to
save his people. Another great miracle, great
hailstones. The Lord's mighty power. He brought
a great storm and formulated a great thunderstorm that had
huge big rocks like hailstone rocks And it fell just on those
people, not Israel. Judgment fell on them and spare. You see, even those hail stones,
God directed each stone, boom, right on the head of the enemies. He's sovereign over absolutely
everything. Another great miracle. The Lord's
mighty power. Now, this was not an act of mother
nature. This was not an act of mother
nature, but rather the judgment of God upon these rebels for
their sin against God. What does our sin deserve? The wage of sin is death. If
God sent me to hell, he'd do right. That's what I deserve. If God sent you to hell, he'd
do right. The wedge of sin is death, but
the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
We truly deserve nothing but judgment, but thank God He is
merciful. We have all sinned to come short
of the glory of God. It is only the Lord's mercies
that we've not been cast out of His presence forever. It is
of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed Not by works
of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy,
he saved us. Remember it says the Lord had
favor to them. Now, here's the last thing. Verse
12, 13 and 14. Then spake Joshua to the Lord. Now remember how Joshua is a
picture of our greater Joshua, the Lord Jesus Christ. Joshua
prayed to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the
Amorites before the children of Israel. And he said in the
sight of all Israel, he publicly said this and publicly prayed
this, Son, stand thou still upon Gibeah and moon in the valley
of Ajalon. And the sun stood still and the
moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their
enemy. They're running out of daylight.
And Joshua prayed, Lord, don't let the sun go down. Our business
is not done here. Is it not written in the book
of Jasher? Even the historian of the day recorded this mighty
event. So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted
not to go down about the whole day. And there was no day like
that day before or after that the Lord hearkened to the voice
of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel. Joshua prayed, according
to the will of the Lord, and his prayer was heard, and his
prayer was answered. Now, he prayed this prayer according
to the will of God, and it was answered. Now, don't turn to
this, you're familiar with it, but let me read this to you.
This is 1 John chapter five. Remember from our study in 1
John chapter five, Verse 14, this is the confidence
we have, this is the confidence that we have in Him, in Him,
that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And we know that he hath, and
we know that he heareth us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have
the petition that we desire of him. Joshua prays according to
the will of God, and it is done. Remember our Lord Jesus Christ
prayed, Lord, not my will, but thy will be done. Joshua prayed according to the
will of the Lord, His prayer was heard, his prayer was answered.
Nothing too hard for the Lord. Now, you think about all the
physics of the universe, and I don't understand it at all,
but somehow all the physics of the universe stopped. All the rotation of the planet
stopped. The moon stopped. Everything
was put on hold. God said, hold! Stop right now! Everything stopped. Nothing too
hard for the Lord. With the Lord, all things are
possible. And it says there, the sun hasted
not to go down the whole day. I mean, it wasn't just a few
minutes the whole day. Now, let the atheists and skeptics
mock and amuse themselves, and they do. But we bow in reverence
unto our almighty God and the authority of scripture. God who
rules the heavens and the earth does according to his mighty
will and rule. All power in heaven and in earth.
The Lord our God who created all things by the word of His
power also controls all things by the word of His power. Now
listen to this. The laws of physics does not
control our God. The laws of physics does not
control our God. Our God controls all the laws
of physics. What is the force behind gravity?
Almighty God. That's right. He controls all
the laws of physics. Listen to this scripture. Colossians
1, for by Him were all things created that are in heaven, that
are in the earth, visible, invisible, whether it be thrones or dominions,
principalities or power. All things were created by Him
and for Him. He is before all things and by
Him all things consist. They're held together. They're
controlled by Him. You remember from our study in
2 Kings 20 in the days of Hezekiah when he was sick unto death and
he prayed and God gave him 15 more years to live, remember?
And Isaiah, Hezekiah asked for a sign and Isaiah prayed to the
Lord Listen to what it says, 2nd Kings 20 verse 11, let me
read it to you. And Isaiah the prophet cried
unto the Lord, and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward
by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz. There the Lord backed up time
ten degrees. Now explain the science behind
those things. I wouldn't begin to attempt to
do such a silly thing, impossible. We just declare those things
because we read them in the word of God. How could Jonah live
three days in a whale's belly? I don't have the faintest other
than to say God did it. God sustained him. We put no
question mark upon his word. If the word of God said Jonah
swallowed the whale, Noah said, yes sir, that's what he did.
He said, we put no question mark on the word of God. When you
do, you're in trouble. We receive all the word of God,
as it is. Now, our greater Joshua in his
day, we see the reverse. When the Lord our God was made
sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him, When our Lord, our greater Joshua, accomplished
our salvation, and all our enemies were defeated, sin, Satan, death,
hell, and the grave, when the Lord said, it is finished, the
sun refused to shine for three hours. You see, God controls
all things. There was darkness over all the
land. Matthew 27, 45. Now from the
sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth
hour. From high noon, one o'clock,
two o'clock, three o'clock, three hours, darkness over the whole
land. Now there's another miracle that
takes place when a sinner is saved by the Lord. You know what
he does? He commands the light to shine
out of darkness. 2 Corinthians 4, 6. For God who
commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in
our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Christ. Giving thanks unto the Father
who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints
in light, who has delivered us from the power of darkness and
has translated us into the kingdom of God's dear Son. You remember 1 Peter 2. I'll
give you this in closing. But you are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should
show forth the praises of Him who called you out of darkness
into His marvelous light. You see, God controls all things. in creation, in providence, and
most certainly in salvation. That leads us to say, thanks
be unto God who has given us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. We are more than conquerors through
him that loved us.