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This is our moment!

An uplifting call to Christians during a pandemic

I preached a sermon yesterday at Eden Baptist on the perspective we, as Christians, should take during this alarming time of the coronavirus, a perspective deeply rooted in who we are in Christ.

28 And we know that in all things God works for the good^j of those who love him, whoⁱ have been called^k according to his purpose.^l 29 For those God foreknew^m he also predestinedⁿ to be conformed to the image of his Son,^o that he might be the firstborn^p among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined,^q he also called;^r those he called, he also justified;^s those he justified, he also glorified.^t
More Than Conquerors
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things?^u If God is for us,^v who can be against us?^w 32 He who did not spare his own Son,^x but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge^y against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns?^z No one. Christ Jesus who died^a—more than that, who was raised to life^b—is at the right hand of God^c and is also interceding for us.^d 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?^e Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?^f 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^j g
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors^h through him who loved us.ⁱ 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^k neither the present nor the future,^j nor any powers,^k 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God^l that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.^m

Romans 8:28–39
The New International Version