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Hey, good morning everybody. This morning I'm gonna read from Romans 8 verses 33 through 34. Who bring a charge against God's elect? Hey, if you've given your life to Christ, that's you. You are God's elect. God is the one who justifies. Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is he who died, yes, rather, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. You know, in my personal Bible study, I'm going through the book of Job. I try to study a book of the Bible that I'm not teaching anywhere else. That's just for my relationship with the Lord. And at the very beginning of the book of Job, you have this really interesting interaction between Satan and God. And the first thing that you notice in that interaction is that Satan bows down before God. Satan has an adversary. It's not God. It's us. He is our enemy. Our God has no enemy. And the reason that Satan was there was to accuse Job. And he said, well God, of course Job is faithful. And Job was a faithful guy. He said, because you blessed him with a whole bunch of stuff. He doesn't have any problems in his life. And Satan accuses Job and says, if you let me tempt him, if you let me hurt him, take things away from him, if you let me at Job, I promise you he won't be faithful. And God sets the parameters for Satan. See, what Paul is talking about right here is that when we are in Christ, Satan can bring accusations against us, but he can't touch us. There's nothing he can do. And it's not because we're so smart. And it's not because we're always so holy and always do the right thing. It's because of Jesus. It's because you now belong to Jesus. When you accepted his grace and his mercy and you gave your life to him, when you confessed with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believed in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you are saved, rescued. And Jesus says in John chapter 3, you are born again. And here's the beautiful thing. Satan might be able to accuse you of something, but he can't touch you, because you are now belong to Jesus. So I want to encourage you today, if you feel like Satan's coming at you, if you feel like there's spiritual warfare all around you, hey, he may be. And there may be spiritual warfare all around you. But understand who you are in Jesus. Pray for his guidance. Pray for his protections. Pray and ask him to find a way, how can I use what I'm going through today to serve somebody else and bring you the glory? I want to encourage you today to do the best you can to live out your identity as a chosen child of God, that even the accuser can't touch you. Listen, God bless. If I can pray for you, if I can serve you in any way, please send me a message, let me know. Have a great day.