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Radical discipleship, peace, and community
What does it mean to follow Jesus radically?
Romans 8:35 lists what the persecuted church faces: tribulation, persecution, famine, sword. The passage addresses those who suffer for peacemaking, refusing violence. We conquer by non-retaliation, not by fighting back.
Conquering is not fighting back
The persecuted church knows this suffering
Victory through suffering love, not violence
συνεργεῖ can be "God works all things" or "all things work together" with God as agent
The aorist ἐδόξασεν (glorified) treats future as already accomplished
The list in v.35-39 represents every category of threat
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