More than conquerors? To conquer is to completely defeat your enemy. So what then is being more then conquerors? John Piper in his book "Don't Waste Your Life" (which can be downloaded for free here) gives some insight. He shares, a conqueror subjugates his foe, but one that is more than a conqueror, makes that foe his slave. The conquered enemy starts working for you. Paul said "This light affliction worketh for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory..."
The enemy which came Paul's way was affliction. Paul conquered it by not letting it separate him from Christ, but then went on to be more than a conqueror by making that affliction work for him that "exceeding weight of glory!"
Earlier in the chapter Paul tells us "All things work together for good to them that love God..."
When the trials, struggles and affliction come to fight us and destroy us, we become more than conquerors and those same problems start working for us.
So then we like Joseph can say, "You meant it for my evil, but God meant it for my good!"
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