NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD
Romans 8:28-39
GOD WORKS FOR YOUR GOOD
V:28. " And we know that in all things God works for
the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
A. Your life is
controlled by God's sovereign plan.
1. You have been
called by God.
2. Your life has
a purpose.
3. God works in
your life.
4. All God's work
is for your good.
5. All the
circumstances of your life are under God's control.
6. What we
consider good can work in our favor according to God's will.
7. What we consider
bad can work in our favor according to God's will.
B. Our love for God
causes Him to work all things in our favor.
1. God is love.
2. What God does
for us is out of His love.
3. We have to seek God to discover His purpose
for our lives.
4. Our purpose
must give God glory.
5. If what your
are doing does not give God glory, it is not your purpose.
V:29. " For those God foreknew he also predestined to
be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among
many brothers."
A. God "foreknew", He knew in advance what would
happen.
1. God knows the
end from the beginning.
2. All the events
of your life are in God's plan.
B. God "predestined".
1. God
predetermined all the events of your life.
Jer 29:11
2. God decided
that He wanted you to look like, act like, talk like and
think like
His Son.
C. God planned the death and resurrection of His Son.
1. God planned our
redemption in His Son.
2. God planned our
relationship with him through His son.
D. God's Sovereign will is that we are brothers and sisters
of Jesus.
THE PROCESS OF REDEMPTION
V:30. " And those he predestined, he also called; those
he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified."
A. God has two classes of people.
1. Those He
predestined.
2. There are
those God did not predestine.
3. It is by His
Grace that we were predestined.
B. The order of our lives is given in this verse
1. He predetermine
before we were born that we would be part of the body of Christ.
2. At the right
time, after we were born, God called us out of the world.
a. He drew us
to Himself.
b. He gave us
a measure of faith to accept His Son as our Savior.
3. Once called out
of the world, God justified us.
a. He rendered
us innocence of all our sins through the blood of His Son.
b. The blood of
Jesus is the payment that satisfies God's demand for justice
for our sins.
4. Once justified,
God glorified us.
a. The word
"glorified" is the Greek word "doxazo" which means honor,
or
esteem.
b. It is an
honor to be called a child of God.
c. We did nothing
to deserve this honor.
d. This honor is
God's sovereign will for us.
e. Our glory
begins in heaven around the throne of God.
f. At death, we
will enter into eternal life with our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ.
MORE THAN THE WHOLE WORLD AGAINST US
V:31. " What, then, shall we say in response to this?
If God is for us, who can be against
us?"
A. God is our
protector.
1. It does not
make any difference what people try to do to us. God
is in control
of our lives.
2. God is in
control of all our circumstances.
B. God has planned
our circumstances according to His good Will.
1. Being a
Christian does not eliminate trials and tribulations from
your life.
2. Being a
Christian guarantees trials and
tribulations.
3. We are the
target of Satan's devices.
4. When we face
trials and tribulations, God stands with us and will
see us
through them.
5. God will use
our trials to strengthen us.
6. God uses our
trials to grow our faith in Him.
GOD'S LOVE MANIFESTED IN HIS SON
V: 32. " He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him
up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all
things?"
A. The God we serve loves us so much that He sent His Son
who knew no sin to die
for our sins.
1. God has a
vested interest in us.
2. God has given
us victory over Satan and his devices.
B. How we handle our trials is a testimony to our faith in
Jesus.
1. He promised
never to leave us or forsake us.
2. This means
trouble is on the way, but Jesus has it covered.
JUSTIFIED BY GOD
V:33-34. " Who will bring any charge against those whom
God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ
Jesus, who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at the right hand
of God and is also interceding for us."
A. Those who God has rendered innocence, can not be
condemned by the anyone.
1. The Justified
are not under the Law. We are under grace.
2. The Jews who live
by the Law are those who condemned Christ and everyone
who believes
in Him.
3. Christ the Law
giver, fulfilled all the requirements of the Law with His death
on the Cross.
B. Christ is now seated at the right hand of the Father
making intercessions for all those
He called out of
world.
1. The saved are
not under the condemnation of anyone.
2. We must be
careful that we don't condemn another brother or sister in Christ
according to
our way of thinking.
3. We must be careful not to form negative
opinions of another brother of sister
because we
don't agree with them.
GOD'S LOVE IS PERMENANT
V:35. " Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or
sword?"
A. Christian faith grows with the trials and the tribulation
we face.
1. There are
seven areas listed that affects our minds, hearts, emotions,
and bodies.
2. Trouble comes
in all shapes and forms.
3. Sometimes
trouble comes from unexpected places.
4. You expect
trouble outside the Church, but you
don't expect it to begin
inside the
Church.
5. The Apostle
Paul was dealing with issues in the religious community from people
who didn't understand the Word of God.
B. God is aware of what we
are going through and has given us the power of
His word and the
Holy Spirit to deal with all issues.
1. No problem that we face shall shake our
confidence that God loves us.
2. The issues we face should not cause us to doubt the love of Christ.
3. We should see
our trials and tribulations as God's way of improving some
area in our
lives.
a. James 1:2
say count it all joy.
b. James 1:3-5
gives the spiritual benefits of our trials.
OUR TROUBLE IS CONTROLLED BY GOD
V:36-37. " As it
is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered
as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all
these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."
A. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but love, power
and sound mind.
1. Some people
take our humbleness as weakness.
2. Some see our
faith in Jesus as foolishness.
3. It is our faith
in Jesus that makes us stronger and wiser than the world.
B. We can expect trouble. But we can expect God to see us
through our troubles.
1. The victory
over the sinful world has already been won.
2. It takes faith
to love our enemies and to do good to those who use us.
3. It takes faith
to suffer the consequences of proclaiming Jesus Christ.
4. It takes faith to believe that there is a reward for
serving God, both
here on earth
and in heaven.
5. Love is the key
to peace with God and peace with man.
HEAVEN BOUND
V:38-39. " For I
am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,
neither the present
nor the future, nor any powers, neither
height nor depth, nor
anything else in
all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in
Christ Jesus our
Lord. "
A. There are things beyond us that we have no control over.
1. Life and death
are in the hands of God.
2. Angels and
demon are spiritual beings that we can't see but know through God's
Word exist
out side of our minds and bodies.
B. Everything that exists is in the hands of God and under
His control.
1. Since we abide
in Christ and His Word abides in us, we are more
than the
whole world against us.
2. Just as Jesus
is one with the Father, we are one with Jesus.
3. Nothing can
separate us from the love of God.
4. Jesus said
that those who the Father gave him cannot be lost from Him.
John 6:37
5. Before the
foundation of the earth, we were predetermined to be in Jesus.
6. We should rest
all our hope in Jesus.
THANK GOD FOR ELECTING US
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia
Baptist Church
For a complete list of my lessons visit my blog
"goodnewsrevmitc.blogspot.com"
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