Will God Surprise in Missions: Life
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Introduction
Introduction
When reading through Romans and you get to chapter 8 it feels like an ending of a section. The next chapter seems like the start of another section. As such, these last few verses have a lot in common with the Great Commission in the last chapters of the gospel.
In the Great Commission Jesus give comfort along with a command to go. In these last verses of Romans 8, we receive comfort from God as we go.
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Matthew 28:18-20 and Romans 8:38-39 are very similar in nature and scope as to how we understand the nature of the Triune God. In Matthew, Jesus has all power and will never leave the Christian to himself. In Romans, The Father’s love never abandons the adopted child.
The adopted has the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.
We could easily put Romans 8:38-39 into Matthew 28 between “all nations” and “baptizing” because every Christian must know the height, width, depth, and time-in-space of God’s love for them.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Persuaded
Paul is fully convinced of what he is about tho say.
Death
Ephesians 2 1 ,4-6
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
There is an undoing of the repercussions of the fall in Jesus Christ.
The penalty of sin is removed for those who have obeyed the truth of the gospel
The Christian’s body will die because our fleshly body is corrupted by sin.
The sting of death for the Christian is no longer present for you in death
Death is the shedding of this corrupted body and entering into the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Death cannot and will not separate you from the Love of God nor the Love of Jesus.
Life in Christ.
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
I was talking with a brother this week and he was telling that he did not understand what sin is, until someone explained it to him. While under the burden of his sin, he gave his life to Jesus Christ for salvation of his soul from the wrath of God. He went on to say, that his the wants of his life was changed. The things once wanted to do, he no longer wanted to do those things.
We you come to faith in Christ you get a new life and the old things pass away.
Your life does not get a renovation. It get torn down and new life begins.
It is eternal life with our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
As difficult and uncertain life can be at times, life will not and can not separate you for the love of God which is in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Angels
Angels are messenger of God.
Every account we have of an angel appearing to a human, there is great fear.
We learn where angels were sent to protect the people of God and thousands were slain because they took against the true and living God.
It certainly is a scary thing to see an angel.
Principalities and powers
Principalities is a mark of a beginning of a period of time for a dominion of supernatural beings good or bad who act in a ruling or commanding capacity.
These principalities and powers were originally meant for good but now the power of the cross has taken away their power and are now subject to Jesus Christ.
The principality of Jesus is never ending in time so there will never be a time when the Love of God diminishes.
Powers
We sometimes think of fallen angels as powerful being but what we are talking about is the power of God’s love to keep us.
The power of God is revealed to us today in Jesus and He caused demons to leave people who were possessed by them.
Demons would try to stand against Jesus saying, “have you come to persecute us before the time?”
The power that demon had was lost away at the resurrection of Jesus and will be striped away publically at the Jesus’ return.
The new life an believer has comes from God and is set under His rule.
This does not mean the demons will not fight against God but it does mean that it God who keeps by His power.
Jesus said in the Great Commission, “All power is given to me, go ye therefore.”
No angel or power will overcome the mighty power of God to save.
Is there a greater power than the power of God to save us?
Is there possibly a greater power that can overshadow the power of God’s love?
Things present nor to come
Is there a present time we can enter into that can displace us from the Love of God?
Is there a future time that will come where God’s love will not be present?
The present time nor the future will cause the Love of God to be exhausted or in short supply.
Height nor depth
There is nothing in the height of created universe that will overcome the creator of the universe.
The universe is subject its creator, Jesus Christ.
The depth of the universe has no power. The power is in the one who created it.
There is no creature that can climb over or under the universe to loosen the power of God’s love for his children.
God does not love another more than He loves you.
God does not love you more or less last week as he does now or will in the future.
Nor any other creature
There is nothing created that can separate you from the mighty power of God to save and to keep you with his love.
This love is found in Jesus Christ.
But God, commended His love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
The love of God goes along with God’s grace. The grace of God is freely offered to all and is received as a free gift for those who turn in repentance and faith. You must repent of your sin and believe Jesus Christ will save.
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
If you are not held by God’s love, give you life to Jesus and you will enter into this mighty saving love that you cannot be separated from.
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