Romans 8: 31-32, The Good News...

Psalm 16:8 “I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.”

Introduction...

this lesson may seem a little harsh, but don’t shoot the messenger...

now scripture tells us that Jesus had compassion on the crowds, Matthew 9:35–38 “Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.””

the people were lost, they didn’t recognize the Messiah and they had turned away from God. and Jesus had compassion and pity for the people....TALK, PREACH.......

but since then we have received some good, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, was crucified and defeated death so that we may live eternally with God thru Him...

but yet people still wander around lost and without hope...

people go to church but they are being the church...

we see people still weary and scattered, but don’t do anything about it..

then say things like what is this world coming too or what is wrong with the church...

i heard a preacher say the church that Christ established is still the same, it is just a different type of person in the pew now a days...TALK, PREACH......

so since we know and since we see, why aren’t we telling someone the good news...

what good news?

Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” ....TALK, PREACH.....

2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” TALK, PREACH........

and as we are about to see here in a few moments, God has our back.

if you are in His son, no need to worry, no fear, why? because He lives...and because He lives in me...

so as we have put our total faith and trust in Jesus (Christians) and being better disciples, (followers of Christ), and as we continue to do our purpose of being disciple makers, we need to hold onto the good news for ourselves and spread the good news so that someone can accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour..

let me throw this in, In our journey of making disciples, we will undoubtedly face challenges. Whether it’s doubts, fears, or opposition, we can turn to Scriptures for strength and encouragement. Christ faced great challenges, and yet he persisted. By seeking His guidance and embracing His promises, we can rise above our difficulties. When we lean on God, we realize we are never alone; He empowers us to move forward and accomplish the task He has assigned to us, which is to make disciples...TALK, PREACH.......

church God has done something for us all that no one else could have ever done. and as a Pastor, Paul loved the church that was in Rome, so much that he corrected them when they needed correction and he encouraged them and gave them so much hope.

and i pray that you know that our hope is in Jesus Christ. He is THE GOOD NEWS...everything about Him is good and beneficial for all of those that truly believe, and truly follow.

Let’s look at the text...

Text/Story...

the glorious message of Romans is that God assures deliverance from struggling and suffering from sin through Christ.

Man struggles against the pressures and forces both within him or herself and those from the world.

Ephesians 6:12 “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” ...TALK, PREACH.......

some of the struggles we bring on ourselves, when we have separated from God and others as the above scripture states, when the devil is trying to separate you for God..

when we realize that God has made a way for us to overcome this things, and get your relationship solid with Him...then you scream the good news, If God be for us, then who can be against us...

and in this text Paul let’s the Roman church know and the church of today know as well that God has you back.

and the only thing needed is a solid relationship...

a relationship that is started by a personal confession,

that is sustained with the help of the Holy Spirit, while you study and live His Holy Word...

i said it Tuesday night, Obedience, Faith, Trust equals Blessings (repeat)

Let’s go deeper into this text...

Points...

verses 31 and 32 are our key verses for today but the good news starts back in verse 29...

Romans 8:29–30 “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.”

but all of this shows us that God’s planned and fulfilled purpose for us, that God has set glorification for the believer and that God is for us and has proved it....(repeat)...

God’s planned and fulfilled purpose for us.....

God manages the affairs of our life because we are called according to His purpose.

God’s ultimate goal for his children is salvation but He knew what we would need. TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON...

our participation in this eternal plan is essential, reflected in its goal: that we might be conformed to the image of His Son; and this is a process that God does with our cooperation, not something He just “does” to us...TALK, PREACH.......

Paul and His Letters The New Being in Christ (5:1–8:39)

Paul’s predestinarian language is always a way of expressing God’s grace. It emphasizes that our relationship with God does not depend on our own doing but on God’s. Our assurances rest in the purposes of God. Paul never eliminated human responsibility. Somehow the divine sovereignty and human response intertwine in the mystery of divine election....

He fulfilled it when He sent His son....

That He might be the firstborn among many brethren: This is the reason for God’s plan. He adopts us into His family (Romans 8:15) for the purpose of making us like Jesus Christ, similar to Him in the perfection of His humanity.

Romans E. A New Life: Based on the Purposes of God (8:26–30)

These two verses explain what God’s purpose is in his calling to salvation, and how it is accomplished. First, the purpose: that there might be many who would be conformed to the likeness of his Son.

Romans E. A New Life: Based on the Purposes of God (8:26–30)

Second, his method: from our perspective, God adopted us as spiritual orphans into his family, so that his Son … might be the firstborn among many brothers.

and it is thru His son that we can be glorified...

God has set glorification for the believer

Romans E. A New Life: Based on the Purposes of God (8:26–30)

How did God plan to save those whom he adopted into his family?

Romans 8:30 “Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.”

Romans E. A New Life: Based on the Purposes of God (8:26–30)

Predestination: God’s determining the destiny of those upon whom he has set his love.

3. Calling: God’s effectual call from death to life those upon whom he has set his love

Romans E. A New Life: Based on the Purposes of God (8:26–30)

Justification: God’s declaring as righteous those who have repented and believed.

Romans E. A New Life: Based on the Purposes of God (8:26–30)

Glorification: God’s fulfillment of his purposes—the making of fallen sinners into the image of his Son, Jesus Christ, for eternity...

that’s some good news right there...

finally,

God is for us and has proved it.....

Now that Paul has shown the lengths that God went to save man from His wrath and equip him for victory over sin and death, who can doubt that God is for us?

 God is only for us if we are reconciled to Him through Jesus Christ.

you can fool me but you cant fool God..TALK, PREACH......

Jon Courson’s Application Commentary Chapter 8

God views His people very highly and loves His people very deeply. Why? Because He already sees the end product. We’re already glorified in His eyes.....but that thing called sin....

Jon Courson’s Application Commentary Chapter 8

If God be for us, who would dare to be against us? Only one: Satan. But Satan is no problem because Satan is not God’s counterpart.

Jon Courson’s Application Commentary Chapter 8

God is so far above Satan and so much greater than this world system that any power that comes against you or any problem that creeps up within you is no match for the One who says, “I’m for you.”

and how did He prove it....

Romans 8:32 “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”

If the Father already gave His ultimate gift, how can we think that He won’t give us the smaller gifts?

Romans Romans 8:31–38

We cannot allow the opposition we might face to make us doubt or forget how committed God is to His plan for us. Paul drives this point home by recharacterizing God as “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave Him up for us” (8:32 LEB).

Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament God’s Everlasting Love (8:31–39)

, God has already given us his most precious “possession”; why would he withhold anything else?

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Bible Chapter 8

He that has prepared a crown and a kingdom for us, will give us what we need in the way to it

what is that way...here goes some more good news..

John 14:6 “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” TALK, PREACH, CLOSE......