20250824 God is For Us: Romans 8
The Book of Romans • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Welcome to Vertical Church
42 And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.
We began our church with the desire to fulfill the mandate of this verse. To devote ourselves to what the early church was devoted to.
Devoted to the teaching of the word of God
Devoted to genuine Christian relationships and the fulfilling of commandment of Christ to love the household of faith
Devoted to the proclamation of the gospel through the ordinances of believers baptism and communion
Devoted to the prayers through singing and public prayer
The 5 Solas - God alone is our source of Salvation
We believe Scripture alone is the Word of God
We believe that we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
WE believe that live and exist for the glory of God alone
We are called Vertical Church - we believe that all true worship and living is Vertical, God directed and God focused
With that in mind, Let us worship God
Call to Worship - Psalm 23
A Psalm of David. 1 Yahweh is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. 3 He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and lovingkindness will pursue me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of Yahweh forever.
Scripture Reading - Romans 8:35-39
Romans 8:35–39 (LSB)
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction, or turmoil, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?… 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Introduction: Romans 8: God is For Us
The apostle Paul writes to the church in Rome, a church made up of gentiles and Jews who have come to Christ and he presents to them the plan of salvation
In chapter 1 he presents the condemnation of God and the power of the gospel to save us from the wrath of God
Beginning in chapters 2-5 he presents the justification through faith that God gives through the gospel. Being justified by faith we have peace with God through Jesus, and guilty sinners are now clothed in the righteousness of Christ and through the Holy Spirit, God’s wrath was place on Christ at the cross and God’s love was poured into our hearts
In chapters 6-8 Paul presents the great doctrine of sanctification, the process of God transforming us from guilty sinners to those who are conformed to the image of Christ and who eternally in Christ and also eternally have Christ in them.
Chapter 8, the final chapter on sanctification is the key chapter of Romans It has been called the greatest chapter in the Bible and over the next few weeks we look at why we should think of it as perhaps the best chapter in the bible
To do this, I want us to look to examine:
Paul the OT scholar
Psalm 23, the psalm of eternal salvation
Romans 8 and the promise of God’s eternal presence in the life of the believer
(1) Paul the Old Testament scholar
4 although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.
12 I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He regarded me faithful, putting me into service, 13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;
3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been brought up in this city, having been instructed at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today,
4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering both men and women into prisons,
Despite his great knowledge Paul was lost
Confronted by Jesus on the road to Damascus and gloriously saved
And once saved he not only saw Christ differently, he saw the Old Testament differently
(2) Psalm 23, the Psalm of Eternal Salvation
A Psalm of David. 1 Yahweh is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. 3 He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows. 6 Surely goodness and lovingkindness will pursue me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of Yahweh forever.
Jesus the good shepherd, restores my soul, a righteousness by faith, the valley of death, protection, dwell in yahweh’s house forever
from salvation to glorification
(3) Romans 8 and the promise of God’s eternal presence in the life of the believer
1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who indeed did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?
Now the Savior who died, who rose, and who reigns, grant you joy in the midst of labor, peace in the midst of troubles, hope in the midst of despair, and faithfulness in the midst of temptation. Amen.
Pastor Chris Andrade - Foster the City
