Part 6 - All Things For Your Good

Introduction

We continue tonight studying the several truths found in Scripture that will transform your life.

Tonight, we are going to look at yet another very popular, well-known verse that like some others we’ve studied, gets taken out of context from time to time.

Romans 8:28–30 KJV 1900

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 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.

These verses encompass so many areas of our Christian walk…I like one thing I found while studying that said we can call these verses the A-Z of the Christian life...

This passage gives us the:

Attitude of hope

Boldness to face the battle

Courage to do what’s right

Defense against the devil’s attacks

Encouragement during trials

Focus on the eternal

Glory to give God

Help in time of need

Insight during trials

Joy through all circumstances

Knowledge in the darkness of what God’s trying to do

Love for God

Ministry for others

Nutrition in the famine of blessing to feed us

Offering of praise

Purpose for our lives

Quality for our lives

Rejoicing in suffering

Strength to not faint

Testimony to others

Understanding

Victory in the valley

Wealth as children

X-ray vision into why God is doing something

Yielding to His will, knowing that all things work together for good

Zeal to serve

Ultimately, these verses teach us that our good is God’s purpose!

Everything He allows into our lives is for His perfect purpose of conforming us to Christ!

Let’s take a look at some things tonight concerning “All Things For Your Good”...

1-His People

Romans 8:28 KJV 1900

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

It’s very important for us to realize who this verse is meant for!

This verse is “to them that love God” - You don’t have the right to claim this verse unless you qualify as one who loves Him!

You can’t love Him until you know Him!

1 John 4:19 KJV 1900

19 We love him, because he first loved us.

And then we see

John 14:15 KJV 1900

15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21 KJV 1900

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

So by these few verses, we find out who this verse is for, and how to tell if you are one of His people!

This verse isn’t for the lost!

We cannot use Romans 8:28 to comfort un unsaved person who is going through a trial, because the unsaved cannot have confidence that everything in their lives will all ultimately work out for good...

If you don’t believe me, listen to what Jesus said about Judas:

Matthew 26:24 KJV 1900

24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

All things didn’t work together for Judas!

Judas betrayed Christ and he suffered for that decision. Although Judas’ treatment of Jesus was for the good of all who would be saved, things didn’t all work together for the good of Judas himself.

Instead of comforting lost people with a verse that isn’t written to them, we must give them a clear presentation of the Gospel, and not a false assurance that their lives will work together for good.

If you’re not saved tonight, it’s time to get saved!

If you are saved, then look forward to the opportunity to claim this promise that all things work together for good!

This verse is for the saved!

2-His Promise

Certainty of its outcome

Change in its curriculum

Conformity as its goal

3-His Purpose

Our filter

Our focus

Our faith

Conclusion