If God is for us...
Notes
Transcript
Introduction:
A. Open your Bible to Romans
B. Thanks to Doxa
C. Who am I (picture of family)
D. Invite Remi Sefton to come up and read.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Big Question: If God is for us Who can stand against us? V.31
Big Question: If God is for us Who can stand against us? V.31
I. Who… (Against us) (used interchangably in the passage)
II. God
III Us (the believer)
Who: Anything other than God and us.
Who: Anything other than God and us.
Who can be against us? v31
Who Shall bring any charge to you? v33 It is God Who Justifies
Who is to condemn you? v 34 Jesus Christ is the one who died, Raised and is with God.
Who shall separate us from the Love of God? then he begins this long list…
Ask yourself: What do you feel up against? (Write it down)
how is this challenging your faith in God?
A. Condemned by someone..
B. overwelmed by a circumstance.
C. unable to reconcile in faith something that is going on in this world…
- This last week Graham in Hospital. (Picture)
Paul explains circumstances like:
1. Tribulation
2. Distress
3 Famine
4. Persecution
5. Sword.
People Like:
1 Rulers
World Disasters
Spiritual Warfare
The Worst you can imagine… if you are in Christ cannot seperate you from God.
V 39 Or Life : Even the good stuff cannot take a hold of you.
nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Why can we have this confidence. this is the point of Pauls writing in Romans 8
It is the object of our faith… that Allows us to have hope to overcome these things…
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
What is authentic faith? - Beautiful Eulogy & Art Azurdia
Authentic faith is the confident assurance in events not yet seen
Faith is not a call to believe in things when common sense tells you not to. Faith is not a mindless stab in the dark It is not a crossing of the fingers and hoping for the best It is not a leap into apparent nothingness It's a word that speaks of reasoned, careful, deliberate, intentional thought Thought upon what? God and his promises
If you are absolutely gripped by the coming realities that have been promised to you by God, then how you live your life in the present will be radically different than if you did not possess that certainty…
This is what faith is, my friends! Positive certainty expressed in action....
Authentic faith is not merely believing in God. It is believing God
Taking God at his word, living in obedience to his revelation whatever the cost because you know down deep in your bones that God will always do what he says, that his speaking is his doing.
you want to grow your faith expand your view of the object of your faithh
God: Creator of all things, In Control of all Things, Knows all things.
God: Creator of all things, In Control of all Things, Knows all things.
Creator of all things, In Control of all Things, Knows all things.
for you vs 31
Gave up his son… for us. vs 31
justified you
Motivated by his Love for us.
whos Son is interceding on your behalf.
Paul’s sermon at Mars Hill
Town of Athens (Image Slide)
Hill of Eres or Mars Hill (Image slide)
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for
“ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’;
as even some of your own poets have said,
“ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
US: (Those in Christ)
US: (Those in Christ)
We are conquerors ....
What does it mean to Conquer:
False: These things dont bother us, we experience no trials
True: Nothing can separate you From God… Which is everything.
2 Corinthians 4:17–18 (ESV)
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
no matter what happens to you… your eternity in Christ is secure.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Application:
For those outside the we....
1. What is your response to this message this morning... Is the Lord stirring something in you.
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
2. We don’t Worship God for Peace but yet he offers it, when we come to him.
For those in Christ?
A. Remind: In Trial Cling to these truths…
B. Reflect: Seek The God of the Bible and know him more
C. Rest: and have rest....
