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Romans 8:20 · BSB
8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
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…beings, but sin begins to affect all of creation, which now sets out thorns and thistles and animals get sick and get hurt and so on. And so inRomans 8:19-21, you see that creation itself is pictured there as being in bondage to sin, groaning, saying, when are we gonna be relieved from this sin? And so…
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…witness to God's glory that creation itself declares, and that it proclaims to us, and we are all the poorer for it. And yet Paul tells us now inRomans chapter 8 verses 19 to 25, that through nature, god also provides another kind of another unlikely witness, an unlikely witness to his glory, and that is the glory I'm…
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Well, good morning. Please take your copy of God's Word and join me in Romans chapter 8. All right. Our text for this morning isRomans chapter 8, verses 18 through 27. Before we set our minds on today's text, and do bear with me for a moment, I want us to first take a look back at verses 16 and 17, and consider…
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…this all of this. That the world is the way it is not by chance, but that there actually is a God in control. Paul would later write about this inRomans 8:20when he says, for the creation was subjected to futility not willingly, but because of God who subjected it. In hope that the creation itself will…
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…all of the earth, is now broken, and that thorn and thistle will well up from the earth, that the perfect creation is no longer perfect. And thenRomans chapter 8, verse 20even says that creation was subjected to futility, which means that creation no longer operates in the way that it was originally designed to…
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…management. He wanted to be the CEO of this world. And so he sinned, he disobeyed God, and he ate from the forbidden tree. And we read this inRomans 8:20. After he did this, after he sinned, creation was cursed. Adam was kicked out of the garden. Adam and Eve were. And then all of creation was…
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…what our God behaves like This is what our God behaves like Look into this mirror and you will see his character What we don't realize is that inRomans 8 verse 20or thereabouts 19 to 21 It actually says that creation is waiting creation is eagerly waiting creation is eagerly expecting the Revealing of the…
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…he wrote, many of them at least, he wrote while in prison, awaiting execution, for what? Following Jesus. But listen to things that he says in likeRomans chapter 8, verses 18 through 25. And this has a lot of theological stuff that we're not going to get into because we'll be in Romans 8 before too long. Um, but I just want to read…
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…he wrote, many of them at least, he wrote while in prison, awaiting execution, for what? Following Jesus. But listen to things that he says in likeRomans chapter 8, verses 18 through 25. And this has a lot of theological stuff that we're not going to get into because we'll be in Romans 8 before too long. Um, but I just want to read…
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…sum up in the passage we just read in Romans 8. Paul sums up what this means for us who are now still living under this curse. Have a look again atRomans 8:20-21. Paul says, creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him, God, who subjected it. In hope that the creation itself will be…
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…Adam's fall, the curse, the pain, the suffering that came from us walking away from God. As Paul writes, the creation was subjected to frustration.Romans 8:20. Just as the cosmos shares in Adam's fall, so too the cosmos is waiting, waiting with bated breath to see the fullness of Christ's redemptive…
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…continue for an eternity unless God did something about it. And the glorious news is God has done something about it. He stepped in. The hope was,Romans 8 verse 20, 21, was that creation would be liberated from its bondage of decay. And he does that by intervening into the world in the person of his Son,…
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…Herod to send into Bethlehem. Remember what Joseph said, you meant it for evil, but God what? Meant it for good? Genesis 50, 20. The Old TestamentRomans 8:20verse, Genesis 50, 20. Notice the plea in the instructor. Search diligently for the young child. He said, please go find him. Now this plea is a…
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…at Romans chapter 8 again this morning. We're going to focus in on verses 18 through 22. Let me invite you to turn there with me in the Pew Bible,Romans 8, verses 18 through 22. The page number is in the bulletin if you need help finding that. We're going to look closely at these words this morning, so it'll be helpful if…
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…chapter 3, it says this, Behold what manner of love the Father has for us, that we should be what? We should be called the sons of God. And here inRomans chapter 8, verse 16 through 25, we are explained the absolute blessing that we have in being God's children. In verses 26 and 27, Paul comforts us by reminding us of the Holy…
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