Romans 8 | Week 6

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Romans chapter 8. We are in week 6 of Romans 8,

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all of Christ for all of life, all of Christ, for all of life,

than this is not particularly A Mother's Day sermon, right?

It's just you've been here long enough to let the Giroux to let

the do dry out. So then, you know, that we do

not arrange our preaching schedule, according to Hallmarks

calendar. All right.

So, breathe, easy mothers. I don't intend to beat you over

the head today or to overly celebrate, you either.

So but I intend to encourage you from the scriptures.

The Bible has greater instructions.

Greater help greater encouragement.

It's some mothers and non-mothers than any afternoon

Hallmark movie with the glass of wine can do for you promised.

All right. So I intend to encourage you

with the word of God today. We're going to examine verses 28

through 30 of Romans chapter 8. Romans 8:28 through 30.

Romans 8 · chapter mention Romans 8:28–30

And these verses here is what we see.

This is the main point. I want to give to you today and

you can write this down. If you're taking notes,

admittedly, it's a bit lengthy. All things work together for the

Eternal good. All things work together for the

Eternal good. I want you to note that word

Eternal, there of those who love God and are called according to

his purpose, all things work together for the Eternal good of

those who love God, and are called, according to his

purpose, and everybody said, amen.

Amen? See, it's not a Mother's Day,

sermon specifically, right? Yet this is not mean that a

mother will not find great instruction in its great help.

Great encouragement from from this passage to be crystal clear

though, so that we're all on the same page as we begin today.

I believe this sermon is for everyone of us, I believe these

encouragement sore for you. Whether you are a man or a

woman, a boy or a girl. Today, like these things are

glorious truths, mid for you to take.

Hold of, and to believe with all of your heart, mind and

strength. Amen.

Which stand your feet. Now, as we read God's word, I'm

going to start in verse one today, even though our text is

28 through 30 because I think it's worth getting the context

of everything that's happening. As we look at what is the

foundation for all of these glorious blessings.

These privileges that Paul has laid out for us in verses 1

through 27. And so, beginning in verse 1,

there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are

in Christ Jesus, the law of the spirit of life has set you free.

Free in Christ Jesus. From the law of sin and death

for God has done what the law weakened by the flesh.

Could not do I sending his own son in the likeness of sinful

flesh? And for sin, he condemned sin in

the flesh. In order that the righteous

requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk, not

according to the flesh, but according to the spirit for

those who live, according to the flesh, set their minds on the

things of the flesh. But those who live, according to

the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit for to

set the mind on the flesh is death.

But to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace, for

the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God.

For does not submit to God's law.

Indeed, it cannot those who are in the flesh, cannot please God,

you however, are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if, in

fact, the spirit of God, dwells in you.

Anyone who's does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong

to him, but if Christ is in you all, although the body is dead

because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness,

if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in

you, he who raised Christ Jesus from.

The dead will also give life to your mortal bodies, through his

Spirit who dwells in you. So then Brothers, we are debtors

not to the flesh to live, according to the flesh for if

you live, according to the flesh, you will die.

But if by the spirit you put to death, the Deeds of the flesh,

you will live for all who are led by the spirit of God are

sons of God for you, did not receive the spirit of Slavery to

fall back into fear but you have received the spirit of adoption

as Sons by which or by whom sorry we cry, Abba Father The

spirit himself Bears witness with our spirit that we are

children of God. And if children then heirs Heirs

of God and fellow heirs with Christ provided we suffer with

him in order that we may also be glorified with him verse 84.

I consider that the sufferings of, this present time are not

worth comparing with the glory. That is to be revealed to us for

the creation Waits with eager longing.

For the revealing of the sons of God for the creation was

subjected. Ejected to futility, not

willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope, that

the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to

corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the

children of God. For.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in

the Pains of childbirth until now.

And not only the creation, we ourselves who have the first

fruits of the spirit groan inwardly as we.

Wait, eagerly for adoption as Sons, the Redemption of our

body. For in this hope we were saved.

Now hope that is seen is not hope for who hopes for what he

sees. But if we hope for what we do,

not see we wait for it with patience.

Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness.

For we, do not know what to pray for as we ought.

But the spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings

too deep for words and he who searches Hearts knows, what is

the mind of the spirit because the spirit intercedes for the

Saints, according to the will of God.

And we know that for those who love God, all things work

together for good. For those who are called

according to his purpose. For Those whom he foreknew.

He also predestined to be conformed, to the image of his

son in order, that he might be the firstborn among many

brothers. And Those whom, he predestined,

he also called, and Those whom he called, he also Justified,

and Those whom he justified, he also glorified.

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God, let me pray

for Heavenly Father, we thank you for today.

Thank you for your word and this time we have now in it, holy

spirit, we ask that you would guide us direct our hearts

direct. Our minds to see to believe to

understand these truths and build our lives into fruitful

organisms for the kingdom and the glory of Christ alone.

It's in the name of Jesus. We pray.

Amen. Amen.

You may be seated. Before I get into the content of

this text that I wanted to remind us of the context, I

wanted to draw our attention to that which is why we read all of

those versus just now. But Paul is building toward his

closing argument which is more doxology than arguments and

we'll see that next week, but in verses 28 through 30, he

striving to ground the hope of Christians that we see all

three. Throughout verses 1 through 27,

he's grounding those hopes. Those privileges that Christians

know in the Providence and the sovereignty of God, it's an

argument that he strengthens and next week's passage as well.

He goes on to explain why you can believe what you see today

with next week's passage. So some summaries of the truths

that we've observed so far in verses 1 through 4.

We established that in an act of astounding Grace, God condemns

sin in Christ setting. A free from condemnation and

free to live lives according to the spirit of God and verses 5

through 11. We said that that same Spirit

which we've received the one that has set us free.

Grants us live and peace at the Spirit enables our minds to be

set on the things of the spirit. We are able to walk.

According to the spirit of God and verses 12 through 17.

We saw that God by his Spirit bestows on his people life.

But he adopts them as his own children and he appoints them to

be co-heirs with Christ. Then in verse 18, the focus

transition to the sufferings that we must endure with Christ.

So that we saw in verse 17 if we were going to be glorified with

Christ also and so in verse 18 we saw that the key to Christian

suffering verses 18 through 25. The key to Christian suffering

is to keep your eyes on future glories.

See if your eyes on the hope of Evan and then last week we saw

that the holy spirit in verses 26 or 27 is our Advocate and

prayer. He's a help to us.

He is and he's carrying literally our prayers to God and

he is working. God's will in us, as a result of

those were dangers prayers by faith.

In Christ, what we have seen then is that we have everything

we need for life and godliness, truly.

It is all of Christ for all of Life, by faith in.

See, the God has graciously, the God is utterly transforming your

life. He's giving you the spirit as

your helper, in all things unto the transformation of your life.

So that as our Tech shows today, you would be conformed to the

image of God's own son. These are supremely glorious

truths. Any one of which could cause you

to stand up and dance a jig if you weren't so Baptist, right?

Yet when we suffer, we are tempted to doubt the goodness of

God's plan. For us when we go through

hardship, when we go through suffering, when we go through

pain, we are tempted to doubt whether or not God could

actually work together. All things for the good of his

people. We wonder is this true which

brings us to the content of today's passage?

Because last week we saw that the spirit is taking our prayers

to the Lord. He's working the will of God in

us but you might still be tempted to say, yes.

But I suffer Somebody read those verses for you, again, that

we're looking at now and we know that for those who love God, all

things work together for good, for those who are called

according to his purpose. For Those whom he foreknew.

He also predestined to be conformed, to the image of his

son in order, that he might be the firstborn among many

brothers. And Those whom, he predestined,

he also called, and Those whom he also, Those whom he called he

also Justified and Those whom he justified, he also glorified I

want to show you that in verse 28, you have another statement

of truth. It's another privilege of the

believer, similar to the Privileges.

We've been seeing. It's all of these things that

you've received as being in Christ.

Again, all of Christ for all of life.

This is another privilege that all things work together for

your good because you love God and are called according to his

purpose. It's a great privilege that we

have, but in verses 29 and 30, what he's doing is laying out

the foundation on which all All of those truths.

All of those privileges must stand.

It's the truths. There of God's predestiny,

things to work in this fashion. I would like to issue to you a

pastoral statement if you will. It's vitally important to

remember. When you read God's word, you

are reading what you are reading.

Is divinely breathed by God through the spirit to men.

Meaning it's inspired by God. It's sufficient because it is

from God. It is infallible because it has

its root in God, it cannot fail, it is inerrant because God never

airs. Amen.

And so to his word, never airs, God.

Spoke these things, by his Spirit, to these biblical

writers for the edification of his people.

And so, therefore, these words, all of them, every word from

Genesis 1:1 to the end of Revelation.

Genesis 1:1

Elation. Is spoken written down for your

edification. They are trustworthy and true.

In other words, these are not Paul's words.

While Jesus may have said something different, It is not

Paul's words, why Peter may have wrote something else.

These are not Paul's word. While Moses may have wrote

something. That would be contrary to what

you read. Everything works together in the

scriptures to to explain to us to show us to reveal to us God's

truths. These are not opinions of man,

devoid of God's truth. These are not just mere

meanderings of a mind, written down that look wise.

They are wise because they come from God himself.

This is the very word of God. And if we are unsure about what

they say, if we were uneasy about the words that he uses,

then we need not find fault in the text, we need find fault in

our own hearts and Minds. We must seek the Lord, in

prayer. We must ask the spirit to help

us in our weaknesses. It's good for us to check any

man-made presuppositions at the door when we come to the

scriptures. Amen.

Romans 8:28 and we know that for those who love God, all things

Romans 8:28

work together for good, for those who are called according

to his purpose. So we've seen a great deal of

privileges afforded to the saints of God in this.

Glorious chapter of Romans questions and scoffing and

mockings may arise. Anyway.

Neither from outside, or from, within your own heart and mind.

Yeah, the spirit intercedes for you in trouble, the spirit

intercedes for me and my trouble.

But to what benefits because I'm still suffering greatly.

Or someone might look at you and say, you can say the spirit

intercedes for you, but I can observe your life and its marked

by suffering great suffering. So what benefit is the spirit of

God, why don't you just abandon him as Jobs wife would have

encouraged joke to do. You might hear things like bad

things, seem to happen to good people and good things seem to

happen to bad people. If all things work together for

good, for those who love God, how can this be?

Might be a question, a scoff. A mock that comes your way.

But what Paul describes is the greatest privilege of God's

people that sits atop all other Privileges and that is that all

things are working together for good.

And so first, I want you to observe the character of these

people. It's not all things work

together for the good of all people.

It's for who, for those who love God, they love God right there.

They're over wounds with great. Actions for and deep loyalty

towards God as their Chief good. As their highest in, he is

supreme above every other being. They love him, they are devoted

to him. It is your love for God.

That makes every Providence in your life sweet and profitable.

Now, word on Providence. Providence is according to James

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chapter 5 providence's, the merciful and compassionate work

of God in every moment of Our Lives.

It's the Mercer, merciful and compassionate work of God in

every moment of Our Lives. And so what we're saying is

there are no Maverick moments. You understand what I mean?

There are no Rogue moments. There are no Rebel moments every

moment. Every millisecond is the working

together of all things for a glorious Eternal good.

According to God's wise counsel alone, everything works to that

end, it must Because God is God. Those that love God, make the

best then of all that he does. And they take all the comes

their way in faith that he loves them and he means good for them.

Everything The second thing we see about these peoples, not

only that they love God, and that the character of these

people set their called, according to God's purpose.

He calls his people and they come to him, he calls them

according to his purposes and they come to him just as Christ

describes as the shepherd and the Sheep who hear his voice and

John chapter 10. He says all who are sheep, hear

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the voice of the shepherd and they come to him and we do not

deserve the call by any Merit of our own.

We have not worked on to this. We have not hyped ourselves up

to be looked on as beautiful and lovely.

And so God says well, I'll take that one or two hype.

Ourselves up and says look how unlovely he is.

I'll take that one like picking a puppy at the pound.

This is not adoption. Thatthat's.

Not that it's not that kind of adoption.

This is adoption. According to the love of God,

the loving call of God on someone's life to come and to be

his child, we don't deserve the call but his call is effectual

through his own gracious purpose.

I'm s what we want to observe. Here is the privilege of the

sites, all things work together for good for them.

It's a privilege of those who love God, that all things are

going to work together for good. Now, I want you to have in mind

the Eternal good so that mean that everything and every moment

looks good in that moment though.

There are terrible tragedy. There are terrible things that

happen to us that don't look good in the moment, but we must

trust that that is according to the providential plan of God for

our lives and it is working together for good even when we

can't see it. Everything that God carries out

every action. Every moment, every millisecond

that comes into our lives. And every single day is

according to the Eternal good plan of God, which is meant for

the good of his people. The glory of his own great name,

these two go hand-in-hand for when his people enjoy the

splendors of his Providence. For when his people see that he

is amazing, that he is all inspiring.

Even in great distress has even in great sufferings, they will

then magnify his name in all the Earth.

We see that God is good. We magnify this good God.

And so he works all things together for the good of his

people, those who love him. Those whom he loves according to

his providential purpose, so that his people will know his

goodness and magnifies night. Now in this way, God's people

Truly Come to do with the psalmist describes in Psalm 34

Psalms 34:8

Verse 8 where he says taste and see that the Lord is good take

refuge in him and find him to be a good reference.

Huge. It's a tasting and seeing as you

trust the Lord and his providential plans for you.

You taste and see that he is good.

All the Providence of God belongs to us, merciful

Providence has afflicting providence's personal

providence's public Providence. Is there are all for our

Eternal, good weather suffering or blessings.

They are good. Those things are good, which do

your soul, Eternal, good. Do you understand what I'm

saying? If it's a suffering thing that

comes to you. From the providential hand of

God than it is meant for your Eternal good.

And so anything that comes to you for the good of your soul is

could amen. It's good under that end.

And so this was a realization that Patricia and I had an

October went on vacation. We're sitting out back this

little cabin and Pigeon Forge and we're drinking coffee in the

morning, reading the reading our Bible.

And so, we're just over right out of months.

Just just passed from when he's pass and we're reflecting on.

And we're just leaning into the Lord as much as we can praying

singing. And this moment was really a

defining moment, I think, for me and probably for Patricia as

well, and our pursuit of the Lord amid these things.

What we saw, what I what I came to understand.

I guess what the Lord showed us in this moment is that if all

things work together for good, for those who love him, then

whinnies death is good. That's a hard thing to admit.

It's a hard thing to trust the Lord for, but carry that a bit

further, what we're saying is that it was more good for

Patricia and I, and for our family, and for you all and for

our faith. And for our Eternal good, it was

more good for when he too passed and to remain with us.

That's what we're saying about. God's merciful loving

Providence, as right, nothing thoughts, him.

Nothing changes his plans. Nothing nothing can can stop

those things from happening, so, if he's working together all

things for the good of those who love him and are called

according to his purpose, then I must see that all that comes to

me is the ultimate good and therefore you can rejoice as

James says in trials and afflictions not rejoicing over

the Affliction, you're not rejoicing over the loss of life.

You're not rejoicing over the loss of a Daughter and a sister

and a granddaughter and a friend or not rejoicing.

In that necessarily rejoicing that God is good, no matter

what, and that he means good for you and all of these things.

Now, one always hold myself up as a hero of the faith.

I am not, I have liked much Faith through all of this but

that was one moment where I can still to this day.

Look back and say that's a truth.

I need to hang on to When I summon my faith is felling when

I'm questioning. Yeah.

But God is, if you're working together, all things are good.

I don't understand this. If I'm questioning that that I

looked back to that moment and I say, wait a minute, it's for

good. Also, It's for good too.

I don't know all the ways yet, but it's for good also and then

it's a tough thing to understand.

And so, every Providence is doing something unto Eternal

good for you. This is what we're saying, they

may be breaking you away from sin.

They may be bringing you nearer to God.

They may be weaning, you away from the world, they may be

fitting you, they are all sitting you for heaven.

Every Providence is fitting you for heaven.

We know this because Paul says all things work together for

good. And he's already grounded the

good in the Eternal good. He's already grounded the good

and previous verses in the Eternal glories to come right

for. You will share in the glories of

Christ provided you suffer with him.

Also, there's Eternal good to come even though there will be

bad moments now. But these are all from the

providential hand of God, meant for your good, Like a Surgeon,

who cuts and stitches back. He's working on to the

patient's. Good.

So does God work all things together for our good?

Even if he has to cut away something and Stitch something

back together? He's working for our good.

Remember, all of this is not according to the providence's

themselves. It's not according to the

moments themselves, the moments are nothing apart from the hand

of God, who is working those moments together for something,

right? Apart from his power, and his

grace, they're just moments. Right?

And if we think they're just moments than we might, as well

be fatalist. If we think they're just

moments, we might, as well become determinist.

We might as well think that God is distant from us and that he

has nothing to do with every moment of our lives.

But I refuse to serve that God because the Bible doesn't

describe that God, the Bible describes.

The God, who is intricately involved in?

Intimately involved in your life and every single moment of the

day. Weather in The Taking of things

or the blessing of things. He's good.

Is good and we any means for you to know this.

Paul says we know this It's to be known with certainty.

This is why I told you earlier that what you're reading is the

word of God. It's not the opinion of a man

who was, you know, caught up in some spiritual excitement.

This is a man who has devoted to the word of God who is

experienced much hardship and he's riding this saying.

I know this and we can know this God wants you to know this which

is why pins it in. God breathed scriptures for you

but you can also note as you test God in it as you trust him

in it. You'll know it in your own

experience as well but God is working together.

Good for you. All things work together for the

Eternal good of those who love God and are called according to

his purpose. Now foundation in believing this

Our foundation and believing this is what has long been

called the Golden Chain of redemption children on your

coloring sheet. You have the golden chain of

redemption. Romans 8:28 through 30.

Romans 8:28–30

And we know that for those who love God, all things work

together for good. For those who are called

according to his purpose. For Those whom he foreknew.

He also predestined to be conformed, to the image of his

son in order, that he might be the firstborn among many

brothers. And so, you see the ultimate

good. There Christ is the son.

You are being as ones. Have been adopted for known

predestined, you were being conformed to the image of the

Sun. So that Christ might be the

Firstborn among many brothers so that there will be a multitude.

In heaven. One day, singing the Praises of

the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

And Those whom he predestined, he also called, and Those whom

he called, he also Justified and Those whom he justified, he also

glorified his chain again, verses, one through Twenty

Eight. Men are statements of Truth.

The Privileges of the believer in verses, 29 through 32, serve

as the foundation on which all of these truths stand and that

Foundation is laid in the predestination of God.

We receive these privileges and our covenant with Christ were

founded in his blood. Which comes to us by grace

through faith, according to Ephesians 2:8, but they are

Ephesians 2:8

founded in the wise counsel of God which eternally secures the

time, the entire work for his people.

All that God is doing in your life, is eternally secure in God

because he's the one doing the work and so this is good.

What this means is that Christ is not labor, in vain Christ did

not die on a cross. In vain Christ.

Did not rise again in vain. He Has not exercised.

His lordship over all creation, even now in vain There is a

people of God, reserved for the Son of God as a bride to be

enjoyed for eternity in the new heavens and new earth.

This is sure. And this is what we are seeing

here. In these verses, these verses

have long been referred to as a Golden Chain of redemption.

Those whom he foreknew, he predestined Those whom he

predestined, he called Those whom he called he justified

Those, whom he justified, he glorified each link, then his

interest intricately connected to the leaks before and after

them if you remove any He one of these links, it becomes a shaky

chain. It becomes a shaky hope that you

have a hope really that you cannot stand on its more of

that. Hope like that when you cling to

like, I hope this works out for me as you jump out of the

airplane and prepare to pull the Chute, right?

You're hoping that thing works but that's not the sure and

steady hope that the Paul's been describing here.

What he's been describing is something that you could take to

the bank as we talked about, right?

It's something that you can bet your life on.

It's guaranteed for you, it's reserved for you in heaven.

It's kept Incorruptible and undefiled by anything in this

life and so it's yours because God holds it.

It's in his hands. He works it together and if you

remove any one of these things, You are left to say, well, this

might work out for my eternal good, but I'll have to wait and

see. And that's no hope at all.

That's no Comfort at all. Whether you lose a daughter and

you have to say, well, this might be good.

There's no comfort in that. I just told you, what comforted

Us in that moment was seeing in Scripture, that God means all

things for good. That's comforting.

That's comforting because I can trust that God is.

Sure and steady, everything that God designed for Glory,

everything that he designs for Glory and happiness, is the end

goal, everything that he has a waiting us, he decrees by his

own purposes, to Grace, and Holiness, as the way to get that

in. So he's working in Us by Grace,

making us, holy unto the image of Christ.

So that we enjoy the happiness of God, the blessedness the

joyfulness of being in Christ's what Christ says, if you will

Bay me, John 15. If you will obey me, my joy will

be in you and your joy will be complete.

It'll be full So, you have a happiness now in your Holiness

and that Holiness is working to unto you.

And eternal, good in which you will be glorified with Christ,

forever, his glory, Your Glory, as we saw in John 17, just as he

prays there in John 17, a few weeks ago.

Father, restore to me the glories that I had with you

before the foundation of the Earth.

And then he prays later, I have given my glory to them.

Right? It's his glory is your glory.

He's wanting you. He's saving you unto this

experience that you'll know the glory of God as if it were your

own. And then he Paul writes here,

Those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed, to

the image of his son. Everything that God designed for

Glory and happiness, is the end goal.

He decrees in this, by his purposes, right notice the text

doesn't say Those whom he foreknew to be holy.

It's not saying he Those whom he foreknew to be holy.

That's this understanding as some would hold out that God can

look through because he's God, he can look through the

corridors of time and he can see who will be holy and so he

chooses them. Well, no, that's, that's wrong

because it doesn't say that if you leave out the word

predestined and you could argue that, but that's not what it

says. It says, Those whom he

predestined to be holy Those, whom he predestined to be

conformed, to the image of his son.

Those are the ones who for nude and so is cow.

Counsel is his own. His wisdom is his own as

Providence belongs to him. They do not waver with the fell

with a frail and fickle will of men he's not waiting on your

bidding. They are sure.

God's foreknowledge is best understood in light of his love

for his people. He chooses to love each.

One of us, he's lucky his love for us is the same as his owning

us as his children. We were adopted because he chose

to do so therefore we love him. And that's what we see in verse

28. We love him.

Those who love him. That all things work together

for good. We love him because he chose us

to be his children as we've seen in previous Passage. 1st John

John 4:19

4:19 says, we love because he first loved us.

And first Peter 11 through to Peter, the Apostle, Peter opens

his book. This way, he's riding to a bunch

of Christians and a bunch of different areas in the

dispersion, he says, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to those

who are elect Exiles of the dispersion according to the

foreknowledge of God. So, they're elect Exiles

according to the foreknowledge of God, the father in The

sanctification of the spirit for the obedience to G4, obedience

to Jesus Christ. And for sprinkling with his

blood, May Grace, and peace, be multiplied to you.

So he attributes this as a work of God as well.

And so Those whom he foreknew those, he predestined to be

conformed, to the image of a son Holiness is consistent being

conformed to the image of Christ.

When we call God, holy, we are saying that he's altogether set

apart. When we say that it is our one.

Let me start here. First, the Bible says for you to

be holy as God is Holy It's command from God for you to be

holy as God has held that. That means you don't get out of

Holiness by saying. Well, this is just the way God

made me. No God didn't make you sinful

and messed up, right? But that is how you are because

of the fall, but God Is recreating You, by his Spirit to

be conformed, to the image of his own son.

He's redeeming everything about you.

You don't get to look at Holiness and say, well, this is

just me, I'm just an angry bitter person.

I just easily upset by things, I'm just whatever.

I got, I just lost, you know, just I just love women, you

know, like, you don't get to say those things.

You don't get out of Holiness because you think that your

sinfulness is too great Christ. Died to save you from your sins.

If you think your sinfulness is great.

What you're in effect saying is that Christ's death is of no

effect for your life. What a terrible place to be.

Well, we know that he died, we know that he rose again.

We know that we have the spirit of God in us as we read in

previous verses Romans 8:13 she put to death the Deeds of the

Romans 8:13

flesh. According to the spirit is alive

in you, you will walk according to the spirit, right?

So there is work to do but Holiness is becoming like

Christ. It's to Behold The Glory of

Jesus Christ for so long and so well and and to continue looking

at him and when you take your gaze away, it's to repent and to

turn back into look at Christ again and say he is my example.

He's my Mark, he's the affection of my life, he is what I long to

behold, I will Look at him unto psyched if ocation I'll be

Sanctified as I Behold Him. That's what Paul says in 2nd

Corinthians Chapter 3 beholding The Glory of Christ.

We are transformed from one degree of glory to the next.

And so Christ is the image of the father.

We were told that he is the exact imprint of his nature.

And here what we are told is that we are the image of Christ,

we're supposed to be we are being worked into made into

shaped into the image of Christ. We have the spirit of Christ if

we are meant to walk and to live as Christ, did we ought to Bear

our sufferings patiently as Christ.

If You see it's by the work of God for us in Christ Jesus that

we have the image of God restored to us and God's

likeness renewed upon us. This is how he's molding and

shaping us into the image of Christ.

It's by faith in Christ. It's by all of his work through

crisis by saving us from our sins in crisis, by putting his

Spirit on us because of the work of Christ.

Everything comes down to Christ, doing the work, and God using

the work of Christ. By the spirit of God to

transform us into the image of Christ.

It's Christ Christ, Christ through, and through That's what

salvation and sanctification and glorification are about their,

about praising the name of Jesus.

They're about looking unto him. And so we cannot conform

ourselves to Christ rather. We give ourselves to Christ and

that happens it takes rise in us because God has given us to

Christ. You understand that like you

don't want you don't have desires for Christ except that

God has given you to Christ already.

He works it in you and insu in doing so he predestines you to

be conformed to the same image of his son.

This is how, you know, if you were yet called by God beside,

you know, if you were yet in the faith family, are you being

conformed into the image of Christ?

Do you desire? Do you desire Christ?

Do you desire to put off sinfulness and to be holy as God

is? Holy does your love for God?

Reflect the sun's love for God. I don't mean perfectly.

We'll never do it perfectly. I just mean, is there any

remnant of such Desires in you? Is there any examples of such

Desires in you? If so, then you are a brother or

sister to the firstborn among many brothers.

He has preeminence in all things.

He is the head of the family of God.

He deserves all honor and praise and glory due.

His name, and praise be to God. For seeing fit to call us as

Sons and Daughters to himself in Christ.

Jesus, he is Christ, is the Son of God.

And so we are now the children of God through God's gracious,

adoption, it may seem that there are only a few children of God,

right? You might look around the world.

Look at the news. News and think, man, there are

just a few children of God in this world.

Well, if you look at any one day or any one place, or any one

time, it might seem that way. However, when all the children

of God come together on the last day, it will be a multitude.

That John says in his Revelation ID, that is too great to number.

A multitude that is too great to number a people from every tribe

tongue and Nation called, by God, to be his children and

co-heirs with Christ, when God takes Abraham out and out of his

tent and into the dark lit night.

He tells him to look into the sky and to Number the Stars, if

he can What she could not do. And he tells him.

So will the Nations be blessed in you?

There's this will be your people.

And we know that we are in Abraham if we have faith in

Christ. Amen.

We are numbered among Israel. If we have faith in Christ, I

don't mean Israel. The current Nation.

I mean, Israel, the people of God in the Old Testament, were

numbered among those whom were reading on now.

Those whom he predestined, he also called, and Those whom he

called, he also Justified everyone that is affectionately

called by God will be justified. This means they are declared

free from the debt of sin, which is death, Romans 6:23, the wages

Romans 6:23

of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal

life through Jesus Christ. Our Lord you are accepted, you

were adopted, I should say as righteous through Jesus Christ.

Second Corinthians 5:21 for our sake.

2 Corinthians 5:21

He made him to be sin who knew no sin.

So that in him, we might become the righteousness of God, our

sin on him was laid. Amen.

His righteousness on us was Laid in John chapter 6, as Jesus is

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describing himself as the bread of life and anyone who will eat

of him will have eternal life. He says this, he says all that

the father gives me will come to me.

Your effectually called, you are Justified.

All that the father gives me will come to me, and whoever

comes to me, I will never cast out John 6:44.

John 6:44

No one can come to me, just a few verses later.

No one can come to me. Unless the father who sent me

draws that person and I will raise him up on the last day.

Glorified right? You see it there.

I mean, Jesus teaching in John chapter 6, The the calling the

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justification, the sanctification and the

glorification of the believer, John 6:47, truly, truly just a

John 6:47

few verses later, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal

life, whoever believes in Christ as Lord, and Savior has eternal

life. Amen.

Boo. Because of the work of the

father and calling us to himself through Christ.

We are free from the guilt of every sin.

We have committed your free from the guilt of every sin.

You've committed or will commit. No sin, can condemn you Romans

Romans 8:1

8:1 right there is therefore now no condemnation for those who

are in Jesus. So for all who believe in Jesus

Christ, the Declaration is made. The Declaration is final.

It will not be reversed. We are no longer criminals and

Heavens cork. We are owned and loved as God's

children. His favor is on us as it is on

his own son. Blessed, are you who have had

your sins erased by God's forgiveness, none or justified

in this way except those whom God calls to himself, those who

will not hear the call of the Gospel?

We remain under guilt and wrath but to all who will repent of

their sins and believe in Christ Jesus, as Lord this day they

will be saved and they will receive eternal life.

Those whom he justified, he also glorified the power of our sin

is broken and God's calling us. The thing that keeps you from

coming to Christ, is the power of your sin over.

You, you are a slave to sin. Your slave to sin, you're dead

in your trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2, 1 3, 3 sets.

But the power of sin is broken when God calls you.

The guilt of sin is removed when God justifies you.

Everything. This is what this means.

Now, there, everybody pay attention to everything, which

stands in the way of you, receiving the glory of Christ,

your sin, and your sinfulness, your guilt of sin.

Everything was stands in the way of Glory has now been removed by

God's calling you and by God's justifying, you praise the Lord.

There's nothing that stands in the way between you and the

Lord, nothing can hinder your soul.

So from reaching Glory, if you believe these things you believe

that Christ is Lord notice here that glorified is in the past

tense, so it just gets better. It was better than a while.

Man was that guy's eye anyway, whatever.

Billy something, the commercials, right?

And wait, there's more right notice that glorified is in the

past tense. That you're not yet glorified

Paul riding this wasn't yet glorified.

The people he's riding to he expects.

They're going to read it so they're not yet clarified,

right? It's in the past tense.

It's a thing which is already been accomplished in eternity

future. God is saying through Paul here.

Your glorification is certain yes it's spoken of as oh I've

already done it. God has saved us.

God has called us with a high and holy calling in his loving

and providential purpose. He accomplishes the salvation of

his people. When Christ was Sent in Matthew

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chapter 1, we read that he will be called Jesus because he saves

his people from their sins, but there wasn't a mission with no

with no Victory inside. It wasn't a mission that was

just like well we roll the dice here and see if this works.

God talking to the sun, you can see it in heaven, right?

Like I'm going to send you down, the people are going to reject

you real bad. Like they're going to nail you

to a cross. They're going to kill you.

And then we'll just see all right.

This is all I know to do. We'll just see if this works

out. No.

No, no, no. The atonement of Christ is

definite for his people. But it's not lacking, it's not

lacking, right? He dies, because there was a

people already predestined by The Calling of God to become the

people of God. People who were going to be

Sanctified and glorified a people who were going to be in

heaven, ones that John lays eyes on us as man.

It's a number two. Great to count.

The multitude is large and its people from every tribe tongue

and nation in there. Singing the Praises of God It's

sure Those whom he justified. He also glorified.

There's nothing about that. That you would say, no, it's

past tense, it's done. Its accomplished.

This is what he longed for this is what God was doing in Genesis

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chapter 3. When he looks at the serpent he

says I'm going to put enmity between you and the woman.

Well, the seed of the woman. You'll bruise his heel but he

will crush your head. God knew this is why he calls

Eve. The mother of all living it's

not simply I mean it is that she's a woman and that is women

are made to be motherly. Absolutely.

But it's even further than that right?

It's it's that she was going to be the mother of all living

according to God. What was the pronouncement of

the Judgment death? In the day that you eat of it,

you will surely die, Eve will be become the mother of all living.

Was that me? It's going to be the mother to

all who place their faith in Christ in a sense, right?

Christ is going to come. He's going to make a way for all

to, to be made, right to be redeemed from their sins

Justified freely glorified, right?

She's the mother of all living in that sense that she was going

to that through her seed was going to come Christ.

The head. Crusher, amazing, nothing less

than this satisfies. The purposes of God, this is

what he means. When he wants to show the

glories of a redemption in full, he means for us to see that

there is a real people of God, just as there was always a

remnant of Israel and all the dispersions, and all the

Captivity Tsar was always a Remnant who would repent and

return to the Lord. So, is there a remnant of the

church? There's a remnant of God's

people. Who will dwell in heaven with

him and his so all that he does for us all that he does in US

Works unto this great end of glorification.

Are God's people, chosen. Yes, unto salvation.

Are they called if so does unto his kingdom and Glory?

Are they born again? It is unto an Incorruptible

inheritance. Are they Afflicted?

Well, it's working for them and exceeding and eternal weight of

Glory. So you could things for 16

through 18. We do not lose heart though.

Our outer self is wasting away. Our inner self is being renewed

day, by day. For this life.

Momentary Affliction is preparing for us, an eternal

weight of Glory beyond all comparison.

As we look not to the things that are seeing, but the things

that are unseen, Seen for the things that are seen are

transient, but the things that are seen, are things that are

unseen are eternal. All things, all things work

together for the good, the Eternal good of those who love

God and are called, according to his purpose.

I want you to notice we're Hope rest.

The author of all of these works is the same.

The author of every one of these is the same.

It's not Paul, it's not you, it's not your grandmother went

to church, all right, it's God. That's God.

What we see here is that God predestines God calls, God

justifies God, glorifies his people.

And if he's doing the work, you can have sure, hope because he's

doing the work, you have sure. Hope our created Wills are so

fickle. We don't know what we want from

day to day. Created powers on this Earth are

so feeble compared to God. They're not all powerful, they

may have power, but they're not all powerful. if our submit, if

our Salvation depended on our will or on some created Power,

and we would be doomed. But God himself undertakes, the

work of Salvation, from beginning to end.

It is his work so that we might constantly depend upon him so

that we might constantly subject ourselves to his providential

care of our Lives even when we go Kicking and Screaming into

it. In doing so.

Promise. From the scriptures.

And from my own experience, you will taste and see that.

God is good. You'll taste and see that.

He is good. When we ascribe all praise and

glory to his great name, It's because you have tasted and seen

that he's good. And we will one day, along with

the multitude of saints in Heaven cast every Crown Before

the Throne of Christ, declare him righteous and holy declare

him, lovely and perfect. Declare ourselves unfit, for

such a great king, and Kingdom, these truths of Romans 8 must

serve. They must serve, it's the

greatest chapter in the Bible. They must serve as a mighty

encouragement to your faith and your hope in these truths, we

see that God's ways and works are perfect from beginning to

end. He's working together for the

good of all who love God and are called according to his purpose.

It's working together. All things for the good of all

who love God and are called according to his purpose.

Amen, you stand to your feet. Let's prepare to receive the

Lord's Supper this morning. Go ahead and bite the ushers to

come forward. Only give you a couple of

instructions about the Lord's Supper here.

First of all, if you are a believer in Christ Jesus,

whether you're a member here or not, you're a believer in the in

Christ. Baptized.

Hot then we invite you to receive the Lord's supper with

us today. There is on the tray, any gluten

free peoples. There's a gluten-free option,

that's marked. So, make note of that, and I'm

going to invite the worship team to sing.

Now going to bite you to worship the new song called day by day

and sing the words of it. And then I'll come and lead us

in worship. Let me say this real quick and

the Lord's Supper, there are two great promises and I want you to

think about these things. As you see, As you examine your

own heart and mind, as you prepare to receive the Lord's.

Supper you confess your sins now.

There's two great promises for you to remember as you trust

that God is working all things together for the good of those

who love him and are called according to his purpose.

The first is this Christ died for Sinners.

That's what the Lord's Supper showing us.

That there was a real broken body.

There was a real event where blood was spilled for the

Forgiveness of the sins of God's people and when you eat and you

drink, you're saying, I'm feasting on Christ.

I'm trusting in this new covenant in his blood.

And then the second grade truth to help us see that he's working

together. All things for good is that he's

coming again. He's coming again, Paul rides at

the end of his instructions on Lord suffered that as long as

you as often as you eat and drink this, eat this bread and

drink this cup you proclaim, the Lord's death until he comes.

Christ is coming for you. Heaven is coming for you.

It's there. It's sure you will be glorified.

So eat and drink today and Faith, repent of your sins and

Eden drank take of the Lord in faith today.

But sing