Romans
8:28-39 (ESV)
And
we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for
those who are called according to his purpose. 29 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. 30 And those whom he predestined he
also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he
justified he also glorified.
31
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against
us? 32 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? 33 Who shall bring any charge
against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 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. 35 Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are
being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things
present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 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.
5 TRUTHS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BUT
SATAN DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
1. God has a
plan for your life. And the scripture clearly says that God works all
things together for our good. So what’s
the catch? (Romans 8:28-30)
- Those who love God – Those who put their trust in Him, and are relying on Him 100% for the results. Proverbs 3:5 & 6 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. 6In all your ways acknowledge him, and He will make straight your paths.
- Those who are called according to His purpose – Trusting that God has the best plan. That His plan and His purposes, although many times are not how “we would do it”, are best.
- Those whom he foreknew – Look with me at Psalms 139:1-16. God knew you even before you were born!Psalms 139:1-161) O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 2) You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3) You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4) Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. 5) You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6) Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. 7) Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8) If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9) If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10) even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. 11) If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night," 12) even the darkness is not dark to you, the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 13) For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14) I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15) My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16) Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
- Those whom He predestined – God had a “predetermined” plan, and that plan was to redeem His people by sending his Son Jesus to die in their place. A plan that says, “Whosoever believes in Him, trust in His sacrifice, will not die but will live forever and spend all eternity in heaven reigning with Him”. (John 3:16)
- Those whom He called – God has called us through His Son from a life of self, to a life in Christ; from a life of sin, to a life of grace; from the penalty of death, to the gift of eternal life!
- Those whom He justified – We are justified (saved) by grace through faith in Christ. (Eph 2:8&9) Romans 5:1-2 - 1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Those whom he glorified – Eternity in heaven, the completed work of Christ. You and I spending all eternity in heaven with glorified minds, body, and spirit. “He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it”. (Philippians 1:6)
2. If you are in Christ, there is no one, or no “thing” that can have victory over you. (Romans 8:30-31) If God loved you enough to allow His one and only Son to die in your place, knowing full well that you were a sinner (Romans 5:8), and that you would rebel against His will and His ways… then realize that He is 110% committed to you, and if you will put your trust Him (100%) for whatever comes, or has come your way, whether you brought it on, or it came as a result of circumstance beyond your control, He will take care of it with the best possible result!
3. Christ has already taken care of “that”. (Romans 8:33-34) No matter what you’ve done, what you’ve been through, good bad, or ugly, it is covered under the blood of Christ.
4. There is nothing you have done, can do, have gone through, or will go through that can separate you from the love of Christ! (Romans 8:35-36)
5. You are “MORE” than a conqueror through Him (Christ) who loved us. (Romans 8:37-39) Trusting fully in Christ is key!
