1 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:07,900 If you have your Bible, you can open the Romans chapter 8, 2 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:11,800 Romans chapter 8. We are in week 6 of Romans 8, 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,400 all of Christ for all of life, all of Christ, for all of life, 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,900 than this is not particularly A Mother's Day sermon, right? 5 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:23,600 It's just you've been here long enough to let the Giroux to let 6 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,900 the do dry out. So then, you know, that we do 7 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:31,100 not arrange our preaching schedule, according to Hallmarks 8 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:32,500 calendar. All right. 9 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,500 So, breathe, easy mothers. I don't intend to beat you over 10 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:39,500 the head today or to overly celebrate, you either. 11 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:43,800 So but I intend to encourage you from the scriptures. 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,400 The Bible has greater instructions. 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,700 Greater help greater encouragement. 14 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:53,500 It's some mothers and non-mothers than any afternoon 15 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:56,700 Hallmark movie with the glass of wine can do for you promised. 16 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,800 All right. So I intend to encourage you 17 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,800 with the word of God today. We're going to examine verses 28 18 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,100 through 30 of Romans chapter 8. Romans 8:28 through 30. 19 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:09,900 And these verses here is what we see. 20 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:12,700 This is the main point. I want to give to you today and 21 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:14,400 you can write this down. If you're taking notes, 22 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:20,700 admittedly, it's a bit lengthy. All things work together for the 23 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:24,000 Eternal good. All things work together for the 24 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,800 Eternal good. I want you to note that word 25 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:30,400 Eternal, there of those who love God and are called according to 26 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,800 his purpose, all things work together for the Eternal good of 27 00:01:33,808 --> 00:01:36,400 those who love God, and are called, according to his 28 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:39,500 purpose, and everybody said, amen. 29 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:43,900 Amen? See, it's not a Mother's Day, 30 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:47,400 sermon specifically, right? Yet this is not mean that a 31 00:01:47,408 --> 00:01:51,400 mother will not find great instruction in its great help. 32 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,300 Great encouragement from from this passage to be crystal clear 33 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:57,500 though, so that we're all on the same page as we begin today. 34 00:01:57,700 --> 00:02:01,600 I believe this sermon is for everyone of us, I believe these 35 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,100 encouragement sore for you. Whether you are a man or a 36 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:08,500 woman, a boy or a girl. Today, like these things are 37 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:11,300 glorious truths, mid for you to take. 38 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:14,600 Hold of, and to believe with all of your heart, mind and 39 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:15,900 strength. Amen. 40 00:02:17,700 --> 00:02:23,600 Which stand your feet. Now, as we read God's word, I'm 41 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,000 going to start in verse one today, even though our text is 42 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,800 28 through 30 because I think it's worth getting the context 43 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,000 of everything that's happening. As we look at what is the 44 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,000 foundation for all of these glorious blessings. 45 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,300 These privileges that Paul has laid out for us in verses 1 46 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:45,400 through 27. And so, beginning in verse 1, 47 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,300 there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are 48 00:02:49,300 --> 00:02:53,200 in Christ Jesus, the law of the spirit of life has set you free. 49 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:56,800 Free in Christ Jesus. From the law of sin and death 50 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,600 for God has done what the law weakened by the flesh. 51 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,300 Could not do I sending his own son in the likeness of sinful 52 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:08,500 flesh? And for sin, he condemned sin in 53 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:10,800 the flesh. In order that the righteous 54 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,500 requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk, not 55 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:19,200 according to the flesh, but according to the spirit for 56 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,900 those who live, according to the flesh, set their minds on the 57 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:25,000 things of the flesh. But those who live, according to 58 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,300 the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit for to 59 00:03:28,308 --> 00:03:31,100 set the mind on the flesh is death. 60 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:36,100 But to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace, for 61 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:39,100 the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God. 62 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:41,400 For does not submit to God's law. 63 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:47,400 Indeed, it cannot those who are in the flesh, cannot please God, 64 00:03:48,300 --> 00:03:52,300 you however, are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if, in 65 00:03:52,300 --> 00:03:54,200 fact, the spirit of God, dwells in you. 66 00:03:54,700 --> 00:03:58,000 Anyone who's does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong 67 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,900 to him, but if Christ is in you all, although the body is dead 68 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:05,500 because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness, 69 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:10,800 if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in 70 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,900 you, he who raised Christ Jesus from. 71 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:16,700 The dead will also give life to your mortal bodies, through his 72 00:04:16,700 --> 00:04:21,600 Spirit who dwells in you. So then Brothers, we are debtors 73 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:24,700 not to the flesh to live, according to the flesh for if 74 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:27,000 you live, according to the flesh, you will die. 75 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:30,500 But if by the spirit you put to death, the Deeds of the flesh, 76 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:34,500 you will live for all who are led by the spirit of God are 77 00:04:34,500 --> 00:04:38,400 sons of God for you, did not receive the spirit of Slavery to 78 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,000 fall back into fear but you have received the spirit of adoption 79 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:48,500 as Sons by which or by whom sorry we cry, Abba Father The 80 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:52,000 spirit himself Bears witness with our spirit that we are 81 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,400 children of God. And if children then heirs Heirs 82 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,900 of God and fellow heirs with Christ provided we suffer with 83 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:04,700 him in order that we may also be glorified with him verse 84. 84 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:08,400 I consider that the sufferings of, this present time are not 85 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,300 worth comparing with the glory. That is to be revealed to us for 86 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:14,500 the creation Waits with eager longing. 87 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:17,700 For the revealing of the sons of God for the creation was 88 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:19,700 subjected. Ejected to futility, not 89 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:23,700 willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope, that 90 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:26,500 the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to 91 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,800 corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the 92 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,900 children of God. For. 93 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:34,700 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in 94 00:05:34,707 --> 00:05:36,700 the Pains of childbirth until now. 95 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:40,800 And not only the creation, we ourselves who have the first 96 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,700 fruits of the spirit groan inwardly as we. 97 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:47,600 Wait, eagerly for adoption as Sons, the Redemption of our 98 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,100 body. For in this hope we were saved. 99 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,000 Now hope that is seen is not hope for who hopes for what he 100 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,400 sees. But if we hope for what we do, 101 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,100 not see we wait for it with patience. 102 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,600 Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness. 103 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:06,300 For we, do not know what to pray for as we ought. 104 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:09,300 But the spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings 105 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:13,400 too deep for words and he who searches Hearts knows, what is 106 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,500 the mind of the spirit because the spirit intercedes for the 107 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:18,600 Saints, according to the will of God. 108 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:22,000 And we know that for those who love God, all things work 109 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,300 together for good. For those who are called 110 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:27,600 according to his purpose. For Those whom he foreknew. 111 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,500 He also predestined to be conformed, to the image of his 112 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:34,100 son in order, that he might be the firstborn among many 113 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:36,900 brothers. And Those whom, he predestined, 114 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:40,600 he also called, and Those whom he called, he also Justified, 115 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,900 and Those whom he justified, he also glorified. 116 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,700 This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God, let me pray 117 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:50,000 for Heavenly Father, we thank you for today. 118 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:53,500 Thank you for your word and this time we have now in it, holy 119 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:56,700 spirit, we ask that you would guide us direct our hearts 120 00:06:56,900 --> 00:06:59,200 direct. Our minds to see to believe to 121 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:07,400 understand these truths and build our lives into fruitful 122 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,900 organisms for the kingdom and the glory of Christ alone. 123 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,100 It's in the name of Jesus. We pray. 124 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:14,200 Amen. Amen. 125 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:24,500 You may be seated. Before I get into the content of 126 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:28,400 this text that I wanted to remind us of the context, I 127 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,500 wanted to draw our attention to that which is why we read all of 128 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:36,200 those versus just now. But Paul is building toward his 129 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:41,100 closing argument which is more doxology than arguments and 130 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:45,100 we'll see that next week, but in verses 28 through 30, he 131 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:51,300 striving to ground the hope of Christians that we see all 132 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:53,200 three. Throughout verses 1 through 27, 133 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:56,700 he's grounding those hopes. Those privileges that Christians 134 00:07:56,700 --> 00:08:01,300 know in the Providence and the sovereignty of God, it's an 135 00:08:01,300 --> 00:08:04,200 argument that he strengthens and next week's passage as well. 136 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:08,300 He goes on to explain why you can believe what you see today 137 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:12,500 with next week's passage. So some summaries of the truths 138 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:15,100 that we've observed so far in verses 1 through 4. 139 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:19,200 We established that in an act of astounding Grace, God condemns 140 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:23,300 sin in Christ setting. A free from condemnation and 141 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:27,400 free to live lives according to the spirit of God and verses 5 142 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,300 through 11. We said that that same Spirit 143 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:31,400 which we've received the one that has set us free. 144 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:37,100 Grants us live and peace at the Spirit enables our minds to be 145 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:40,299 set on the things of the spirit. We are able to walk. 146 00:08:40,299 --> 00:08:44,900 According to the spirit of God and verses 12 through 17. 147 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:50,100 We saw that God by his Spirit bestows on his people life. 148 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:54,600 But he adopts them as his own children and he appoints them to 149 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:59,700 be co-heirs with Christ. Then in verse 18, the focus 150 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:03,900 transition to the sufferings that we must endure with Christ. 151 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:07,500 So that we saw in verse 17 if we were going to be glorified with 152 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:11,700 Christ also and so in verse 18 we saw that the key to Christian 153 00:09:11,700 --> 00:09:14,600 suffering verses 18 through 25. The key to Christian suffering 154 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,100 is to keep your eyes on future glories. 155 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:23,200 See if your eyes on the hope of Evan and then last week we saw 156 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,900 that the holy spirit in verses 26 or 27 is our Advocate and 157 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:28,700 prayer. He's a help to us. 158 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:33,400 He is and he's carrying literally our prayers to God and 159 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:37,300 he is working. God's will in us, as a result of 160 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:40,200 those were dangers prayers by faith. 161 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:43,900 In Christ, what we have seen then is that we have everything 162 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:46,700 we need for life and godliness, truly. 163 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:50,600 It is all of Christ for all of Life, by faith in. 164 00:09:50,700 --> 00:09:56,000 See, the God has graciously, the God is utterly transforming your 165 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,500 life. He's giving you the spirit as 166 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:02,600 your helper, in all things unto the transformation of your life. 167 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,300 So that as our Tech shows today, you would be conformed to the 168 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:11,700 image of God's own son. These are supremely glorious 169 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:13,600 truths. Any one of which could cause you 170 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,700 to stand up and dance a jig if you weren't so Baptist, right? 171 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,900 Yet when we suffer, we are tempted to doubt the goodness of 172 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:25,300 God's plan. For us when we go through 173 00:10:25,300 --> 00:10:28,200 hardship, when we go through suffering, when we go through 174 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,400 pain, we are tempted to doubt whether or not God could 175 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,900 actually work together. All things for the good of his 176 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:39,200 people. We wonder is this true which 177 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:42,100 brings us to the content of today's passage? 178 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:46,400 Because last week we saw that the spirit is taking our prayers 179 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,500 to the Lord. He's working the will of God in 180 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:51,400 us but you might still be tempted to say, yes. 181 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:56,300 But I suffer Somebody read those verses for you, again, that 182 00:10:56,300 --> 00:11:00,100 we're looking at now and we know that for those who love God, all 183 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:02,700 things work together for good, for those who are called 184 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:05,700 according to his purpose. For Those whom he foreknew. 185 00:11:05,700 --> 00:11:08,400 He also predestined to be conformed, to the image of his 186 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,600 son in order, that he might be the firstborn among many 187 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,100 brothers. And Those whom, he predestined, 188 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:16,600 he also called, and Those whom he also, Those whom he called he 189 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:21,800 also Justified and Those whom he justified, he also glorified I 190 00:11:21,808 --> 00:11:24,600 want to show you that in verse 28, you have another statement 191 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:26,700 of truth. It's another privilege of the 192 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:28,700 believer, similar to the Privileges. 193 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:31,300 We've been seeing. It's all of these things that 194 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:33,500 you've received as being in Christ. 195 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:35,500 Again, all of Christ for all of life. 196 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:39,000 This is another privilege that all things work together for 197 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,800 your good because you love God and are called according to his 198 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:45,200 purpose. It's a great privilege that we 199 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,600 have, but in verses 29 and 30, what he's doing is laying out 200 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,300 the foundation on which all All of those truths. 201 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:55,300 All of those privileges must stand. 202 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,600 It's the truths. There of God's predestiny, 203 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:05,800 things to work in this fashion. I would like to issue to you a 204 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:10,600 pastoral statement if you will. It's vitally important to 205 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,600 remember. When you read God's word, you 206 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,200 are reading what you are reading. 207 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,400 Is divinely breathed by God through the spirit to men. 208 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:29,400 Meaning it's inspired by God. It's sufficient because it is 209 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,500 from God. It is infallible because it has 210 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:40,100 its root in God, it cannot fail, it is inerrant because God never 211 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:41,300 airs. Amen. 212 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,300 And so to his word, never airs, God. 213 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,400 Spoke these things, by his Spirit, to these biblical 214 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,000 writers for the edification of his people. 215 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,600 And so, therefore, these words, all of them, every word from 216 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,800 Genesis 1:1 to the end of Revelation. 217 00:12:56,900 --> 00:13:03,000 Elation. Is spoken written down for your 218 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,600 edification. They are trustworthy and true. 219 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:08,800 In other words, these are not Paul's words. 220 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:12,600 While Jesus may have said something different, It is not 221 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,900 Paul's words, why Peter may have wrote something else. 222 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:17,500 These are not Paul's word. While Moses may have wrote 223 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:19,800 something. That would be contrary to what 224 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,100 you read. Everything works together in the 225 00:13:22,108 --> 00:13:27,800 scriptures to to explain to us to show us to reveal to us God's 226 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:30,700 truths. These are not opinions of man, 227 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:33,400 devoid of God's truth. These are not just mere 228 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,100 meanderings of a mind, written down that look wise. 229 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:40,200 They are wise because they come from God himself. 230 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,100 This is the very word of God. And if we are unsure about what 231 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:48,600 they say, if we were uneasy about the words that he uses, 232 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,600 then we need not find fault in the text, we need find fault in 233 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,800 our own hearts and Minds. We must seek the Lord, in 234 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,700 prayer. We must ask the spirit to help 235 00:13:57,700 --> 00:14:02,700 us in our weaknesses. It's good for us to check any 236 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:05,900 man-made presuppositions at the door when we come to the 237 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:07,800 scriptures. Amen. 238 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:12,500 Romans 8:28 and we know that for those who love God, all things 239 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:14,900 work together for good, for those who are called according 240 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:17,600 to his purpose. So we've seen a great deal of 241 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,400 privileges afforded to the saints of God in this. 242 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,100 Glorious chapter of Romans questions and scoffing and 243 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,200 mockings may arise. Anyway. 244 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,100 Neither from outside, or from, within your own heart and mind. 245 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,100 Yeah, the spirit intercedes for you in trouble, the spirit 246 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:36,700 intercedes for me and my trouble. 247 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,500 But to what benefits because I'm still suffering greatly. 248 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:45,100 Or someone might look at you and say, you can say the spirit 249 00:14:45,100 --> 00:14:47,500 intercedes for you, but I can observe your life and its marked 250 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:52,300 by suffering great suffering. So what benefit is the spirit of 251 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:55,700 God, why don't you just abandon him as Jobs wife would have 252 00:14:55,700 --> 00:15:00,400 encouraged joke to do. You might hear things like bad 253 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,800 things, seem to happen to good people and good things seem to 254 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,400 happen to bad people. If all things work together for 255 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,600 good, for those who love God, how can this be? 256 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:14,700 Might be a question, a scoff. A mock that comes your way. 257 00:15:16,300 --> 00:15:21,000 But what Paul describes is the greatest privilege of God's 258 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,200 people that sits atop all other Privileges and that is that all 259 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,100 things are working together for good. 260 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:32,000 And so first, I want you to observe the character of these 261 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,400 people. It's not all things work 262 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,100 together for the good of all people. 263 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:42,700 It's for who, for those who love God, they love God right there. 264 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:48,200 They're over wounds with great. Actions for and deep loyalty 265 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:53,400 towards God as their Chief good. As their highest in, he is 266 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,400 supreme above every other being. They love him, they are devoted 267 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,300 to him. It is your love for God. 268 00:15:59,300 --> 00:16:04,600 That makes every Providence in your life sweet and profitable. 269 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:12,100 Now, word on Providence. Providence is according to James 270 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:16,700 chapter 5 providence's, the merciful and compassionate work 271 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:18,500 of God in every moment of Our Lives. 272 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:23,400 It's the Mercer, merciful and compassionate work of God in 273 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,800 every moment of Our Lives. And so what we're saying is 274 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,200 there are no Maverick moments. You understand what I mean? 275 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,200 There are no Rogue moments. There are no Rebel moments every 276 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,600 moment. Every millisecond is the working 277 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,100 together of all things for a glorious Eternal good. 278 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:45,300 According to God's wise counsel alone, everything works to that 279 00:16:45,300 --> 00:16:53,500 end, it must Because God is God. Those that love God, make the 280 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:57,300 best then of all that he does. And they take all the comes 281 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:02,800 their way in faith that he loves them and he means good for them. 282 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:07,800 Everything The second thing we see about these peoples, not 283 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,000 only that they love God, and that the character of these 284 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,700 people set their called, according to God's purpose. 285 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:16,800 He calls his people and they come to him, he calls them 286 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,500 according to his purposes and they come to him just as Christ 287 00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:23,800 describes as the shepherd and the Sheep who hear his voice and 288 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,599 John chapter 10. He says all who are sheep, hear 289 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:30,700 the voice of the shepherd and they come to him and we do not 290 00:17:30,700 --> 00:17:32,700 deserve the call by any Merit of our own. 291 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:36,100 We have not worked on to this. We have not hyped ourselves up 292 00:17:36,100 --> 00:17:38,800 to be looked on as beautiful and lovely. 293 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,600 And so God says well, I'll take that one or two hype. 294 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,800 Ourselves up and says look how unlovely he is. 295 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,600 I'll take that one like picking a puppy at the pound. 296 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:51,100 This is not adoption. Thatthat's. 297 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:53,200 Not that it's not that kind of adoption. 298 00:17:53,900 --> 00:17:56,900 This is adoption. According to the love of God, 299 00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:00,300 the loving call of God on someone's life to come and to be 300 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,700 his child, we don't deserve the call but his call is effectual 301 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:07,300 through his own gracious purpose. 302 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:11,100 I'm s what we want to observe. Here is the privilege of the 303 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:15,300 sites, all things work together for good for them. 304 00:18:16,100 --> 00:18:18,600 It's a privilege of those who love God, that all things are 305 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,800 going to work together for good. Now, I want you to have in mind 306 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,700 the Eternal good so that mean that everything and every moment 307 00:18:24,700 --> 00:18:27,700 looks good in that moment though. 308 00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:30,400 There are terrible tragedy. There are terrible things that 309 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,700 happen to us that don't look good in the moment, but we must 310 00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:38,200 trust that that is according to the providential plan of God for 311 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,700 our lives and it is working together for good even when we 312 00:18:41,700 --> 00:18:46,200 can't see it. Everything that God carries out 313 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,600 every action. Every moment, every millisecond 314 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,400 that comes into our lives. And every single day is 315 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:57,800 according to the Eternal good plan of God, which is meant for 316 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,200 the good of his people. The glory of his own great name, 317 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:06,100 these two go hand-in-hand for when his people enjoy the 318 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:09,400 splendors of his Providence. For when his people see that he 319 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,200 is amazing, that he is all inspiring. 320 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,900 Even in great distress has even in great sufferings, they will 321 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:19,800 then magnify his name in all the Earth. 322 00:19:21,100 --> 00:19:24,600 We see that God is good. We magnify this good God. 323 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,200 And so he works all things together for the good of his 324 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,000 people, those who love him. Those whom he loves according to 325 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,600 his providential purpose, so that his people will know his 326 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:40,400 goodness and magnifies night. Now in this way, God's people 327 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,400 Truly Come to do with the psalmist describes in Psalm 34 328 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,700 Verse 8 where he says taste and see that the Lord is good take 329 00:19:46,700 --> 00:19:50,000 refuge in him and find him to be a good reference. 330 00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:54,200 Huge. It's a tasting and seeing as you 331 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,900 trust the Lord and his providential plans for you. 332 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,200 You taste and see that he is good. 333 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:02,400 All the Providence of God belongs to us, merciful 334 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,400 Providence has afflicting providence's personal 335 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:09,000 providence's public Providence. Is there are all for our 336 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,600 Eternal, good weather suffering or blessings. 337 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,200 They are good. Those things are good, which do 338 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,700 your soul, Eternal, good. Do you understand what I'm 339 00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:21,600 saying? If it's a suffering thing that 340 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,800 comes to you. From the providential hand of 341 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,400 God than it is meant for your Eternal good. 342 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:30,500 And so anything that comes to you for the good of your soul is 343 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:33,700 could amen. It's good under that end. 344 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:38,700 And so this was a realization that Patricia and I had an 345 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:42,400 October went on vacation. We're sitting out back this 346 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,100 little cabin and Pigeon Forge and we're drinking coffee in the 347 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:48,100 morning, reading the reading our Bible. 348 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,000 And so, we're just over right out of months. 349 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:57,100 Just just passed from when he's pass and we're reflecting on. 350 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,400 And we're just leaning into the Lord as much as we can praying 351 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,900 singing. And this moment was really a 352 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:07,800 defining moment, I think, for me and probably for Patricia as 353 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,200 well, and our pursuit of the Lord amid these things. 354 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,400 What we saw, what I what I came to understand. 355 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,800 I guess what the Lord showed us in this moment is that if all 356 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,600 things work together for good, for those who love him, then 357 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:32,400 whinnies death is good. That's a hard thing to admit. 358 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,200 It's a hard thing to trust the Lord for, but carry that a bit 359 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,800 further, what we're saying is that it was more good for 360 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,200 Patricia and I, and for our family, and for you all and for 361 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,900 our faith. And for our Eternal good, it was 362 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:51,700 more good for when he too passed and to remain with us. 363 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,800 That's what we're saying about. God's merciful loving 364 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,600 Providence, as right, nothing thoughts, him. 365 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,400 Nothing changes his plans. Nothing nothing can can stop 366 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,700 those things from happening, so, if he's working together all 367 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:06,500 things for the good of those who love him and are called 368 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:10,200 according to his purpose, then I must see that all that comes to 369 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:14,300 me is the ultimate good and therefore you can rejoice as 370 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:18,100 James says in trials and afflictions not rejoicing over 371 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:20,600 the Affliction, you're not rejoicing over the loss of life. 372 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,500 You're not rejoicing over the loss of a Daughter and a sister 373 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:26,600 and a granddaughter and a friend or not rejoicing. 374 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,700 In that necessarily rejoicing that God is good, no matter 375 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:33,300 what, and that he means good for you and all of these things. 376 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:37,800 Now, one always hold myself up as a hero of the faith. 377 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,000 I am not, I have liked much Faith through all of this but 378 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,800 that was one moment where I can still to this day. 379 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:46,700 Look back and say that's a truth. 380 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:50,800 I need to hang on to When I summon my faith is felling when 381 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,100 I'm questioning. Yeah. 382 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,000 But God is, if you're working together, all things are good. 383 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,500 I don't understand this. If I'm questioning that that I 384 00:22:57,508 --> 00:23:00,200 looked back to that moment and I say, wait a minute, it's for 385 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,100 good. Also, It's for good too. 386 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:09,000 I don't know all the ways yet, but it's for good also and then 387 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:12,100 it's a tough thing to understand. 388 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,700 And so, every Providence is doing something unto Eternal 389 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:20,800 good for you. This is what we're saying, they 390 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,500 may be breaking you away from sin. 391 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:24,700 They may be bringing you nearer to God. 392 00:23:24,900 --> 00:23:27,600 They may be weaning, you away from the world, they may be 393 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,600 fitting you, they are all sitting you for heaven. 394 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:35,000 Every Providence is fitting you for heaven. 395 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,200 We know this because Paul says all things work together for 396 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,100 good. And he's already grounded the 397 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:44,400 good in the Eternal good. He's already grounded the good 398 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,500 and previous verses in the Eternal glories to come right 399 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,100 for. You will share in the glories of 400 00:23:50,100 --> 00:23:51,900 Christ provided you suffer with him. 401 00:23:51,900 --> 00:23:56,700 Also, there's Eternal good to come even though there will be 402 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,400 bad moments now. But these are all from the 403 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:04,000 providential hand of God, meant for your good, Like a Surgeon, 404 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:09,600 who cuts and stitches back. He's working on to the 405 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,200 patient's. Good. 406 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,400 So does God work all things together for our good? 407 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,700 Even if he has to cut away something and Stitch something 408 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:20,500 back together? He's working for our good. 409 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:23,900 Remember, all of this is not according to the providence's 410 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:25,900 themselves. It's not according to the 411 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:29,900 moments themselves, the moments are nothing apart from the hand 412 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:32,700 of God, who is working those moments together for something, 413 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:35,200 right? Apart from his power, and his 414 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,000 grace, they're just moments. Right? 415 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,300 And if we think they're just moments than we might, as well 416 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:43,100 be fatalist. If we think they're just 417 00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:45,300 moments, we might, as well become determinist. 418 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:48,800 We might as well think that God is distant from us and that he 419 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,800 has nothing to do with every moment of our lives. 420 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,800 But I refuse to serve that God because the Bible doesn't 421 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,600 describe that God, the Bible describes. 422 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,200 The God, who is intricately involved in? 423 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,700 Intimately involved in your life and every single moment of the 424 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:06,800 day. Weather in The Taking of things 425 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,300 or the blessing of things. He's good. 426 00:25:11,500 --> 00:25:16,700 Is good and we any means for you to know this. 427 00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:22,500 Paul says we know this It's to be known with certainty. 428 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:25,100 This is why I told you earlier that what you're reading is the 429 00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:27,300 word of God. It's not the opinion of a man 430 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:31,000 who was, you know, caught up in some spiritual excitement. 431 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,900 This is a man who has devoted to the word of God who is 432 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:36,800 experienced much hardship and he's riding this saying. 433 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:43,500 I know this and we can know this God wants you to know this which 434 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:46,800 is why pins it in. God breathed scriptures for you 435 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:51,100 but you can also note as you test God in it as you trust him 436 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:53,200 in it. You'll know it in your own 437 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,600 experience as well but God is working together. 438 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,900 Good for you. All things work together for the 439 00:26:01,900 --> 00:26:04,500 Eternal good of those who love God and are called according to 440 00:26:04,508 --> 00:26:08,100 his purpose. Now foundation in believing this 441 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:12,900 Our foundation and believing this is what has long been 442 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:16,300 called the Golden Chain of redemption children on your 443 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:18,200 coloring sheet. You have the golden chain of 444 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,700 redemption. Romans 8:28 through 30. 445 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:25,200 And we know that for those who love God, all things work 446 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:26,900 together for good. For those who are called 447 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:28,900 according to his purpose. For Those whom he foreknew. 448 00:26:28,900 --> 00:26:32,000 He also predestined to be conformed, to the image of his 449 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,500 son in order, that he might be the firstborn among many 450 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,100 brothers. And so, you see the ultimate 451 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:40,300 good. There Christ is the son. 452 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,200 You are being as ones. Have been adopted for known 453 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,900 predestined, you were being conformed to the image of the 454 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:52,100 Sun. So that Christ might be the 455 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,200 Firstborn among many brothers so that there will be a multitude. 456 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,000 In heaven. One day, singing the Praises of 457 00:26:59,008 --> 00:27:01,300 the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. 458 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:05,100 And Those whom he predestined, he also called, and Those whom 459 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:08,400 he called, he also Justified and Those whom he justified, he also 460 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:11,900 glorified his chain again, verses, one through Twenty 461 00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:13,400 Eight. Men are statements of Truth. 462 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:18,800 The Privileges of the believer in verses, 29 through 32, serve 463 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,200 as the foundation on which all of these truths stand and that 464 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,000 Foundation is laid in the predestination of God. 465 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:31,100 We receive these privileges and our covenant with Christ were 466 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:34,600 founded in his blood. Which comes to us by grace 467 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,800 through faith, according to Ephesians 2:8, but they are 468 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,200 founded in the wise counsel of God which eternally secures the 469 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,000 time, the entire work for his people. 470 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,500 All that God is doing in your life, is eternally secure in God 471 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:53,600 because he's the one doing the work and so this is good. 472 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:58,100 What this means is that Christ is not labor, in vain Christ did 473 00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:00,500 not die on a cross. In vain Christ. 474 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:03,200 Did not rise again in vain. He Has not exercised. 475 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:09,800 His lordship over all creation, even now in vain There is a 476 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,300 people of God, reserved for the Son of God as a bride to be 477 00:28:13,308 --> 00:28:15,700 enjoyed for eternity in the new heavens and new earth. 478 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:18,600 This is sure. And this is what we are seeing 479 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,700 here. In these verses, these verses 480 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:23,100 have long been referred to as a Golden Chain of redemption. 481 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:26,300 Those whom he foreknew, he predestined Those whom he 482 00:28:26,308 --> 00:28:28,500 predestined, he called Those whom he called he justified 483 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:32,600 Those, whom he justified, he glorified each link, then his 484 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,500 interest intricately connected to the leaks before and after 485 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:41,100 them if you remove any He one of these links, it becomes a shaky 486 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,900 chain. It becomes a shaky hope that you 487 00:28:45,900 --> 00:28:50,000 have a hope really that you cannot stand on its more of 488 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,800 that. Hope like that when you cling to 489 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,600 like, I hope this works out for me as you jump out of the 490 00:28:54,608 --> 00:28:57,000 airplane and prepare to pull the Chute, right? 491 00:28:58,100 --> 00:29:01,200 You're hoping that thing works but that's not the sure and 492 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,500 steady hope that the Paul's been describing here. 493 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:05,700 What he's been describing is something that you could take to 494 00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:07,300 the bank as we talked about, right? 495 00:29:07,300 --> 00:29:09,800 It's something that you can bet your life on. 496 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,000 It's guaranteed for you, it's reserved for you in heaven. 497 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,500 It's kept Incorruptible and undefiled by anything in this 498 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:21,200 life and so it's yours because God holds it. 499 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,600 It's in his hands. He works it together and if you 500 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:30,800 remove any one of these things, You are left to say, well, this 501 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,300 might work out for my eternal good, but I'll have to wait and 502 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:37,300 see. And that's no hope at all. 503 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:42,800 That's no Comfort at all. Whether you lose a daughter and 504 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,600 you have to say, well, this might be good. 505 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,900 There's no comfort in that. I just told you, what comforted 506 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:53,300 Us in that moment was seeing in Scripture, that God means all 507 00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:56,000 things for good. That's comforting. 508 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:59,100 That's comforting because I can trust that God is. 509 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,200 Sure and steady, everything that God designed for Glory, 510 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,200 everything that he designs for Glory and happiness, is the end 511 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:10,000 goal, everything that he has a waiting us, he decrees by his 512 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:13,300 own purposes, to Grace, and Holiness, as the way to get that 513 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:16,000 in. So he's working in Us by Grace, 514 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,800 making us, holy unto the image of Christ. 515 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,600 So that we enjoy the happiness of God, the blessedness the 516 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,600 joyfulness of being in Christ's what Christ says, if you will 517 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,300 Bay me, John 15. If you will obey me, my joy will 518 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:32,900 be in you and your joy will be complete. 519 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:37,400 It'll be full So, you have a happiness now in your Holiness 520 00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:40,400 and that Holiness is working to unto you. 521 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,100 And eternal, good in which you will be glorified with Christ, 522 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:48,300 forever, his glory, Your Glory, as we saw in John 17, just as he 523 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:50,500 prays there in John 17, a few weeks ago. 524 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:53,900 Father, restore to me the glories that I had with you 525 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,700 before the foundation of the Earth. 526 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:01,200 And then he prays later, I have given my glory to them. 527 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,100 Right? It's his glory is your glory. 528 00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:09,000 He's wanting you. He's saving you unto this 529 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:13,600 experience that you'll know the glory of God as if it were your 530 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:17,300 own. And then he Paul writes here, 531 00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:19,900 Those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed, to 532 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:22,800 the image of his son. Everything that God designed for 533 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,300 Glory and happiness, is the end goal. 534 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:28,400 He decrees in this, by his purposes, right notice the text 535 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,200 doesn't say Those whom he foreknew to be holy. 536 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,300 It's not saying he Those whom he foreknew to be holy. 537 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,400 That's this understanding as some would hold out that God can 538 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,100 look through because he's God, he can look through the 539 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:45,500 corridors of time and he can see who will be holy and so he 540 00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:48,600 chooses them. Well, no, that's, that's wrong 541 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:52,300 because it doesn't say that if you leave out the word 542 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:54,400 predestined and you could argue that, but that's not what it 543 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:55,400 says. It says, Those whom he 544 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,200 predestined to be holy Those, whom he predestined to be 545 00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,800 conformed, to the image of his son. 546 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,600 Those are the ones who for nude and so is cow. 547 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:07,300 Counsel is his own. His wisdom is his own as 548 00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:11,200 Providence belongs to him. They do not waver with the fell 549 00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:15,700 with a frail and fickle will of men he's not waiting on your 550 00:32:15,700 --> 00:32:17,800 bidding. They are sure. 551 00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:21,100 God's foreknowledge is best understood in light of his love 552 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:23,900 for his people. He chooses to love each. 553 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:29,600 One of us, he's lucky his love for us is the same as his owning 554 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,000 us as his children. We were adopted because he chose 555 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,000 to do so therefore we love him. And that's what we see in verse 556 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,300 28. We love him. 557 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:41,900 Those who love him. That all things work together 558 00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:44,200 for good. We love him because he chose us 559 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,800 to be his children as we've seen in previous Passage. 1st John 560 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,600 4:19 says, we love because he first loved us. 561 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,300 And first Peter 11 through to Peter, the Apostle, Peter opens 562 00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:58,700 his book. This way, he's riding to a bunch 563 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:00,600 of Christians and a bunch of different areas in the 564 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,000 dispersion, he says, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to those 565 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,500 who are elect Exiles of the dispersion according to the 566 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:10,900 foreknowledge of God. So, they're elect Exiles 567 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:14,300 according to the foreknowledge of God, the father in The 568 00:33:14,308 --> 00:33:18,000 sanctification of the spirit for the obedience to G4, obedience 569 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,100 to Jesus Christ. And for sprinkling with his 570 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:22,600 blood, May Grace, and peace, be multiplied to you. 571 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,500 So he attributes this as a work of God as well. 572 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,500 And so Those whom he foreknew those, he predestined to be 573 00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:34,300 conformed, to the image of a son Holiness is consistent being 574 00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:35,900 conformed to the image of Christ. 575 00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:39,300 When we call God, holy, we are saying that he's altogether set 576 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:42,800 apart. When we say that it is our one. 577 00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:45,900 Let me start here. First, the Bible says for you to 578 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:49,800 be holy as God is Holy It's command from God for you to be 579 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,300 holy as God has held that. That means you don't get out of 580 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:55,800 Holiness by saying. Well, this is just the way God 581 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,400 made me. No God didn't make you sinful 582 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,500 and messed up, right? But that is how you are because 583 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:06,400 of the fall, but God Is recreating You, by his Spirit to 584 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,500 be conformed, to the image of his own son. 585 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:10,100 He's redeeming everything about you. 586 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:12,300 You don't get to look at Holiness and say, well, this is 587 00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:15,100 just me, I'm just an angry bitter person. 588 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:19,900 I just easily upset by things, I'm just whatever. 589 00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:23,300 I got, I just lost, you know, just I just love women, you 590 00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:25,199 know, like, you don't get to say those things. 591 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,600 You don't get out of Holiness because you think that your 592 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,400 sinfulness is too great Christ. Died to save you from your sins. 593 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,400 If you think your sinfulness is great. 594 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,500 What you're in effect saying is that Christ's death is of no 595 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:40,900 effect for your life. What a terrible place to be. 596 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,500 Well, we know that he died, we know that he rose again. 597 00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:49,199 We know that we have the spirit of God in us as we read in 598 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:53,100 previous verses Romans 8:13 she put to death the Deeds of the 599 00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:54,699 flesh. According to the spirit is alive 600 00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:57,400 in you, you will walk according to the spirit, right? 601 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,300 So there is work to do but Holiness is becoming like 602 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:05,600 Christ. It's to Behold The Glory of 603 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:11,400 Jesus Christ for so long and so well and and to continue looking 604 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,700 at him and when you take your gaze away, it's to repent and to 605 00:35:15,700 --> 00:35:21,400 turn back into look at Christ again and say he is my example. 606 00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:26,600 He's my Mark, he's the affection of my life, he is what I long to 607 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:32,700 behold, I will Look at him unto psyched if ocation I'll be 608 00:35:32,700 --> 00:35:36,000 Sanctified as I Behold Him. That's what Paul says in 2nd 609 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:40,300 Corinthians Chapter 3 beholding The Glory of Christ. 610 00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:43,000 We are transformed from one degree of glory to the next. 611 00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:48,500 And so Christ is the image of the father. 612 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,100 We were told that he is the exact imprint of his nature. 613 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,200 And here what we are told is that we are the image of Christ, 614 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,200 we're supposed to be we are being worked into made into 615 00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,900 shaped into the image of Christ. We have the spirit of Christ if 616 00:36:05,900 --> 00:36:10,400 we are meant to walk and to live as Christ, did we ought to Bear 617 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:12,900 our sufferings patiently as Christ. 618 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:18,900 If You see it's by the work of God for us in Christ Jesus that 619 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:22,100 we have the image of God restored to us and God's 620 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:26,000 likeness renewed upon us. This is how he's molding and 621 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000 shaping us into the image of Christ. 622 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,200 It's by faith in Christ. It's by all of his work through 623 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,600 crisis by saving us from our sins in crisis, by putting his 624 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,800 Spirit on us because of the work of Christ. 625 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:43,000 Everything comes down to Christ, doing the work, and God using 626 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,200 the work of Christ. By the spirit of God to 627 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,800 transform us into the image of Christ. 628 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:53,200 It's Christ Christ, Christ through, and through That's what 629 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:57,000 salvation and sanctification and glorification are about their, 630 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,200 about praising the name of Jesus. 631 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:06,700 They're about looking unto him. And so we cannot conform 632 00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:11,600 ourselves to Christ rather. We give ourselves to Christ and 633 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:17,000 that happens it takes rise in us because God has given us to 634 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,600 Christ. You understand that like you 635 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,600 don't want you don't have desires for Christ except that 636 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,900 God has given you to Christ already. 637 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:32,700 He works it in you and insu in doing so he predestines you to 638 00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:34,800 be conformed to the same image of his son. 639 00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:39,800 This is how, you know, if you were yet called by God beside, 640 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,200 you know, if you were yet in the faith family, are you being 641 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,000 conformed into the image of Christ? 642 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:48,300 Do you desire? Do you desire Christ? 643 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,000 Do you desire to put off sinfulness and to be holy as God 644 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,500 is? Holy does your love for God? 645 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:56,900 Reflect the sun's love for God. I don't mean perfectly. 646 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,700 We'll never do it perfectly. I just mean, is there any 647 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:05,200 remnant of such Desires in you? Is there any examples of such 648 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,500 Desires in you? If so, then you are a brother or 649 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,800 sister to the firstborn among many brothers. 650 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,800 He has preeminence in all things. 651 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,200 He is the head of the family of God. 652 00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:21,200 He deserves all honor and praise and glory due. 653 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,400 His name, and praise be to God. For seeing fit to call us as 654 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,400 Sons and Daughters to himself in Christ. 655 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,100 Jesus, he is Christ, is the Son of God. 656 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:36,500 And so we are now the children of God through God's gracious, 657 00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:40,800 adoption, it may seem that there are only a few children of God, 658 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,700 right? You might look around the world. 659 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:44,700 Look at the news. News and think, man, there are 660 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:47,600 just a few children of God in this world. 661 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,500 Well, if you look at any one day or any one place, or any one 662 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:56,000 time, it might seem that way. However, when all the children 663 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,700 of God come together on the last day, it will be a multitude. 664 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:03,600 That John says in his Revelation ID, that is too great to number. 665 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,800 A multitude that is too great to number a people from every tribe 666 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,200 tongue and Nation called, by God, to be his children and 667 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:16,100 co-heirs with Christ, when God takes Abraham out and out of his 668 00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:18,400 tent and into the dark lit night. 669 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,400 He tells him to look into the sky and to Number the Stars, if 670 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:28,200 he can What she could not do. And he tells him. 671 00:39:29,100 --> 00:39:31,800 So will the Nations be blessed in you? 672 00:39:34,100 --> 00:39:36,100 There's this will be your people. 673 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,000 And we know that we are in Abraham if we have faith in 674 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,400 Christ. Amen. 675 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:45,200 We are numbered among Israel. If we have faith in Christ, I 676 00:39:45,207 --> 00:39:46,800 don't mean Israel. The current Nation. 677 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,500 I mean, Israel, the people of God in the Old Testament, were 678 00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:52,900 numbered among those whom were reading on now. 679 00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:55,600 Those whom he predestined, he also called, and Those whom he 680 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,500 called, he also Justified everyone that is affectionately 681 00:39:59,500 --> 00:40:03,900 called by God will be justified. This means they are declared 682 00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:07,800 free from the debt of sin, which is death, Romans 6:23, the wages 683 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,700 of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal 684 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:14,500 life through Jesus Christ. Our Lord you are accepted, you 685 00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:18,900 were adopted, I should say as righteous through Jesus Christ. 686 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:21,300 Second Corinthians 5:21 for our sake. 687 00:40:21,300 --> 00:40:23,600 He made him to be sin who knew no sin. 688 00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:27,700 So that in him, we might become the righteousness of God, our 689 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:30,300 sin on him was laid. Amen. 690 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:35,600 His righteousness on us was Laid in John chapter 6, as Jesus is 691 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,900 describing himself as the bread of life and anyone who will eat 692 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:42,400 of him will have eternal life. He says this, he says all that 693 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,900 the father gives me will come to me. 694 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,400 Your effectually called, you are Justified. 695 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,200 All that the father gives me will come to me, and whoever 696 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,300 comes to me, I will never cast out John 6:44. 697 00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:56,600 No one can come to me, just a few verses later. 698 00:40:56,700 --> 00:40:59,400 No one can come to me. Unless the father who sent me 699 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:04,000 draws that person and I will raise him up on the last day. 700 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,600 Glorified right? You see it there. 701 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:12,600 I mean, Jesus teaching in John chapter 6, The the calling the 702 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,900 justification, the sanctification and the 703 00:41:15,908 --> 00:41:20,700 glorification of the believer, John 6:47, truly, truly just a 704 00:41:20,707 --> 00:41:24,000 few verses later, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal 705 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,200 life, whoever believes in Christ as Lord, and Savior has eternal 706 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:30,100 life. Amen. 707 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:32,300 Boo. Because of the work of the 708 00:41:32,300 --> 00:41:35,100 father and calling us to himself through Christ. 709 00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:37,300 We are free from the guilt of every sin. 710 00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:40,200 We have committed your free from the guilt of every sin. 711 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:44,500 You've committed or will commit. No sin, can condemn you Romans 712 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:47,600 8:1 right there is therefore now no condemnation for those who 713 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:52,500 are in Jesus. So for all who believe in Jesus 714 00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:57,300 Christ, the Declaration is made. The Declaration is final. 715 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,000 It will not be reversed. We are no longer criminals and 716 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,900 Heavens cork. We are owned and loved as God's 717 00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:07,900 children. His favor is on us as it is on 718 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:10,600 his own son. Blessed, are you who have had 719 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:15,100 your sins erased by God's forgiveness, none or justified 720 00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:19,000 in this way except those whom God calls to himself, those who 721 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,600 will not hear the call of the Gospel? 722 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:26,100 We remain under guilt and wrath but to all who will repent of 723 00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:30,800 their sins and believe in Christ Jesus, as Lord this day they 724 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,900 will be saved and they will receive eternal life. 725 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,300 Those whom he justified, he also glorified the power of our sin 726 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,400 is broken and God's calling us. The thing that keeps you from 727 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,800 coming to Christ, is the power of your sin over. 728 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:54,700 You, you are a slave to sin. Your slave to sin, you're dead 729 00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:59,700 in your trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2, 1 3, 3 sets. 730 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:06,000 But the power of sin is broken when God calls you. 731 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,500 The guilt of sin is removed when God justifies you. 732 00:43:13,900 --> 00:43:15,700 Everything. This is what this means. 733 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:18,100 Now, there, everybody pay attention to everything, which 734 00:43:18,100 --> 00:43:22,400 stands in the way of you, receiving the glory of Christ, 735 00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:27,100 your sin, and your sinfulness, your guilt of sin. 736 00:43:28,100 --> 00:43:33,000 Everything was stands in the way of Glory has now been removed by 737 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,600 God's calling you and by God's justifying, you praise the Lord. 738 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,600 There's nothing that stands in the way between you and the 739 00:43:41,607 --> 00:43:43,500 Lord, nothing can hinder your soul. 740 00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:47,700 So from reaching Glory, if you believe these things you believe 741 00:43:47,700 --> 00:43:51,800 that Christ is Lord notice here that glorified is in the past 742 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,900 tense, so it just gets better. It was better than a while. 743 00:43:55,900 --> 00:43:57,600 Man was that guy's eye anyway, whatever. 744 00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,500 Billy something, the commercials, right? 745 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:03,800 And wait, there's more right notice that glorified is in the 746 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,800 past tense. That you're not yet glorified 747 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,200 Paul riding this wasn't yet glorified. 748 00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,800 The people he's riding to he expects. 749 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,000 They're going to read it so they're not yet clarified, 750 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,500 right? It's in the past tense. 751 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,400 It's a thing which is already been accomplished in eternity 752 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,700 future. God is saying through Paul here. 753 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:36,000 Your glorification is certain yes it's spoken of as oh I've 754 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:40,100 already done it. God has saved us. 755 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:44,000 God has called us with a high and holy calling in his loving 756 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,800 and providential purpose. He accomplishes the salvation of 757 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,700 his people. When Christ was Sent in Matthew 758 00:44:49,700 --> 00:44:52,800 chapter 1, we read that he will be called Jesus because he saves 759 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,900 his people from their sins, but there wasn't a mission with no 760 00:44:57,500 --> 00:45:00,700 with no Victory inside. It wasn't a mission that was 761 00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:03,500 just like well we roll the dice here and see if this works. 762 00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:06,500 God talking to the sun, you can see it in heaven, right? 763 00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:09,700 Like I'm going to send you down, the people are going to reject 764 00:45:09,700 --> 00:45:13,000 you real bad. Like they're going to nail you 765 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,300 to a cross. They're going to kill you. 766 00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:20,200 And then we'll just see all right. 767 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,100 This is all I know to do. We'll just see if this works 768 00:45:23,100 --> 00:45:25,100 out. No. 769 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,100 No, no, no. The atonement of Christ is 770 00:45:31,100 --> 00:45:37,500 definite for his people. But it's not lacking, it's not 771 00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:41,300 lacking, right? He dies, because there was a 772 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:45,600 people already predestined by The Calling of God to become the 773 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,900 people of God. People who were going to be 774 00:45:48,900 --> 00:45:53,600 Sanctified and glorified a people who were going to be in 775 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,500 heaven, ones that John lays eyes on us as man. 776 00:45:56,500 --> 00:45:59,900 It's a number two. Great to count. 777 00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:04,000 The multitude is large and its people from every tribe tongue 778 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:10,100 and nation in there. Singing the Praises of God It's 779 00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:13,600 sure Those whom he justified. He also glorified. 780 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:19,000 There's nothing about that. That you would say, no, it's 781 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,600 past tense, it's done. Its accomplished. 782 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:26,000 This is what he longed for this is what God was doing in Genesis 783 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:27,700 chapter 3. When he looks at the serpent he 784 00:46:27,707 --> 00:46:31,200 says I'm going to put enmity between you and the woman. 785 00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:38,800 Well, the seed of the woman. You'll bruise his heel but he 786 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:43,000 will crush your head. God knew this is why he calls 787 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,700 Eve. The mother of all living it's 788 00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:48,900 not simply I mean it is that she's a woman and that is women 789 00:46:48,900 --> 00:46:50,800 are made to be motherly. Absolutely. 790 00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:53,400 But it's even further than that right? 791 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:57,100 It's it's that she was going to be the mother of all living 792 00:46:57,100 --> 00:46:59,600 according to God. What was the pronouncement of 793 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:03,100 the Judgment death? In the day that you eat of it, 794 00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:06,500 you will surely die, Eve will be become the mother of all living. 795 00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:10,100 Was that me? It's going to be the mother to 796 00:47:10,100 --> 00:47:12,700 all who place their faith in Christ in a sense, right? 797 00:47:12,700 --> 00:47:15,500 Christ is going to come. He's going to make a way for all 798 00:47:15,500 --> 00:47:18,900 to, to be made, right to be redeemed from their sins 799 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:23,300 Justified freely glorified, right? 800 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:26,300 She's the mother of all living in that sense that she was going 801 00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:29,900 to that through her seed was going to come Christ. 802 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,600 The head. Crusher, amazing, nothing less 803 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,700 than this satisfies. The purposes of God, this is 804 00:47:35,700 --> 00:47:38,400 what he means. When he wants to show the 805 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,100 glories of a redemption in full, he means for us to see that 806 00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:46,000 there is a real people of God, just as there was always a 807 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,600 remnant of Israel and all the dispersions, and all the 808 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,600 Captivity Tsar was always a Remnant who would repent and 809 00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,700 return to the Lord. So, is there a remnant of the 810 00:47:54,700 --> 00:47:57,000 church? There's a remnant of God's 811 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,900 people. Who will dwell in heaven with 812 00:47:59,900 --> 00:48:04,000 him and his so all that he does for us all that he does in US 813 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,400 Works unto this great end of glorification. 814 00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:12,800 Are God's people, chosen. Yes, unto salvation. 815 00:48:14,100 --> 00:48:18,600 Are they called if so does unto his kingdom and Glory? 816 00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,200 Are they born again? It is unto an Incorruptible 817 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,100 inheritance. Are they Afflicted? 818 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:30,000 Well, it's working for them and exceeding and eternal weight of 819 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,500 Glory. So you could things for 16 820 00:48:32,500 --> 00:48:34,200 through 18. We do not lose heart though. 821 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,400 Our outer self is wasting away. Our inner self is being renewed 822 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,700 day, by day. For this life. 823 00:48:39,700 --> 00:48:42,700 Momentary Affliction is preparing for us, an eternal 824 00:48:42,900 --> 00:48:45,300 weight of Glory beyond all comparison. 825 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,500 As we look not to the things that are seeing, but the things 826 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,700 that are unseen, Seen for the things that are seen are 827 00:48:50,700 --> 00:48:54,200 transient, but the things that are seen, are things that are 828 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:59,600 unseen are eternal. All things, all things work 829 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,100 together for the good, the Eternal good of those who love 830 00:49:04,100 --> 00:49:06,300 God and are called, according to his purpose. 831 00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,100 I want you to notice we're Hope rest. 832 00:49:12,100 --> 00:49:15,600 The author of all of these works is the same. 833 00:49:16,700 --> 00:49:20,000 The author of every one of these is the same. 834 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,400 It's not Paul, it's not you, it's not your grandmother went 835 00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:31,200 to church, all right, it's God. That's God. 836 00:49:32,300 --> 00:49:35,400 What we see here is that God predestines God calls, God 837 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,000 justifies God, glorifies his people. 838 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,700 And if he's doing the work, you can have sure, hope because he's 839 00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:46,500 doing the work, you have sure. Hope our created Wills are so 840 00:49:46,500 --> 00:49:48,100 fickle. We don't know what we want from 841 00:49:48,100 --> 00:49:53,700 day to day. Created powers on this Earth are 842 00:49:53,700 --> 00:49:57,600 so feeble compared to God. They're not all powerful, they 843 00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:01,600 may have power, but they're not all powerful. if our submit, if 844 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,500 our Salvation depended on our will or on some created Power, 845 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:11,400 and we would be doomed. But God himself undertakes, the 846 00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,300 work of Salvation, from beginning to end. 847 00:50:14,300 --> 00:50:18,900 It is his work so that we might constantly depend upon him so 848 00:50:18,900 --> 00:50:21,600 that we might constantly subject ourselves to his providential 849 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:25,800 care of our Lives even when we go Kicking and Screaming into 850 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:31,300 it. In doing so. 851 00:50:32,900 --> 00:50:36,100 Promise. From the scriptures. 852 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:40,000 And from my own experience, you will taste and see that. 853 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:45,200 God is good. You'll taste and see that. 854 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,300 He is good. When we ascribe all praise and 855 00:50:48,300 --> 00:50:55,600 glory to his great name, It's because you have tasted and seen 856 00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,500 that he's good. And we will one day, along with 857 00:50:59,500 --> 00:51:03,200 the multitude of saints in Heaven cast every Crown Before 858 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:09,100 the Throne of Christ, declare him righteous and holy declare 859 00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:14,400 him, lovely and perfect. Declare ourselves unfit, for 860 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:20,100 such a great king, and Kingdom, these truths of Romans 8 must 861 00:51:20,100 --> 00:51:23,400 serve. They must serve, it's the 862 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,200 greatest chapter in the Bible. They must serve as a mighty 863 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:30,600 encouragement to your faith and your hope in these truths, we 864 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:34,600 see that God's ways and works are perfect from beginning to 865 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,700 end. He's working together for the 866 00:51:36,707 --> 00:51:40,500 good of all who love God and are called according to his purpose. 867 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,100 It's working together. All things for the good of all 868 00:51:44,100 --> 00:51:46,200 who love God and are called according to his purpose. 869 00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:50,500 Amen, you stand to your feet. Let's prepare to receive the 870 00:51:50,500 --> 00:52:01,200 Lord's Supper this morning. Go ahead and bite the ushers to 871 00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,800 come forward. Only give you a couple of 872 00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:05,800 instructions about the Lord's Supper here. 873 00:52:07,700 --> 00:52:10,400 First of all, if you are a believer in Christ Jesus, 874 00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,000 whether you're a member here or not, you're a believer in the in 875 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,700 Christ. Baptized. 876 00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,300 Hot then we invite you to receive the Lord's supper with 877 00:52:20,300 --> 00:52:26,000 us today. There is on the tray, any gluten 878 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,300 free peoples. There's a gluten-free option, 879 00:52:28,300 --> 00:52:32,400 that's marked. So, make note of that, and I'm 880 00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:33,900 going to invite the worship team to sing. 881 00:52:33,900 --> 00:52:37,800 Now going to bite you to worship the new song called day by day 882 00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,800 and sing the words of it. And then I'll come and lead us 883 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:47,300 in worship. Let me say this real quick and 884 00:52:47,300 --> 00:52:50,800 the Lord's Supper, there are two great promises and I want you to 885 00:52:50,808 --> 00:52:54,900 think about these things. As you see, As you examine your 886 00:52:54,900 --> 00:52:57,200 own heart and mind, as you prepare to receive the Lord's. 887 00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,400 Supper you confess your sins now. 888 00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:04,600 There's two great promises for you to remember as you trust 889 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,100 that God is working all things together for the good of those 890 00:53:07,100 --> 00:53:09,100 who love him and are called according to his purpose. 891 00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,900 The first is this Christ died for Sinners. 892 00:53:12,700 --> 00:53:14,000 That's what the Lord's Supper showing us. 893 00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,200 That there was a real broken body. 894 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,200 There was a real event where blood was spilled for the 895 00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:23,400 Forgiveness of the sins of God's people and when you eat and you 896 00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,100 drink, you're saying, I'm feasting on Christ. 897 00:53:27,100 --> 00:53:29,500 I'm trusting in this new covenant in his blood. 898 00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,200 And then the second grade truth to help us see that he's working 899 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:35,900 together. All things for good is that he's 900 00:53:35,900 --> 00:53:40,800 coming again. He's coming again, Paul rides at 901 00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,500 the end of his instructions on Lord suffered that as long as 902 00:53:43,500 --> 00:53:46,700 you as often as you eat and drink this, eat this bread and 903 00:53:46,700 --> 00:53:50,500 drink this cup you proclaim, the Lord's death until he comes. 904 00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:56,300 Christ is coming for you. Heaven is coming for you. 905 00:53:57,500 --> 00:54:01,300 It's there. It's sure you will be glorified. 906 00:54:02,700 --> 00:54:07,300 So eat and drink today and Faith, repent of your sins and 907 00:54:07,300 --> 00:54:09,500 Eden drank take of the Lord in faith today. 908 00:54:10,100 --> 00:54:10,700 But sing