God at Work In Your Life Rom 8:2830

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God at Work In Your LifeRom 828-30
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• 28 And we know that God causes all things to work
  together for good to those who love God, to those
  who are called according to His purpose. 29 For
  whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become
  conformed to the image of His Son, that He might
  be the first-born among many brethren 30 and
  whom He predestined, these He also called and
  whom He called, these He also justified and whom
  He justified, these He also glorified. Ro 828-30
  NASB

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• God gives us another glorious and reassuring
  promises in Romans 828-30.
• It is the assurance that regardless of what you
  are going through God is at work, in and through
  the circumstances of your life.

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• Who are the called

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• Believers here are defined here in two ways
• The ones who love Him
• The ones who are called according to His purpose

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• Calling refers to the action of the Holy Spirit
  in calling individuals to repentance and faith by
  the grace of God.

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• The called are those who have responded to His
  call in faith and accepted Gods offer of grace,
  and have entered into a saving relationship with
  God through Christ.

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• Paul also says those who have come into a
  relationship with Christ are those who love Him.

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• Love is more than an emotion. Agape love which
  is referred to here is relational love.

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• Believers are identified by love

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• Those who have faith in God are those who love
  Him and love one another and who out of love are
  obedient to the Lords commands.

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• This great promise of verses 28-30 is given to
  those who belong to God, those who have been
  called and follow in love.

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• We know this promise It is Certain

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• It is a promise that has been revealed by God to
  believers.

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• What does this knowledge apply to?
• It applies to all the circumstances of life.

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• God is continually working in every situation in
  your life, good and the bad.
• You are never alone!

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• That promise applies to every single person who
  has placed their faith in Christ Jesus.

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• Psalm 139 1-16

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• What does God do in the circumstances of our
  lives?

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• God works for the good

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• The word good refers to ultimate good and always
  looks towards the future

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• In all of the circumstances of our lives God
  works in those circumstance to bring about
  ultimate good in our lives.

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• We cant see the future we cant know what
  tomorrow might bring into our lives. But God can
  and we have His promise that through every
  situation He is with us, He will never leave nor
  forsake us.

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• What is Gods purpose and our ultimate good?

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• That we might be conformed into the likeness of
  His Son Jesus.

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• But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a
  mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
  transformed into the same image from glory to
  glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
• 2 Co 318 NASB
• 8 But now you also, put them all aside anger,
  wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from
  your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since
  you laid aside the old self with its evil
  practices, 10 and have put on the new self who is
  being renewed to a true knowledge according to
  the image of the One who created him
• Col 38-10 NASB

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• We share in the divine nature through the new
  birth (1 Pet 14)
• We are adopted into Gods family (Eph 15)
• We have become joint heirs with Jesus
• (Rom 817)
• We are separated and being transformed so that we
  stand before Him holy and blameless
• (Eph 14 424)
• We are being transformed by the renewing of our
  minds (Rom 122)
• We are being recreated into His image
• (1 Jn 32-3)

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• After we come to Christ in faith we think, act,
  live and love in ways that are different from the
  world because we have the Spirit of God within us.

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• Foreknowledge Predestination

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• Baptist generally believe the Bible teaches that
  in the matter of salvation it is the way of
  salvation not the individual that was foreknown
  and predestined or predetermined by God.
• That before the foundation of the world God
  determined that salvation would come by grace
  through faith in Christ alone to whosoever
  believed.

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• "For God so loved the world, that He gave His
  only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him
  should not perish, but have eternal life. Jn 316
  NASB

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• We are called according to God purpose rather
  than His foreknowledge in this context, and Paul
  goes on to explain God has foreordained or
  purposed that believers, those who love Him and
  who have responded to His offer of salvation by
  grace be brought into moral conformity to the
  likeness of his son.

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• Not merely a superficial outward conformity but
  an inward conformity that results in a change of
  conduct and lifestyle.
• God sent His Son in our likeness that by faith we
  might be conformed to His likeness.

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• God planned that salvation would be by grace
  through faith in Christ alone in eternity past.
  He calls us in the present to respond to that
  offer. Those who respond in faith are then
  justified or declared righteous in Christ
  predestined to be conformed to His image which
  will ultimately lead to our glorification or the
  consummation of our salvation a a point in the
  future.

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• We can live above our worldly situations and
  circumstances confident that our God is at work
  in all of them whether we can understand how or
  why and allowing us to stand firmly on the Solid
  Rock of Jesus Christ and our hope is built on
  nothing less.