Transcript Faith Works: When Everything Goes Wrong Romans 8:18-39 BIG IDEA: The Lord is __ in _______ control and loves ____! me He _____

Faith Works:
When Everything Goes Wrong
Romans 8:18-39
BIG IDEA:
The Lord is
__
in _______
control and
loves ____!
me
He _____
Because this BIG IDEA
is true, I have…
Courage
________ in spite of my
circumstances
“I consider that our present
sufferings are not worth
comparing with the glory that
will be revealed in us.”
v.
18
“The creation waits in eager
expectation for the sons of God
to be revealed.”
v. 19
“For the creation was subjected to
frustration, not by it’s own choice,
but by the will of the one who
subjected it, in hope that the
creation itself will be liberated from
its bondage to decay and brought
into the glorious freedom
of the children of God.”
v. 20-21
“…we hope for what we do not
yet have, we wait for it
patiently.”
v. 25
Because this BIG IDEA
is true, I have…
Comfort
_________ from the Holy Spirit
“In the same way, the Spirit helps
us in our weakness. We do not
know what we ought to pray for, but
the Spirit himself intercedes for us
with groans that words cannot
express.”
v. 26
“It is doubtful
whether God can
bless a man greatly
until He has hurt him
deeply.”
A.W. Tozer, C&MA pastor
Because this BIG IDEA
is true, I have…
Confidence in the Lord’s
____________
work in my life
“And we know that in all things,
God works for the good of those
who love him, who have been called
according to his purpose.”
v. 28
“For those God foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the
likeness of his Son, that he might be
the firstborn among many brothers.
And those he predestined, he also
called; those he called, he also
justified; those he justified, he also
glorified.”
v. 29-30
F__________
oreknew
P____________
redestined
C_______
alled
J_________
ustified
G_________
lorified
Because this BIG IDEA
is true, I have…
Challenges overcome in
____________
my life
“What, then, shall we say in
response to this?”
v. 31
Who can stop me from
doing what He wants?
Nobody!
Which false accusations
could ever stick on me?
None!
What could ever come
between me and my Lord?
Nothing!
BIG IDEA:
The Lord is
in control and
He loves me!
Because this BIG IDEA
is true, I have…
Celebration
____________encouraged in
my life…
no matter what
“…in all these things we are
more than conquerors through
him who loved us. For I am
convinced that neither death
nor life, neither angels nor
demons, neither the present nor
the future,
nor any powers, neither height
nor depth, nor anything else in
all creation will be able to
separate us from the love of
God that is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.”
v.37 – 39