How can we be sure that all things will work together for good? Bill Johnson takes us through Romans chapter 8, and the wonderful promises of God to make all things work together for our good. If God is for us who can be against us, especially when Jesus and the Holy Spirit are both interceding for us. We can trust Him in every circumstance, knowing He is working all things together for our good.
it says here if god can be for us who
can be against us in verse 31
he’s not saying nobody can be against us
he’s just saying anyone who’s against us
doesn’t get to vote
they don’t have a say in the outcome of
things
if god is for us who can be against us
think about this with me
anyone who sees you
the way the father sees you
would never
be against you
anyone who is in opposition to you
anyone who for whatever reason has
picked you out as a target
to insult or to reject or hurt or
whatever
none of them
see you the way the father does
because everyone who sees you through
the eyes of the father is for you
so he says if god is for us who can be
against us no one no one
he who did not spare his own son but
delivered him up for us how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things
i’ll be honest with you that verse is
the reason i felt i was to bring
this portion of scripture to us today
that verse
if god went to such an extreme
by giving us his son
how could we ever question him
to not
delightfully willingly joyfully provide
everything else we will ever need not
only now in this life but throughout all
of eternity
he will he set the extreme standard in
the sacrifice of his son
then everything else is automatically
included
it’s important that you and i think that
way it’s important that we realize that
in this
love of god that you could never exhaust
you could never explore in its entirety
it will be continuously
opened up to us in new levels throughout
all eternity and never will we exhausted
that love of god is 100 focused on you
on your family on your situation
on me right now
he goes on he says who will bring a
charge against god’s elect
do you understand there was no one who
has authority to stand before the father
to accuse you
the devil is called the accuser of the
brethren but he doesn’t have a hall pass
there
he doesn’t have the legal right to bring
any kind of accusation against you and
the reason is
your lawyer is jesus and he himself has
already taken care of every legitimate
indictment against you
god’s forgiveness is so complete is so
complete we’ll look at it a little bit
further in this chapter but it is so
absolute and so complete
that he actually
changes how he sees us
the blood of jesus has made me clean
the blood of jesus not only
not only deals with the record of sin
the blood of jesus goes to the root and
changes the nature that that sin grew
out of
it is that complete
so when the father looks at you every
one of you who have surrendered your
life to jesus you have put your faith in
christ and have declared him to be your
absolute lord and master every one of
you the father looks at you
and he sees his son jesus
no one can accuse jesus therefore no one
has the right to accuse you
verse 34 who is he who condemns it’s
christ who died and furthermore is risen
who is at the right hand of god who also
makes intercession for us
i had a conversation with my uncle who’s
now at home in heaven
he was uh such a wonderful man wonderful
man of god david morgan
and i had a conversation with him quite
a few years ago and he was point he was
talking to me about this chapter he he
would memorize entire books of the bible
and um so when we had conversation he he
had you know such depth of understanding
of these portions of scripture but we
were talking about romans 8 once and he
said
i found out why
verse 28 is real what does it say it
says all things work together for good
why can we say all things work together
for good well take a quick look at the
last part of verse 26 it says the holy
spirit himself
makes intercession for us
and then jump over here to the end of
verse 34. it says jesus also makes
intercession for us
so here we have the holy spirit
and we have the son of god interceding
before the father on our behalf
sandwiched between
these two realities these two great
intercessors
is the promise everything
works together for good
our confidence in god resolving every
situation for his glory has nothing to
do with our
you know great faith or skill or gifts
or ministry or whatever you want to add
to it has enough it has to do with the
holy spirit intercedes
jesus intercedes
no wonder
all things work together for good
i
sometimes will
have jokingly talk about praying in the
spirit praying in times which is such a
wonderful privilege all the gifts of the
spirit are are to enable us to serve
others except for that one
that one particular gift
is
brings edification to us
but i i have jokingly talked about
praying to god and i say oh god i need
i need a 700 horsepower corvette that’s
really what i need
and then i follow that prayer by praying
in tongues and the holy spirit prays to
him and says man don’t give him that
corvette he’ll kill himself if he has a
car like that and the holy spirit always
prays with such precision and such
accuracy that it’s a glorious thing to
join our faith in the praying in the
holy spirit he intercedes for us and
here jesus also intercedes for us and
then from that place of those two
interceding for us he moves into this
these decrees of what is there in
existence that can separate us from the
love of god and look at it here in verse
35 who shall separate us from the love
of christ
shall tribulation
distress persecution famine nakedness
peril perhaps we could call pandemic
peril a sword
as it is written for your sake we’re
killed all day long we’re counted as
sleep sheep for slaughter yet in all
these things we are more than conquerors
do you remember in in joel it says let
the weak say
i am strong
it’s really important that we manage
what comes out of our mouth
it’s important that we don’t
that we don’t talk out of the flimsiness
of our emotional life which is up and
down
it’s important that we don’t craft our
conversation according to circumstances
that one day are extraordinary and the
next day are very challenging and
difficult it’s important that we design
our decree out of what god says
let the weak say i’m strong so in in our
greatest point to frustration or
difficulty or weakness we we make this
bold confession
i am strong
i am strong because i am in christ i am
strong because christ is in me
and we make these confessions here’s
another one we are more than conquerors
i am more than a conqueror i’m not just
victorious
i’m a happy victorious person i’m more
i’m above and beyond a conqueror why
because we are riding alone on the
absolute victory of christ in his death
and in his resurrection
his resurrection becomes my resurrection
no wonder i’m more
than a conqueror
i would encourage you say that even over
yourself even right now i’m more than a
conqueror i’m a conqueror
beyond i am above and beyond what a
conqueror looks like i’m a victor in the
victory of christ
for i’m persuaded verse 38 neither death
nor life nor angels nor principalities
nor powers nor things present nor things
to come
nor height nor depth nor any created
thing shall be able to separate us from
the love of christ from the love of
jesus our lord