For Our Good

“God’s work in your life is to make you more like Jesus.”

Sermon Title: FOR OUR GOOD

Scripture Text: ROMANS 8:28

Sermon Notes:

ROMANS 8:28-29 NASB

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 those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

ROMANS 8:28 NASB

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.

I. DECLARE WHO YOUR FATHER IS

ROMANS 8:28 KJV

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

ROMANS 8:28 NASB

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.

ROMANS 8:28 NIV

28 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.

“We will never be able to properly value this verse when we put God at the end and not at the beginning.”

“Never abandon what you know of God because of what you do not know.”

II. DETERMINE YOUR PERSPECTIVE

“We must not judge the end of something by the beginning of something.”

ROMANS 8:28 NASB

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.

work together | Greek: sunergeo

to cooperate, to work together

GENESIS 42:36 NASB

36 Their father Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”

ROMANS 8:28 NASB

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.

III. DEFINE WHAT IS GOOD

ROMANS 8:28 NASB

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.

ROMANS 8:29 NASB

29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

“God’s work in your life is to make you more like Jesus.”

“God never allows pain without purpose in the lives of his children.”– Jerry Bridges

ROMANS 8:28 NASB

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.

Three considerations:

I. DECLARE WHO YOUR FATHER IS.

II. DETERMINE YOUR PERSPECTIVE.

III. DEFINE WHAT IS GOOD.

ROMANS 8:28 NASB

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.

“The profession of faith can be very different from the possession of faith.” — R.C. Sproul

ROMANS 8:28 NASB

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.