Romans 8:28

“All Things”

Romans 8:28, “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 is one of the great truths and promises of the Bible. It is also one of the most important to know. This life is a journey filled with storms and sorrows. For a Christian there is more than just the normal storms and sorrows of life there is persecution and the fiery trials thereof. Horrible and devastating things happen to people from crime to car accidents to cancer to the disappointments of relationships. Such storms and sorrows will leave a person broken and hard hearted unless by trusting in Christ you can claim the promise

Romans 8:28, “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.” Why then this means that the more that I love God the more all things will work together for good. God has a purpose and a plan a good purpose a purpose involves men coming to know Jesus as their Savior so that they might escape the fires of hell and instead have a destiny waiting for them in heaven.

It can be heart breaking to see how people suffer in life but it would be a lie to give false hope and false positive message. There is no such thing as seven simple steps to follow to a successful life. Either you rely on the promises of God or you do not. Tragedy and suffering is going to strike you in life you can guarantee it. That is how this life works. What a horrible thought to think that people go through this life suffering the sufferings of life and nothing good comes out of it. But it happens because they do not trust in God.

This is the reason the next verse talks about predestination. Romans 8:29, “For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.” All things will work together for God to them that love God because no matter what happens those circumstances, those storms, those fiery trials will be used by God in his purpose and plan of conforming you to the image of His Son.

Romans 8:29, “For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.”

In talking about how all things work together for good to them that love God these words are used: foreknow, predestinate, called, justified, and glorified.

Foreknow speaks of both the omnipotence of God and His eternal God head. Foreknow also reveals to us that God has a plan and a purpose for our lives. To foreknow means God knows before it happens. God knows the future and therefore God knows the storms and the trials and the blessings that will come your way.

Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee…” Because God is omnipotent or all knowing God foreknows. Because God is from everlasting to everlasting God forknows. God knows everything about a person their personality their strengths and weakneses before that person is even born. God knows. God foreknew me and therefore I can trust in Him regarding the fiery trials of life.

Romans 8:28-29, “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 8:29, “For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate..” Predestination speaks of something that God has decided to do in eternity past something that is going to happen regardless of what else happens. The reason it is going to happen is because God is going to do it. Predestination does not imply that someone some of the people of the world are excluded from the opportunity for salvation. For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten son…

Romans 8:29, “For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.” To know that no matter what happens I will be come Christ like in my character is a great comfort to the new man inside of me and a great encouragement to my faith. Yes you might fail your faith might even be shake from time to time by reason of fiery trail but as a Christian you are predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son. The plotting of the wicked, the casting of their nets as they lay in wait for your soul cannot stop predestination. Yes I am a weak and sinful person maybe even a person who will fail more than most but even so whom he did foreknow, He also did presdesitante to be conformed to the image of his Son.

Romans 8:30, “Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”

To be called speaks of opportunity

Matthew 1:21, “Thou shalt call his name Jesus: for He shall save His people from their sins.”Matthew 5:9, “Blessed are the peacemakers:for they shall be called the children of God.” There is no greater opportunity than to be called from your sins unto Jesus for salvation. Many are called but few are chosen because all are called to the cross of Jesus Christ. The call to the cross reaches out across time to all men. One a person is saved is called a child of God what opportunity that person then has to dedicate his or her life to the LORD.

Romans 8:28, “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.” To be called means to be called according the pleasure of God’s eternal purpose.

Romans 8:30, “Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” To be justified means to be made righteous. Just as if I had not sinned.

Acts 13:39, “And by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.” Why to be justified means that the slate is wiped clean. If I am justified then when I die and stand before God to be judged there will be no sins for which I will be reckoned guilty. This is a great promise and one of the greatest benefit of being a Christian

Romans 8:30, “Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” Lastly we know that all things work together for good to them that love God because He has glorified us. Now think of what it means to be glorified.

I John 3:2 says, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.” Think of the glory of Christ at the transfiguration or after He rose from the grave, to be glorified is a great promise. To be glorified means to have a body without sin and without the corruption of sin.

Yes we can say with certainty that all things work together for good to them that love God. IF you do not love God then you should know that God loves you and sent His only begotten Son Jesus who suffered and died on the cross of Calvary for your sins.

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