Script for this morning is for Romans 8, verses 28 to 32.

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love him, to those who are called

according to his purpose.

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.

And whom he predestined these he also called and whom he called these he also justified and whom he justified

and whom he justified these he also glorified.

What then shall we say to these things?

If God is for us, who is against us?

He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for us all.

How will he not also with him freely give us all things?

What an anchor? This text can be for our souls. So I ask now for help that you would use me to lodge the anchor of our lives in the holy place of your faithfulness to your

promises and I pray that you would perform what Deuteronomy 30, verse 6, calls the circumcision of the heart that we might love you with all our heart and soul that we might live.

Lord, nobody loves you without a great heart work done by the Holy Spirit in response to the New Covenant faithfulness of God.

So Lord, would you create love for yourself as you are displayed now, as you have been and will now be again in this message.

Awaken the dead.

Give sight. the dead, give sight to the blind, give ears to the deaf, give release to the captives who have been taken captive to do the will of the devil.

May this be an hour of liberation and salvation and anchoring for all the Saints.

And I ask this in Jesus mighty name. Amen.

Well, here we come to what is probably the most sweeping and perhaps most loved promise in the Bible and God

willing will be here for three weeks in verse 28.

Because as much as I had hoped to make progress,

...