All Things for Good, Part 3

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Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, Desiring God, John Piper, Preaching, Christianity, Messages, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 June 2002

⏱️ 43 minutes

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God takes the initiative to cause a person to love him, and he takes the initiative to keep them to the end.

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0:00.0	I invite you to turn with me in your Bibles to the text for this morning's message,
0:04.8	Romans 8 versus 28 through 32.
0:09.8	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.
0:18.0	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.
0:27.0	And these whom he predestined, he also called.
0:30.0	And these whom he called, he also justified, and these whom he justified, he also glorified.
0:37.0	What then shall we say to these things?
0:40.0	If God is for us, who can be against us. He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him
0:46.0	over for us all. How will he not also with him freely give us all things. And now Father we look to you for your help again for the Ministry of the word, that it would be faithful to the scriptures, that it would
1:08.6	have an anointing by the Holy Spirit for the conversion of sinners and the strengthening of Saints and the healing of the sick,
1:19.0	the reconciling of the estranged, the encouraging of the
1:23.0	encouraging of the downcast,
1:26.0	the comfort of the lonely,
1:30.0	the emboldening of the timid and the empowering and mobilizing of your people for witness and for justice.
1:43.0	So Father, our hopes and our dreams for worship and the word are big and beyond human ability. Would you come now as you have come and speak and call in In Jesus' name, Amen.
2:08.0	The promise that God works all things together for good in verse 28
2:12.0	of what David just read to us is so sweeping and so
2:17.3	unbelievable and so weighty that the Apostle Paul feels the necessity, rightly so, to put under it a massive, solid, firm, unshakable foundation to help us believe it and to bring it to pass.
2:45.0	In fact, all the rest of chapter 8,
2:51.0	from verse 28 on, all the rest of chapter 8. From verse 28 on, all the rest of chapter 8 is Paul's attempt to do that,
2:59.4	to build a foundation for verse 28. To build a foundation under the confidence of his people in this
3:07.6	room that all things will work together for your good.
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