All that you've done, all that you're doing,

we pray, God, that you would just release

eternity in each of us.

Lord, not just that we would go to heaven, but that we would begin to live,

that we begin to live with a new perspective. Amen.

Turn to Romans 8, and we're going to kind of take off

a little bit where we left off.

Romans 8, verse 28.

How many of you know this verse already?

All things, come on.

We know that God causes all things to work together for good

for those who love God or call the according to His purposes.

How many of you have ever clothed that verse when you're in trouble?

I have. Something's going wrong. You go, what?

You know what? This is going to work out because all things work together for good

for those who love God or call the according to His purposes,

and that would be me.

Have you ever wondered why all things work together for good?

Have you ever read the next verse?

The next verse says, for whom listen, all things work together for those who love God

and are called according to His purposes.

For whom He forenew He predestined, and whom He predestined He called,

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