I would like to call your attention once more to the words found in the eighth chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, reading verses 28, 29 and 30.

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. For whom he did for know, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the

image of his son, that he might be the first born among many brethren.

Moreover, whom he did predestimate, them he also called,

and whom he called them he also justified.

And whom he justified, then he also glorified.

We come back again to this tremendous statement, undoubtedly one of the most pregnant statements

in the whole of the scripture.

I don't think there is any statement in the whole of Scripture that contains so many striking,

vital, all-important pronouncements and aspects of doctrine as these three verses.

And we are looking at them together, as most of you recall.

Now, we are reminding ourselves that the apostle here is continuing the great theme of the chapter,

namely assurance of salvation, giving us an absolute guarantee of the final completion in glory

of our total redemption from everything that sin and evil have done to us.

And therefore, we are taking it in the way the apostle puts it, starting with the experimental

and going on to the doctrinal. We've been considering what he means

by the statement that all things work together for good, especially if we emphasized that he is

careful to say that this doesn't happen to everybody, but only to Christians, to those who

correspond to the description given here of the Christian believer.

We've also been looking together at the way in which all things do in practice actually

work to this end and how it is God who works them to that end. They don't happen automatically. It is God who works

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