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Beyond John 316, I suppose it is the verse that more people know in the life of faith than any other.

Perhaps the verse that we most love to meditate on particularly for someone else in their time of need and sometimes when we are that person in our time of need, it is the last verse we want to hear.

Always true, but the timing of being told the verse is not always appropriately applied with somebody agree. Maybe not at the funeral. Maybe sometimes God needs to bring a little healing and let that truth take root deep inside and begin to grow out of that life a little bit.

I'm so thankful for it. What a verse of hope. It is a verse of promise. Romans 8, 28 and we know. Somebody say we know. We know, say it again.

We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.

I have in your listening guide and I'm about to read it to you a rendering that the new international commentary of the New Testament, Douglas Moose, chosen translation.

What he believes is closest to the literal rendering. I have that before you will be very, very close to the King James Version. Sometimes that will be true.

There are times it will not. It's not just across the board that it would already always be dead on and this occasion pretty close and it says, and we know that all things work together for good, for those who love God, for those who are called according to His purpose.

Now listen to that carefully. Listen to the subject and listen then to the modifiers around it. And we know that all things work together.

If you have an NAS, a new American standard, wonderful translation, it's going to say we know that God causes all things to work together for good.

And the rest of the verse is very, very similar. All right. What is the discrepancy between the two? And it really is no problem because it's all going to come around to mean the same thing.

But I do want you to know when you look over at your neighbor's translation and you're looking back at yours, why does their translation say this and your translation say this?

Because in the original Greek language, it is not entirely clear which subject this verb and this description is going with whether it is God working all things together or all things work together.

You understand what I'm saying? Which one is the subject? The thing is it makes absolutely no difference because in its context, particularly in the verse that follows, there is absolutely no doubt that it is God who is causing it.

So therefore we're going to camp on this translation but without any thought whatsoever that it would be any work, anything that could work apart from God causing it to.

So you'll see then there's no discrepancy. It all goes right together and can be something that we can work from through either translation.

Now I want you to look at it as we begin to take it apart. I want to take it apart, phrase by phrase. It begins by saying we know that. We know that. I don't know about you but being an insecure sort that I am. I love absolutes.

But not everything's that clear. Some of us don't know whether we ought to stay on in the place of employment that we have or whether God is prompting us to move.

Do we have tribulation there just because God is causing us to be strengthened by it and our faith to be exercised or is he telling us we need to get out? You understand what I'm saying?

That relationship that we're in, that God, that girl, we don't know if this is the one or not. There's just so many grays. So many things should we move? Should we transfer? Should we not?

Should we invest our lives in this particular church or is God calling the someplace? So many things that aren't just necessarily black and white.

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