Romans 8, Romans 8 and you're probably thinking we've been in Romans 8 for a long time it seems like and it seems like that because we have been and we're going to be.

It's just one of the greatest hallmarks of not only biblical theology but it is certainly the high watermark of New Testament theology.

The book of Romans, there's more passages in this one chapter or verses in this one chapter as we get deeper into it that you will recognize.

I'm not joking when I tell you.

You'll recognize them because you maybe saw them first at a hallmark store on cards or maybe you saw them in Hobby Lobby on framed quotations of Scripture or T-shirts.

Very powerful portion of Scripture, Romans chapter 8 and we're reading together in our responsive reading verses 18 to 23.

Even though the study itself goes from 18 to verse 30 we're looking at this specific section of 18 to 23.

I'll begin in verse 18 if you'll read along on the screens starting in verse 19.

Paul says to the church at Rome, for I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy, love that, to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For the creation, that's all of it by the way, not just earth, all of the created physical universe was subject to futility.

Not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.

For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pains together until now.

And Father, we pray for the movement of your Holy Spirit.

We've gathered in your name to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ through the Word of God and so Father, we expect you to transform our lives.

This is not an issue of chance, it's not we hope so, this is a matter of fact.

You said it, wherever your word is opened up, they're the spirit of God will be.

So we have our Bibles open, we pray that our hearts will be open and God that we would receive from you now that we might walk the walk in these days.

We pray in Jesus name and all God's people said, amen church, you may be seated.

Romans, chapter 8, we're in the third installment of a title that we have put forth and that is, what are you waiting for?

I think if God were to speak to us today, he might say to us in this 21st century, this year, this month, right now, Jack, what are you waiting for, or Mike, or Karen, or Susie, or Bill, what are you waiting for?

Because God has given us His truth and we are armed with the truth of God, it's amazing to me.

I know that there are Bibles, you can go to bookstores and you can buy different Bibles, there's the military Bible, there's the law enforcement Bible, the firefighters Bible, there's the women's Bible, there's the teen Bible, you get my drift, there's the all kinds of the Bibles.

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