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*GOD’S PRECIOUS PROMISES Series*
* *TEXT:  Romans 8:28
TOPIC:  A Promise for Understanding
Pastor Bobby Earls, First Baptist Church, Center Point, Alabama
June 7, 2009
 
            We return this week to a new series of messages I began last Sunday on “God’s Precious Promises.”
God has given to us in His holy word such sweet and precious promises.
So much of His written word to us contains rich and powerful promises that strengthen our faith and lift our spirits when we read them and know them and more importantly, apply them to our lives.
This morning I want us to look at a single verse of Scripture I consider to be one of the top five verses in all the bible.
Romans 8:28 is for us this morning, “A Promise of Understanding.”
Let’s read it together.
/And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose./
Do you understand why God has allowed the things to happen in your life that have happened?
Do you ever wonder aloud, “God why are you putting me through this?”
Well, Romans 8:28 is God’s answer to you.
It is a promise for understanding.
R. A. Torrey called Romans 8:28 “a soft pillow for a tired heart.”
Many of us have pillowed our hearts in this verse.
Let’s look closely at what it says this morning.
Listen to the promise for understanding one more time as I read it.
/We know… that all things….
work together….
for good….. to those who love God, to those who are the called….. according to….. His purpose./
It may not always seem so!
Sometimes when we are suffering heartbreak, tragedy, disappointment, frustration, and bereavement, we wonder what good can come out of it.
But Romans 8:28 gives the answer: whatever God permits to come into our lives is designed to conform us to the image of His Son.
When we see this, it takes the question mark out of our prayers.
Our lives are not controlled by impersonal forces such as chance, luck, or fate, but by our wonderful, personal Lord, who is “too loving to be unkind and too wise to err.” [1]
           
            Let’s hear the word of God and other promises regarding the /all things /that happen in our lives.
Ephesians 5:20, (KJV) /Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; /
 
 
/In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
/
 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV)
 
/Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice./
Philippians 4:4 (KJV)
 
All of these beautiful promises were given to the Apostle Paul for our benefit.
Paul knew that everything in life that happens to you is either permitted or planned.
Let’s begin by considering this promise for understanding in our relationship to God, or with God.
I.
*OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD, Romans 8:28*
/And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose./
A.
*It is a Positive Relationship*, /“we know”/ 
/ /
“Know” is /oida/ (/oida/), speaking of absolute, positive, beyond a peradventure of a doubt, knowledge.
(Wuest Word Studies)  But it is to know intuitively or instinctively more than experientially.
In the N.T., it is used this way some 245 times out of its 318 uses.
But notice the difference in verse 26,
/Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses.
For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
/Romans 8:26 (NKJV)/./
Romans 8:26 illustrates our insufficiency while Romans 8:28 illustrates the all sufficiency of God.
B.
*It is a Personal Relationship,* /“to those who love God”/
This is a promise to all who love God.  Williams Translation:  /“to those who keep on loving God.”  /By the way, the Greek word translated /love /is / agapao /which means to love God deeply and intimately, personally.
/ /
1 Corinthians 2:9 (NKJV) \\ 9 But as it is written: /“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”/
/ /
James 1:12 (NKJV) \\ /12 //Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him./
 
            Do you love God like that, intimately and personally?
If so, then the promise of Romans 8:28 is for you.
T~/S Our relationship with God is positive, personal, and it is also a privileged relationship.
C.
*It is a Privileged Relationship, */“to those who are the called”/
Called to a relationship with God:  God finds me,  saves me, changes me, keeps me.
T~/S – Romans 8:28 is a promise of understanding concerning our relationship with God; it is positive, personal, and a privileged relationship.
But it is also a promise of understanding regarding our realization of God.
II.
*OUR REALIZATION OF GOD, Romans 8:28*
/And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose./
A.
*His Providence,* / “//that all things work together, or God causes all things..”/
           
We need to understand that our God is not an apathetic God, but an active God.
He is a productive God not a pathetic God.
God is by His very Sovereign nature, providentially in control.
It’s time for another word study and it’s a word I love.
It’s the word /synergeo/.
*/synergeō/** **/sunergéō/*; (4904), We get our word synergy from it and also energy.
It means a fellow worker when used as a noun.
As a verb, it means to work together with someone, cooperate, be a co–worker, fellow laborer (Paul uses this word again in 2 Cor.
6:1, /We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain./)
It means to help, aid.
(Mark 16:20, /And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs/.).
So in all things God works together for our good or God causes all things to work together for our good.
He is energetically involved in the all things of our lives.
There are no accidents that occur in the lives of God’s children.
Remember Joseph of the O.T., through all the trial and hardship, all the misjustices of his life, yet he was able to say in Genesis 50 “/… you meant it for evil against me; but God meant it unto good …” /(Gen.
50:20).
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John McArthur says, “In His providence, God orchestrates every event in life—even suffering, temptation, and sin—to accomplish both our temporal and eternal benefit.”
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Deuteronomy 8:15-16 (NKJV) Moses speaking to the children of Israel explaining how God worked on their behalf during the forty years of wilderness wondering.
\\ /15 //who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; 16 //who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end—/
 
B.
*His Perspective*,  /“//that all things work together for good, or God causes all things to work together for good”/
 
Illustration of baking a cake.
Red Velvet cake, (Ingredients include flour, salt, eggs, butter, hersey’s chocolate powder, water, milk, mixed together, pour in a cake pan, heated at 350 degrees for one hour) 
 
C.
*His Purpose*,  /“the called according to His purpose”/
            /“called”/ means we have accepted the call.
“The called” are those who not only have received an invitation, they have accepted it.[4]
/“purpose”/ *4286.
**/próthesis/*; to purpose or plan, a setting forth, presentation, an exposition, determination, plan, or will.
It involves purpose, resolve, and design.
A placing in view or openly displaying something.
A thought or purpose (Acts 11:23; 27:13).
When used of the purpose of God, it exclusively refers to salvation (2 Tim.
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