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(read 8:28-30)
Last week we began to open up this glorious passage from scripture.
And we focused in on v28.
28 "We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.”
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This is a statement that we are to “know”.
We are to comprehend the sovereign control of God over our lives.
The fact that God is in the midst of our trial and sufferings.
He’s not just in the midst, but He’s working for our eternal good.
Which was the character of God’s sovereign control.
He’s working for our good.
And that knowing this and seeing the good hand of God in the midst of sufferings,
could actually allow you to pray and sing after being beaten and thrown into prison (as our brothers: Paul and Silas).
It’s the second half of v28 that I want to draw your attention to this morning.
They and they alone have the right to the promise in v28.
They are those “who love God, who are called according to His purpose.”
Today I want to show you from v28 the description of those who are partakers of the promise in this verse.
Let’s see first...
What is their CHARACTER?
“of those who love God”.
This is the mark of a true believer.
It’s only in the case of those who love God is it true that all things work together for good.
There’s many verses like this.
Let me give you one from each testament.
9 "Know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commands.”
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12 "Blessed is the one who endures trials, because when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.”
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This ties right into point two.
Who CALLED them?
“who are called according to His purpose.”
The people who were called according to God’s purpose are, therefore, those who were effectively called.
They are those whose hearts and minds were so thoroughly influenced by the Holy Spirit that
they became aware of their sinfulness,
began to understand their need of Christ, and
embraced him as their Lord and Savior.
The introduction of this letter, Paul addresses his readers with this: 7 "To all who are in Rome, loved by God, called as saints.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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Paul felt that it was necessary to add the words, “to those who are called according to his [God’s] purpose,” in order that
the Romans and all who would read this letter or hear it read to them
would realize that no one can ever truly love God unless first of all he is effectively called.
In other words, the apostle to the Gentiles is here expressing substantially the same thought
as did the apostle John when he wrote, “We love God because he first loved us” ().
What Paul is really saying then, here in , is this,
“We know that to those who love God and do so because of God’s work in them, as determined by his sovereign, elective purpose, all things work together for good.”
All things work together for good of those who love God.
What is it to love God?
To love something is to see that object as supremely good and evil as something to be separated from and despised.
And before Christ we saw other things as good and paid no real mind to God.
We worshiped and served ourselves all that time and saw other things as supremely good worthy of our affection.
But when Christ came and revealed to love of God to our hearts and our eyes were sovereignly opened, we beheld God as never before!
So why would a person love God?
Consider how excellent God is in Himself.
First of all..
[1.]God is essentially good.
This is should make God winsome to us.
The glorious perfection of His nature become the objects of our esteem, which is the ground of love.
We have affections for what we prize and value.
This is why we praise Him with songs.
Songs help to increase our affection for God as we praise Him for His excellencies.
If we don’t love God, our praise is empty.
Think of the angels in glory and blessed spirits that do admire and adore God for the excellencies of His nature,
not just for the benefits that they receive from Him but as He is
an infinite and eternal being, of glorious and incomprehensible majesty; they cry out: Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!
Now God must in some measure be served on earth as he is in heaven.
Surely we should not speak, or think, or worship the infinite eternal God, without some act of love, holy delight, and pleasure:
1 "Hallelujah!
How good it is to sing to our God, for praise is pleasant and lovely.”
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1 "Come, let us shout joyfully to the Lord, shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!”
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We sing and shout joyfully & triumphantly to the rock of our salvation and we’re filled with thanksgiving why?
Because God is great!
2 "Let us enter his presence with thanksgiving; let us shout triumphantly to him in song.
3 "For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.”
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11 "But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them shout for joy forever.
May you shelter them, and may those who love your name boast about you.” ()
So we find great delight in God’s essential perfections.
[2.]We also love God for His beneficial goodness as well.
5 "For the Lord is good, and his faithful love endures forever; his faithfulness, through all generations.”
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We should love God that His faithful love endures forever!
When the Lord draws us to Himself for salvation He does so by our own interests and the benefits we have or may have by Him.
5 "For you, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive, abounding in faithful love to all who call on you.”
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When under the load of guilt and shame because of your sin, you are desirous of God’s kindness and forgiveness.
This is what attracts the heart of guilty sinners to seek after God, but once we receive our new hearts, we just see God as altogether lovely in Himself.
SO we should love God because of the excellency of God’s nature shown in
His essential goodness and
His beneficial goodness.
SECOND God does good and has been good to us.
[1.] He’s been good to us, As in creation.
He made us out of nothing, after His own image.
May we remember Him as our Creator.
Hendriksen, W., & Kistemaker, S. J. (1953–2001).
Exposition of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (Vol.
12–13, p. 281).
Grand Rapids: Baker Book House.
1 "So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: Before the days of adversity come, and the years approach when you will say, “I have no delight in them”;” ()
All that we are and have, we have it from God and for God.
[2.] He’s been good to us also in Redemption.
Here’s where we have the greatest representation of the goodness of God.
Manton, T. (1873).
The Complete Works of Thomas Manton (Vol.
12, p. 278).
London: James Nisbet & Co.
10 "Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
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