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You. Without question.

That is the gospel and without question.

That is good news.

And that's what we're studying
as we go through the book of Romans.

Romans is a is a profound

explanation

of what is the reality
for those who are in Christ,

who we were and who we are.

I don't know how one would say that.

One chapter of the Bible
is better than another.

They're all inspired,
but it feels like Romans is better than

Romans, eight
is better than all the others.

The Word of God

is the diamond to us from God.

Romans
eight is the sparkle of that diamond.

I forgot who was, but someone said

that if you should ever drop your Bible,

it should naturally open to Romans eight
because you've studied it so much.

Romans eight is a it's a profound chapter.

We're going to take two weeks
to go through it.

The first 20 verses today
and the 29 through 39

next week.

Romans eight

has the answer to every,

evil that we go
experience past, present, and future.

Here's what I mean.

When you're haunted by your past,
Romans eight,

there's no condemnation about your past.

When you're frustrated by your present.

Romans 828.

We know that God works things together
for good.

When you're anxious about your future.

Romans eight 3039.

Nothing can separate you
from the love of God.

So whether there's this haunting thing.

Yeah, but my past is

as far as
Christ is good. God is concerned.

There's no condemnation about that.

When you just frustrate
the way things are right now,

you can know that even in the frustration,
God's working it together.

Don't worry

when you're anxious about the future. Hey,

remember that God loves you
and you can never be separated

from that love and nothing to worry about.

Do you understand? Yes.

So it's going to be fun
to unpack these things together.

There's a lot to get through

and so that we can get through it.

Verse one.

There is therefore now

no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus.

When Paul says, there's therefore
now the therefore is for a reason.

It's therefore the reason of chapter
seven.

Chapter seven is this long

treatise about what a failure he is.

As a religious person, you just can't keep
all of the religious law.

He's a he's enslaved to his own sin
nature.

You just can't be right all the time.

And at the end of it, he says,
how do I get free from this?

He says, thanks be to God through
Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore, because of what Jesus has done,

there is no condemnation
for those who are in Jesus.

That's what he's saying.

When Paul uses the words,
there's no condemnation.

Think of it like this.

There's not even one ounce
of condemnation against you.

If you're in Christ,
there's not even one ounce

of condemnation that the father that God
the Father holds against you.

There's not even a glimmer of a shadow.

There is no condemnation.

There's not even a hint
of any condemnation against you

if you're in Christ Jesus.

Complete freedom

from the sin of our past,
already freed from the sin of our future.

There's no condemnation.

Please don't ever erroneously think

because this line of thinking
is directly from the devil.

It's a lie from the devil.

When we start thinking,

okay, now I know why I lost my job.

I know why I'm sick.

Because God's punishing me

for what I've done.

That is the life of the devil. Why?

Because there's no condemnation.

God does not condemn you over what you've

done, and is not condemning you
over what you will do,

because he took the condemnation
that we do deserve and put it on his son,

so that now when we're in His Son,
he, Jesus, already absolved

the condemnation, though, so that for us
there is now therefore no condemnation.

God doesn't hold grudges.

God doesn't get payback.

Don't ever fall

prey to the devil that makes you think,
well, yeah, it's because I screwed up.

So God's punishing me
now. That's not how God works.

There may be

legitimate natural consequences
to our actions.

And sometimes God lets us feel
the full weight of those.

Sometimes he's merciful, and we don't.

When those times come, here's what we do.

We repent.

God, I agree with you.

And then we say, father,
give me all that your grace allows.

And let God temper back then
natural consequence.

Does that make sense? You follow me.

But as far as God getting upset
and leveling something against you,

he doesn't work that way.
There's no condemnation.

You follow me? Yes.

I hope you're understanding
the liberation of this.

No longer does anybody who is in Christ

walk around with oh my gosh, God is still

I gotta I got a lot to make up for it.

Like when

when am I going to be able to appease him?

Those are lies from the devil.

And as long as the devil can convince you
that that's who God is

and that's his character,

you will live under the shout
of condemnation that is not yours to own.

That's
already been leveled against Christ.

And he has set you.

He set me completely free of it.

No, not even a shadow.

Not an ounce.

Don't own
something that belongs to another.

Your condemnation belongs to Jesus.

That's pretty good news, Billy, right?

Yeah.

I don't watch this.

Verses two three, four

for, I'm going to

Paul is going to write a like he's
he's he's very verbose.

There's a lot of words he uses
and he writes like a lawyer.

I'm going to read it all
and you might get lost in the words.

We're going to come back
and talk through it all.

For the love. The spirit of life has set

you free in Christ
Jesus from the law of sin and death.

For God has done what the law, weakened by
the flesh,

could not do by sending his own son
in the likeness of sinful flesh

and for sin he condemns sin in the flesh
in order

that the righteous requirement of the law
might be fulfilled

in us who walk not according to the flesh,
but according to the spirit.

You got it?

Let me, let me, let me slow down
and explain some stuff.

Paul uses this word law,
but he use it in two different ways.

And it's very important to understand
the ways he uses this word law.

One of the ways Paul uses

the word law is the driving force
and the impulse.

It just is what it is.

We don't establish it.

We haven't declared it.

It just is like the law of gravity.

There's no act of Congress
or Municipality.

That said, from this day
forward, gravity exists, right?

It did.

The second way
the law is used as as a legal rule

and a boundary like the speed limit.

Municipalities decide
what the speed limit is.

So if that's not a natural,
that's just what the city has said.

And so if you bypass that, you've broken
the law.

You follow.

Okay.

So in it, when Paul says in and verse two,

for the law of the spirit of life has set
you free.

In Jesus, in Christ
Jesus from the law of sin and death.

He's using the first idea,
the driving force, the impulse

for the driving force of the spirit
that is now in you because you're in

Christ, has set you free
because you used to live

according to the driving force
than the impulse of sin.

You understand?

So the driving for the law
that was at work in you

before you came to
Jesus was the driving force of sin.

But now that you're in Christ,
there's a new driving force there, new law

inside you, a driving force, an impulse.

Okay.

And the

reason Jesus had to do that
is this verse three, For God has done

what the law,
the legal rules and boundaries

were not able to do by sending his son.

So when, when God's when the father sent
the son and the son died on the cross,

he fulfilled all the legal rules and
boundaries of the written religious law.

He fulfilled it all.

So now when we're in Jesus, he's fulfilled
all the legal rules and boundaries.

So now I'm free to put to death
the old driving force of sin,

and live in new life of the new driving
force of the spirit.

You follow?

Am I clear?

I gotta be clear on this.

Anybody any questions?

All right.

So now we follow this new
law according to the spirit.

When we went through

chapter seven last week, I don't know
if any of you picked up on it.

There are 47 personal pronouns
that Paul uses in chapter 747.

I, me, my.

And it's all about his failure.

It's all about his sin.

He cannot make his life right,
for it's all self-focused

because he's talking about how wretched he
how many we get that we get.

If you and I can't live up to our own
standard,

how do we think
we're gonna live up to the God standard?

And so, Paul, 47 personal pronouns

in chapters one through seven of Romans.

The Spirit of God.

The spirit is only used two times
in this chapter alone.

Chapter eight. It use 19 times.

Here's why.

Because Paul is drawing a line in the sand
between the self and the Spirit of God.

He's making the

distinction in this
in your self, in your flesh.

You have no power

with the Spirit of God.

You have both power and capacity.

I have a new power in me.

I don't have to live that way
and not have a new capacity.

I'm able to, not because of who I am,
because who I'm in.

You follow.

Sometimes I feel like

I get a lot more excited than you do.

For the mind set on the flesh.

This is what this is.

Verse seven.

Let me go back to five.

Let me go to verse five.

For those who live

according to the flesh, set
their minds on the things of the flesh.

But those who live according to the spirit
set their minds on things of the spirit.

For to set your mind on
the flesh is death,

but to set your mind on
the spirit is life, and peace.

For the mind that is set on the flesh

is hostile to God, for
it does not submit to God's law.

Indeed, it cannot submit to God's law.

Those
who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Let me show you what this is saying.

When Paul uses this word flesh,
the mind that set on the flesh,

what he's talking about is, is the mind
that still on just worldly stuff.

And Jesus
addressed this back in Matthew seven,

and in Matthew seven he says, the mind
that is set on the flesh,

the worldly stuff, is worried
about what you're going to wear.

You're worried
about what you're going to eat.

You're worried
about what you're going to drive.

You're worried about your retirement,
right?

It's all the things that we get
wrapped up in in this world.

And he said, the mind
that set on the flesh is

it's just
it's just preoccupied with all this stuff.

And he said that

mind is hostile to God,
not contrary to God.

Actual hostility towards him, towards God,

because a mind that is set in the flesh,
the things of this world

is so worried
about the things that this rule

that they cannot live by faith.

And the Bible says
the only way to please God.

Hebrews 11 six is by faith.

It's the mind that says.

But what about my pursuit of all the

all the important things in life?

And when that is our mindset,

when that's our drive,

it's an indication
we are living according to the flesh.

And we cannot please God that a life
that's driven by the pursuit

of the things that is hostile to God,

not just contrary. And

and so the

it's a mind that set by
what can I acquire,

what can I enjoy.

What can be my acquisition?

What.

Here's how you know where your mind is.

Just as a real simple question.

Ask yourself what dominates dominates

my mind and heart.

What dominates it?

The things of this world.

Eat. Sleep. Drink.

Live. Drive.

Retire. Future.

When? That's it.

We cease living by faith.

And the faith is the only way
to please God.

A life
that's focused on that cannot please God.

You understand?

And it's just.

That's how we used to live.

And like this law in us
that drove us to all this earthly stuff.

But now

in Christ, there's a new law in us.

I don't have to live obsessed
and consumed with the acquisition.

Of things.

Worry.

The verses nine and 11.

You, however,

are not in the flesh but in the spirit.

If in fact the Spirit of God
dwells in you.

Anyone who does not have the Spirit of
Christ does not belong to him.

Verse ten.

But if Christ is in you,
although the body is dead

because of sin,
the spirit of the spirit is life.

Because of righteousness.

If the Spirit of him who raised
Jesus from the dead dwells in you,

he raised Jesus Christ
Jesus from the dead will also

give life to your mortal bodies
through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Here's what he's saying.

When someone accepts Jesus
as the leader of their life, immediately

the Bible teaches that the father implants
his spirit in them.

A new law.

When that spirit is inside of us,

we're no longer slaves to the old law.

And because we're not slaves
to the old law.

We have a new impulse,
as you actually have the desire

to walk rightly before God.

Not because you have to,
not because you're religious,

but because there's a new driving law
in your inside.

Right? Do you understand?

Some of you feel this,

that there's a new impulse in you.

You're not under compulsion
because there's no condemnation,

but there's a desire.

There's a true want to.

That's the Holy Spirit in you.

The purpose of the Holy Spirit in us
is to make us holy.

That's the purpose of the spirit.

Now, we think that if we allow God to
our lives, we will be happy.

The purpose of the

Holy Spirit in us is not to make us happy,
but to make us holy.

Here's the good thing.

The quickest way to happiness is holiness.

Some of the most miserable
people on the planet

are Christians who are not walking in line
with the spirit.

They're miserable.

And if that's one of you,

I have a lot of churches
I could recommend for you

rather than their.

I, like God, said I'm a put
my spirit in you because make you holy.

Because the quickest way to
your happiness is holiness.

And this is the new life
that he's given us.

And so we don't have to obey

the impulses of the old life anymore.

Now look at verses 12 and 13.

Oh, let me say this.
Let me say this is important.

Verse

one says, there's no condemnation, right?

This passage talks about the Holy Spirit's
invigoration.

So gives us no condemnation.

Plus the Holy Spirit invigoration
equals life transformation.

That's how this works.

Some of us have tried
to transform our lives by good behavior

and new habits and self-discipline,
and all of that falls

far short, right?

And what Scripture tells us is, listen,

in Christ there's no condemnation.

And when you take no condemnation
and have the Holy Spirit's invigoration,

that's what creates the life
transformation, not because you have to,

because you're under no obligation,
because there's no condemnation.

Now there's a new law inside.

So I want to do you understand?

And so then what we have to do.

Because now there's a new one too.

So then, brothers and sisters,
we are debtors, not to the flesh.

The old law to live
according to that old law of flesh.

For if you live
according to that flesh, you'll die.

Pause button.

When Adam was in the Garden of Eden

and God said, if you eat of this tree,
you will surely die.

He ate of the tree.

Did he die immediately?

No, because God wasn't
talking about immediate death.

He was talking about spiritual death.

And he says,
if you live according to that law of sin,

you are dead
spiritually and forever separated from me.

So but if by the spirit
you put to death the deeds of the body,

what you live.

You live.

So the old law
that was in us before we came to Jesus,

if you've come to Jesus, this old law was,
was, was, was raging inside.

Now you come to Jesus, the Holy Spirit.

There's a new law. Here's
what happens. The old law.

The old law screams
that you everyday feed me.

Pay attention to me.

Don't let me die.

Because the new law in us,
the Spirit of God in us,

is starting to starve out the old one.

And that old one doesn't
want to die too quick.

And so that old one screams,

don't ignore me.

Pay attention to me.

I still matter.

I still got you.

Feed me

right.

That's the war that goes on.

And we have to work

with the Holy Spirit's work.

To allow that newness
to start to really go.

So it's like when you're right
is if you ride a bicycle uphill.

That wasn't electric.

You ride a bicycle uphill
and you're working hard.

It's really easy.

And the moment you stop pedaling,
what happens is,

yeah, you slow down
and you fall over or go backwards.

So the Holy Spirit is working in us

to ride
that bike uphill to learn a new life.

So we work with the mechanism of it.

The moment we stop working in conjunction
with the Holy Spirit.

The old analogy is you got two dogs,
you only feed one.

Which one is going to live?

The one you feed.

Other parts of Scripture says,
put to death the deeds of the body.

Starve it out, starve it,

though you've been made to act like it

and take this old life
and starve that to death.

And as you do, it will scream at you,
and it will yell at you,

and it will demand attention,
and it will demand to be fed.

And you just keep starving it out.

Not because it makes you a good Christian
because there's no condemnation anyway,

but because it allows the

new law, new spirit to thrive.

You understand?

This stuff is so good.

Verses 1417.

Look at this.

It's a long section. Let me read it.

We'll talk about it.

For all who are led by
the Spirit of God are sons and daughters.

Children of God.

Let me just.

I just had of the slide.

Though.

Every human is a creation of God.

Not everybody is a child of God.

Only those who have a relationship
with Jesus

by because of, through faith,

because of grace, is a child of God.

So everyone is a creation.

Children of God

are those every relationship
through Jesus.

So we clear

for all who are led by the Spirit of God,
our sons and daughters of God.

For you did not receive the spirit
of slavery to fall back into fear,

but you have received
the spirit of adoption

as sons and daughters, as children
by whom we cry, ABBA, father.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with
our spirit that we are children of God.

And if children, then heirs heirs of God
and fellow heirs with Christ provided

here it is we suffer with him in order
that we may also be glorified with him.

Let me unpack this.

When Paul talks about adoption,

adoption was not
it was not known in the Jewish world.

Jews had no concept of adoption.

Okay, once born in the family
or the family, there was no adoption.

The Jewish and the Roman world,
this was a huge thing.

Adoption was huge
and they understood what it meant.

Let me tell you what adoption
meant in Rome with Romans.

When they would adopt someone,
a benevolent person or family of means

would find somebody worthy of adoption.

Not just children, but grown adults.

And they would, offer
to adopt them into their family.

And when that transaction happened,
all of the debt, all of the shame,

all of the family
baggage was erased from every account.

And the one who was adopted in the family.

Now was credited with every right,

every financial blessing,
every authority, as if a blood child.

That's the power of adoption.

That everything that was is no more. Why?

Because we know. Verse one.
No condemnation.

And then the family I'm adopted into.

I now have all the rights,
all the privilege,

all the authority of that family.

And Paul will say,
if we are children of God,

adopted by him, we are heirs of God.

And what co-heirs with Christ

get this as adopted children.

We have every blessing

that Jesus has is ours.

The relationship.

Y'all believe you're getting it.

The relationship that the son has with
the father

is our relationship with the father.

Heirs of God.

Co-heirs with Christ.

Every spiritual blessing,

every ounce of beauty of relationship
and authority that Jesus has

with the father I have with the father,
and you have with the father in Christ.

Amazing.

So why do we walk around
like the dirty step kids?

I don't want to buy anybody.

I lost my place here.

I want to understand what this is.

We've been adopted.

And so now we cry out, ABBA, father!

The Jewish

mind held God in such high esteem
they wouldn't even say his name

like it was so holy
or didn't belong on dirty mouths.

Keep your name out of my mouth. No.

They would just write the name.

They wouldn't even say it.

So for the Jew, this is like.

What are you saying?

What Paul is saying here.

Now we call the father ABBA.

It means daddy.

It's a it's a very intimate term
of affection as a child.

As his beloved father. Daddy, Papa.

Now, because I've been adopted.

I'm not an outsider.

I am a co-chair with Christ himself.

So that now my relationship to the father

is as my papa.

Yeah, man.

I still remember when my boys were little,
and I would come through the door

and they would run on daddy.

That's who

the father is for those in Christ.

His daddy.

Man, I know that some of you

carry
around a pretty profound daddy wound.

And you know what it's like.

Unfortunately,

to have a father
who's disappointed in you.

And you know what
it's like to have a daddy who at one time

had high hopes for you.

But you feel like all you've done.

Is confirmed.

Every negative thing he thought and said.

And I'm sorry.

That is not the father.

It is a father who loves you so much.

He placed all of your condemnation

on his beloved son.

Who adopts you now

into his family
and says all that stuff is gone.

You have all the rights,

all the relationship, all my love.

How proud I am of you
that I had for my son.

I have for you.

So yeah, I am your papa.

I'm such a good papa.

Isn't that good news?

Oh, I forgot this part.

All this is ours, providing
we suffer with him.

I got it.

What?

Like, go back to the no condemnation
and go back to the papa on the daddy.

And that gets all the adoption.
I like that.

Suffer with you? Yeah.

You know why?
Because suffering is part of belonging.

And the Bible

says if Jesus suffered, we shouldn't think
we're going to get out of it.

First Peter two. First Peter four.

So same thing.

Let's go on.

Verse 18.

For I consider that
the sufferings of this present time

are not worth comparing with the glory
that is to be revealed in us.

He says, look, here's the deal.

Our suffering is on one side,
and this scale

and all this glory
that's waiting for us is on this side.

And he says,
the suffering is not the need.

Done. Compare.

Paul said the same thing
in Second Corinthians.

This light and momentary suffering pales
in comparison to the weight of glory

that's ours.
There's going to be those times.

But in comparison to eternity,

light and momentary,

we're going to talk about that
in a minute.

I want to come back to it,
but I just need you to say that.

Look at verses 19 through 22.

Let me just read this

verse.

For the creation waits with eager
longing for the revealing

of the sons of God, for the creation
was subjected to futility.

Not willingly, but because of him
who suggested it in hope

that the creation itself will be set
free from its bondage to corruption,

and obtain a freedom of the glory
of the children of God.

I'm going to explain this
just saying with me.

For we know that the whole creation
has been groaning together

with the pains of childbirth
until now. Here's what he's saying.

There's a progression in place here
and the progression.

Verse 18, verse 20, in verse 21 says
suffering, futility, corruption.

There's a downward slide
of this whole thing.

Now when God created everything, he
pronounced it good, which meant beautiful.

It was perfect.

But then sin entered the world.

And ever since sin enter the world, it's
been this slide of suffering,

futility and corruption.

So much so that creation is groaning out
because of this right now.

Like the creation was like,
oh, and here it's the law.

The second law of thermodynamics
is at play.

Does it at smart people?

Nobody smart.

I love my church.

But the second law of thermodynamics.

Anybody know what is it?

Okay, well, I love my church.

I'll tell you.

It's the law of chaos
or the law of entropy.

What's the second law of thermodynamics
says it's left unto itself.

If things deteriorate,
they don't get better.

That's why evolution has such a hard time
with science.

Left unto itself, things deteriorate.

They don't get better.

It's the second law of thermodynamics,
and it is the law.

And what the Scripture is saying
is because sin entered the world,

we experienced this not just creation,

but you and I.

If you're old enough,

you know
you're experiencing the law of entropy

and the law of deterioration,

right?

He said. Sin enter the world.

This is a result.

And what we see is this groaning
and it's going from

it's going from suffering
to telling you to create to corruption.

Verse 23,

and not only the creation,
but we ourselves,

who have the first fruits of the spirit,
groan inwardly as we wait

eagerly for the adoption of sons
or the redemption of our bodies.

Like we experience this
and we're groaning for this.

Like God,
you got to do something at some point.

You got to make stuff better
because this is just this is horrible.

As Paul writes, there's three groanings

he mentions and he mentions the third
groaning here, watch this verse 26.

Likewise,
the spirit helps us in our weaknesses,

for we don't know how to pray
for what we ought,

but the Spirit himself intercedes
for us with groanings too deep for words.

So there's three groanings that are taking
place the creation's groaning.

We're groaning,
and the Holy Spirit's groaning.

The creation is groaning
because it's going through entropy,

and it's waiting for this new childbirth
of a new creation.

We groan because we're experiencing
the same entropy, and because of sin,

we're just deteriorating
and we're groaning for this new life

in heaven, this this new reality.

But the Holy Spirit groans.

Let me tell you how the Holy Spirit
groans.

There's two ways. One

new leader live off with verse 27,

and he who searches hearts knows
what is the mind of the spirit,

because the spirit intercedes
for the saints

according to the will of God, the Holy
One of the ways the Holy Spirit grows.

And this is happening right now,
the one of the ways the Holy Spirit grows

is he enters the Holy Spirit, intercedes

in our prayers,
and translates our prayers to the father.

Because sometimes, you know,
I don't know what we should pray,

and sometimes we pray things
that are not the father's will.

And so the Holy Spirit sits there
in intercession and says, no, no, no.

We we all know Carl
didn't always talk about

let me interpret his prayers.

The God did this for Paul in the Bible.

The Bible says that Paul
had this thorn in his flesh.

He prayed three seasons of his life
that God would take it away.

And he finally says, God
never took it away, but he gave me grace.

Here's what was happening as he's

praying in the sea these drought seasons
that God would take this thorn away.

The Holy Spirit's going, he is you

know, God.

Father. We know that's not
that's not what you want for Paul.

That's what he thinks.
That's what you want.

He thinks that you want to heal him.

But we both know that's not what's.

So let me tell you what. He's really
praying. He's really praying for Grace.

He doesn't know.
He doesn't know he's praying for grace.

So, father, let me interpret this prayer.

Give him grace.

And I was like, yeah,
that's what I want to do all the time.

If we would just agree with me
and the Holy Spirit, intercede and groan.

So our prayers are in line
with the father's wills that make sense.

That's why sometimes when you are praying,
nothing happens

because the Holy Spirit's
interceding for us

and turning our words into the father's
will and groaning on our behalf.

Now verse

28 is going to be the kicker
that's going to make that okay

the other way. The Holy Spirit groans.

And I'm not going to get into this
right now.

I just need to address it is through
what the Bible calls the gift of tongues.

And the gift of tongues.

Primarily in the Bible

is the ability, the supernatural be
that God gives someone who doesn't know

a known language to speak that language
for the proclamation of the gospel.

That's primarily how it's used.

There are a few other instances
where there is a supernatural gift

given to a person that utters a language
that's known to God, and no human,

so that they can communicate to God
in a very direct way

without the interpretation
necessarily, of our normal prayer life.

The interesting thing about that
is when someone genuinely, you know

and don't think what you see on television

is the way it goes,
because that's ridiculous. But,

generally when someone expresses that,

they don't even know what they're saying,
it's just this language to God.

And, and it's it's not very often.

And it is.

Please understand the that gift of tongues

is not by any stretch,
any sign of any special anything.

Paul said, I wish that's the least gift
you would want.

I wish you would really have
the gift of prophecy,

which is to interpret
God's Word and tell the truth of it. So.

But that is so all of that,
okay, all of that

gets us to the crux
of of this section in verse 28.

And we know

we don't hope, we don't think

we know that for those who love God,
all things work

together for good, for those
who are called according to his purpose.

This is the first
you need to have underlined.

You need to have memorized.

You need to have highlighted.

This is a verse you got to come back to.

There are someone who said that this verse

is the soft pillow for a tired heart.

There are some things we will never know

and we got to be okay
without knowing them.

When we get to heaven,
you and I will not know all things.

There's only one who knows all things,
and that is God.

There are some things we don't know
and we will never know

when we got to be okay with that.

There are some things we should know
as Christians.

We should know Ephesians for spiritual
warfare first Corinthians 12.

Spiritual gifts.
There are some things we should know,

and though there are some things
we don't know

and we'll never know,
there are some things we should know.

There are some things we do know.

And one of the things we do know
is Romans 828.

We know that God works all things together
for the good of those

who love him,
and are called according to his purpose.

When the Bible says, when Paul users work
together, this is the you.

We have to understand this.

All things work together.

That word work
together is a Greek word called synergy.

Oh, synergy.

And it means literally to combine
according to the activity of two or more

agents to produce a joint effect greater
than the sum of their separate effects.

Okay, in simple terms,

it means the sum of a whole bunch of stuff

is greater than the

pain of the individual parts.

God works all of the pain points

of the individual parts
together and synergize.

Is it for something good

that's working together?

That's synergy.

You and I live in the world

of our reality,
of the individual pain points,

and all we see
is the individual pain point.

And because we live in this world
of individual pain points,

when we experience those pain points,
we cry out, God, why,

oh God, how could you let God?

Why are you allowing God step in?

God, do something. God, this isn't right.

This isn't good at all

because all we're doing is resisting
in the individual pain points.

But what the truth of the Bible says
is God works all those individual pain

points and sinner Jesus, all of them.
He doesn't.

He doesn't erase them.

He doesn't remove them.

He works within all those of individual
pain points and synergize

all of it together for good.

Do you understand?

When we cry out, God, change the pain,
pain point,

change the pain point,
change the pain point.

God says, no, that's not what I have ever
said.

I will do what I will do.

When you go through loss,

when you're in, feel like
you're not wanted, when you experience

pain, when you're sick,
when you're all these things.

I am energizing it all.

You're not going
through it because I'm condemning you.

Because there's

no condemnation

and because I love you so much.

You are my son and my daughter,

and you have all the rights
of relations with you that Jesus has.

And I synergize
everything in Jesus's life.

Then Jesus go through pain.

You think the garden,
the crucifixion wasn't pain.

And he said, father, take it from me.

And the foe said, no,
I am using it for good.

And so because he suffered so well, we.

Are you understanding?

Romans 828.

Can I trust God's synergy?

That's the question.

And when you know that fact.

I'm not frustrated in my present.

Because God,

in this present moment
right now is synergize ING it

for those who love him.

If you don't

love Christ and are the fathers
through the son,

your pain point will be all you know

and it will get too much for you.

For me, I know.

Now let me say this.

Synergize
with all things together for good.

Here's the thing.

God is the one who defines what is good,

not you. And I.

Because our default
of the definition of good

is ease, comfort, pleasure.

Right.

And so God says, no,
I'm standardizing it for good.

But I'm going to be the definer of good,
not you.

And that's why the Bible says, Jesus,
for the joy

set before him endured the cross,
because that cross was not good pleasure.

More fun.

God defined it as good.

And that gave

Christ joy to go through that pain point

because he knew
father was synergize ING it for good.

That's the promise of God

for those who are in Christ.

When we go through those pain

points, we want a miracle.

A miracle is when God intervenes

in the normal stream of human history
and changes he.

He changes the natural laws.

He steps in and changes the natural laws.

That's not oftentimes how God works.

It's a miracle.

The way God energizes things is through
his providence, not his miracle.

Providence says this Providence says
I will.

I won't circumvent natural law
and do a miracle.

I will work within natural laws
to synergize all things together.

So when we go through those pain points,
we want them here.

God, God, step in right now.

God change
you right now. God move right now.

God act right now.

And God says, I'm not going
to, providentially all synergize

all things together.

Trust me in this I love you.

You're mine. I got you.

Let me work my providence.

Be patient and trust.

I am providentially

synergize all things.

And the question we have to ask

ourselves, is that enough?

Is it enough for you to trust him
that way?

There's a lot we could still talk through.

But I just want to leave you this.

If you are in Christ,
there's no condemnation.

You got nothing to make up for.

If you're in Christ,

you have been adopted as his child.

And all the rights

and blessings of Christ himself are yours.

As an co-heirs with Christ.

And right now he is synergism.

Even your pain points for good.

You can trust him

and I invite you to

when you get this it.

I don't know how to explain it.

It changes your entire perspective about
life, about your life and about the world.

There

is so
much stability and there's so much comfort

and there's so much ease
and there's so much liberation.

When you know this.

When you start to embody this truth,

it's just beautiful.

Some of you are or are way too

miserable
and too stressed and too worried.

Because you have not internalized
the truth of these passages,

it's yours for the taking.

Why don't you pray with me?

Father, I thank you

that you've loved us
with an everlasting love.

I thank you that you are for us
and not against us.

I think that we can stand
before you with no condemnation,

and that we don't have to make up
for anything of our past,

and that we don't have to ensure
anything of our future.

I think that you've chosen us

and adopted us as your children, your kid,

your son, your daughter.

That you are right
now, in this moment, synergize

all things, even the pain points for good.

Father, we want to believe
that we have to believe it.

And we want to trust you.

So would you.

Here in this moment,
these hearts that are turning

entrust to you.

Friends, I don't invite you in this moment

to step into this new life.

It begins with this

just saying to the Father God, I agree.

I have lived outside of the boundaries
of your law and I'm a sinner.

And I accept what Jesus did on the cross

for my forgiveness.

Thank you that I stand before you

with no condemnation, completely free.

Then tell him

thank you that you have adopted me
into your family,

and I receive all the spiritual blessings

that you would give me.

Not because I'm good,

but because I'm adopted.

And I will trust.

And I will rest the best I can

in the confidence and conviction
that you are.

Synergize

all things together for good.

And I allow you to define what is good.

Help me love you more

and trust you more fully.

Father, I thank you for this day.

I thank you for these moments.

I thank you for your word
that continues to speak to us.

I pray, father, that as we take steps

into living out and flesh out
this new life,

that you would constantly remind us
through the spirit within us,

that there is no condemnation, that we are
your kids, that your synergize.

All things are working things together.

We can trust you.

You are a good father
and you do that which is good.

Have us,

have us.

We give ourselves to you.

In your name I pray.

Amen.

Listen, I love you and I love
going through scripture with you.

It's so good. Yeah.

Is Romans eight not just wonderful?

It's incredible.

I know some of you do.

I want you all to love it.

Like this is just good stuff.

So here's this week.

Read Romans eight, the whole
the whole 39 verses.

Okay?

Let the Holy Spirit bring
to your remembrance what we talked about

and then read ahead for what
we're going to talk about next week.

It just gets better from here.

If you know it,
it just gets better from here.

And live that live.

As though there's no condemnation

and live as a full fledged

child of the father.

You understand I'm saying not a

all the rights, all the earth are all

of Christ himself.

It's amazing.

And then be convinced that this week
when stuff happens,

your mind is going to go immediately
to war.

I can't wait to see
how you're going to synergize this one.

But I know you are.

You understand that he is.

We're celebrating
and he is worthy to to trust him.

All right, let's let's sing.