Flipside Christian Church

Are any of you tired of that video yet?

Can you start saying the words
ahead of time?

You know, kind of where
it's going to be with us for a while.

You spent a couple months
so far in the book of Romans,

and we're going to be, finishing,
finishing out Romans eight this morning.

And so if you have a Bible
and brought one with you on a smart device

or whatever turned there, Romans eight,
I'll give you a moment to get there.

And before we open that up,
let me just give you a little bit of,

family business
as far as the church is concerned.

Kaylee Dubay has been serving

this church on staff for over four years.

And, hey, there's gone by fast for years.

And just this school year,

she accepted a full time position
at Stone Creek Elementary.

So for the past seven months,
she's working full time there

and then still leading all things
children's ministry here.

To say that's a big task
is an understatement.

And she has been working very hard
for a very long time.

And I'm so proud of you. And I thank you.

You've done a great job.

You and Sean
have served together for a long time.

But what's happened?

Because as we grow,

we need to make a change.

And Kaylee and I have talked about this,
and she's good with it.

But we're making a change
as far as Kaylee's role here to.

She won't be on paid staff as she has
been.

Michael Rondon, who has been our youth
pastor, is moving into the position

of next gen ministry to oversee birth
through eighth grade

and to administrate
and coordinate the whole thing.

And Kaylee is stepping aside
as far as being a paid staff member.

Still loves
the church, loves us, loves your kids,

and still involved,
but in a way that allows her,

a little bit of breathing room in her.

I know you love her.

Say that again.

Jeff's in there. You. Absolutely.

So it's it's it's within.

And this needs to happen.

But also, it's
a little bit of a sad heart, too.

So after the service,
just make sure you give Kaylee a hug.

Tell her you love her.

Thank her for all of her ministry
and her years of service,

and we're going to celebrate her next week
a little bit as well.

But just want to let you know
that ministry is still in good hands.

Okay.

It's still in really good hands
and we're excited.

What God's doing?

But I didn't want this to happen
without your knowledge.

I want you to be able to love her
and celebrate her in that we're good.

Okay, Cathy. You good? Yeah.

All right.

Hey. Romans eight.

Before we were going to be in, verses
29 through 39 today, but.

But I need to go back to verse
28 to kind of set the stage for us.

We need to set the table before we eat.

So in setting the table, verse 28,
and we know that

for those who love God,
all things work together for good,

for those who are called
according to his purpose.

Here's what I know.

That's a promise
from God that he is synergize all things

for good for those who love him
and are called according to his purpose.

But here's the thing.

Our trust in that promise

will be based on our belief

of the character of God.

Our trust in that promise

is going to be the foundation of our trust

in that is going to be on what we believe
to be the character of God.

If we don't trust the character of God,
we will not trust the providence of God.

Do you understand?

Providence is God's way of working

within natural systems
to work out his good and perfect will.

Not. Miraculously,
that's when he overrides those systems,

but providentially working within them
to accomplish his good purpose and will

and our trust
that God is providentially working.

All things, synergize
all things providentially

for good is going to be based on
how much we trust his character.

If you don't trust his character,
you don't trust his providence.

That makes sense to you, doesn't it?

Anytime we start to doubt

the providence of God,

it's really a statement
that we're starting to doubt his character

because we don't trust him.

And and so so all of this, these promises

to synergize all things together for good.

Our trust resides in the trust
of his character, of his heart

and understanding what it is.

He is working all things together
for good for.

And that's what gets us to verse 29.

So because I trust his character,
I'm going to believe this verse,

that he's synergize all things together

for those whom he for new.

He also predestined to become,
to be conformed to the image of His son

in order that he might be the firstborn
amongst many brothers.

So we're going to get into this
in a minute.

We're going to deal with some some issues
here that some people bicker about a lot.

But before we get there,
I want you to understand

that verse 29 tells us that verse 28 says

he synergize all things together for good
and the good.

He synergize all things together for
is to conform us to the image of Jesus.

See, we often think that because God
has promised to work

all things together for good,
it means our ease and our comfort.

That's how we translate good.

Like God's going to synergize
this pain for my pleasure.

God is going to synergize
this difficulty for my comfort.

God is going to synergize
this turmoil for my ease.

And that's not what God means by good.

What God means by good
is to conform us to the image of His Son.

We have to understand that

because if we think that God's going to

synergize, work together, all things
together for my ease and comfort.

How many of us can give testimony
that you know what?

Sometimes my life doesn't
turn out that way, right?

But through all things,

we can reflect
the image of Christ to the world.

Does that make sense?

That's the good God is working us towards

and synergize us toward
so that we have to.

And so let's just let let's go back now
and put 29 and 30 together.

For those whom he foreknew,
he also predestined to be conformed

to the image of His son,

in order that he might be the firstborn
among many brothers.

And those whom he predestined
he also called, and those whom he called.

He also justified
in the same jealous fire also glorified.

There's a

there's a lot of people

that want to sit down
and talk about this whole idea

of predestination or free will, and that's
what they get out of these verses.

Well, let's debate
is it predestination or is it free will?

Does God predestined some to heaven
or predestined some to hell?

If so, it doesn't seem
like people have much choice.

And there's others are like,
you know, God just it's all free will.

You choose God?

And that's up to you. Listen,

let me explain to you

when Paul uses these words foreknowledge,

predestination, calling, justification.

Gloria Fication. Those are the biggies.

Yes, God for knows all things.

We call it omniscient, all knowing.

So God knows ahead of time

everybody who's going to respond to him.

You understand that?

Listen, here's the deal
we have to get this foreknowledge

does not necessarily imply content

or consent.

Foreknowledge is not imply consent.

You can know your kid's going to sneak out
and be an idiot,

but does that mean you consent to it?

No. Okay, so

so foreknowledge doesn't necessarily
imply consent.

God has, for all he knows, all things,

and what he knows is what he has called.

He has predestined everybody.

Second Peter three nine
the Lord is not willing or not

slow to fulfill his promise,
as some consider slowness, but is patient

toward
you and me, not wishing that any should

what he don't want anybody perish.

He doesn't predestined anybody to perish.

But all that all should
what come to repentance?

So his predetermined
destination is repentance.

That's what he wants for everybody.

He, in his

foreknowledge, knows those who will
and those who won't.

Just because he knows someone doesn't mean
that he consents to those who won't.

That's their choice.

So his foreknowledge knows all.

He is predestined.

Every person that's been created by him
to live with him.

And though that is his predestined

destination,
ultimately that's what he desires.

So then he calls.

Let's go back.

Those whom he predestined, he also called.

So he puts out the call to everyone

and calls them to respond.

Romans three.

Sorry.

Revelation 320 behold,
I stand at the door and knock.

I'm calling.

I want you.

If you open the door and let me in.

We'll have fellowship.

So? So he knows who will and who won't.

His predetermined death desire is that we

all are a part of his family
through faith.

He calls us to respond.

And those who respond, he justifies

for those who foreknow it predestined
to become the image of the son on earth.

Those might be the firstborn of his,
of the brethren, of the brothers,

those who whom he predestined,
he called, those he called and respond

with, or are justified
were made right with him

through faith by his grace,

not of our own doing.

And whoever he justifies, he,

he, he also has glorified. Now

God's know it foreknowledge knows who
is going to open the door and who's not.

Who's going to reject that,

though he knows, doesn't mean

that he has determined solely.

He's determined that
the desired destination is a relationship.

And so he calls
and whoever opens the door of their free

will because God has initiated that,

he enters.

And because of what Jesus did on the cross
has justified made them right with God.

And whoever is justified through faith
because of God's grace.

The Paul says, is is glorified.

Now the word of glorified means
completely made new.

It's the glorification that happens
when we are with God in heaven.

All things new.

And Paul talks about it
as if it's already happened.

Now listen, I have been justified

through Jesus with the father.

So God looks at me through faith because
of his grace, as if I had never sinned.

Now Paul says, I am right now glorified.

Now here's my problem.

I looked in the mirror this morning.

And though he talks about me

as being glorified,
I don't feel glorified.

Anybody else?

Yeah.

So why would he say that?

Here's why.

He says that because of who God is.

Let me just expand on who this God is.

God is what we call omnipresent.

God is.

God is.

So God get this that he's
outside the space time continuum.

If I can just blow your mind for a minute.

There was a time when time wasn't.

All of time exists within God.

He's bigger than time.

So if you can.

You understand. I'm saying,
like there's a time when time was that.

You understand that?

No you don't. It's too big.
I don't understand it either.

We understand the words,
but we can't get our minds around that.

But because God is outside
of this space time continuum,

he talks about things that are in
our future as if they've already happened.

Because for him, they have.

So he sees us.

He's already at that point
when we're glorified with him in heaven.

And so he talks about us
as if you're in me through my son.

You're glorified. It's a done deal.

You don't have to hope
that happens one day.

It's a done deal.

And so that's what he's saying.

He said so listen, God is synergize
all things together

for the good so that you look like my son
because he's desired you.

He's called you.

You've opened the door.

You're right with me through my son.

And you stand now glorified before me.

It's amazing.

Definitely amazing.

No, a lot of people use these verses

to debate predestination
or for or free will.

Listen, I will never have
that conversation with you

because these passages are not
about the debate of predestination.

These verses are about the assurance
of culmination.

This is where it's headed.

It's not so that we can debate destination
or free will.

Listen.

If you could know,

there are some things in Scripture
that are just in tension with each other.

They're not in contradiction.
Their intention.

And if

we could understand everything
that's in tension in Scripture,

if we could understand all of that
about God, God wouldn't be very majestic.

I'm comfortable living with the tension
that is in Scripture

because it says to me, My God is so big.

Listen.

Any of you men who are married, can

you understand everything about your wife?

You know,

they give testimony.

We don't even understand
a thing about a wife.

How can we think
we can understand everything about God?

There are things about God
that cause tension.

Like I don't understand.

And personally,
I'm comfortable living in that tension

because it just shows me. Here's the deal.

I can make a case from Scripture
and convince you

about predestination
that God has chosen from the beginning

who will come to faith
and who will not like.

It's his decision and it predestined.

I can make a biblical case from that.

I can also make a biblical case that
you wouldn't be able to argue with that.

It's about our free will.

I can make a case for both biblically,

that's tension.

And I'm comfortable living in that
tension, because what Scripture tells me

is not about the process,
what Scripture tells me.

It's about the culmination.

Do you understand?

For you and I,

he is knocking on the door of your heart.

He's chosen you already,

but he knocks on the door.

He has chosen you.

But yet Jesus says, whoever will come,
let him come.

So there's still the choice.

And that's the tension.

Watch what he says.

Where am I?

Verse 31.

What then shall we say to these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Okay, so so what's your response
as he says, what's your response?

What are you gonna say?

Now, we don't know
exactly what Paul's talking about.

He could be talking to all of Romans
up to this point.

He could be talking about.
So what do you say now?

What is it now?

You deserve wrath.

But, Jesus, what do you say now?

He could be talking about everything
we've talked about in the book of Romans.

Or he could just be talking about what
we've talked about in in Romans eight.

And what do you say now?

Now there's no condemnation
because of Jesus.

So what do you say about that?

What do you say now?

Now you've been adopted. All the rights
and privileges. A son is yours.

You're a career with Christ.
What do you say?

What do you say now? Romans 828.

All things God synergize us for the good
so you'll look like Jesus.

What do you say about that?

That's what he could be talking about.
Everything in Romans eight.

Or he could just be talking
about this whole

foreknowledge, predestination
call justification and glorification.

What do you say about that?

What he's doing
is he's asking you for a response.

He's asking me for a response
no matter what it is.

He's.
What do you think? What's your response?

And then he answers his own question.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

Now, a lot of people could be against us.

That's the answer.

Right.

If you ever had someone against you.

Do you have had someone
against your faith?

Have you ever had someone against the way
you're trying to live?

There's a lot of people. Could be.

But the the question is not.

Well, nobody can be against it. Well done.

A lot of people could be against it,
but who cares?

Who cares? That's the point of it.

Who cares who's against me? Why?

Because God's for me.

And God's already
made his declaration over me.

He loves me. He gave his son for me.

I'm right with him.

So your opinion. You.

Do you
really think I care about your opinion?

Like whenever I say stuff like that,
my wife is like Carl.

Like, don't be mean.

You should care.

Sometimes,

I guess, but.

I'm not suggesting
be a jerk and don't care.

I'm not saying that.

But like, Paul
is going to develop this further.

Like, as if God is for us. Who cares?

Verse 32, he who did not spare
his own son, but gave him up for us all,

how will he not also with him
graciously give us all things?

Listen, Paul's making both

a logical and a theological argument.

He's saying, If God gave you his son,

why would he hold anything else
back from you that you need?

Does that make sense?

He gave you his son,

so why
would he hold anything else from you?

Think about it like this.

The most expensive diamond in the world.

It's called the pink.

The pink lady.

Okay.
The most pensive diamond in the world.

I think it's 52 carats, $72 million.

Can you imagine

it now?

Now, consider for a moment
the one who own that says to you.

There's just something about you.

And I so value you and treasure you.

I'm captivated by you.

I want to gift you this diamond

gives you that $72 million diamond,

and you're taking it back.

And think about it for a moment.

You're holding this diamond in your hand,

and you say the gift to the gift
or of that diamond.

This is

some think

I don't want to carry it out of my pocket,
though.

And I don't want to get all smudgy.

Can I have.

Will you give me a little black velvet?

You know, a little case to put it in.

Can you imagine
after they just gave you that diamond?

Can you imagine the saying?

What do you want me to give you for free?

A little baggie?

Are you kidding me?
Who do you think you are?

Why would I just give that to you?

That makes no sense.

Why do we approach God that way?

He just gave us his son.

Why did we come before him and think.

Can can I bother you for something? No.

Like, could you at all
see it in your heart?

Do you understand?

He just.

Paul saying this is both logical
and theological.

Someone gave you his son.

God gave you his son.

Why would he keep anything else from you?

Now? Apparently,

we have the freedom

to ask the father for anything

because he didn't spare his own son.

And so, if you have a need,
I will boldly tell you to ask.

Just ask.

Be bold in that.

And the reason I can be

so bold in telling you to be bold
is because I know you're not asking me.

You're asking God.

If you're asking me for something,
you better temper your ask.

Yeah.

Do you understand?

I will not give my son for you.

I won't get my bulldog for you.

I don't know that I'll give you
my sandwich, let alone you know.

And so you can ask God boldly.

But in your ask, you trust his character,

and you know that his answer to your ask

is going to be in line with what energizes
you into the image of Jesus.

So sometimes that ask will be in line
with his synergy to make you like Jesus.

And he will say, absolutely.

Thank you for trusting me and asking.

And other times you will say no

because to say no

is works a greater
good of the image of His Son in you.

Do you follow?

So ask.

The verse to leave off,

and I don't remember.

He didn't say, okay, so look at verse 33.

So who shall bring any charge
against God's elect?

It's God who justifies.

Verse 34, who is to condemn Christ?

Jesus is the one who died.

And more than that was also raised.

He was at the right hand of God,
who in is indeed is interceding for us.

He says, look
who's going to bring a charge against us.

Well, like we just said, a lot of people.

Anybody can bring a charge.

So for me,

you know,

the uniqueness of the charges against me

are pretty significant
because here's the deal.

I have this role as pastor,

and people have brought a

lot of charges
because they don't agree with my faith.

You understand?

It's a lot of church hurt out there,
a lot of religious people out there,

a lot of non-religious people out there
who would make charges.

Okay, I get it.

But not only as a pastor.

I'm also a high school coach.

And anybody who coaches the high school
understands

they're going to be a lot of people

like players, moms.

It's like, just,

like.

You could never please anybody,

you know, like as a pastor or a coach,
right?

Eric?

Is the point is, nobody's
going to make a charge.

This is a legal term. Par sock. Right.

And he says, who's
going to sustain a charge?

You cannot.

So you can make a charge against God
and against his people.

You can make it.

Anybody can make a charge.

Anybody could file a claim.

But can you sustain it in court?

Not even a little bit.

Who's
going to sustain a charge against God?

Go ahead and try.

And God has made his declaration about me
spiritually.

You want to make a charge against me
spiritually?

God's always made his declaration.

You can't sustain a charge against me.

So your opinion, Paul says,
I'm not saying this.

I'm not being mean right now.

Like my wife would say.

I'm being like, so you're

what's the old adage
the lion doesn't care about the opinion

of the sheep?

Who's going

to sustain the charge against God?

It's Jesus who died and who was raised
and who is,

who is at the right hand of God
interceding

for us like right now,

the son Jesus is standing
between you and the father,

and Jesus is pleading your case

to him, to the father right now.

He's interceding for he's
pleading on your behalf.

Can you imagine?

Now, I love the opportunity
to pray with you and for you.

And there's a group of us
that meet at first Tuesday of every month

that pray over the needs of you.

If you let us know, and your church,
it would be so much more power

if you were to come and pray with us
for you and your church.

But we stand and we love that.

But can you imagine Jesus himself

interceding for you?

How much like
you don't need me to go to God.

You don't need a priest.

You don't need a saint, a patron
saint for any of that stuff.

You can go to God
because the son is interceding for you.

And why do we need the son
to make intercession for us?

Because we have an accuser against us.

Revelation 12 verse ten.

And I heard a loud voice

in heaven saying,
now the salvation and the power,

and the kingdom of our God
and the authority of his Christ have come.

For the accuser of our brothers
has been thrown down,

who accuses them day and night before God.

The reason we need an intercessor
before God other than us, who is Jesus,

is because we have the devil against us,
who stands before the father day

and night saying stuff like this

God, you know,

you know what Carl did?

You know what a failure he is.

You know what a sinner he is.

You know, he still struggles with,
you know, he's still messed up.

You know,

you can't

you shouldn't move on his behalf.

You should be offended at him.

You should be disappointed at him.

You should have discouragement
in your heart because that's the guy

you chose.

Are you kidding me?

That's what the devil does day and night.

And in the midst of that, Jesus like.

Father,

see Carl through me

and so well, the devil makes
all these accusations day and night.

God the father goes,
la la la la la la la la la la.

Shut up!

I don't pay attention
to the thing you say.

Jesus is there interceding.

No, father.

Now I covered him, remember,
I covered him, I covered him.

You got some else to say?
I covered that to.

Do you understand?

That's why

you can approach his throne of grace
with confidence.

Because we know that will receive grace
and mercy to help us in our time of need.

Scripture says

interceding for us.

And so, Paul, in a summary statement,

he wraps this thing up with this who

who shall separate us
from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation,
or distress, or persecution, or famine,

or nakedness, or danger or sword?

He says, who's
going to separate us from his love?

And then he lists
seven things that are pretty bad things.

He lists seven things that would make
the ordinary person question God's love.

If you've

ever lived in the seasons of troubles
and tribulations

and distress and persecution and famine
and want and need

and nakedness and danger and peril,
if you've ever lived in those seasons,

at some point
probably we've asked God why,

if you love me, why do you allow this?

If you love me, why did you let my family,
my wife, my child?

If you love me, why right?

So Paul
doesn't say these things won't come.

He says just when they come.

Don't let these things make you question
God's love.

Because he gave you his son,
and he synergize even those things

to make you in the image of his son,

who suffered.

So when you and I go through these
seven very terrible things,

we have confidence in God's character

that he synergize
even those things to make us into

the image of his son,
so that when we go through those things,

the question we ask ourselves
is, I'm going through trouble right now?

Is my response
that trouble look like Jesus

as a response to his troubles?

I am really hurt by people.

Does my response in the midst of that hurt
look like Jesus's response

when he was hurt by people?

Where in scripture do we read that

Jesus got so stressed and angry
he just couldn't sleep at night?

Where do we read the Scripture?

Where he laid his head on his pillow
and was still haunted by the injustice

that was done?

Where do we read in Scripture
where he just lost his mind

over what God would allow?

We don't.

And so Romans 828, for

we know that God is centralizing
all things to make us look like Jesus.

And sometimes we all go
through tribulation

and distress and persecution, or famine,
or nakedness and danger and sword,

because God synergize
all those things to give us

the opportunity
to look like Jesus in this world.

It doesn't mean he makes things
good and easy.

It means he makes us look like his Son
and our responsibility,

and is to trust the character of God

and in those moments, respond like Jesus,

dare I say in those moments to post

like Jesus.

You follow. You.

How in the world is this possible?

I mean, does this sound like our
our normal modus operandi?

Is this is this how we normally
respond when stuff happens?

Okay, I'll go on.

Verse 36 and 37

for your as it is written for your sake,
we're being killed all day long.

We are.
We are like sheep to be slaughtered.

That's a direct quote from Psalm. 4422.

And I don't have time to get into that.

But you Bible students
might want to dive into that psalm.

It's profound.

It says no.

And all these things were more
than conquerors through him who loved us.

How do you how do you respond?

Like how do you

how do you embody the image of Christ for
the wounded going through all this stuff?

And Paul says, we can't, but
but in Christ we're more than conquerors.

And this is a profound statement

that Paul has just made
about being more than a conqueror.

Here's why.

When he uses

this, this whole idea more than conquerors

is this Greek word that he kind of puts
a couple Greek words together.

Harbor Nick.

Oh, two different words.

This is what they mean.

The word hypo
hyper means super or more than Nick.

Oh, is that from the Greek god Nike,

which means conqueror?

And so he puts these two together.

He says, you're just not a conqueror.

You are a super conqueror.

You're just not a conqueror.

You're a hyper conqueror.

Like, here's how you know the difference.

A conqueror gets through the battle,

realizes
they've won, and rejoices in the victory.

I'm a conqueror, a hyper conqueror,
a super conquer.

Paul says you're more than conquerors
is one who knows ahead of time.

They're already a conqueror, and
they rejoice in the midst of the battle.

Do you understand the difference?

Most of us live life.

We're in these troubles and difficulty,
the trials and tribulations,

and we think, God, get me out of this.
Get me through it.

And when God does one,
we're a little bit surprised at a word.

And two, we're like,
oh yes, now I'm a conqueror.

And the super conquers, say God
in the midst of it before you do a thing.

I am already a hyper conqueror.

I will rejoice in the battle.

Again, stand.

Most of us have decided
I want to live as a conqueror.

Because I want God to fix.

Paul says that is not who
we are in Christ.

We are hyper conquerors
in the midst of it.

Has that been your experience?

If not, as they say,

we're leaving money on the table.

Let me put it to you in terms of cards

in the car world, a conqueror is one

who can get us from point A to point B
I I'm on this journey.

I'm on traveling.
I need to get from point A to point B.

You can do that
in a lot of different cars.

For instance,
you could do that in a Chevy Spark,

get you to point A to point B,
you conquered the journey.

Good for you.

You you used all of your 84

horsepower to do it.

Did you make it

through?

Probably not

with a lot of confidence
or speed or elegance, but.

And isn't that
how we go through difficulties sometimes?

God, I just
I just want to get to the end of this,

and you just putt along

and you just plod along like, man,

I hope the engine.

That's a conqueror.

You know what the super conqueror is?

The Hennessey Venom F5,

only 24 made.

$7 million or so.

The Hennessey Venom F5 6.6l twin turbo V8.

I wrote it down 1817 horsepower,

speed of 311 miles an hour.

That's a super conquer,

you understand

something? Most people have come to Jesus

and they just leave it a
as a as a Chevy Spark.

And they got these hills,
they got to climb and they just plugged

along, praying that the engine didn't
give out in their own road back down hill.

And when they make it to the top,
they're like, whoo

hoo, boy,
I don't ever want to do that again.

Oh, you're a conqueror.

I guess you made it. Is that really it?

When Paul says you're not a Chevy Spark?

You're a Hennessey Venom F5.

You got 1850 horsepower under the hood.

You don't go 311 miles an hour.

You can make it up the hill
and then another one after that.

With no problem.

You get to the end destination
not just making it,

but making it with power and speed
and style.

Like, that's a super conqueror.

And my fear is that so
many of us have settled

for a Chevy Spark faith

and never embraced the Hennessey Venom F5.

Faith.

I want to make it to the end,
but I want to make it to the end

knowing that as I go through it,
I got power to spare.

What am I worried about right now?

In the trouble
and distress and difficulty?

What am I worrying right now
about your opinion?

About the world's opinion about me?
What am I worried, right?

I got strength to spare.

I'm a hyper super more than conqueror.

In the midst of it, I'm going to rejoice
because I know it's already done.

Thank you. Understand what I'm saying?

And my fear is that we've settled
for a Chevy Spark faith.

God, I know you gave Jesus

for me and I'm thankful for forgiveness.

Could you please see it within your good

heart to maybe

I just want to make.

As your Christian experience,

as your faith has been, has your life,
maybe you're separated from Christ.

You don't even have a Chevy Spark.

Has it looked and felt
more like a Chevy Spark existence

than a Hennessy Venom F5?

Do you realize what you've been called to

and gifted?

David, don't say anything else about this.

You're in the first service
I'm seeing. You must.

Don't miss something.

I think I got it.

What he says.

Verse 38.

For I am sure that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor rulers,

nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers, nor height,

nor depth, nor anything else,
all creation will be able to separate

us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Who have been adopted by God.

I'm a coworker with Christ,
and nothing going to separate

from his love.

I'm a I'm not just I'm a super conquerors.

Nothing are going to separate me
from his love.

I go back to verse one now.

There's no condemnation.

There's no failure in my life
that's going to separate me from his love.

I'll go back to verse 15.

I've been adopted by God.

I'm forever loved as his child knows.

I'm going to separate him from that love.

I go to verse 28,

God is synergize in all things together
so that I'll look like his son.

He's not going to abandon me now.

There's
nothing will separate me from his love.

I go to verse 30 and 39, death.

That's not going to separate me.

Separate me from his
love. I've got eternal life,

rulers and authorities and powers

and he's talking about the forces of hell
and Satan himself.

They're not going to separate me
from them.

So they've already been conquered
and defeated.

No charge they bring against me can stand.

No created
thing will ever separate me from his love.

Jesus proved it on the cross.

Romans five eight
God shows his love for us in this.

While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.

Nothing's going to separate me from that.

And this is all accessed through faith
by his grace.

For by grace
you've been saved through faith.

This not of yourselves.

It's not your own doing.

It's the gift of God,
not the result of works.

Nobody can brag about it.

God initiated Augustine that God did it.

We just respond to receive it.

Can you imagine this?

Hennessey.

Venom F5. Faith,

strength and power to spare.

Not because you deserve it.
Not because I deserve it.

Not because we weren't just,
but because of God's grace.

His love is so profound.

And so that's what drives me back
to where I started this whole thing.

Grace really is greater than anything
you want to put in a blank.

It's the free gift of God.

And if this isn't

your experience, that's not God's fault.

It's the free gift.

Through faith, by grace.

And this great thank you, Lord.

That's all I can say is thank you, Lord.

And so, my dear friends,

if this has not been reflective
of the faith that you live with,

why not?

A complete transformation

of who I am, of who you are,

is available to us

freely

through faith,

because of God and by his grace.

And I invite you.

It's not my invitation.

Is Jesus's invitation into a super hyper

conquerer faith

because of who Jesus is.

And so

I invite you.

Let's pray. And.

If what we've talked about

has not been your experience,

I want to offer you the invitation

that Jesus has offered.

To be made new,

fully understand this

what I'm saying fully and completely new.

To allow yourself
to be conformed into the image

of the Son Jesus.

And to receive, by God's grace, freely,

a super hyper conquering faith.

Towards that end,

I invite you in this moment in prayer

to say, God,

I'm realizing what it is

I am and you are.

I am weak,

I fail.

And I've just been surviving.

And I want more.

I acknowledge who you are,

and I accept who you are

to be the God and the leader of my life.

I confess my sin to you.

Jesus.

I accept what you did for me on the cross.

And I receive

through faith, by grace

a right standing before you.

Father

and I receive the gift

of a hyper super conqueror faith no longer

do I want to live as Chevy Spark.

Life.

I want to be a super conqueror

that rejoices in the battle.

Because I'm being made

into the image of your son,

tell him I trust your character. God,

because I know you love me.

The Bible says,
keep your eyes close to me.

Just be in prayer.

The Bible says that God looks to
and fro about the earth

for those whose hearts are firmly his,
that he may strongly support them.

He's looking for you right now.

His name is called Elroy,
the God who sees.

He's looking for us right now.

To solidify

your commitment, not just in your heart,

but to solidify that commitment.

So I can pray with you.

So, Jeff. So David can.

Would you just. I'm going to pray over you
specially.

Just a minute.

Would you just raise up your hand and say,
I prayed that prayer.

I want to be a super conqueror.

I want what God offers me.

Thank you. Good. Just keep it up for me.
A pray over your hand.

I'm gonna pray over.
You're raising your hand.

Thank you.

Good for you,
good for you, good for you, good for you.

Just keep them. Keep them. Let me see.

This isn't for me.

It's for you.
I just want you to solidify this.

I want you to allow me the opportunity,
the privilege to put.

Thank you.

Good good good good good.

There you go. Thank you.

Just keep your hands off them
and just let me just receive

this prayer, agree with me and pray
you guys with your hands. It.

Father,
I thank you for these with their hands up

that their body is representing
the position of their heart.

They want you.

They want to receive all you have.

Thank you that it's not contingent
upon what we've done about what they do,

but just and receiving every great show
in the name of Jesus right now.

Do what you said you would do.

I pray a measure of your grace
that is so profound

and so unknown to them, that it would
wow them with who you are,

that they would receive it as a free gift.

This hyper conqueror of faith,

that they would be allowed
to be the image of you in this world.

That they would feel your presence
in such a mighty way, such a profound way.

Father, that they would be so overwhelmed
and impressed with you,

so grateful

for what you've done in their lives
and for them that they would walk and move

and think and respond
and be hyper conquerors in this world.

That is your desire.

You said that you're looking for people
right now whose hearts are firmly yours.

God, see these hands?

See these people now in the name of
Jesus, strongly support them

according to your word,

God. Thank you.

Thank you for these.

Thank you for this time. We love you.

In your name I pray. Amen.

Listen,

it's good for us to be
this good to go through His Word.

His word is alive and active,
sharpened to an end to a sword.

It recreates
us, his spirit, us through his word.

This is good, if you may.

If you prayed some prayer like that.

Jeff, David,
and we'd love to talk with you.

To pray with you again. I'll be here.
We'll be in the welcomes.

Just come talk to us
and let us just pray specifically

if that'd be good.

If you just want to spend time
praying yourself,

there's a prayer in my back
there. Nobody's in it.

You just need a little bit of
time. Just a you and God to

stick her ahead
and see if anybody needs some prayer.

And I know Bob and Jennifer
would love to pray with you too. And

anyway, don't let this moment

I love you.

It's good for us to be together
on this week.

Now go through Romans eight again
and then read Romans nine Romans.

We just there's four sections to Romans
write God's wrath, God's grace,

God's plan, and God's will.

We just finish this,
that God's the God's grace part.

Now we're going to get into God's
plan in Romans nine.

And it gets really pretty deep.

And I'm going to actually
geek out over this stuff.

So I hope you don't mind,
but it's going to be fun.

And I want you to read,

try to get your minds ready for what
God's going to reveal to us in Romans 911.

Okay,

I love you.

I'm proud of you fellas. One more song.

You guys doing a great job.

All of our band's up at camp. Yep.

You guys doing a great job.

We're running lean and lean.

This morning is good,

but I'm sure we're going to sing something
about Jesus and love.

You will be me.

We're going to go back a few years, right?

Stand up. Let's sing. Let's be happy.