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God is For You • Dec 02nd 1987

Romans – The Play Part 8, Ep 1 – Finding Complete Security in Christ

New Testament Paul the Apostle The Epistles

In this powerful teaching from Romans 8, Gene Edwards explores one of the most encouraging truths in all of Scripture: God is for you.

Many believers struggle with guilt, insecurity, fear of failure, and a lingering sense of condemnation. Romans 8 answers those fears with a breathtaking declaration of God’s love and commitment toward His people. Through Romans 8:28-39, this message reveals how God works all things together for good and demonstrates that nothing can separate us from His love in Christ Jesus.

The teaching walks through the believer’s journey from helplessness, sin, spiritual failure, and condemnation into grace, sonship, freedom, and life in Christ. Gene emphasizes that God acted on behalf of humanity when humanity could do nothing for itself. While we were helpless, sinners, enemies of God, and under the sentence of death, God intervened through Jesus Christ.

Special attention is given to Paul’s declaration: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” This passage becomes the foundation for understanding Christian assurance. The believer’s security is not based on personal performance, religious achievement, or the ability to keep laws. Instead, it rests entirely on God’s initiative, God’s grace, and God’s purpose.

This Romans 8 study also explores:

  • Freedom from condemnation
  • Deliverance from the law
  • Victory over spiritual insecurity
  • Life in Christ instead of life in Adam
  • Adoption as sons and daughters of God
  • The indwelling Holy Spirit
  • God’s eternal purpose for believers
  • The certainty of future glory

Throughout the message, listeners are reminded that God’s love is steadfast and unchanging. No failure, weakness, fear, circumstance, power, or spiritual force can separate believers from the love of God found in Christ Jesus.

If you have ever struggled with feelings of unworthiness, spiritual defeat, or doubt about God’s acceptance, this teaching offers a fresh look at the liberating truth of the gospel. Romans 8 presents a God who is relentlessly committed to His people and who has gone to extraordinary lengths to secure their salvation and future inheritance.

Watch and discover why the Apostle Paul could confidently declare that believers are more than conquerors through Christ—and why the greatest answer to insecurity is knowing that God is truly for you.

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This really is that passage. Yesterday, we looked at it from the viewpoint of those who are psychotically insecure, but tonight, even more so, those who are psychotically insecure.

All right, we’re in Romans 8, and let’s turn to verse 28. We just left off on discovering that when you really feel horrible about the kind of person you are, and you’re just really under the pile, the best thing for you to do is the best opportunity for you to experience the Lord. Not with words, but to go before the Lord and hurt in His presence. That is a lot better than hurting outside His presence. To deliberately go before Him and hurt and cry and groan, and the Spirit of the Lord will use that moment to pray in ways that you cannot pray with words or thoughts. I would recommend to you: hurting prayer, which has no distinguishable words to it.

And now we come to verse 28. We have just been praying according to the will of God in groans too deep for words, but the Spirit searches our hearts, and searches our spirits, and knows the will of God, just as the Spirit knows the will of God.

Verse 28. “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

I’m not going to make anything big out of the last part of that verse. I assume that those who love God are also those who are called according to His purpose. We’re not going to get under the pile about that. If you love Him, you are therefore called according to His purpose, and all things work together for good to those who love Him.

For those He foreknew… And that simply means before He did anything else, and this is in eternity past, He imagined you. Okay? That’s all. That’s the first thing that ever happened to you. He imagined you, and therefore met you in His, I will use the term imagination, for lack of a better one. And then, after He imagined you, He predestined you. He didn’t just predestine you—but He predestined you to conform you to the image of His Son, that Jesus Christ might be the firstborn among many brothers.

And whom He predestined, these He also called. And whom He called, those He justified.
And whom He justified, those He also glorified.” Praise the Lord.

“What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Jesus Christ up for us all – not some, but all -will He not also freely give you, with Him, all things? Who could possibly bring a charge against God’s chosen elect? God is the one who justifies. Who could condemn? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather, He was raised.  And He is now at the right hand of God the Father. And He is praying for you.” Praise the Lord. “Who shall separate you from the love of God?  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” No!

“For your sakes, we are being put to death. Lord, for your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We’re considered as sheep to be slaughtered. But in all things, we are super conquerors.”

And that’s the best way to translate that. And that’s the way I’m going to translate it:

Super conquerors through Him who loved us.

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