Romans – The Play Part 8, Ep 1

And suddenly, everything worked out for good for those who were His. Do you know why it worked out for them? Because God was for them.

I mean, do you understand that in that moment, among those people in that great arena, there were some whom God was for? He was for them. God was for you, Brother David, that day, and everything worked out. You got out of there alive.

That’s right. Alive. Praise the Lord.

‘But Gene, Gene, I have been so ungodly. You don’t understand how helpless I was. Helpless—and I was God’s enemy. I mean, I was His enemy. And you don’t understand what a terrible, terrible sinner I was. And I was facing His wrath. Ungodly. Sinner. An enemy of God…and helpless.  Utterly helpless. Facing the wrath of God. Gene, I still feel it—when I feel so unworthy, and unrighteous, and unholy, and so sinful, and so helpless.’

All things work together for good. Your being a sinner worked for good. Your unholiness worked for good. Your helplessness really worked for good. And the fact that you had made yourself an enemy of God worked in your favor. Praise the Lord.

Because you know what He did? He reconciled you to Himself. He brought reconciliation.

‘But I didn’t do anything about that!”

That’s right. You didn’t do anything about your unholiness, nor your sinfulness, nor the fact that you were an enemy, or that you were helpless. The fact of the matter is: in that terrible state, God was for you. Now I don’t think you understand. I’m looking at your faces—and you don’t understand that you sat there in this terrible, terrible situation, and you had a God who was totally on your side, and was willing to do absolutely anything, anything, for you.

“Well, say more than that.” Alright. Amen. And so, when the smoke cleared, you know what had happened? You’d become the recipient of grace now and glory later. There’s nothing there except the element of faith, and yet in this terrible situation, everything worked out for good. Better than good. And the reason was…the reason you got that grace, and the reason you’ll get that glory…

Stand up. Tell these people why. It worked out for good because why?

Because God was for you, Vicki! God, at that moment – God was pulling for you! That’s why it worked out. God was pulling for Vicki.

Praise the Lord. Alright. Do you understand that we’re talking specifically about you, just you, nobody else? That in that moment, God was for you. Yeah, that really is something.