Romans – The Play Part 8, Ep 1

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.