"All Things Work Together For Good"

MF Blume
MARCH 15, 1999 am

Roma 8:28-39  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth. Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.  For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,  Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


When Paul said that we need the eyes of our understanding enlightened so that we may know what riches of inheritance we have, he was trying to tell us that we have an inheritance in Jesus that we have not even seen yet, let alone entered into!

The Gospel is a lot more powerful than all of you think.

I want to discuss one aspect of the cross that I never saw before. Life brings us all sorts of experiences. Psychology can sometimes bring a person to place where perhaps God can speak to one, since one sees one's need for help. So do not despise your parents. We can mull over our pasts and become discouraged and disheartened until we are left with a hopeless feeling.

When one becomes a Bible-Christian, and not just what is casually called a Christian today -- but a real one -- the Lord causes old things to pass away and all things become new.

Yes, we still can say we have a past, but there is a deliverance from our pasts and from the hopelessness our pasts can send forward to us today.

The thinking back into our pasts and finding why we are what we are today, can be a no-win situation.

What a cruel informer psychology can be! Psychology has helped many people, but it cannot free you. Paul said Christ liveth in me, and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  I DO NOT FRUSTRATE THE GRACE OF GOD.  (Gal 2:20-21).

Your past may have truly damaged you.

All things really are ALL THINGS. WORK TOGETHER Whatever God does is good. Though we may not see how it can be done, nor see how our past could possibly work together for good, God is still God. Our parents failed because they only corrected us when we were pains in their necks! Brother Ed Goodwin was in prison in younger years. Somehow, the failure of your parents is working together for your good NOW. Do not regret your past anymore. Can these things separate us from God's love? But the answer is:
Roma 8:37  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
No, they cannot separate us from God's love. And we read of TEN THINGS that people think might separate us from God's love in verses 38-39.
  1. death
  2. life
  3. angels
  4. principalities
  5. powers
  6. things present
  7. things to come
  8. height
  9. depth
  10. any other creature
All these things WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD.

Let the truth MAKE YOU FREE from the misery of the past.


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