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Please, use a pew Bible if you didn’t bring a Bible with you.

Please, use a pew Bible if you didn’t bring a Bible with you. pg. 835. Please stand. Turn to Romans 8:18-30. Future Glory— Beyond our Wildest Comprehension. vs. 18. Suffering. Suffering. Romans 8:18

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Please, use a pew Bible if you didn’t bring a Bible with you.

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  1. Please, use a pew Bible if you didn’t bring a Bible with you. pg. 835

  2. Please stand. Turn to Romans 8:18-30. Future Glory— Beyond our Wildest Comprehension

  3. vs. 18 Suffering

  4. Suffering • Romans 8:18 • “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in [to] us.”

  5. Did the man who wrote this text know anything about suffering? 2 Corinthians 11:23—

  6. Future Glory • Quoting from Isaiah 64:4, Paul writes • 1 Corinthians 2:9 • “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”

  7. “Love God” Look at verse 28.

  8. “I believe that Paul had a special reason for using the term ‘love’ rather than the term ‘believing’ at this point. One of the best ways whereby we can decide immediately if we really love God or not is our reaction to adversity . . . there are many people who when trials and tribulations arise give up. They feel they have been let down.” --D.M. Lloyd-Jones

  9. Application: Do you love God?

  10. The Greatest Commandment • Mark 12:30 • “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 1) heart, and with all thy 2) soul, and with all thy 3) mind, and with all thy 4) strength: this is the first commandment.”

  11. God Defined • The Creator God • God who is One but has revealed Himself to us as three persons: • God the Father • God the Son, Jesus Christ • God the Holy Spirit

  12. Question: Where does loving God fit into your priorities for life?

  13. The Promises • “Eye hath not seen” what God has prepared. • “All things work together for good . . .” Apply to those who love God.

  14. Future Creation • Romans 8:19 • “For the earnest expectation of the creature [creation] waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.” • All of creation, personified, looks forward to the day of man’s full and complete redemption. The world sees the adoption is complete.

  15. Creation Changed • Romans 8:20-21 • “For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”

  16. Here is the Idea: • Snakes will not be poisonous. • Gators will not eat children. • Thorns will not prick. • Lighting will not start forest fires. • Hurricanes will not destroy. • Trees will not fall on people. • Rock slides will not kill people.

  17. Future Glory • In the New World that we are longing to see come into fruition, little girls, like Shaniya Nicole Davis, won’t be sold into sin by their mothers.

  18. Creation Longs for Future Glory. • Romans 8:22 • “For we know that the whole creation groaneth [has been groaning] and travaileth in pain together until now.” In a way that we cannot understand, all of creation wishes to be delivered from the affects of sin to be freed to fully glorify God.

  19. WE, too, Should LONG. • Romans 8:23 • “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” What comes after the first fruits of the harvest?

  20. WE, too, Should LONG. • Romans 8:23 • “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

  21. Look back at verse 17. • Romans 8:17 • “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”

  22. My Adoption: The Already and the not Yet

  23. Biblical Fact: • If you are Christian, you are already a child of God, and your adoption into God’s family is a sure thing—the Spirit is God’s seal of ownership, • BUT those who love God have NOT even begun to experience and enjoy all the privileges of being a child of the KING!

  24. WE, too, Should LONG. • Romans 8:23 • “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” Glorified Bodies

  25. 2 Corinthians 5:1-2 • “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. • For in this [body] we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven . . .” Glorified Bodies

  26. A Serious Misconception: The Bible DOES NOT present our future as a quasi-mystical, kind of bizarre, semi-feminine, spirit-world existence.

  27. God’s Plan 1 Thessalonians 4:16ff

  28. 1 John 3:2 • “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” Jesus had/has a glorified body that was recognizable but was also superior to our bodies in every way.

  29. Look back to Romans 8:24.

  30. Hope • Romans 8:24 • “For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?” • Paul readily admits that our salvation involves a hope for that which we have NOT seen.

  31. Hope • Romans 8:25 • “But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.” • Patience here is endurance—like endurance for a marathon.

  32. Patiently Hoping • While we do redeem the time wisely, we don’t live as though we have NO hope for a better world. • Instead, we live patiently waiting for the return of our Lord or for our union with Him in glory.

  33. Faith & Hope • Hebrews 11:1 • “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” • Substance • The assurance • It is being sure about what we are hoping for.

  34. Faith & Hope • My faith in Christ assures me that what I am hoping for is not ridiculous because my faith is built on the Word of God.

  35. Hope In • The glory to be revealed • The promise of adoption • The victory over sin • The redemption of the body • The reality of life forever with Christ These things keep the Christian longing for the return of Christ.

  36. Finally, without the HOPE of future glory, what’s the point?

  37. What’s the Point? • 1 Corinthians 15:19 • “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.”

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