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Romans 8:15-23 - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: November 30, 2008

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Romans 8:17)

Do not give in to the old way of life. Give in to the new way of life.

Life Lesson (Romans 8:19)

If you are following Jesus then you have much to look forward to.

Life Lesson (Romans 8:20)

We cannot be spiritually whole without a relationship with God.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Rom 6:1-2 NKJV

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

Rom 8:16 NLT

For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children.

Rom 8:17 NLT

And since we are his children, we will share his treasures--for everything God gives to his Son, Christ, is ours, too. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

Matt 10:38-39 NLT

38 If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine. 39 If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give it up for me, you will find it.

Matt 25:34 NKJV

Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

2 Cor 4:17 NLT

For our present troubles are quite small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us an immeasurably great glory that will last forever!

Rom 8:20 NLT

Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God's curse.

Ps 84:2 NLT

2 I long, yes, I faint with longing
to enter the courts of the LORD.
With my whole being, body and soul,
I will shout joyfully to the living God.

John 16:33 NLT

I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world."

Gen 3:17-18 NKJV

17 Then to Adam He said,"Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.

1 Cor 15:51 NKJV

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed --

Rom 8:23 NLT

And even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also groan to be released from pain and suffering. We, too, wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as his children, including the new bodies he has promised us.

Rev 21:4 NKJV

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

2 Cor 5:2 NKJV

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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