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Romans 8:23-28 Trusting God and Breaking Free - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: December 7, 2008

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Romans 8:23)

Don't focus on today's groaning but on tomorrow's glory.

Life Lesson (Romans 8:26)

We often don't know how to pray.

Life Lesson (Romans 8:27)

Our prayers should always be directed to God but not directing God.

Life Lesson (Romans 8:28)

When you love God He will use all things, good and bad, for our ultimate good and His ultimate purpose.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

1 Cor 15:51 NKJV

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,

Rom 8:24 NLT

Now that we are saved, we eagerly look forward to this freedom. For if you already have something, you don't need to hope for it.

Heb 11:1 NKJV

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Heb 11:1 NLT

What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see.

Phil 1:6 NKJV

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

Rom 8:26 NLT

And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

1 John 4:20-21 NKJV

20 If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

1 Cor 1:23-24 NKJV

23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Gen 42:36 NKJV

36 And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin. All these things are against me."

Gen 50:20 NKJV

But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Prov 3:5-6 NKJV

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

1 Cor 2:9 NKJV

But as it is written:
"Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

Eph 3:20 NKJV

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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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