God's Sovereign Plan: Assurance in Salvation's Journey

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"Father I pray that the Wonder of the depths of the foundation of the greatness of the promise of Romans 8:28 will establish itself in our hearts so that we really believe this promise and live in the freedom and the risk and the love of it I ask this in Jesus name amen." [00:21:27]

"Romans 8:28 is being supported argued for I preached on this back in the late 80s and there was a skyscraper being built in Downtown Minneapolis and it was going to be I forget 35 40 stories tall and I passed the the hole in the ground where it was going to be built one day and I noticed could night that's deep I think it must have been six floors underground." [00:49:23]

"If you're going to build a building as tall as Romans 828 where all things work together for good the worst things in the world work together for for good for those who love God and those who are called if you're going to build a building like that as you write Romans you better dig a very very very deep Foundation which is what this is." [00:82:56]

"Verses 29 and 30 are the foundation under Romans 8:28 and here are the arguments this is sure all things are going to work together for good because he fornew us he chose us as we've seen that means and he predestined us to be conformed to the image of his son so that he be the firstborn among many brothers." [00:102:96]

"Those whom he predestined he called and Those whom he called he justified and Those whom he justified he glorified so that's the argument all these bases of this great skyscraper of Romans 828 so between predestination and glorification are these two steps called and Justified now notice it doesn't say and some of those whom he predestined he called." [00:133:72]

"It doesn't say and some of those whom he called he justified it doesn't say and some of those whom he justified he glorified it simply says those those those meaning all of them all of them without exception no dropouts no failures this is an infallible work of God to get the predestined to glorification no dropouts no failures no losses." [00:188:28]

"Everyone who is forn and predestined to be in the family and be like the son will in fact get there to glory and to make sure that it happens between predestination and glorification God does these two things he calls and we saw that that meant not my preaching on a Sunday morning calling people to Faith because many don't believe and therefore aren't Justified." [00:211:95]

"But all the called are Justified and therefore what we saw back here in Romans 4 was that the call is an omnipotent Sovereign work of God to bring into being what isn't I have as it is written I have made you the father of many nations in the presence of the god whom he believed it's talking about Abraham who gives life to the dead and calls into existence things that don't exist." [00:245:00]

"Like my faith if God left to me or you or any other human the production of loving Christ and trusting Christ and repenting and following Christ nobody would do it and we know that because 87 and 8 say that the mind of the flesh is hostile to God it does not submit to God indeed it cannot so if God were to leave us to ourselves and not do this omnipotent call like Lazarus come forth from the dead nobody would live." [00:278:32]

"We're all dead and blind in trespasses and sins and this call is what is what gives us life just like it did Lazarus when Jesus said Lazarus come forth and after he'd been dead four days he lived because the call creates what it commands so that's the first thing God does to get us from the predestined state to the glorified State he actually intervenes and wakens dead Sinners to Believe In Christ." [00:307:91]

"When they believe they are Justified which implies something absolutely amazing we know don't we from chapter four that the justification is the justification of the ungodly no one to the one who who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungod Godly his faith is counted as righteousness the only people that exist are ungodly people if anybody is to be justified it will be the justification of the ungodly." [00:336:52]

"Christ is exalted as our older brother because he is both the ground of our glorification and the goal of our glorification because we we know that this from 8:17 is glorification with him." [00:593:51]

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