Redeemer Church Mauritius
In All Things God Works for Our Good - Phil Kendon
What do we do when we get disappointed? What do we do when life seems unfair? How do we respond when our prayers don’t get answered - or when we don’t like the answer that’s given? God is not oblivious to the things we are going through. On the contrary he is working. He is going to use these things together with everything else going on around us for our good. He has proven his heart and his intentions by giving us Jesus and the gift of salvation. Everything else is minor compared to that. His purposes are for our good - to shape our character and refine our faith. And his ultimate aim is to bring glory to God through our lives. There is a little verse in the middle of Romans that I want to turn to for help this morning and I hope it can help all of us as we face life’s challenges.
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Redeemer Church Mauritius
Mauritius
Sunday 9:30 AM
Romans 8:31–32 (ESV)
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Romans 8:35 (ESV)
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 8:38–39 (ESV)
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- The gift of salvation through Jesus gives us confidence that God will work for good in all things.
John 5:17 (NIV)
In his defence Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.”
- God works in many different ways but he is always active in our lives.
Romans 5:3–5 (ESV)
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
- God uses trials to shape our character, refine our faith, and bring him glory.
In all things, God works for our good.
