Romans 8:31-39
Getting on the Same Pages as God about Freedom from fear
Introduction
A. Phobia – an abnormal fear
B. Let me give you a list of some phobia’s
C. We have created another Phobia Godnotlovingusphobia
D. The fear of God not loving us.
E. Today we are going to get rid of those fears
F. We are going to look at the Bible and see what it has to say about Godnotlovingusphobia, specifically
1. God is for us
2. Christ died for us
3. God Justifies Us
4. Christ intercedes for us
5. God Love us
I. God is for us (8:31)
A. Explanation
1. Is God for us?
2. Take a look at the evidence
3. First of all God gave us his son
a) If someone offers you the use of their servant that is one thing, but when someone sends their son that major events
b) It is kind of like a big company offering their 2nd in command
c) Not only did he send His Son, but he knew that His Son would be punished for our sins
4. Not only do we have the Son but also we are told in verse 26 that God send the Spirit for us.
5. So we have both the Son and Spirit that God gave us
6. God also promises, and we know that God never breaks his promises, that he will make sure that all things work for the good
7. God is on our side
B. Application
1. So what? Why is that important to my life?
2. How many of you have ever felt lonely?
3. How many of you have ever felt overwhelmed?
4. How many of you have ever felt scared?
5. Guess what?
6. God is for you!
7. God is on your side!
8. Jeremiah 29:11 (can any one quote that without looking it up?)
a) Notice the second part of that, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future
9. If God is for us, who can be against us?
C. Illustration
1. A very popular phrase is “a Hollywood ending” What the means is that at the end of the movie everything is good. Well, with God, you can enjoy that Hollywood ending.
2. Why? Because God is for us!
3. Isn’t that wonderful!
II. Christ died for us (32)
A. Explanation
1. Have you ever thought about how bad you are?
2. How sinful you are? How many times you have disobeyed God?
3. Despite the number and the extent of our sin, God sent His Son to this Earth.
4. God knew that Jesus would not come here clean things up and leave
5. He knew that Jesus would have to hang on the Cross to save us from our sins
6. And Jesus did that, while we were still sinners
7. This is a argument from the lesser to the greater
a) If you remember in Math 6:25-34 Jesus tells us The birds are taken care of by God and that the grass of the fields is taken care of.
b) If these things God can take care of, don’t you think he can take care of you?
8. The same type of Argument Paul is using here in verse 32, if God is willing to give up His Son for you, don’t you think that God is willing to give us all things
B. Application
1. Question? Why do we worry so much?
2. Think about it
3. Who here has never gotten enough air to live?
4. Who here has never had enough food to live?
5. Who here does not have a place to live?
6. If God is able to take of those things don’t you think He can take care of all things?
7. If God is willing to give us his Son, don’t you think that he would be willing to give us all things
8. If God is the ruler of all like we confess that he is, then that means he owns everything
9. If he owns everything that means everything that we have is a gift from God
10. Think about what you have! You have everything, and that everything is from the One who owns everything!
11. Amazing isn’t it?
C. Illustration
1. Advertising executives have this concept figured out. Take Nike for example. They will give Michael Jordan and Pile of money to wear their shoes. What they are banking on is that if their shoes are good enough for Jordan to wear, they must be good enough for everyone else, and market the product that way
2. Take a look what God did. He sent His precious Son Here to die on the cross to provide salivation. If God cares enough to do that, cant you assume then that God loves you enough to provide everything that you need?
3. Wow!
III. God has justified us (33)
A. Explanation
1. Back when we began our study on getting on the same Page as God, one of the things that we learned is that we are guilty
2. We realized that if we did not follow God’s law to the letter that we were guilty of breaking it, and once we broke it we were guilty guilty guilty
3. Along comes Christ, who offered Himself as a payment for our sins
4. Because of what He did, we are no longer guilty
5. When someone is released from prison they are free
6. However you all know that the record stays with them
7. In our case with Christ, the record gone
8. Totally wiped away
9. No one can hold any of that against us anymore
10. If they were to run a police report nothing would come up
11. It would say “No record”
12. Justify = Just as if I did it, the it being sin
B. Application
1. What does this means for our life?
2. One of the favorite tricks that the Devil like to uses is to remind us what we did wrong
3. To try and accuse us of not being good enough for heaven
4. I have seen people beet themselves up over this one
5. Judas you may remember hung himself
6. This is what we can be sure of though,
7. Christ offers Justification, no one can ever accuse of not being good enough
8. It is not how good you are, it is all about Christ and how Good He is!
9. You want to know how much God loves you, He love you enough to die for you.
10. God love you enough to justify – just as if I.
11. Don’t let anyone tell you different if they do, tell them to read their Bible, Christ justifies you
C. Illustration
1. I have on occasions, ok why more then occasions, have made a mistake. Sometimes these mistakes, lies, things I never did that I said I would, mistakes were against my Dad. My dad, as you all know, I have tons of respect for. I hate when I have to tell him what I did. But you know what he does? He says no problem.
2. Does he hold that over me? NO. Does he bring it up again? NO! It is settle and forgotten about
3. Our heavenly father is even better at that then my dad. It is like we never sinned.
4. God forgives us! We do not need to fear!
IV. Christ intercedes for us (34)
A. Illustration
1. What do people who are really rich do when they get charged with a crime? They hire the best attorney they can find. The want an attorney that will fight the legal battle. An Attorney that will guarantee victory. An Attorney that they know will win the case for them
B. Explanation
1. Here is what we Got
2. We have someone interceding, or advocating for us, who not only died, but was raised to life sitting at the Right hand of God
3. To continue the legal analogy if God is the Judge, Jesus would also be the Judge. So we have are attorney who is also the judge. Imagine if your judge was your attorney too.
4. Who do you think would win
5. Christ is up their interceding for us
6. We do not have to plea our on case
7. With Christ interceding for us, how could we ever loose?
8. That should bring us all security
9. We know that despite what we have done
10. Christ forgives us and intercedes for us!
C. Application
1. What does this means for our lives?
2. It means that if we have admitted we are sinners
3. Ask God to forgive us of our sins
4. And accept what Christ has done for us on the cross, which is taking our place for the sins we have committed
5. We have nothing to worry about
6. Christ will take care of it
7. We do not have to sit their scared
8. We don’t have to sit in the court room until the journey comes back with their decision
9. Folks, the decision is in!
10. We are declared righteous in God’s sight
V. Christ loves us (35-39)
A. Explanation
1. If you get nothing else from today understand this, Christ loves you
2. Notice what it says in these verses
3. Can Trouble separate you from the love God, NO
4. Can hardship separate you from the love of God, NO
5. Can persecution separate you from the love of God, NO
6. Can Famine, NO
7. Can Nakedness NO
8. Danger NO
9. Sword NO
10. Nothing, nothing, Nothing can separate you from the love of God
B. Application
1. Let’s look at what this means practically in our lives
2. If you loose a love one do we become separate from the love of God? NO!
3. When we loose our job do we become separate form the love of God? NO!
4. When we make a mistake, do we become separated from the love of God? NO!
5. When everyone seems to be against us, are we separated from the love of God? NO!
6. If our friends turn their back on us are we separated from the love of God? No
7. Nothing
8. Nothing
9. Nothing can separate us from the love of God
10. It is impossible
11. You cannot loose the love of God!
C. Illustration
1. I want to give you a challenge. Look at verse 38-39 they are not that long
2. I want you to memorize those verses. Not only memorize them but focus on their meaning
3. Let’s say them together, ready? For I….
Conclusion
A. Fear? You do not need to
B. If you have accepted Christ as your savior look what you have
a. You have God for You
b. You have Christ dieing for You
c. God who justify – just as if I, you
d. Christ who intercedes for you
e. And God who loves you
C. You are lucky
D. There is nothing to fear
E. No matter what
F. No matter the situation
G. God is there for you, God loves You
H. Take these promises
I. Apply them to your life
J. If you are hear today and you have not accept Christ as your savior, I ask that you come talk to me today, I will explain in detail what that all means and how to do it
K. If you are here today and you realize that you have been living in fear and you want to get rid of that fear, I want you to come burden remover and let God have your fears
The question is our you on the same page as God abo
