God's gift of Everything

Speaker: 
Andrew Fountain
Date: 
Sun, 2020-12-27

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  • If God has given you his own beloved Son, Jesus, then will he withhold anything from you?

In Romans 8 Paul gives us some of the most encouraging words in the Bible

Sermon Outline - God’s gift of Everything

Goal:

To successfully unwrap the gift!

Outline

  1. God’s gift to us of Jesus
  2. The Logic of Rom 8:32
  3. But what about when it doesn’t seem like that?
  4. Receiving this gift

1. God’s gift to us of Jesus

Romans 8:31–39

  1. What then shall we say about these things?
    If God is for us, who can be against us?
    32Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
  2. Who will bring any charge against God’s elect?
    It is God who justifies.
  3. Who is the one who will condemn?
    Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised)
    who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.
     
  4. Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
    Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
    (36As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”)
    37No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us!
  5. For I am convinced that
    neither death, nor life,
    nor angels, nor heavenly rulers,
    nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,
    39nor 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.

based on NET Bible

2. The Logic of Rom 8:32

Logic: 3 parts to a syllogism

  1. Cats have four legs
  2. My friend has a cat
  3. Therefore my friend’s cat has four legs

Another syllogism

  1. Canadians play the best hockey
  2. The Maple Leafs are all Canadian
  3. Therefore the Maple Leafs always win the Stanley cup

A third syllogism

  1. Human beings (apart from Jesus) are imperfect and flawed
  2. The Queen is a human being
  3. The Queen is imperfect and flawed

Wonderful logic

  1. Father God has given the gift of Jesus Christ for us, to suffer and die and pay for our sins
  2. Nothing is more precious to the Father than Jesus
  3. There is no other gift that God would not give us

Romans 8:31

“What then shall we say about these things?
If God is for us, who can be against us?”

  1. “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all”
  2. implied that his own Son is the most precious gift he could give
  3. “how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?”

3. But what about when it doesn’t seem like that?

Logic

  1. I am a child of the King
  2. All his resources are available to me
  3. So nothing bad will ever happen

Two Errors

None of heaven now Some of heaven All of heaven now
Don’t expect healing till heaven God loves to heal, so pray for it Healing is your right! You’ll always be healed if you have faith
All blessings are “spiritual” Pray for material blessings You have a right to the wealth of heaven now!

4. Receiving this gift: The Love of Christ

Romans 8:31–39

  • Read Romans 8:35–39

Updated on 2020-12-28 by Andrew Fountain