Fellowship - Receiving All Things With Christ
(Romans 8:28-39)

(Class Notes)

• The Elect according to the Purpose of God (Romans 8:28-30)
  • All Things being Worked (for the Good of the Elect)
    • ALL THINGS (good and evil) stand in contrast to the ALL THINGS He gives the believer with Christ (Romans 8:32)
    • Joseph learned God's working out of ALL THINGS in the matter of his brethren's TRESPASS against him (Genesis 50:15-21)
    • Job DOES NOT SEE God's working in his life, but he DOES KNOW that God is at work and is, therefore, SURE of the result (Job 23:8-10)
  • Things Past (Election, Foreknowledge, Predestination)
    • ELECTION is NEVER OF WORKS, BUT OF GRACE (Romans 9:11; Romans 11:5); but its EVIDENCE depends upon which God requires for the OBEDIENCE OF FAITH - EITHER ONE TIME trust (II Thessalonians 2:13 cf. Ephesians 1:13-14; Ephesians 4:30) OR CONTINUOUS obedience (II Peter 1:10 cf. I Peter 1:13-16)
    • FOREKNOWLEDGE is in reference to those who God knows as HIS OWN (Amos 3:1-2; Galatians 4:9) as opposed to those who do not belong to Him (Matthew 7:22-23)
    • PREDESTINATION is in reference to God's PURPOSE that God has DETERMINED for His ELECT, i.e. to be CONFORMED to the IMAGE of His Son
      • PRESENT provision - the SPIRIT of adoption (Romans 8:15)
      • FUTURE completion - the BODY of adoption (Romans 8:23)
  • Things Present (Calling and Justification)
    • MAN'S CALLING may NOT ALWAYS be effectual (Matthew 22:2-14), but GOD'S CALLING AWAYS is (I Corinthians 1:9,18-24)
    • GOD JUSTIFIES the sinner by FAITH in His provision of CHRIST'S RIGHTEOUSNESS for the remission of sins (CHRIST'S SHED BLOOD) and GOD is thereby JUST for doing so (Romans 3:24-26)
  • Things Future (Glorification)
    • God sees the believer POSITIONALLY NOW in HEAVEN and GLORIFIED with His Son (Ephesians 2:4-6) even though the believer is NOT THERE PHYSICALLY YET (Philippians 3:20-21)

• No Condemnation of the Elect by God (Romans 8:31-34)
  • Who shall Lay the Charge?
    • God SPARED NOT His OWN SON in Whom are ALL His PROMISES to us (II Corinthians 1:19-20)
      • Abraham DID NOT WITHOLD his ONLY SON from God in whom were ALL God's PROMISES to him (Genesis 22:11-12,16-18)
    • God JUSTIFIES the elect through the RIGHTEOUSNESS of His Son during His Son's absence (II Corinthians 5:17-21 cf. Romans 3:24-26)
      • In the Day of the Lord (Revelation 1:9-11), Satan stands as the ACCUSER AGAINST the Lord's brethren (Revelation 12:9-10)
      • They OVERCOME him BY the LORD'S BLOOD as a result of being FAITHFUL to the SHEDDING OF THEIR BLOOD (Revelation 12:11 cf, Revelation 7:13-14)
      • THE WORKS of THE OVERCOMERS are THE ISSUE in the letters to THE seven TRIBULATION churches:
        • THE TRIBULATION - the 1st Half (Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos) - Revelation 2:2,7,9,11,13,17
        • THE TRIBULATION - the Midpoint (Thyatira) - Revelation 2:19,26
        • THE TRIBULATION - the 2nd Half (Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea) - Revelation 3:1,5,8,12,15,21
  • Who shall Pronounce the Sentence?
    • CHRIST'S DEATH is OUR RECONCILATION to God and HIS LIFE assures OUR LIFE (Romans 5:9-10,17)
    • There is NO CONDEMNATION to them that are IN CHRIST JESUS (Romans 8:1), because He CONDEMNED MAN'S SINFUL FLESH IN HIS SON'S FLESH (Romans 8:3)
• No Separation of the Elect from God (Romans 8:35-39)
  • The Love of Christ (His Intercession)
    • SEATED with Christ at God's RIGHT HAND (Colossians 3:1-2 cf. Ephesians 2:4-6), He (Christ) INTERCEDES before the Father on OUR BEHALF that God would grant us to EXPERIENCE BY FAITH THOSE THINGS HE (CHRIST) NOW ENJOYS (Romans 8:32)
    • God RESPONDS by introducing THOSE THINGS into our lives WHICH MAKE US MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM (CHRIST) THAT LOVED US (II Corinthians 4:6-11)
  • The Love of God in Christ Jesus (His Gift)
    • God's LOVE is centered in the GIFT of His Son (Romans 8:32)
    • ALL THINGS belong TO US who belong TO CHRIST Who belongs TO GOD (I Corinthians 3:21-23)

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