Scripture: Romans 8:28-30 Key Takeaways:

The bad things will all be turned to good.

 

Romans 8:18

 

John 11:33-35

 

John 11:38-39

 

The good things can never be taken away from you.

 

John 6:44

 

Jeremiah 32:38-41

 

Ephesians 1:4-6

 

“What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me.. I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. This is momentous knowledge. There is unspeakable comfort—the sort of comfort that energizes, be it said, not enervates—in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.” - J.I. Packer, Knowing God

 

“Ultimately, the proof of a right approach to these doctrines is that you find in them the greatest urge to holiness and sanctification. If your belief of these doctrines has not driven you to holiness you are in a dangerous condition … you are misusing them to say: Well, it is all right with me, it matters not therefore what I do. I am saved … No one can truly see these doctrines without being humbled.” - Martin Lloyd Jones 

 

The best things are always ahead of us.

 

■          “Foreknew”: God set his love on us.

■          “Predestined”: God planned a glorious process & destination for us.

■          “Called & Justified”: God works out his plan in time.

■          “Glorified”: God completes the plan in eternity.

 

John 17:22-24

 

Philippians 3:20-21