Paul's heart for the nation of Israel is a burden hard to comprehend apart from the work of the Holy Spirit leading him into the heart of Christ for the lost of his nation. Consider here the movement into identification with the lost that the Spirit will take the intercessor.

Paul's prayer for Israel teaches us a proper perspective on our love of country.

Are not you glad that your triumph in life doesn't depend upon the attitude you maintain but on the unchanging eternal life and love of God? I am glad to live in the hour I live in, but I thank God for the testimonies of those who faced down the worse that might come upon them and saw beyond it the conquest of God's Love.

We learn to live with it. We are surrounded by voices of accusation and condemnation. Our responses to them bring us under the influence of our accusers. Satan is called the accuser of the Brethren. This is his strategy for control. They come at us with moral measurements and a request that we justify ourselves before them. But one day these voices will be silenced. Romans 8:33-34

The short phrase "with him" in Romans 8:32 designates the currency through which you were purchased from slavery into salvation.

The promise of Romans 8:28 for good is the good of what end? It is the good end of being conformed into the image of Christ. It is an end that only delights those who love God.

Romans 8:29-31 teaches us of the loving choice God made of us and what he to and what he chose us for - That we might be conformed the image of his Son.

From Romans 8:28 consider God's design in his orchestration of all things. We might protest that all is for our good but then we might not understand what is our good.

In what way do we not know how to pray? And in what way does the Holy Spirit help us in our weakness?

We have identified our sufferings the last two weeks in the groans of creation, the groans of the Christian and in the aching groans of God's Spirit for his people. We have noted these groans are not emanating from us as sighs of misery but as sighs of anticipation or longings for future glory. Now we look at the glory we are to measure all our sufferings against: