A Message of Hope

Yesterday, I was asking God for a message that I would want to hear.
And when I was at the church, the pastor said,
"I know this message is what we need these days."
Haha.
A smile was painted on my face.
And that morning, that was the passage that I was reading.
Romans 8:18-39.

Romans 8:25 is one of my most favorite verse.
Hmm.
I'll write here the notes of what we had discussed yesterday at church.

The Message of Hope
Romans 8:18-39

I. Our future glory gives us hope and motivates us in facing our present sufferings.

Romans 8:18

II. Our hope rests in Jesus Christ, the One that will liberate the creation bondage of evil and decay.

Romans 8:19-22

III. We wait and we hope for the liberation and redemption of our bodies. (salvation.)

Romans 8:23

IV. We believe and hope for what we do not yet have and we must wait for it patiently.

Romans 8:25

V.For the Christian, even if we are suffering, there is no such thing as hopeless situation.

Romans 8:28

VI. Nothing and no one but in Jesus Christ alone can we live in a constant state of hope.

Romans 8:31, 38-39

I'm really blessed yesterday. I know that even if I don't have the things and people that I want, I still have God. And, there is still hope with everything. Haha. God Bless Everyone.

Romans 8:18-39

¹⁸I am sure that what we are suffering now cannot compare with the glory that will be shown to us.

¹⁹In fact, all creation is eagerly waiting for God to show who his children are.

²⁰Meanwhile, creation is confused, but not because it wants to be confused. God made it this way in the hope

²¹that creation would be set free from decay and would share in the glorious freedom of his children.

²²We know that all creation is still groaning and is in pain, like a woman about to give birth.

²³The Spirit makes us sure about what we will be in the future. But now we groan silently, while we wait for God to show that we are his children. This means that our bodies will also be set free.

²⁴And this hope is what saves us. But if we already have what we hope for, there is no need to keep on hoping.

²⁵However, we hope for something we have not yet seen, and we patiently wait for it.

²⁶In certain ways we are weak, but the Spirit is here to help us. For example, when we don't know what to pray for, the Spirit prays for us in ways that cannot be put into words.

²⁷All of our thoughts are known to God. He can understand what is in the mind of the Spirit, as the Spirit prays for God's people.

²⁸We know that God is always at work for the good of everyone who loves him. They are the ones God has chosen for his purpose,

²⁹and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so that his Son would be the first of many children.

³⁰God then accepted the people he had already decided to choose, and he has shared his glory with them.

³¹What can we say about all this? If God is on our side, can anyone be against us?

³²God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won't he freely give us everything else?

³³If God says his chosen ones are acceptable to him, can anyone bring charges against them? ³⁴Or can anyone condemn them? No indeed! Christ died and was raised to life, and now he is at God's right side, speaking to him for us.

³⁵Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, suffering, and hard times, or hunger and nakedness, or danger and death?

³⁶It is exactly as the Scriptures say,

"For you we face death

all day long.

We are like sheep

on their way

to be butchered."

³⁷In everything we have won more than a victory because of Christ who loves us.

³⁸I am sure that nothing can separate us from God's love--not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present or the future,

³⁹and not powers above or powers below. Nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love for us in Christ Jesus our Lord!