FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT: PERSUADED (PART 2)

We pray that you are growing in your ability to Fight the Good Fight as we are moving through this series.  As believers, we are called to “fight on our knees” through prayer and praise, but it is hard. There are so many distractions! The voices of doubt and division are constant.  There is an internal dialogue that the enemy of our souls amplifies to move us towards the darkness.  We would be defeated except the light of persuasion refocuses our hearts, minds, spirits, and strength.  We have to be convinced of our convictions, such as: God is the Almighty God…God is good all the time…God will never leave us or forsake us…God is always faithful to his promises! We return to Romans 8:28-39, and our sermon is Persuaded, Part 2. These verses continue to strengthen our spirit for the battles ahead. God is at work to help us see his power and how his resurrection energy is at work in everything to bring about his glory. This energy lifts us from the shadow of death into the powerful hope of grace and love! We pray that this power will transform your darkness into light, your fear into faith, and your despair into an undeniable assurance of God’s love for you!  

Romans 8:28-29: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. ³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died– more than that, who was raised to life– is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.