His Love Ministries
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Tuesday Nov 29, 2016
ROMANS 8:31-33 IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US?
Tuesday Nov 29, 2016
Tuesday Nov 29, 2016
Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
Ro 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
This carries Paul’s challenge to all doubters. There is no one on a par with God. The first question is general, What, then, shall we say in response to this? (cf. 4:1; 6:1; 9:14, 30) The obvious response to 8:28–30 would be to say “Hallelujah,” or to stand in open-mouthed amazement.[1]
8:31 The key to the believer's security is that, "God is for us." What He has done for us through His Son in the past and what He is doing for us through the Spirit in the present should give us confidence. He will certainly complete His work of salvation by glorifying us in the future (cf. Phil. 1:6). Nobody and nothing can stand in His way.
Philippians 1:6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
Ps 27:1-6
God is making all things work for us (Rom. 8:28). In His person and His providence, God is for us. Sometimes, like Jacob, we lament, “All these things are against me” (Gen. 42:36), when actually everything is working for us. The conclusion is obvious: “If God be for us, who can be against us?”
The believer needs to enter into each new day realizing that God is for him. There is no need to fear, for his loving Father desires only the best for His children, even if they must go through trials to receive His best.
Jer. 29:11 For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope’ ”[1]
This leads to a series of six more specific questions. The first is, If God is for us, who can be against us? Obviously, Satan and his demonic hosts are against believers (cf. Eph. 6:11–13; 1 Peter 5:8), but they cannot ultimately prevail and triumph over believers. God is the self-existent One and the sovereign Creator and, since He is for believers, no one can oppose believers successfully.
He is for believers to the extent that[1]
Ro 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
Spared not- old verb used about the offering of Isaac in Gen. 22:16. See Acts 20:29[1]
God's plan for us cost Him dearly. He did not spare His own Son (cf. Gen. 22). Having made the greatest possible sacrifice for us already, we can know that He will also do whatever else may be necessary to conform us to the image of His Son (cf. 2 Pet. 1:3).
John 1:29 The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Romans 5:8-10 and 8:32 appear to be unanswerable texts for those who deny the scriptural teaching of Christ's substitutionary atonement. These passages state plainly that, if Jesus gave Himself for us in atonement, everything else must follow because, having done the most that He could do in dying as our substitute, the lesser things—such as conviction of sin, repentance, grace, faith— must inevitably follow. God's great eternal purpose, expressed so beautifully in 8:28-30, must reach its end in glorification for all those for who trust in Him
The argument here is from the greater to the lesser. If when we were sinners, God gave us His best, now that we are God’s children, will He not give us all that we need? In Mt 6 Jesus used this same argument when He tried to convince people that it was foolish to worry and fear. God cares for the birds and sheep, and even for the lilies; surely He will care for you!
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016
Wednesday Nov 16, 2016
This is a most wonderful section of scripture in that we see that God foreknew (predetermined to save us) us so that He might conform (make us like Him) us to His image. The purposes of God are so much greater than our puny mind can comprehend. Isaiah 55:8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. We use the Bible and come up with beliefs about what it teaches that put everything in a nice neat little box and call them theology. Many of these are really good, but when we begin to read between the lines and say things that God never said then it becomes a problem. This has been done to this wonderful passage and many others in the Bible. Remember the Bible always teaches that God is sovereign, but man is responsible. How this works is the mystery that is spoken of in the Isaiah 55:8-9 passage above and many others. Many times we think we have God all figured out and yet we don’t. Paul said it well in Philippians 3:12-14. He said he had not attained, he had not arrived, but he pressed on towards the reason he was saved to be like Jesus Christ. If Paul, the greatest Christian who has ever lived hadn’t figured it all out after 30 years of being a Christian then I really think we have a long way to go. Also if Peter writes in his epistle of things being hard to understand and that people twist the scriptures to their own destruction then we need to really come down off of our opinion that we have it all figured out. 2 Peter 3:15 and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation--as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16 as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures. The bottom line in this passage getting past all the controversy that can be brought up in this section, is that God decided (predetermined) in the past to save people that they would be made like his Son so that He (Jesus) would have the highest position among all those that He would save. That is the thrust of the passage in a nutshell.
How God determined and who He determined would be saved is is a debate that only causes division in the body of Christ. I think the fact that it is absolutely the most wonderful gift that God could ever give us that He would save us and make us like Him. That is the point.
Wednesday Nov 02, 2016
HIS LOVE MINISTRIES BANQUET SEPTEMBER 20TH 2016
Wednesday Nov 02, 2016
Wednesday Nov 02, 2016
Matthew
25:34 "Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you
blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world: 35 'for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you
gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 'I was naked and you
clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.'
37 "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You
hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 'When did we see You a
stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 'Or when did we see You
sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40 "And the King will answer and say
to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least
of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'
James
1:27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit
orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the
world.
Please help His Love Ministries
reach out to those the World has forgotten.
Everyone we minister to is locked up in some way, shape, or form. Some are locked up in bodies that don't work
and in the Nursing Home facility or in the wheelchair or bed they cannot get
out of. We minister to children and
youth who are locked up because of behavioral problems or their parents aren't
doing right and their cry is we want to have a “REAL FAMILY”. Other kids are
locked up because they have committed crimes.
We also minister to those locked up at the jail/prison; to those locked
up in addictions to drugs, alcohol, depression, and suicidal thoughts and a
variety of other things that keep them from becoming who Jesus wants them to
be. He came to give us life and set us
free and these folks are not free that we minister to, but we can set them free
through Christ Jesus at least in their minds and spirit.