City On A Hill

WORSHIP TIMES

Sunday 11.00am
Wednesday 7.00pm
(childcare provided)

LOCATION

The Lobo Theater
3013 Central Ave. NE
ABQ, NM 87106
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NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS

At City on a Hill, we not only believe the "content" of the gospel, but we also live out the "context"of the gospel in small groups.

Please visit our
Neighborhood Groups
page for more info.

We desire to be more than a church in the city of Albuquerque, we long to be a church for the city of Albuquerque..

Romans 8:28-39

Recorded on: June 11, 2008 | Speaker: Dave Bruskas

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Romans 8:28-39

Overview
Romans 8 continues with the theme of our secure relationship with God achieved through the person and work of Jesus. In verses 16-17, we learn that suffering is a prerequisite to receiving all that God has promised us in Jesus.

Romans 8:18-27 reveals that the presence of God in the person of the Holy Spirit enables us to endure suffering. A second provision is made known in Romans 8:28-39. In this text, we discover that God’s purpose for us in suffering is our conformity to Jesus. We can experience comfort in our trials by knowing that our relationship with God was predetermined by Him in eternity past, enabled by His effective calling of us to Himself, and preserved by Him toward the consummation of glory. For those of us in Jesus, our suffering is never arbitrary or meaningless. In God’s economy, it is always productive according to His loving purpose. He is making us into people who feel, think, speak and act like Jesus.

Applications

1) Are you suffering today? If so, how can you trust God in your pain?

2) Whom can you encourage with these truths today?

3) Meditate on Romans 8:28-30 and record your thoughts in a journal.

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