Romans 8:36-39
1. Life will look different than God's promises.
2. Your suffering is for the sake of God.
-God's glory and your good are found in your testimony through suffering.
-God's glory and your good are found through suffering's ability to shape you into something more.
3. Right theology activates the redemptive power of suffering.
What is something that by winning victories becomes something different?
4. The redeeming victory is through, and, just is, the love of God in Christ.
Why would you want mere innocence when you can experience a love that loves the guilty?
The love of God in Christ is so good, so overwhelming, so perfect, so able to bring up into itself the loose ends of the world and the scattered sufferings of your life, that everything is worth it.
As we read the Old Testament, we find promises whose fulfillment we
