1. The Security of the Believer.
Romans 8

3. Romans 8:18-21
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

4. Romans 8:18-21
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

6. Romans 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,

8. Romans 8:9
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.

10. Romans 8:14
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

12. Romans 8:15-16
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

14. The Believers Security? Heir of God!

16. Romans 8:17
Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

18. The believers security? Heir of God!
The battle? Darkness.

20. Romans 8:17b
if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

22. John 15:18-21
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

23. John 15:18-21
20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.

25. Daniel Defoe 17th and 18th century English writer.
“Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. And twill be found upon examination, The latter has the larger congregation.”

27. Romans 8:18-19
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

29. 1 Corinthians 4:11-13
To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

30. 1 Corinthians 4:11-13
13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world—right up to this moment.

32. Romans 8:19
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

34. Romans 8:20
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

36. The believers security? Heir of God!
The battle? Darkness.
The Sovereign decree? Pressure!

38. Romans 8:21
 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

40. Romans 8:22-25
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

41. Romans 8:22-25
24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

43. Matthew 24:6-8
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.

45. Romans 8:23
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

47. 2 Corinthians 5:1-5
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

48. 2 Corinthians 5:1-5
2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.

49. 2 Corinthians 5:1-5
4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

50. 2 Corinthians 5:1-5
5 Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

52. Initiation-anticipation(pressure)-release
The Sovereign Decree? Pressure!
Initiation-anticipation(pressure)-release

53. What will the kingdom of heaven be like?

55. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.

57. 2 Corinthians 4:13-14
It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself.

59. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

60. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

61. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.