ROMANS – PART 57 Romans 8:29 Mark Kring, Senior Pastor January 27 & 28, 2018

1. The two most important components of verse 29:  God knows everything.  God has an objective. 2. Some mistakenly think it means God simply foresees who will

exercise belief, and that those are the ones He predestines to be like Jesus. But this assumes that the faith God foresees is our work, not His (Ephesians 2:8-9). 3. Unless God determines and declares that something will

happen, he cannot “know” it. 4. The call is the powerful work of God to bring about what He

commands. It is an effective call...a call that creates what it commands. 5. There is an inherent tension in knowing that believing is

something I do, but my doing is a gift of God. 6. God has predestined that we become like Jesus. 7. All things work together for your good because you were

chosen and loved before you existed; and the way His choice and love express itself is in ordaining for you an unspeakably great future, namely, to be like Christ. 8. No matter how much we may study God’s Word, we accept

there are mysteries we cannot fathom. 9. We are not chosen because of who we are, but because of

who God is. He chooses on the basis of His will and purpose.

10. When the New Testament declares that we are “called to be

God’s people,” two emphases are intended:  The fact that we are believers is within God’s eternal purpose.  Our part in this experience is a response to the call (summoning) of God. 11. Never is the implication given that God accepts some and

rejects others. God deals with each of us on a person-toperson basis, and we are each individually accountable for our response to His offer. 12. From our point of view, we enter into relationship with God

of our own free will. From God’s side, we are called in accordance with His purposes. 13. Although human faith is imperative for salvation, God’s

gracious initiation of salvation is even more imperative (John 6:65). 14. Every true believer moves unalterably toward perfection in

righteousness, as God makes for Himself a people in His likeness because we will reign with Him in heaven throughout all eternity.

GREEK WORDS Proginōskō (prog-in-oce'-ko)—to know beforehand, i.e. foresee :foreknow (ordain)

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