Seven Assurances From God

Scripture Text 

Romas. 8:28-39

Intro: God in His word has given us the assurance that He will deliver us from our struggling and suffering. He has not only saved our souls but He has assured us that nothing can separate us from the love of God which we have in Christ Jesus our Lord!

1. Assurance 1: God works things out for those who love Him. Romans 8:28 (NKJV) And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
a. We must know some things! God works All things together for our good if we love Him and are called according to His purpose. His purpose is for us to be like Jesus.
2. Assurance 2: God has determined to fulfill His purpose for the believer. Romans 8:29 (NKJV) For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
  a.  Since God is not limited by time as we are, he “sees” past, present, and future at the same time. God’s foreknowledge, insofar as we can understand it, means that God knows who will accept the offer of salvation. When we accept the offer of salvation, God has a predetermined plan to conform or begin a new work in our lives to change us into the image, the exact likeness of Christ.
 b. To honor Christ (v.29b) When all believers are conformed to Christ’s likeness, the resurrected Christ will be the firstborn of a new race of humans, who are purified from sin. Because we are God’s children, we are Christ’s brothers and sisters.
3. Assurance 3: God has set the glorification of the believer—once-for-all. Romans 8:30 (NKJV) Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
a. The true believer can rest in this glorious truth that God has done three wonderful things for him. God has called, justified, and glorified him. Note that all three steps are in the past tense; all three steps are something already accomplished. The believer's glorification has already taken place in the plan and mind of God. God already sees believers glorified; He already sees believers in His presence. It is assured and predestined—already written down in the books of heaven, never to be erased.
4. Assurance 4: God has acted for the believer, not against him. Romans 8:31-33 (NKJV) 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.
  a.  He is our Savior (v.32a) It was while we were sinners, acting and rebelling against God, that He gave His Son to die for us.
  b.  He is our Provider (v.32b) God not only saved us but He continues to supply our every need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus our Lord.
  c.  He Justified us. (v.33) It is God; only God can charge us with sin and shame. But if we have truly trusted Jesus Christ as our Savior, we are one of God's elect, he does not charge us with sin. He has justified us through the blood of Christ. He forgives our sin and counts us righteous in Christ Jesus. If we are God's child, no one can charge us with anything. We are God's; we belong to God.
5. Assurance 5: Christ does not condemn the believer. Romans 8:34 (NKJV) Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
  a.  He died for us (v.34a) Christ has died for us. Christ is our glorious Savior. When we honestly come to Him, He does not condemn us for our sin and shame; He forgives us. He is able to forgive us because He died bearing our sins for us.

  b.  He arose for us (v.34b) .  Christ has risen from the dead for us. Christ is our risen Lord. His resurrection does two marvelous things for the believer.

 c. The resurrection of the Lord proves that God was perfectly satisfied with the death of Jesus Christ. What Christ did—His dying for our sins—was acceptable to God; He has accepted Jesus' death for us. God has approved His dying for us.

  d.  By His resurrection Jesus has been exalted for us (v.34c) The Lord Jesus Christ is exalted as the Sovereign and majestic Lord of the universe. He is the Ruler who reigns and rules over all, who possesses all might and power and is full of all wisdom and truth. He is the One who is going to destroy and utterly eliminate sin and evil in the world. He is the One who is going to establish a kingdom of righteousness and justice, love and truth in the new heavens and earth.
  e.  He intercedes for us (v.34d)  Christ makes intercession for us before the throne of God. He is our great Intercessor, our Mediator and Advocate who stands between God and mankind. It is Christ Jesus who brings us to God and who not only redeems us, and forgives of our sins, but He also prays for us in agreement with God's will for us..
6. Assurance 6: Christ has made us more than conquerors. Romans 8:37 (NKJV)  ³⁷ Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

a. No force on earth can separate us from Christ's love. Romans 8:35-36 (NKJV) ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

Christ comforts us through all trials. Christ supplies all our needs. Christ delivers us through persecution. Christ delivers us into His very presence, giving us eternal life if we are martyred. Christ cares for us no matter the situation. Christ enables us to overcome the world no matter the situation. No matter the circumstances, we are more than conquerors through Christ who has loved us (v:37). Christ will carry us through all, strengthening and encouraging us. We cannot lose, no matter the severity of the situation, because Christ loves us and is going to look after and take care of us. We believers can rest assured, Christ protects us from the severest circumstances.
7. Assurance 7: Nothing can separate us from God's love. Romans 8:38-39 (NKJV) ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

a. There is nothing in the universe that can separate the believer from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Death puts us in His presence. Nothing we experience in this life can separate us from His love. No angel or spiritual creature can separate us from His love. Nothing in this present time or future events can separate us from God's love. Nothing from outer space or from hell below can seperate us from God's love. If there be any other creature than the ones named, that creature cannot separate us from "the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

 As believers, we can be fully persuaded of this glorious promise of God..

Invitation: To be able to claim these assurances for yourself, you must confess your sins to Jesus, ask Him to forgive those sins and then invite Him into your life. If you have not done that now is the time. Jesus said “no man can come to the Father but by Me.”