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Hope In Suffering
Romans 8:18-30
December 4, 2005
! Introduction
- Kerry Eidse - MDS - Hurricane Katrina.
- widespread damage of the storm.
- 10 or 20 miles wide and 200 miles long,
- remember pictures of what had happened.
- “How can we explain this in God’s world?”
o If God is Lord
- more intense this year
o Tsunami
o hurricanes
o earthquake in Bangladesh.
- storms of life hit us personally
o loss of sight, the loss of a spouse, the loss of a driver’s licence, a debilitating fall, loss of hearing and so on.
- How can we explain these things in God’s world?
- not only ask how can we explain them,
- “how can we cope with them in our own life?”
- C&C SS class, - Romans.
- Romans 8:18-30.
- a good year to look at this passage because of all the disasters
- dig into scripture to find answers for them.
\\ - When I got hurt, as a child,
o “When you are a grandfather, it won’t hurt any more.”
o now I am a grandfather.
o trying to encourage me that someday things will be better.
- “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”
o encourages us and also challenges us
o significant thoughts which speak about the world’s suffering and our own suffering.
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I. Our Present Sufferings
!! A. Why This Suffering?
- this is what the world is like.
- Disasters happen all over the world,
- “How did it get this way?”
- Romans 8:20 - “subjected to frustration.”
- What does this mean?
o world did not get this way by itself.
o not a natural process of degeneration.
o all matter tends to decay
o “Subjected” means that the decay has been imposed.
o Someone did it to this world.
o Of course that someone is God.
\\ - why did God do this?
- Why would he introduce destruction into something that He created so well
- 20,21 help us answer that question.
o because of our sin.
o a connection between our choice to sin and the bondage to destruction of our physical world.
o not us pitted against the world,
o the world groaning because of us
o we ourselves sharing in the pain of the present situation.
!! B. How Serious Is It?
- verse 20 - “subjected to frustration.”
- Most translations use the word “futility.”
o that which does not function according to design.
o world is not what God created it to be.
o We and the whole world are trapped in this situation.
o effects of aging.
§ 80 and 90 year old people running marathons.
§ birthday party of a rather spry 100 year old
§ eventually they will also die.
!! C. How Does It Affect Us?
- verse 23 - “we groan inwardly.”
- Verse 18 - “sufferings,”
- verse 22 - “groaning” and “the pains of childbirth.”
- Verse 23 - “groan inwardly”
- 26 - weakness.
- Although we are waiting for something infinitely better, the completion of this something better cannot come under the present order.
- We are waiting for Christ to return
- a time of renewal and restoration.
- Until that comes, the whole world and we ourselves are groaning, we are waiting and wishing.
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II.
But…
!! A. We Groan, But With Hope
- daughter-in-law is expecting her second child on January 1.
- anticipating a second grandchild.
- an expectation of this exciting event.
- an expectation in our groaning as well.
o “pains of childbirth” - verse 22,
§ coming of a child, there is the pain of waiting and the pain of childbirth.
§ trials of our world bring us both the trial of pain lasting a long time and the pain itself.
§ an expectation in our groaning.
§ “Pains of childbirth” not only describes the pain, but also the expectation of something to come.
o we do not despair and become discouraged and depressed in our present suffering.
We are looking forward to something better.
- What is that “better?”
o verse 18 and 30 mention the word “glory.”
o bracketed in glory.
o not coincidental.
- what glory is like.
o Verse 19 - we will be revealed as the children of God.
§ That is glory!
o Verse 21 - we will be liberated from bondage and that we will experience the glorious freedom of children of God.
§ That is glory!
o no longer be subject to death and decay.
o no longer be trapped in our sin.
o Verse 23 indicates that we will experience adoption as sons and the redemption of our bodies.
§ That also is glory!
- Hope,
o does not mean that we can clearly see all that will be.
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