All Things Work Together for Good

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Sermon Thesis: A follower of Jesus can take encouragement in God’s promise and must also exercise caution not to say what God does not promise.

Key Text: Romans 8:28

God is the One at Work

Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. —Phillipians 2:12-13 (NIV)

All Things are Not Just Working for Good by Default

And when the mourning was over, David Sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. —Samuel 11:27 (ESV)

Two Conditions of the Promise

  1. Human Perspective—Loving God
  2. Divine Perspective—Called by God

Applying God’s Sovereignty to Human Suffering