Waiting in Eager Expectation

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SImi COmmunity Church

May 29, 2025

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Series: Transformed   6-1-25

Waiting in Eager Expectation 

(Romans 8:17-39)

THE GOAL OF SANCTIFICATION:

 

Romans 8:29 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son…

 

 

I. GOD’S ________________ IS TO MAKE US LIKE CHRIST

 

Romans 8:17-18 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs… if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

 

  • “I consider” – means to put together with one’s mind, to reason.

 

 

 

 

II. GOD’S ________________ MAY INVOLVE WAITING

 

A. THE GROANING OF ______________________:

 

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

 

 

  • It’s TEMPORARY.

 

Romans 8:20 (ESV) 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it,

 

  • It’s a consequence of SIN.

 

Romans 8:20–21 20 For the creation was subjected to futility… 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.

 

  • It’s a means to an END.

 

Romans 8:22 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

 

  • It’s _____________________.

 

 

Words describing the plight of creation:

suffering (v.18), vanity (v.20), bondage (v.21), decay (v.21), and pain (v.22).

 

 

B. THE GROANING OF ____________________:

 

Romans 8:23 23 …we ourselves… groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.

 

  • Reminds us of HEAVEN.

 

Romans 8:24 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? 

 

  • Comes from the Sanctification _____________.

 

 

 

C. THE GROANING OF THE ___________________:

 

Romans 8:26 (ESV) 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought,

 

  • Helps us in our WEAKNESS.

 

Romans 8:26 (ESV) 26 …For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

 

  • Intercedes for us in DEEP Places.

 

Romans 8:27 (ESV) 27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

 

  • Aligns us With the ______________ of God.

 

 

 

 

PAUL’S CONCLUSION:

 

Romans 8:28 (ESV) 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together (into) for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

 

 

 

A FEW REMINDERS: 

 

1.  God SEES everything you’re going through.

2.  God ____________ about everything you’re going through.

3.  God has the POWER to change whatever you’re going through.

4.  God has a ____________ for everything you’re going through. 

 

 

 

 

 

III. GOD’S ______________ BACKS UP HIS PROMISES

 

 

Question #1  WHO CAN BE __________________ US?

 

Romans 8:31 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 

 

  • GOD IS OUR _______________________!

 

1 John 4:4 (ESV) 4 …he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

 

 

 

Question #2  WHO WILL ___________________ FOR US?

 

Romans 8:32 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

 

  • GOD IS OUR ______________________!

 

Philippians 4:19 19 And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

 

 

 

 

Question #3  WHO WILL BRING A _____________ AGAINST US?

 

Romans 8:33 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 

 

Revelation 12:10 10 For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down. 

 

  • GOD IS OUR _____________________!

 

1 John 2:1 1 …we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

 

 

 

 

Question #4  WHO WILL ___________________ US?

 

Rom 8:34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died-more than that, who was raised to life-is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

 

  • GOD IS OUR _______________________!

 

John 3:18 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

 

 

 

 

Question #5  WHO WILL ____________ US FROM GOD’S LOVE?

 

Romans 8:35–39 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?... 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

  • GOD IS OUR _______________________ PARTNER!

    

John 10:27-28 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.

 

 

WE DON’T EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT:

 

1. OPPOSITION – because God is for us!

 

2. SITUATIONS – because God will provide!

 

3. ACCUSATIONS – because Jesus intercedes for us!

 

4. CONDEMNATION – because the Holy Spirit intercedes for us!

 

5. SEPARATION – because God will never let you go!