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"If you live inside this massive promise [of Romans 8:28], your life is more solid and stable than Mount Everest. Nothing can blow you over when you are inside the walls of Romans 8:28. Outside Romans 8:28 all is confusion and anxiety and fear and uncertainty.
"If you live inside this massive promise [of Romans 8:28], your life is more solid and stable than Mount Everest. Nothing can blow you over when you are inside the walls of Romans 8:28. Outside Romans 8:28 all is confusion and anxiety and fear and uncertainty.
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Outside this promise of all-encompassing future grace, there are straw houses of drugs and pornography and dozens of futile diversions. There are slat walls and tin roofs of fragile investment strategies and fleeting insurance coverage and trivial retirement plans.
Outside this promise of all-encompassing future grace, there are straw houses of drugs and pornography and dozens of futile diversions. There are slat walls and tin roofs of fragile investment strategies and fleeting insurance coverage and trivial retirement plans.
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There are cardboard fortifications of deadbolt locks and alarm systems and antiballistic missiles. Outside are a thousand substitutes for Romans 8:28.
Once you walk through the door of love into the massive, unshakeable structure of Romans 8:28, everything changes.
There are cardboard fortifications of deadbolt locks and alarm systems and antiballistic missiles. Outside are a thousand substitutes for Romans 8:28.
Once you walk through the door of love into the massive, unshakeable structure of Romans 8:28, everything changes.
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There come into your life stability and depth and freedom. You simply can’t be blown over anymore.
There come into your life stability and depth and freedom. You simply can’t be blown over anymore.
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The confidence that a sovereign God governs for your good all the pain an all the pleasure that you will ever experience is an incomparable refuge and security and hope and power in your life.
The confidence that a sovereign God governs for your good all the pain an all the pleasure that you will ever experience is an incomparable refuge and security and hope and power in your life.
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When God’s people really live by the future grace of Romans 8:28 – from measles to the mortuary – they are the freest and strongest and most generous people in the world. Their light shines and people give glory to their Father in heaven.”
- John Piper
When God’s people really live by the future grace of Romans 8:28 – from measles to the mortuary – they are the freest and strongest and most generous people in the world. Their light shines and people give glory to their Father in heaven.”
- John Piper
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"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28 (NASB)
"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28 (NASB)
