WEBVTT 00:00:02.279 --> 00:03:12.939 Introduction My challenge and encouragement to you is that over the what we've learned over the last six weeks, that you will take this road and that you will resolve to share it with someone who needs to hear it. 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.199 This isn't just the job of the pastor is what it means to be a Christian. 00:03:21.729 --> 00:03:25.479 And so here we go into our last part of the road. 00:03:25.509 --> 00:03:36.490 Let's go by just reviewing what the markers on the road we have seen so far to help us understand the gospel marker number one for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 00:03:36.491 --> 00:03:40.479 Romans three 23 that we all have the same starting point. 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:41.620 We all need help. 00:03:43.389 --> 00:04:19.060 Marker number two for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord that God made away even despite our sin, he made a way that we can have life marker number three and he didn't give it to us because we got our act together because we got it all figured out because we were a students, but rather God demonstrates his own love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us before we ever even knew that we needed help to begin with. 00:04:19.540 --> 00:04:28.480 He already had paid the price for that sin marker four and this is how you express your faith in Jesus Christ. 00:04:28.480 --> 00:04:34.509 If you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 00:04:35.470 --> 00:04:38.110 Romans 10, nine that's it. 00:04:38.139 --> 00:04:39.189 Full stop. 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:40.930 You will be saved. 00:04:42.790 --> 00:04:43.420 No question. 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:44.740 Done. 00:04:44.740 --> 00:04:45.040 Deal. 00:04:46.269 --> 00:04:52.209 Simple but not simplistic for a huge price was paid to make that happen. 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:53.050 Market number five. 00:04:54.069 --> 00:04:59.230 Therefore, as a result, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.470 We can't be punished because of sin. 00:05:02.471 --> 00:05:05.259 The punishments already been taken by Jesus himself. 00:05:05.709 --> 00:05:14.199 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation to live in such a way that we can share God's glory with the world. 00:05:16.509 --> 00:05:19.329 And now into our last marker on the road. 00:05:20.410 --> 00:05:23.019 And I want to get there by sharing a couple of stories. 00:05:23.021 --> 00:05:27.850 The first is, how many have you taken your kids or grandkids to Liberty science center? 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:28.660 Liberty science center? 00:05:28.661 --> 00:05:29.029 Yeah. 00:05:29.089 --> 00:05:29.420 Yeah. 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:30.519 Tons of fun. 00:05:30.521 --> 00:05:31.300 Liberty science center. 00:05:31.300 --> 00:05:34.930 So, this was maybe, I'm going to say a year ago. 00:05:35.149 --> 00:05:49.240 Could have been a little longer, but we went to Liberty science center and we went on, there's this thing where the skyscrapers are, and you can walk on the beams, like you're walking on a skyscraper and it's, it's pretty high up. 00:05:50.149 --> 00:05:50.689 It's pretty high. 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:52.329 I don't, maybe 20 feet or something. 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.160 It looks like a thousand feet when you're up there. 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:58.750 Anyway, so my kids were like, Oh, that's really cool. 00:05:59.379 --> 00:06:00.220 Let's do that. 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:03.480 Okay, sure. 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:08.790 So I take them up there and they're starting to get a little, well, I don't know. 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:10.379 I don't know if we really want to do this. 00:06:10.380 --> 00:06:11.040 I'm like, no, no, no, no. 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:11.790 Don't worry about it. 00:06:12.449 --> 00:06:13.439 I'll do it too. 00:06:15.490 --> 00:06:16.149 I'll do it too. 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:18.670 So I'm gonna show how brave dad is. 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:30.939 So, so then, and then like they're getting, well, it's getting, the situation is just crumbling in front of my eyes as we're getting ready and we're getting close to being our turn. 00:06:31.689 --> 00:06:35.709 Then they're just like, um, yeah, we don't really want to do this anymore. 00:06:36.490 --> 00:06:37.629 I'm like, no, listen, listen. 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:39.069 I'll go first. 00:06:39.610 --> 00:06:40.959 I'll go first and I'll show you. 00:06:40.961 --> 00:06:42.250 There's nothing to be afraid of. 00:06:45.029 --> 00:06:52.699 So they, you know, harness me up and as they're harnessing me up, they bolt awesome. 00:06:53.850 --> 00:06:54.300 Thank you. 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:55.170 Thanks kids. 00:06:55.889 --> 00:06:56.399 But you know what? 00:06:56.401 --> 00:07:06.000 I'm going to show you, this is fabulous So I get harnessed up and I get out there and there's something I discovered about myself. 00:07:07.699 --> 00:07:13.110 I'm very afraid of heights, like very afraid. 00:07:14.009 --> 00:07:17.759 So I'm on this thing and the whole time this is not safe. 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:19.500 How is this even legal? 00:07:21.519 --> 00:07:23.149 this must be for kids anyway. 00:07:23.151 --> 00:07:24.170 I shouldn't be up here. 00:07:24.230 --> 00:07:26.540 They should have stopped me and up there. 00:07:26.540 --> 00:07:33.009 And I'm walking around the thing like, and I'm like holding onto the thing, but I'm trying so hard to be brave. 00:07:33.220 --> 00:07:34.389 Don't let them see your shaking. 00:07:34.391 --> 00:07:37.879 And I'm like, this is great. 00:07:37.880 --> 00:07:39.230 Kids come join me. 00:07:39.829 --> 00:07:42.410 And so I'm walking along and I get through the thing. 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:43.920 Okay. 00:07:44.110 --> 00:07:46.379 And they're like, and I'm just like, Oh yeah guys, you know... 00:07:48.370 --> 00:07:51.490 It's such a lie, but I want to encourage them. 00:07:52.689 --> 00:07:54.370 And they're like, yeah, we're not going to do that. 00:07:55.899 --> 00:07:59.800 but then last summer we go down to Jenkinson's. 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:06.939 Jenkinson's adventure Look out Jenkinsons man, they're making some cash. 00:08:06.970 --> 00:08:09.970 I'm just going to say, wow, good business plan. 00:08:10.029 --> 00:08:15.189 Anyway, we go down there and and the kids are like, let's do adventure, look out. 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:17.819 Oh really? 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:29.050 Let me remind you of what happened the last time you want to do something like this and this is way higher and way like way higher, way bigger. 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.590 I think probably a bit scarier to experience. 00:08:32.591 --> 00:08:34.240 There's like a zip line and everything else. 00:08:34.659 --> 00:08:36.340 Many of you have been there, you know what I'm talking about? 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:41.899 Sure enough they get all saddled up and they'd go up on the thing. 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:48.259 I'm like, well, gives- they're like, well look, I mean there's a bunch of kids on there. 00:08:48.470 --> 00:08:50.659 It's like there's some parts where you can hold on. 00:08:50.809 --> 00:09:04.070 For some reason they thought this was a lot safer than the Liberty science center and therefore they were able to get on this thing and I think my daughter did the zip line like two dozen times. 00:09:05.210 --> 00:09:05.990 They loved it. 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:15.159 They want to do it again and in that is a very important spiritual truth. 00:09:16.809 --> 00:09:24.159 When we feel secure, we're able to push far beyond our comfort zones. 00:09:26.629 --> 00:09:30.860 It's actually feeling secure helps us to thrive. 00:09:33.470 --> 00:09:46.379 When we're secure about our relationship with God, we can go way past our comfort zones into becoming the people that God has designed us to be. 00:09:47.309 --> 00:09:49.179 This is true with rollercoasters. 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:51.450 Hey listen, I love roller coasters. 00:09:51.899 --> 00:09:54.450 I don't like that coaster with the little lap bar. 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:57.779 I don't feel very secure in that thing. 00:09:58.200 --> 00:09:59.909 I feel like it's just going to come up. 00:09:59.970 --> 00:10:10.049 You don't know talking about or if you've got a kid with you and you're just doing the arm bar like that's going to do anything, but you're worried that the thing I would much rather, we're all strapped into the harness. 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.629 I don't care if my feet are dangling on that thing. 00:10:13.139 --> 00:10:22.649 I like wearing the big old locking mechanism that feels safe and even though it's a scary roller coaster, it does more flips and twists it a much higher. 00:10:22.710 --> 00:10:26.129 I feel more secure, therefore I enjoy it more. 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:27.779 That's the other thing about security. 00:10:27.780 --> 00:10:30.629 Security helps us enjoy the ride. 00:10:33.330 --> 00:10:40.019 When you have security of faith, it helps you enjoy the roller coaster of life. 00:10:42.570 --> 00:10:44.730 This is even true with our relationships, right? 00:10:45.629 --> 00:10:48.870 I mean, listen, you ever been in a relationship where you didn't feel secure? 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:50.909 That's miserable. 00:10:50.910 --> 00:10:52.080 That's like the worst. 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:56.190 When you're not feeling secure in a relationship, it's torture. 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.309 Security helps us enjoy our relationships. 00:11:01.311 --> 00:11:04.100 It helps our relationships thrive. 00:11:04.789 --> 00:11:07.399 There's something about that security we can do. 00:11:07.460 --> 00:11:10.909 It's like we can do riskier things in a way. 00:11:11.149 --> 00:11:18.649 If we're feeling secure, we can take greater risks with our life because we're feeling that safety and security. 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.769 Security frees us to enjoy our relationships. 00:11:24.860 --> 00:11:34.370 So in order to live this Christian life, like a relationship or a high ropes course or a roller coaster, we need to feel secure. 00:11:34.370 --> 00:11:34.759 Why? 00:11:34.970 --> 00:11:40.100 Because life is coming at us a hundred miles an hour with challenges constantly. 00:11:40.490 --> 00:11:44.960 Life is still life and it's happening fast and all sorts of stuff. 00:11:44.990 --> 00:11:51.019 We do not know what's going to happen tomorrow and stuff happens that we did not expect and we have to navigate that. 00:11:51.289 --> 00:11:55.259 The Christian life is meant to be a whole different way of approaching that life. 00:11:55.710 --> 00:12:06.629 It's that when these things come my way, we have a deep, deep spiritual security that enables us to thrive like Katie, when tragedy hit her life, what if she had God to lean on? 00:12:06.779 --> 00:12:10.500 It would change the way her life was going forward. 00:12:16.100 --> 00:12:17.059 So let's jump in here. 00:12:17.090 --> 00:12:27.200 Let's go Romans chapter eight starting at verse 31 this is what Paul says about security of faith. 00:12:27.620 --> 00:12:30.409 What then shall we say in response to these things? 00:12:31.490 --> 00:12:35.179 If God is for us, who can be against us? 00:12:36.620 --> 00:12:40.940 He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all. 00:12:42.379 --> 00:12:46.250 How will he not also along with him graciously give us all things? 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:49.279 In other words, God's got your back. 00:12:52.570 --> 00:12:54.700 There is no opposition. 00:12:57.090 --> 00:13:02.970 There is no opposition that can come your way, that has not already been handled or won't be handled by God. 00:13:02.971 --> 00:13:03.929 God's got your back. 00:13:03.931 --> 00:13:08.940 There's nothing who can be against us if God is for us. 00:13:09.899 --> 00:13:23.200 I remember when I was in first grade, there was a stretch of two weeks where I was getting bullied by a sixth grader and I do not know why I came to school one day and that he started just like shoving me around. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:34.049 He has little sixth grade minions with them and they were all laughing and I was just in first grade man and, but he's pushing me around and he was like pulling my hair. 00:13:34.051 --> 00:13:36.509 He's like, getting me in a headlock and all this stuff. 00:13:38.070 --> 00:13:43.710 And I remember telling my parents and y ou k now, they're just like, you just got t o sock h im one. 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:46.110 It was a different time. 00:13:46.169 --> 00:13:46.440 Okay. 00:13:46.441 --> 00:13:47.340 Kids its a different time. 00:13:48.570 --> 00:13:49.620 You just got to sock t hem o ne. 00:13:49.629 --> 00:13:51.179 That's how you stand up to bullies. 00:13:51.659 --> 00:13:52.559 You just got to sock t hem one. 00:13:52.649 --> 00:13:57.750 I'm like, a ll r ight, next day I got out on the playground. 00:13:58.500 --> 00:13:59.460 This kid pushes me. 00:13:59.461 --> 00:14:00.690 I did not hesitate. 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:02.789 I punched the kid so hard right in the face. 00:14:03.070 --> 00:14:13.230 I distinctly remember having to reach up to reach him c ause I was only in first grade and his nose starts bleeding and he starts crying and the teacher comes over. 00:14:14.370 --> 00:14:15.600 What happened here? 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:25.919 She grabs my arm, walks me off about 10 yards and goes, good for you. 00:14:31.500 --> 00:14:32.700 she's like, get to class. 00:14:35.629 --> 00:14:36.649 but you know what I felt? 00:14:36.650 --> 00:14:39.679 I felt like that kid's not going to bug me again. 00:14:40.039 --> 00:14:42.740 And even if he does, that teacher's got my back. 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:51.279 Listen, no matter what opposition you are facing, God's got your back. 00:14:53.110 --> 00:14:54.129 God's got your back. 00:14:54.429 --> 00:15:01.690 No matter what, there is no opposition that could come your way that God will not handle in your life. 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:06.429 And this is huge cause we doubt God all the time. 00:15:06.490 --> 00:15:17.000 Even if we don't think in here, we doubted here this new challenge comes our way and we doubt that God's going to show up the situation that we don't know how to figure out. 00:15:17.029 --> 00:15:21.519 We doubt if God's going to show us the way there is no opposition. 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.139 There is no opposition that God cannot handle. 00:15:26.169 --> 00:15:26.559 All right. 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:35.139 Verse 33 who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen. 00:15:36.549 --> 00:15:38.080 It is God who justifies. 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:45.850 Remember Paul, as we said six weeks ago, Paul had a very courtroom understanding of Jesus and what he did. 00:15:45.850 --> 00:15:48.220 It's like in the divine bar of justice. 00:15:48.460 --> 00:15:59.330 We approached the bench and instead of sitting in the seat of the guilty, Jesus saves us from that, so he's talking this justice language again. 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:08.519 It is God who justifies, who then is the one who condemns no one Christ Jesus who died more than that, who was raised to life. 00:16:08.820 --> 00:16:13.399 Is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 00:16:13.400 --> 00:16:17.389 He's getting in the way so to speak. 00:16:17.659 --> 00:16:22.159 He's, he's standing between us and a judgment that condemns us. 00:16:23.059 --> 00:16:25.970 He takes the blame on our behalf so that we can walk free. 00:16:26.210 --> 00:16:29.000 It's like I think about a great courtroom drama or courtroom movie. 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:34.549 I think about a few good men with Jack Nicholson is Nathan Colonel Jessup and you've got a picture of it. 00:16:34.549 --> 00:16:35.720 Go ahead and go to that. 00:16:35.750 --> 00:16:38.000 Yeah, I'll be, come on. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:38.960 That's just a great thing. 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:40.820 Did you order the code red? 00:16:41.230 --> 00:16:42.500 Your gosh darn right. 00:16:42.500 --> 00:16:46.970 I did- church I had to clean that up. 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:53.549 Great scene, but it's like when it comes to Jesus, Jesus would intercede in that situation. 00:16:53.551 --> 00:16:59.789 If this was a spiritual courtroom, Jesus would would dismiss Colonel Jessup and say, I did. 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:11.309 The punishment goes to me so that this other can walk free, that Jesus interceded for us. 00:17:11.430 --> 00:17:20.130 He took the sin that we did upon himself and paid the sacrifice, paid the penalty so that we could be free. 00:17:23.549 --> 00:17:26.940 As a result, there is no condemnation. 00:17:29.220 --> 00:17:30.900 That's the other thing that brings us security. 00:17:30.901 --> 00:17:31.650 There's no opposition. 00:17:31.651 --> 00:17:32.700 There's no condemnation. 00:17:34.859 --> 00:17:40.410 Listen, how much of the Christian life for so many people is driven by guilt? 00:17:41.430 --> 00:17:42.930 What is that about? 00:17:44.190 --> 00:17:49.829 Jesus did that so you wouldn't be driven by guilt, that you'd be driven love. 00:17:50.309 --> 00:17:54.509 You'd be driven by the sheer joy of knowing that he interceded for you. 00:17:57.289 --> 00:18:03.289 There is no condemnation who can condemn God alone, can condemn an he already took that condemnation upon himself. 00:18:03.290 --> 00:18:09.819 It just blows your mind. 00:18:11.470 --> 00:18:24.099 God took the condemnation that we deserve upon himself upon his perfection so that we can live. 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:27.880 There is no condemnation. 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:51.640 Verse 35 and this is the big like punchline for Paul, who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword as it is written for your sake. 00:18:51.641 --> 00:18:53.319 We face death all day long. 00:18:53.380 --> 00:18:56.170 We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. 00:18:56.171 --> 00:18:57.250 What's he, what's he referencing? 00:18:57.250 --> 00:19:02.410 He's referencing Christian persecution that was happening to Christians in Rome. 00:19:03.580 --> 00:19:06.640 He's writing a letter to a group of people, group of Christians. 00:19:09.140 --> 00:19:13.420 He's like, who's going to separate us from love of God, all these things are happening to you. 00:19:13.750 --> 00:19:19.240 Do you think this is actually gonna do anything to your soul, to your relationship with God? 00:19:19.619 --> 00:19:21.220 Think God's just gonna leave you hanging out there. 00:19:22.569 --> 00:19:25.569 And here's, here's the big famous thing that he says in verse 37. 00:19:25.570 --> 00:19:31.869 No, in all of these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 00:19:31.871 --> 00:19:34.990 And even in the Greek, it's a bit stronger than more than conquerors. 00:19:34.990 --> 00:19:37.779 It's, we are overwhelming conquerors. 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:39.789 Like, it's not even close. 00:19:39.819 --> 00:19:40.720 It's a landslide. 00:19:41.980 --> 00:19:45.160 We are overwhelming conquerors through him who loved us. 00:19:45.309 --> 00:20:02.049 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor neither angels nor demons, neither the present or the future, nor any powers, 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. 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.490 And that's the third thing that gives us security. 00:20:07.420 --> 00:20:09.099 There is no separation. 00:20:12.329 --> 00:20:17.099 no opposition, no condemnation, no separation. 00:20:18.059 --> 00:20:20.009 What could give us any more security than that? 00:20:20.010 --> 00:20:26.460 Because I know how you think because I think to some times it's like, well, I did that thing that was wrong, right? 00:20:26.819 --> 00:20:29.069 Or, uh, my sinful behavior was like this. 00:20:29.070 --> 00:20:40.680 And, and you start going down this weird rabbit trail in your brain, like you're trying to justify or it gets it, you're like, well, I did all these things and so I don't know, maybe maybe God's mad at me. 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:50.819 Maybe God's love isn't going to be with me for awhile because I did those things and have to be good again so that I'll return to his favor. 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:56.269 No, nothing can separate. 00:20:56.309 --> 00:20:57.900 Your behavior cannot separate you. 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:01.410 It can cause you pain, but it can't separate you. 00:21:03.329 --> 00:21:06.630 It could give you some negative consequences in your life, but he can't separate you. 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:10.349 Yeah, but what if I give in to temptation? 00:21:10.380 --> 00:21:12.480 Well then bummer, but it doesn't separate you. 00:21:13.890 --> 00:21:15.960 What if I give up on my faith for a while? 00:21:15.990 --> 00:21:17.880 Even that it doesn't separate you. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:24.680 We come up with all sorts of reasons why we should be out and God says, no, you're in. 00:21:25.549 --> 00:21:29.700 You put your faith in me you're in, be at peace about it. 00:21:30.210 --> 00:21:31.380 You got other things to worry about. 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:33.150 You got a life to live. 00:21:38.549 --> 00:21:39.480 you've already won. 00:21:39.900 --> 00:21:41.369 That's the thing that I love too. 00:21:41.371 --> 00:21:43.380 He says, you are more than conquerors. 00:21:43.381 --> 00:21:45.150 Not you will be more than conquerors. 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:54.160 You are already more than conquerors because of what Jesus did in your life. 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:55.720 You already know like what? 00:21:55.721 --> 00:22:00.880 If you were going to play a game and you knew you couldn't possibly lose, that'd be pretty fun. 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:04.750 I'd be inviting you over to like play play pool or something. 00:22:04.779 --> 00:22:05.559 I can't lose. 00:22:06.730 --> 00:22:07.779 I cannot lose. 00:22:10.170 --> 00:22:12.430 It changes the whole way You play that game, right? 00:22:13.299 --> 00:22:15.400 Even if you're down, you're like, I'm going to come back. 00:22:15.789 --> 00:22:16.480 Can't lose. 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:22.029 Enjoy it while lasts buddy, I'm gonna win this thing. 00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:25.539 This is the Christian life. 00:22:25.569 --> 00:22:29.799 We know we already won because God did the winning for us. 00:22:31.569 --> 00:22:33.039 You already DVR the game. 00:22:33.040 --> 00:22:34.180 You know how it ends. 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:36.880 You know the ending of that movie. 00:22:38.410 --> 00:22:41.529 You have victory because of what Jesus did. 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:44.500 Nothing in life should give us more security than that. 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:55.390 The games won already and nothing in life is going to change that there is no separation. 00:22:57.849 --> 00:22:59.769 So what does this mean for you and me? 00:23:01.809 --> 00:23:25.980 It means that on this journey of the road, that really brings us to this final piece is in everything that God did for you, be sure that he will never leave you nor forsake you, that he will be with you every step of the way as you navigate following him the rest of your life. 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:36.630 And so marker number six is for I am convinced that nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. 00:23:41.430 --> 00:23:43.279 Again, as I always say, you know what? 00:23:44.220 --> 00:23:48.339 A sermon should be like an airplane, things gotta land somewhere. 00:23:50.849 --> 00:23:52.410 It's great to talk about the love of God. 00:23:52.411 --> 00:23:57.119 It's great to talk about the road and all these things, but where does this land in your life today? 00:24:00.539 --> 00:24:04.109 If you're not sure, maybe here's a place to start. 00:24:04.470 --> 00:24:05.700 Think about this idea. 00:24:05.910 --> 00:24:08.130 If God is for you, who could be against you? 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:17.190 What if right now, in a space in your bulletin, if you have something to write with, if you wrote, if God is for, and then put your name in there, put your name in the blanks. 00:24:17.490 --> 00:24:30.099 If God is for who can be against, and your challenge is to go home and pray that this week, it won't take you long. 00:24:31.529 --> 00:24:32.460 It's one sentence. 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:40.049 If God is for you, who could be against you, you're already going to win the game. 00:24:42.819 --> 00:24:45.400 Enjoy your life accordingly. 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:58.160 It's that security that frees us to leave our comfort zones, enjoy our relationships, and enjoy the ride. 00:25:00.019 --> 00:25:03.980 This is the road from Romans to the gospel.