Video Notes:

• Keep in mind this is preceded by all the groaning and suffering caused by sin in the world.
• This time Romans uses the imperative rather than the passive that has been used regarding every aspect of our salvation.
• What does “for those who love God” mean? All who have been called by God and responded with love for Him, a qualification met by all who have been called
• Those who love God are those who have been called by God.
  • 1 John 4:19
  • These are the people this passage is talking to.
• All things?
  • Genesis 50:20
  • This isn’t just physical or financial things, though it can include those things. (Psalm 145:15-16, James 1:17). However, the ultimate focus is our freedom and glorification (vs 30).
  • Sometimes lacking in the physical or financial benefits us by strengthening our faith. Suffering produces endurance.
  • This isn’t saying that all things ARE good or that all things are from God. There is evil. There are bad things, but God works even those things for good.
• While the “those who love God” was descriptive of an action people take, we finish with the passive concepts that we have been called according to God’s purpose.
  • God purpose is salvation.