SUNDAY LESSON, 10/24/21
I STILL BELIEVE YOU ARE FAITHFUL
Romans 8:19-25
This Sunday will be the second lesson in our series: “I STILL BELIEVE” from Romans 8:18-39.
In the lesson this week I will focus on the faithfulness of God seen in the groaning of creation and our inward groaning to be with God. Although we live in a fallen world due to the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and lost fellowship with God, the whole creation groans to be liberated and redeemed by God and return to the perfect world and fellowship that God had designed especially for human beings.
As we studied last week, our hope is not in this world or this life. The ultimate end of God’s faithfulness and His final redemption for Christ-followers is when we leave this earth to enter our heavenly and eternal home that God has prepared for us. Flesh, sin and all our pain and sorrow will not accompany us there. We will live in a perfect environment that God intended for Adam and Eve when He placed them in the garden, and experience the glorification and perfection of our spirits finally becoming all we were created to be without sin.
Romans 8:19-25
19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, 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.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firs fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 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? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
