It’s Really Hard to be Lost

• It’s Really Hard to be Lost
• Romans 8:31-39
• Romans 8 : 31 ...
• What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• Ever gotten lost ? ...
• Easy to be lost spiritually ? ...
• The devil is out there …
• So much evil in the world …
• Romans 8 Paul suggests …
• It is actually DIFFICULT to be lost …
• This confidence could help us ...
• It’s hard to be lost when God is For You!
• Romans 8:31-32 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
• Who are our allies ? ...
• Romans 8:31 .. If God is for us, who can be against us ?
• God is on your side … He wants to help you get to heaven!
• It’s hard to be lost when God is For You ...
• Romans 8:33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
• What He’s doing to help …
• He won’t allow too great temptation ..
– 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

• What He’s doing to help …
• His amazing providence and timing …
– Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law …


• The ultimate proof …
• Romans 8:32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?


• It’s Hard to be lost with Christ on Your Side …
• Romans 8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
• Imagine this scene ...
• How do you feel about your job?

• God’s own Son Intercedes for You …
• Hebrews 4:14-16 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

• What can separate you from God’s love?
• Romans 8:35-37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
• What can separate you from God’s love?
• Romans 8:38-39 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• What can separate you from God’s love?
• NOTHING can do that !

• Why this is true ...
• Our confidence does not rest on the strength of our love for God, but His love for us in Christ Jesus …
• What we carry in our hearts is stronger than anything the devil can ever bring against us …
• It’s easy to get lost in the woods, but not in our own home …
• When you’re at home with God, it’s really hard to get lost …
• It’s Really Hard to be Lost
• Romans 8:31-39