God is on Your Side - Pastor Kenneth Woolf

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New Life COTR Wednesday September 19, 2007
“GOD IS ON YOUR SIDE”

INTRODUCTION: Next week we’ll begin “Finding The Rock” a study in the doctrines we believe at New Life COTR. It will be fun and informative.
1Timothy 4:16- “Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.”
Titus 1:9- “He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.”
Titus 2:1- “You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.”
Sound- to be healthy
2Timothy 4:3- “For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.”
GOD IS ON YOUR SIDE
Psalm 118:6,7- “The Lord is with me I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? The Lord is with me; he is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies.”
Is this the confession from your mouth? Is this the declaration from your heart?
Proverbs 18:20,21- “From the fruit of his mouth a man’s stomach is filled; with the harvest from his lips he is satisfied. The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”

FIVE DECLARATIONS THAT PROVE GOD IS ON YOUR SIDE
1. God is for us and can take any situation in our life and turn it around for good!
Romans 8:28- “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
a). Love God
b). Allow your life to come along side God’s purposes for your life.
c). You need to know
Ephesians 1:11- “In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.”
Philippians 2:13- “for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.”
God is for us and can take any situation in our life and turn it around for good!

2. God is for you and He has predestined you for greatness.
Romans 8:29,30- “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.”
Predestined- to decide beforehand
Called- invite, summon. The authority of the speaker dictates the nature of the calling.
justified- vindicate, declare righteous, to put someone in proper relationship with another, usually referring to God’s relationship to humankind, implying a proper legal or moral relationship.
Glorified- to glorify, give praise or honor.
Verse 30 (AMP)- “And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being.]”
Ephesians 2:6,7- “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in heavenly realms in Christ Jesus. In order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”
God is for you and he has predestined you for greatness.

3. God is for us and He will freely give us all things.
Romans 8:31,32- What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all-how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things.”
a). GOD IS GOING TO DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOU!!! BECAUSE JESUS IS WORTHY!
Psalm 84:11- “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.”
Psalms 34:10- “The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.”
Matthew 7:7-12- Turn and Read
God is for us and He will freely give us all things.

4. God is for us and He will not allow anyone to condemn you.
Romans 8:33,34- “Who will bring any charge against those God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus who died-more than that, who was raised to life-is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.”
1John 2:1,2- “My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense-Jesus Christ the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.”
Through Jesus Christ we have been called, justified and glorified.
God is for us and He will freely give us all things.

5. God is for us and He will not allow anyone to separate you from the love of God.
Romans 8:35-39- Turn and Read
2Corinthians 5:14,15- For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.”
God is for us and He will not allow anyone to separate you from the love of God.
CONCLUSION: God is on your side. Make these and other scriptures the declaration of your heart.