Romans 8: Born to Change the World
Romans 8:14 – 38 (ESV)
Romans 8: Born to Change the World
1. GOD IS OUR DAD, AND HIS CREATION IS
OUR INHERITANCE!
Ephesians 1:22 (NIV)
And God placed all things under his feet and
appointed him to be head over everything for
the church
Romans 8: Born to Change the World
1. GOD IS OUR DAD, AND HIS CREATION IS
OUR INHERITANCE!
Romans 4:13 (ESV)
For the promise to Abraham and his offspring
that he would be heir of the world did not
come through the law but through the
righteousness of faith.
Romans 8: Born to Change the World
1. GOD IS OUR DAD, AND HIS CREATION IS
OUR INHERITANCE!
Galatians 3:16 (ESV)
Now the promises were made to Abraham
and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to
offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to
one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.
Romans 8: Born to Change the World
1. GOD IS OUR DAD, AND HIS CREATION IS
OUR INHERITANCE!
Romans 8 VERSE 19
And if you are Christ's, then you are
Abraham's offspring, heirs according to
promise.
Romans 8: Born to Change the World
2. CREATION CAN’T WAIT FOR THE SONS OF
GOD TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF IT.
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Global warming will be better dealt with
Land will be stewarded better
Animals will be looked after better
Our rivers and oceans will be cleaner
This is why creation is longing for you and I to
step into our inheritance. Because children of
God are good stewards!
Romans 8: Born to Change the World
2. CREATION CAN’T WAIT FOR THE SONS OF
GOD TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF IT.
Proverbs 12:10
The righteous care for the needs of their
animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked
are cruel.
Matthew 25:20…
Romans 8: Born to Change the World
3. GOD HASN’T PREDESTINED THE FUTURE, WE
CHOOSE OUR OWN FUTURE - GOD JUST TURNS
CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND FOR OUR GOOD!
Psalm 138:2
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and
praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for
thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word
above all thy name.
Romans 8: Born to Change the World
3. GOD HASN’T PREDESTINED THE FUTURE, WE
CHOOSE OUR OWN FUTURE - GOD JUST TURNS
CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND FOR OUR GOOD!
Genesis 1:28-29
And God blessed them. And God said to them,
“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and
subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the
sea and over the birds of the heavens and over
every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every
plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the
earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.
Romans 8: Born to Change the World
4. WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS BECAUSE THE GOD
OF THE UNIVERSE LOVES US UNCONDITIONALLY!!
Romans 8:31 – 39
31 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
gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously
give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's
elect? It is God who justifies. ……
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life,
nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor
powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all
creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in
Christ Jesus our Lord.