Sermon Info
Sermon Date: 10/26/25
Series: Romans
Text: Romans 8:31-34
Title: “God Is For Us”
Preacher: Pastor Luke Dufek
Series: Romans
Text: Romans 8:31-34
Title: “God Is For Us”
Preacher: Pastor Luke Dufek
Announcements
After some fellowship, please highlight the information below to your group and have them check the weekly church email for more information/details.
Luncheon is Sunday, 11/2. We will have artisan sandwiches and chips along with a gluten free platter of meat, cheese, and fruit.
1689 Confession Men's Study is Wednesday, 11/12, beginning at 7 PM in room 202 on chapter 30, The Lord’s Supper.
Men’s breakfast will be Saturday, 11/15 at 8 AM.
Don’t forget to turn your clocks back for Sunday, 11/2.
The church needs volunteers to clean the church on either a Saturday or Sunday, and for window washing. Contact Bryan St John if interested.
1689 Confession Men's Study is Wednesday, 11/12, beginning at 7 PM in room 202 on chapter 30, The Lord’s Supper.
Men’s breakfast will be Saturday, 11/15 at 8 AM.
Don’t forget to turn your clocks back for Sunday, 11/2.
The church needs volunteers to clean the church on either a Saturday or Sunday, and for window washing. Contact Bryan St John if interested.
Questions
After some fellowship and prayer, read Romans 8:31-34
Sunday was Reformation Sunday, and Friday, October 31st, is Reformation Day. Why is the Reformation still important today?
In this passage, Paul uses “a fortiori” (from the stronger) arguments to show that God is for his people. How does this argument work? Where does Paul use this type of argument in this passage? What is the result?
What is Paul referring to by “these things”? How is the truth that God is for us connected to and reliant upon God’s sovereignty?
What is the purpose of the question, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” How can remembering that God is for us help the believer obey God when people are against them?
How does God not sparing his own son assure us that he will graciously give us all things?
“I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love.” -Charles Spurgeon
What does it mean to be elect? How are election and justification related?
Based on verse 34, how can a Christian respond to attacks, accusations, and doubt? Is there ever a time when someone who professes to be a Christian should question their salvation?
What should embracing and applying God’s complete sovereignty in salvation produce in the Christian? Why? What most encourages and strengthens you in these verses and why?
How should we then live?
Ask someone who you don’t think is a Christian if they believe that God is for them, then ask them to read and discuss Romans 8:31-34. Invite someone to church next Sunday to hear about the great love of God for his people.
Sunday was Reformation Sunday, and Friday, October 31st, is Reformation Day. Why is the Reformation still important today?
In this passage, Paul uses “a fortiori” (from the stronger) arguments to show that God is for his people. How does this argument work? Where does Paul use this type of argument in this passage? What is the result?
What is Paul referring to by “these things”? How is the truth that God is for us connected to and reliant upon God’s sovereignty?
What is the purpose of the question, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” How can remembering that God is for us help the believer obey God when people are against them?
How does God not sparing his own son assure us that he will graciously give us all things?
“I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love.” -Charles Spurgeon
What does it mean to be elect? How are election and justification related?
Based on verse 34, how can a Christian respond to attacks, accusations, and doubt? Is there ever a time when someone who professes to be a Christian should question their salvation?
What should embracing and applying God’s complete sovereignty in salvation produce in the Christian? Why? What most encourages and strengthens you in these verses and why?
How should we then live?
Ask someone who you don’t think is a Christian if they believe that God is for them, then ask them to read and discuss Romans 8:31-34. Invite someone to church next Sunday to hear about the great love of God for his people.