The document discusses several ways that God cares for his people based on passages from Romans 8: 1. God provides perspective on present sufferings and gives hope as we await our future glory. He aids us in our weaknesses and helps us pray. 2. God works all things for good for those who love him. He is conforming us into the image of Christ. 3. God is for us and did not spare his own son, so we can be assured of his love and care. 4. Nothing can separate us from God's love for us, not even hardship or persecution. 5. We are guaranteed victory through God's love. He promises we will overcome all challenges.

2. Neil Bester

3. Our Father Cares

4. Romans 8:18-19 NIV
I consider that our present sufferings are
not worth comparing with the glory that will
be revealed in us. For the creation waits in
eager expectation for the children of God to
be revealed.

5. Romans 8:20-21 NIV
For the creation was subjected to
frustration, not by its own choice, but by the
will of the one who subjected it, in hope that
the creation itself will be liberated from its
bondage to decay and brought into the
freedom and glory of the children of God.

6. Romans 8:22-23 NIV
We know that the whole creation has been
groaning as in the pains of childbirth right
up to the present time. Not only so, but we
ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the
Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for
our adoption to sonship, the redemption
of our bodies.

7. Romans 8:24-25 NIV
For in this hope we were saved. But hope
that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for
what they already have? But if we hope for
what we do not yet have, we wait for it
patiently.

8. Romans 8:26-27 NIV
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our
weakness. We do not know what we ought
to pray for, but the Spirit himself
intercedes for us through wordless groans.
And he who searches our hearts knows the
mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit
intercedes for God’s people in accordance
with the will of God.

9. Romans 8:28-30 NIV
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. For
those God foreknew he also predestined to
be conformed to the image of his Son, that he
might be the firstborn among many brothers
and sisters. And those he predestined, he
also called; those he called, he also justified;
those he justified, he also glorified.

10. Romans 8:31-32 NIV
What, then, shall we say in response to
these things? 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?

11. Romans 8:33-34 NIV
Who will bring any charge against those
whom God has chosen? It is God who
justifies. Who then is the one who
condemns? No one. 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.

12. Romans 8:35-36 NIV
Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine or nakedness or
danger or sword? As it is written: “For your
sake we face death all day long; we are
considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

13. Romans 8:37-38 NIV
No, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him who loved us. For
I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons neither the
present nor the future, nor any powers,

14. Romans 8:39 NIV
… neither height nor depth, nor anything
else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

15. 1. Present sufferings should be seen in
the light of our future destiny (Verse 18)
• Things are not yet as they should be
• Creation groans (Verse 22 ) and we groan
(Verse 23)
• We wait
o In hope patiently (Verses 24-25)
o In weakness – the Spirit helps us (Verse 26)
o In prayer (Verses 26-27)

16. • Our Father cares for us by:
o Providing perspective
o Giving us hope
o Aiding in our weakness
o Helping us pray

17. 2. God works for the good in all things
(Verse 28)
• For those who love Him
• Those called according to His purpose
• God is conforming us to the image of His
Son

18. • Our Father cares for us by:
o Working for good in our lives
o Making opportunity for us to become like
Jesus

19. 3. God is for us (Verse 31)
• God didn’t spare His own Son
• Hard times can cause us to lose proper
perspective

20. • Our Father cares for us by being on our
side (Verse 28)

21. 4. Nothing can separate us from God’s
love (Verse 35)
• Trouble, hardship or persecution
• Famine or nakedness
• Danger or the threat of the sword

22. Romans 8:38 NLT
And I am convinced that nothing can ever
separate us from God’s love. Neither death
nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither
our fears for today nor our worries about
tomorrow – not even the powers of hell can
separate us from God’s love.

23. Romans 8:39 NLT
No power in the sky above or in the earth
below – indeed, nothing in all creation will
ever be able to separate us from the love of
God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

24. • Our Father cares for us by loving us

25. 5. We overcome (Verse 37)
• Our Father cares for us by promising us
victory

26. Romans 8:15 NIV
The Spirit you received does not make you
slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather,
the Spirit you received brought about your
adoption to sonship. And by him we cry,
“Abba Father.”