Does God Use Every Circumstance for Good? Romans 8:28 Explained
IF YOU GO TO THE, UH, PHARMACY, YOU NEED SOME MEDICINE. THAT PHARMACIST WILL TAKE BOTTLES FROM HIS SHELF SOMETIMES AND POWDERS AND OTHER THINGS THAT MAY BE BY THEMSELVES NOXIOUS POISON, BUT HE MIXES THEM TOGETHER AND MAKES MEDICINE FOR US. AND SO MANY TIMES GOD DOES THE SAME THING. HE TAKES SITUATIONS AND PROBLEMS AND, AND THINGS THAT IN THEMSELVES LOOK THAT THEY’RE BAD AND HURTFUL AND HARMFUL.
AND THEN GOD MIXES THESE TOGETHER IN THE CRUCIBLE OF HIS LOVE AND THE CRUCIBLE OF HIS WISDOM AND THE RESULT IS MEDICINE FOR OUR SOULS, SOMETHING GOOD AND SOMETHING WONDERFUL. [MUSIC] TAKE GOD’S WORD AND FIND ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT, ROMANS CHAPTER EIGHT, AND WE’RE GOING TO SEE A VERY FAMILIAR VERSE. BUT I PRAY GOD, THAT HE’LL TAKE THE FAMILIARITY OF THAT VERSE, AND HE WILL MIX IT WITH A BRAND NEW FRESHNESS FOR YOUR HEART AND FOR YOUR MIND TODAY.
ROMANS CHAPTER 8 AND VERSE 28. ONE TIME I TOOK AN OLD HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND TO BREAKFAST AFTER WE HAD BEEN APART FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. WE WERE IN ANOTHER CITY, I WAS STAYING IN A HOTEL AND I LOOKED FORWARD TO BEING AT BREAKFAST WITH RICHARD. AND AFTER BREAKFAST I SAID, “I’LL GET THE TAB.
” AND I PICKED IT UP AND I MEANT TO SIGN MY ROOM NUMBER ON THE TAB, BUT OFTEN, UH, SOMEONE WILL ASK ME, AH, INSCRIBE A BIBLE. AND WHEN I INSCRIBE A BIBLE I JUST INSCRIBE THE BIBLE MANY TIMES “ADRIAN ROGERS”, AND THEN PUT A VERSE OF SCRIPTURE UNDER IT. SOMETIMES IT’S PSALM 34, SOMETIMES IT’S ROMANS 8:28. SOMETIMES IT’S ROMANS 1:16. BUT OFTEN I’LL SIGN ROMANS 8:28, WHICH IS OUR TEXT FOR TODAY.
AND SO, I SAID, “I’LL SIGN THE, THE TICKET.” AND I MEANT TO PUT MY ROOM NUMBER, BUT RATHER THAN PUTTING MY ROOM NUMBER, I PUT A SCRIPTURE VERSE THERE, ROMANS 8:28. AND I WENT UP AND HANDED IT TO THE CASHIER AND SHE LOOKED AT IT. SHE SAID, “MISTER WE DON’T HAVE A ROOM EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT.” I SAID, “OH I’M SORRY. I, THAT, THAT’S A VERSE OUT OF THE BIBLE.
