Jul
26
Written by:
Bob Flynn
7/26/2009 8:52 AM
This promise is not for everyone, only for those who love God and have answered his call. But for these it is an all-inclusive promise, covering the good and the bad, the bright and the dark, the sweet and the bitter, the easy and the hard, the happy and the sad. The promise can be depended on in prosperity and poverty, in health and sickness, in calm and storm, in life and in death.
Willmington, H. L. (1997). Willmington's Bible handbook (671). Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers.
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (NASB)
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (KJV)
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them. (NLT)
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose, (NET)
Translation. And we know with an absolute knowledge that for those who are loving God, all things are working together resulting in good, for those who are called ones according to His purpose.
Wuest, K. S. (1997, c1984). Wuest's word studies from the Greek New Testament : For the English reader (Ro 8:28). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
This verse is draw the conclusion that those who live in the spirit of obedience because of their love for God will find that all things work together for good. The things that are working are God's providence and His Spirit to bring about His good pleasure. Much can and has been incorrectly assumed from this verse by taking it out of the near context. It is God working His perfect plan in those whom He has called into His perfect love. This is communicated in active voice present tense. For us the continuous working of all things. Though they may no appear good, nevertheless they are harmonized to bring us into perfection. All we bring to the equation is our weakness.
This verse introduces another source of consolation and support, drawn from the fact that all flyings are under the direction of an infinitely wise Being, who has purposed the salvation of the Christian, and who has so appointed all things that they shall contribute to it. (Dr. Albert Barnes)
He now draws this conclusion from what had been said, that so far are the troubles of this life from hindering our salvation, that, on the contrary, they are helps to it. (John Calvin)
Alford comments, “In this further description, the apostle designates the believers as not merely loving God, but being beloved by God. The divine side of their security from harm is brought out, as combining with and ensuring the other. They are sure that all things work for their good, not only because they love Him who worketh all things, but also because He who worketh all things hath loved and chosen them, and carried them through the successive steps of their spiritual life. The calling here and elsewhere spoken of by the apostle is the working, in men, of ‘the everlasting purpose of God whereby before the foundations of the world were laid, He hath decreed by His counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom He hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation.”
Wuest, K. S. (1997, c1984). Wuest's word studies from the Greek New Testament : For the English reader (Ro 8:28). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
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