The message of these verses is that the believer in Christ is sustained by a glorious hope. He is sustained “in the midst of trials by the prospect of the future deliverance and inheritance of the sons of God” . The sons of God currently suffer, but they will be manifested to all the world and publicly vindicated in great glory. The sons of God, by the indwelling Spirit, experience a measure of liberation already in this life, but they also possess the glorious hope of complete liberation at the resurrection. Yes, we labour and suffer in this vain and fallen world, but let us remember that “the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us”. 


SUSTAINED IN THIS FALLEN AND HOSTILE WORLD  BY OUR GLORIOUS HOPE (Romans 8, v18-23)

An independent Bible-believing church shunning all the fashionable dictates of Cultural Marxism and upholding the unchanging faith of the Bible. We stand in the tradition of historic 18th century Methodism, which, under God, transformed the nation and saved it from a violent revolution such as occurred in France in 1789. The sermons are by Pastor Peter Simpson, unless otherwise stated.

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