Sermon Sandwich
Romans 8:35-39 Sermon Sandwich
Trinity Church, 1589 Hwy 174, Edisto Island, SC 29438
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10th Sunday after Pentecost, August 6, 2023
Holy Eucharist - Renewed Ancient Text; 2019 BCP, p.123
Order of Worship:
Open Hymn #199 Come, Ye Faithful Raise the Strain
Sermon The Rev. E. Weyman Camp IV
Close Hymn #408 Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above
Romans 8:35-39 Sermon Notes
Intro - Abandonment
Story of Wey at the Counsellor’s Office
The greatest human fear/issue is abandonment.
Romans 8:38,39 - 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
No Separation:
Separate - chorizo - separate, leave, divide, depart, remove, be excluded
Who? Us - will be able to separate us
It is like a magnet that has taken hold of us.
How can we hold that connection? It does not depend upon us at all!
The issue is not our love for God,
but God’s love for us in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It's the love of Christ for me. How do I know
Romans 8:37 - No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
loved - Past tense.
The Gospel is the Good News of the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ by which we become the Righteousness of God.
How does He hold that connection?
The Substitutionary Sacrifice of His Cross.
“Substitution is not a metaphor for what God did; it is what he actually did. God actually did choose to put himself in a place where we should be, to do for us what we could not do for ourselves.”
“For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.”(The God I Don’t Understand, Christopher Wright, p. 125)
The Cry of Dereliction/Abandonment -
Mark 16:33,34 - And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. 34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
“What saving significance there is in that cry of Jesus! Because he went through that experience of utter abandonment by God, I will never need to.” (The God I Don’t Understand, Christopher Wright, p. 155)