Well, let me invite you to turn in your Bibles this morning to Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8 for a time of study in the word, this morning. We're doing a verse by verse study through Romans 5 through 8. And as we continue in our study through this section of the book of Romans, we come this morning once again to Romans chapter 8, verse 19.
And my goal this morning will be to try to cover verses 19 through 22. If you want to give a title to the message, it would be And we're not This isn't, there we go, the environment and the sons of God. I've been in the ministry for about A couple of decades now, and this is my first green sermon. The environment and the sons of God.
And this topic immediately commends itself, as you look at verses 19 through 22. In fact, let me just read verses 19 to 22, and you can make mental note of or you can mark in your text where you see the word creation. Paul says, for the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God, for the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
4 times we see the word creation, which is going to basically establish our paradigm for the way we're going to handle the text this morning. But speaking of creation or speaking of the environment, as we're going to understand it this morning. Doctor Mike Bulmore, who pastors in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who's a wonderful friend of the ministry here at Cornerstone back in 1998, wrote an article for the Trinity Journal that was entitled The Four Most Important Biblical Passages for a Christian Environmentalism. And he gives 4 passages and spends a goodly amount of time talking about each one of them and unpacking what they mean, and the first passage he says is among the most important is Psalm 104....
