Let me invite you to turn in your Bibles this morning to Romans chapter 8, Romans chapter 8 for our time of study and the word this morning. We are doing a verse by verse study through Romans 567, and 8, a journey to the heart of the gospel and as we, continue in our study of this section of Romans, we come this morning to Romans 8:16, and my goal this morning is to try to cover verses 16 and 17. We'll see. how, how we do, with this.
And the title of the message this morning is what the Spirit says to God's Children. What the Spirit says to God's, children. You'll notice, in verse 16, it says, the Spirit Himself testifies with our Spirit that And then what follows through the rest of verse 16, and then all of verse 17 is the content of what the Spirit is giving testimony to as he speaks to our hearts, or speaks to our spirit, and we'll try to unpack what that message is, that the Spirit is perpetually speaking to us. Let me start with this though.
A few months ago, when we were back in Romans 6, Ray Steadman, In his commentary on the Book of Romans, told a story that's stuck with me, ever since I read it. And I've been thinking about it even more as we've gone deeper into Romans chapter 8. But it's a story about a young gal who was a daughter of one of the wealthy royal families over in Europe a number of years ago, and, she had the misfortune of having a crooked, misshapen, and bulbous nose. Bulbous is Ray Steadman's word, not mine.
And it caused her to, people looked at her and thought she was unattractive because of that, and she herself looked at herself as ugly and unattractive as a result of her nose, and it was such a consternation to her. And to her parents that they hired a plastic surgeon to reshape the contour of her nose and so she went under the knife and the plastic surgeon performed the surgery and he did his job well and he was satisfied with how the surgery went. And the day then came for the surgeon to take the bandages off of her face and to look at the work that he had done. So when that day arrived, he peeled the bandages off from around her nose, and to his great and pleasant delight, he saw that the surgery had been a tremendous success....
