CAN YOU HANDLE IT?

•    human form mysteriously powered by hidden force
•    Holy Spirit believer’s secret internal power source

THE SPIRIT’S HELPING

•    sprung from sin’s grip (freedom) - 8:2,9
•    standing (righteousness before law) - 8:4
•    scope (mindset) - 8:5
•    supply (life) - 8:6,11,13
•    serenity (peace) - 8:6
•    sonship (adopted / ‘Abba’) - 8:14-16
•    strength (help) - 8:26a
•    spokesman (intercedes / interprets) - 8:26f

SOVEREIGN HERDING

•    cajoling heifers up the road to distant farm
•    God’s protecting - works for our good in all things - 8:28
•    God’s preserving - chosen for purpose of becoming shaped like Jesus - 8:29
•    not lost down any gateways: foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified - 8:30

THE MYSTERY OF THE TAPESTRY

•    from wrong perspective, everything a jumble of chaotic colours & loose threads