romans 4 13 for the promise to abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not...
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Romans 413 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not
come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if it is the adherents of
the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For the law brings
wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression 16 That is why it depends on faith,
in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not
only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham,
who is the father of us all, 17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many
nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and
calls into existence the things that do not exist. 18 In hope he believed against hope,
that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your
offspring be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as
good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the
barrenness of Sarah's womb. 20 No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of
God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 21 fully convinced that
God was able to do what he had promised. 22 That is why his faith was “counted to him as
righteousness.” 23 But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, 24 but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead
Jesus our Lord, 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our
justification.
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The Story So Far
• Paul has showed us that neither lawlessness or legalism can save
• ALL are lost• That God is both just and justifier
• Holy anger and sacrificial love
• Sin distances, decays, and destroys
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The Story So Far
• Righteousness is deeply connected to relationship and covenant
• That God is moving to in history to deal with Sin
• Jesus is the means by which things are put right
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The Big Picture
Wrath
The purposes of GOD Those things opposed
Hell Shalom
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Rebecca Pippert
“Anger isn't the opposite of love. Hate is. And the final form of hate is indifference.”
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The Full GOSPEL
• “The Good News”• For whom? Paul starts to expand from here
• The danger of individualism• The GOSPEL>YOU • The GOSPEL is good news for ALL people and even for the earth itself
• Everything we say about God must be understood through His purposes and His promises
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Israel and the Oracles of God• Paul has worked his way backwards• The story of Israel as one of a
faithless messenger • Causes a complex problem• Gospel is tied up in the promises
that came to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob
• To be “justified” is to be in God’s covenant family
• These are to deal with Sin (God never leaves us to our own devices)
• God must send a faithful Israelite to both deal with Sin and keep the covenant (Phil 2:8)
• Through Jesus it all comes true
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I’m From the Future…
Offers the life of heaven now and entrance into the
family of GOD
Jesus comes to take the future wrath of God
on Himself in the present as the MERCY
SEAT (Lev. 16)
Judgment at the end of
time and the restoration of
all things
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Why Abraham?
• Paul’s argument is reaching a crescendo
• Verse 1 says “discovered” in NIV
• Justification by faith wasn’t a Christian invention
• Faith=Obedience to Law
• Faith=Trusting in God’s promises to save
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Why Abraham?
• The Hebrews in general believed Abe to be justified by his actions
• Paul says Abe was justified through faith
• Genesis 15:6• Any good Hebrew would
know that Abe was God’s choice and response to the evil of the first 14 chapters
• A blessing for all
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Why Abraham?
• Paul says that Abraham was declared “righteous” and blessed before he had done anything
• Why? How?• He believed (trusted)• He says God gave Abe this
as a gift• God pursued Abe• God even does this for the
“ungodly”• Quotes David (Ps. 32:1-2) • Verse 9-10
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Deconstruction of religion
• Paul says that if circumcision happened AFTER then it can’t be what matters most to God
• The time between ch. 16 and ch. 17 was 13-29 years!
• Already destroyed the LAW, now this!
• Only God controls salvation• If it could be earned, He
wouldn’t be God
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The Father of ALL?!
• Verse 11-13• What makes someone a
child of Abe is not these things, but trusting in God
• Those that do this, through Jesus, inherit the world (Rom. 8, Rev. 22:5)
• Abe is the spiritual father of all who believe
• Through his trust, not his genes
• What is faith?
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Trust Transfer
• When you go into a new country you operate by their currency
• Faith is the process of learning to not trust ourselves
• To stop seeing ourselves as the justifier
• Faith=obedience leads to boasting or despair
• Faith=trust in God’s promises to save leads to humility and confidence
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Trust Transfer
• “Evangelism Explosion”• Why should you be
justified?• A. “I have tried my best
to be a good Christian.”• B. “Because I believe in
God and try to do His will.”
• C. “Because I believe in Him with all my heart.”
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Trust Transfer
• None of the above• A. Salvation by works• B. Salvation by faith plus
works• C. Salvation by faith as a
work• Abe grew in faith by looking
at God• Verse 17-22• This is why we study God!• Justification and faith come
by observing God, not the Law
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Look at God
• Abe looked around at his life and saw deadness and barrenness
• It his own body and his wife’s• But he knew who God was
(V. 17)• God brings life out of death
and He is not hampered by having nothing to work with
• Abe’s faith reverses the curse laid out in Romans 1
• God renews Abe and he fulfills Gen 1
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Abe and I
• Abe leaves everything behind, ways of thinking about the divine and more (fear as the beginning)
• Abe trusted God when reality was against him
• His story is our story• How do you act when nothing
is being born in your life?• I know the God who raises
the dead!• Difficulties in faith are like
weights in a gym
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Lessons In Faith
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Conservative Liberal
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Conservative Person Liberal
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Unbelief Belief
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Unbelief Jesus Belief
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Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones on faith
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Wrath Again?
• Verse 15• Why give something that
causes wrath• Teaching not taunting• Law was meant to
facilitate relationship• It rests on and points to
faith• Faith doesn’t destroy the
law, it shows what it is all about
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CS Lewis
“No man knows how bad he is until he has tried very hard to be good.”