I'm sorry sorry oh there's something make a noise on my computer but what was that was odd. All right well, good morning good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Coffee and devotions is where every day you and I we get together we get the Lord's word and we grow in love and Lord together. And this year 2022 We'll make it from the book of Acts through the book of Philemon. Let's have some coffee. We'll pray and we'll get into the Lord's word.
Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for the rich grace that you have shown us in Jesus Christ.
Father, we pray that you would work in us and teach us. Father we pray that we would have faith that we would follow after you. Please, Lord. Please Father, let us be transformed by your Holy Spirit. In his name we pray. Amen. We are at Romans chapter four. Romans chapter four beginning at verse 13. Let's go ahead and jump in together now Romans chapter 14, verse 13, for the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his see through the law, but through the righteousness of faith has taken us back again to that passage we had talked about yesterday with Genesis chapter 15. When God told him to look up at the stars of the sky, count them if he could, his descendants would be more numerous than these and he says this came by faith through by but through the righteousness, faith, for if those who are of the law or heirs faith has made void in the promise made have no effect, because the law brings about wrath for the where there is no law there is no transgression. Therefore, it is a faith that it might be according to Greece, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations, in the presence of him, who has believed God who gives life to dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did who contrary to hope, in hope, believe. So that he came became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, so shall your descendants being and not being weak in faith. He did not consider his own body already. Dead since he was about 100 years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God and being fully convinced that what He had promised he was able to perform. And therefore, it was accounted to him for righteousness. Now, it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him, but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus, our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses and was raised because of our justification. One incredible passage that explores Abraham's faith and its implications to us. So what is this about? What's the best versus summarizes and what are we called to do in response to these words? So first, what is this about? Oh, in this first part, it's it's pointing out that the promise to Abraham that he believed in God to credit it to him as righteousness did not come by the law. All right, he says, but through the faith, the law hadn't been given for hundreds of years more. So God gives the promise to Abraham. He makes these these promises to him and Abraham believes. So it's, it's by his faith, that God credited to him as righteousness apart from the law, he says, and there's and that's why in verse 16, therefore, right the law brings about ratha convicts us of sin. But he says Therefore, it is a faith that it might be according to grace. see God's favor. shine down upon Abraham not according to the law, but by God's will. He looked at Abraham, and he loved him. Why? Because God desired to love him. This was God's sovereign choice. This was God's desire he he called Abraham out of Earth, the child demons and he loves him. Period. And so he gives these promises to him. And what is Abraham do? I love this part. He gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did and who contrary to hope and hope believed. Right, according to all common normal human reasoning. When God said these things to Abraham, he should have been like that dudes off his rocker.
I'm 100 years old, I'm as good as dead. My wife is old, she's way past childbearing years. There's no way this is going to happen. But that's not how Abraham thinks of God. No, he hopes in what, what does it say? who contrary to hope, in hope, believe. He knows that God is almighty. And that if God is desiring to do something, he's able to say something and even though that thing might exist, you better believe it because as God's talking about it, it talks he's talking about it as if it exists. So it must be true. Or there's Okay, God, you say, I believe that this is true. All right. I don't understand that Lord, but I trust I don't get it. I'm 100 years old. But you've told me to look up at the stars. And you've told me that my descendants are going to be more numerous than that God I don't know how you're going to do it. But I believe it. And that's what's going on in Abraham's heart. And so it says he did not waver, verse 20. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God. See, he responds to God with faith, and that faith brings glory to God. Do you see how that works? God is initiator God is the one who does these things. We believe because he's changed our hearts. He makes us want to want him desire him he makes He gives us hope that's not natural. And that hope glorifies God and magnifies him that much more and being fully convinced that he had promised him he was also able to
perform. Isn't that beautiful? He's convinced that they got who promised us him is able to do it.
And God, credited to him as righteousness is justification by faith. God makes him declares him to be righteous on the basis of his faith, because he knows who God is, and trust God's word. And says, but it's not just for him. It's not just for Abraham 1000s of years ago, but it's for the first century Roman people then. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him, but for us also, but for us also. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. Do you see he does something that's not humanly explainable. It's not humanly explainable, that 100 year old man would have a baby and it's not humanly explainable, that Jesus Christ would walk out of that tomb on the third day but do you believe? Do you confess that Jesus Christ is your Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead? If so, you will be saved? getting ahead of myself here that's going to come later in the book of Romans, but this that faith that God can do that amazing miraculous work of freezing up Jesus from the dead. This is what God tells us here. God imputes to us righteousness. So this is where he says in verse 25, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification. See, we we as evangelicals are crucio centric, right? We sent her on the cross. He was put to death or he was delivered up because of our offenses. But sometimes we lose sight of the importance of the resurrection. And he was raised because of our justification. If you think that Jesus died for your sins, but you don't believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ, you are not justified in God's sight. Your sins are still like Scarlet. You have not been washed as clean as No. But it is those who hope, contrary to hope, who believed that God could do the impossible, and that he did it in Jesus Christ raising Him from the dead that we have a king of kings who ascended up into heaven, and who sits now at the right hand of God, the Father almighty, if you believe in that Jesus Christ, God says we will be saved. What's the best for summer as well? I got all sorts of things underlined here. I have verse 16, underlined, I have verse 20. Underline Ivers 21. I know I live verse 22, underlined. Verse 24, underlined and I have verse 25, double underline. What would you underline in your Bible? Let me know if you're on YouTube or Facebook, put it down in the comments. Lastly, calling what are we called to do in response to these words? Do you believe? Do you believe in the resurrection of the dead? Do you believe that Jesus Christ not only died for your sin but was raised from the dead? If so. The passage here this morning tells us so God accounts us righteous in His sight. So do you believe will you be found acceptable on God's sight by faith alone? This is the merit it's not your going to be righteous enough by keeping the Law No. If we're looking to the law for our righteousness, we got a problem that tells us about our sin. But we look to Christ. And we believe in His finished work, and in his present life. And if we believe that
we will be saved. Do you believe Let's pray. Father thank You for the miraculous work of faith that we can hope contrary to hope. Thank You that You are the God who raised up your only begotten son from the dead on that third day. And you have given us a living hope and the death of Jesus Christ. Our Lord. Father, we pray that we would follow after you. We pray that we would love you with all our hearts. Teach us Lord. Let us have true living faith. In Jesus's name, Amen. My Lord bless you today. May you walk in the joy of knowing that your reason King is alive today and that he has poured out His Spirit upon your heart to cry out Abba Father. And your father will never leave you nor forsake you. I'll see you tomorrow.
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