Gal 3:6-9 Our father Abraham's example

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Our father Abraham's example

Gal 3:6-9
Consider Abraham: "He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."  (Gen 15:6) Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: "All nations will be blessed through you."  (Gen 22:18) So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Likewise Paul writes, "It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith." Rom 4:13

Note that even Gentile Christians are reckoned children of Abraham. Paul invokes Abraham's example again in Romans chapter 4 as a model for Christian faith. In saying this Paul reveals that there is no distinction between Jewish and Gentile believers, and so none should be made in the Christian community. What is relevant to salvation is not a person's cultural background but rather their faith in Christ.

Rom 4:16  Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, 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

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[Desopixi Seilynam]

And what is the faith of Abraham? What did Abraham believe in those precious moments? Abraham believed that God was going to raise Isaac from the dead. Hebrews 11:19.

Abraham believed in the operation of God (resurrection) 

Therefore we who share in the faith of Abraham have all reason to live righteously, being motivated by the hope and faith in the operation of God.

[steve morrow]

RIGHTEOUSNESS/FAITH  OF  ABRAHAM

 

GENESIS 26:5  BECAUSE  THAT  ABRAHAM  OBEYED  MY  VOICE  AND  KEPT  MY  CHARGE  MY  COMMANDMENTS  MY  STATUTES  AND  MY  LAWS

 

ROMANS 4:20  he staggered not at the promise of  GOD  through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to  GOD   --4:21-- AND  BEING  FULLY  PERSUADED  -- that what  HE  had promised  HE  was able also to perform 

--4:22--  AND  THEREFORE  IT  WAS  IMPUTED  TO  HIM  FOR  RIGHTEOUSNESS

 

JAMES 2:23  AND  THE  SCRIPTURE  WAS  FULFILLED  WHICH  SAITH  ABRAHAM  BELIEVED  GOD  AND  IT  WAS  IMPUTED  UNTO  HIM  FOR  RIGHTEOUSNESS  AND  HE  WAS CALLED  THE  FRIEND  OF  GOD

 

JOHN 15:14  YOU  ARE  MY  FRIENDS  IF  YOU  DO  WHATSOEVER  I  COMMAND  YOU

 

ROMANS 2:11  FOR  THERE  IS  NO  RESPECT  OF  PERSONS  WITH  GOD 

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST

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13 hours ago, steve morrow said:

RIGHTEOUSNESS/FAITH  OF  ABRAHAM

GENESIS 26:5  BECAUSE  THAT  ABRAHAM  OBEYED  MY  VOICE  AND  KEPT  MY  CHARGE  MY  COMMANDMENTS  MY  STATUTES  AND  MY  LAWS

ROMANS 4:20  he staggered not at the promise of  GOD  through unbelief but was strong in faith giving glory to  GOD   --4:21-- AND  BEING  FULLY  PERSUADED  -- that what  HE  had promised  HE  was able also to perform 

--4:22--  AND  THEREFORE  IT  WAS  IMPUTED  TO  HIM  FOR  RIGHTEOUSNESS

Actually Paul's argument in Romans 4 is that Abraham's righteousness was based solely on his faith in the promise of God.

1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter?
2  If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about— but not before God.
3  What does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." (Gen 15:6)
4  Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation.
5  However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

You see in Gen 15:5 Abraham was given a promise and then in Gen 15:6 he believed the promise and was reckoned righteous, there being no intervening work on Abraham's part between Gen 15:5 and Gen 15:6. And thus Paul has proven that Abraham was reckoned righteous by faith alone, and this he establishes as the precedent for the Christian. This in contrast to the Judaizers among the Christian community - those salvation by works Christians how reject the gospel of grace. 
 

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 ACCORDING  TO  GODS  GRACE  --OR--  WHAT  MAN  WANTS  GODS  GRACE  TO  BE 

 

TITUS 2:11  for the grace of  GOD  --THAT  BRINGETH  SALVATION-- hath appeared to all men

--2:12--TEACHING  US-- that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live --soberly-- righteously--and godly--in this present world

 

what  argument ---  ROMANS 15:18  for I will --NOT  DARE--TO  SPEAK-- of any of those things which  --CHRIST--  hath not wrought by me to make --THE  GENTILES  OBEDIENT  BY  WORD  AND  DEED 

 

ROMANS 5:21  THAT  AS  SIN  HATH  REIGNED  UNTO  DEATH  EVEN  SO  MIGHT  GRACE  REIGN  THROUGH  RIGHTEOUSNESS  UNTO  ETERNAL  LIFE  BY  JESUS  CHRIST  OUR  LORD 

 

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PROVERBS 21:30  THERE  IS  NO  WISDOM  NOR  UNDERSTANDING  NOR  COUNSEL  AGAINST  THE  LORD

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LUKE 4:4  AND  JESUS  ANSWERED  HIM  SAYING  IT  IS  WRITTEN  THAT  MAN  SHALL --NOT  LIVE  ON  BREAD  ALONE-- BUT  BY  EVERY  WORD  OF  GOD--

PROVERBS 8:8  all the words of -- MY  MOUTH -- are in righteousness there is nothing froward or perverse in them 

 

PSALM 15:1  LORD  WHO  SHALL  ABIDE  IN  THY  TABERNACLE  WHO  SHALL  DWELL IN  THY  HOLY  HILL

--15:2-- he that walketh uprightly and --WORKETH  RIGHTEOUSNESS-- AND  SPEAKETH  THE  TRUTH  IN  HIS  HEART  --15:3-- he that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doeth evil to his neighbor nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor --15:4-- in whose eyes a vile person is contemned but he honoreth them ---THAT  FEAR  THE  LORD--- he that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not

 

ACTS 10:34  then peter opened his mouth and said of a truth I perceive that  GOD  is no respecter of persons --10:35-- BUT  IN  EVERY  NATION  HE  THAT  FEARETH  HIM  AND  WORKETH  RIGHTEOUSNESS  ---IS  ACCEPTED  WITH  HIM---

*******2 CORINTHIANS 5:9  ---WHEREFORE  WE  LABOR--- THAT  WHETHER  PRESENT  OR  ABSENT  WE  MAY  BE  ACCEPTED  OF  HIM******* 

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST