Romans 4:13-25
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13 For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, 15 because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.
Without the law there is no transgression
The law brings about wrath
Pastor Bill said “The wrath of God is giving you want you want”
How does what you want look different before Jesus?
What is something you did before you knew it was wrong or illegal?
Did you stop once you realized?
Looking back how do you see it now?
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
It’s God’s grace through faith
Mercy is not getting what you deserve
Grace is getting what you don’t deserve
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
Faith is the organ of grace
We must first remember that all of this is dependent of God’s grace
Our faith is what activates it but there is nothing without the grace of God
Grace is God’s favor to the unworthy
God’s supernatural favor
What’s a testimony of supernatural favor in your life?
How has God graced you specifically for the season your in?
17 (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;
God’s word puts things into existence and so do we
21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Why negative and foul things shouldn’t come out of our mouths
22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
What have you been confessing?
What mountains are you speaking to in your life?
Notice it doesn’t say complain to God about your problems
Or complain to God about your mountains
He says have faith in God and you speak
You’re not telling God what to do you’re telling your mountain to move
18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
Contrary to circumstances, your feelings, and what everyone else says about the situation
Abram strictly believed off God’s prosises
Adam in the Garden
WE were only strictly supposed to survive of God’s word
When Adam and EVE sinned all the circumstances came up
How do you motivate yourself when you feel hopeless?
How do you motivate yourself to do good things when you don’t feel like it?
19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
Faith only takes into account what God’s word says
Abraham could have, but chose not to consider circumstances
20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,
How do you keep from wavering?
21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 22 And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
23 Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, 24 but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, 25 who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.