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Intro:
Faith is central to all of life.
For example, at some point in our lives, many of us will go to a doctor whose name we cannot pronounce and whose degrees we have never verified.
He/she gives us a prescription we cannot read.
We take it to a pharmacist we have never seen before.
He/she gives us a chemical compound we do not understand.
Then we go home and take the pill according to the instructions on the bottle.
All in trusting, sincere reliance - FAITH!
Michael P. Green, 1500 Illustrations for Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000), 135.
That’s what faith is - reliance, trust, dependance.
When I came in this morning, I was not skeptical turning on the lights.
I trusted the switch and the good people of the Linton Electrical Department to have done their job.
When you came in to sit down in your pew, you weren’t concerned wether it would hold your whole row up.
You sat down relying on it to do so.
When you hopped in your car to drive through the wintery/spring tundra - many of you weren’t hoping the car would start just one more time.
You were dependent that it would.
That’s what faith is - reliance, trust, dependance.
Now, before we make the main theme of our passage today too elementary, please understand that although this is the simplest of truths, it brings with it the most difficult of application.
As we have seen throughout Romans already, every facet of human nature has been tainted by sin.
To express reliance, trust, and dependance in a biblical sense is not easy.
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The Example of Abraham (vv.
1-3)
2. The Explanation of Justification (vv.
4-5)
3. The Emphasis of David (vv.
6-8)
4. The Extension to All (vv.
9-12)
WEEKLY FOCUS:
Works don’t merit righteousness; therefore, we have no reason to boast.
Live humbly this week, grateful for the gift of God’s grace.
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