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Just a quick recap.
Rom 4 has been giving us the example of Abraham as absolute proof that righteousness is by faith.
We have seen that it is not of works because Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness
We have seen that it was not of circumcision because Abraham was credited with righteousness before he was circumcised.
We see today that it was not of the Law because the Law the Law only brings wrath not righteousness.
The righteousness of faith, as we have seen already, is not our righteousness but God’s righteousness which is credited to us.
So God’s righteousness is manifest in two ways
1 by being credited to our account through faith
2 by being poured out through God’s wrath.
The greatest question on all of our minds should be how will God’s righteousness be revealed to me.
Paul tells us that we will not find the answer in our works, or our nationality, or in the keeping of the Law.
The answer to this great question is in faith.
The promise was not through the Law
First let’s clarify what the “Promise” is.
God’s covenant was unconditional.
God’s promise to Abraham is not if you do this then I will do this.
It is just I the Lord God will do this.
God’s promise to us today through Jesus Christ under the New Covenant is the exact same. it is unconditional.
Not if you do this or that then you will be saved.
Just I will save you through Jesus Christ my Son.
An unconditional Covenant still requires a response.
that response is faith.
To miss this is to miss the gospel itself.
The Law Brings Transgression and Transgression Brings Wrath
First let clarify what is meant by “Law” Sometimes the “Law’ refers to the whole Old Testament.
The Law and the prophets, sometimes it refers to the first five books of the Bible the Torah or the Pentateuch.
But I don’t think this is what Paul has in mind here.
I believe he is following the same argument here found in
Here I believe that Paul is referring to the Law as in the Law given to Moses on mount Sinai.
More specifically I believe he is referring to the Law of the commandments.
Thou shalt not lie, steal, covet etc.
So Paul is saying then that the Law brings wrath because where there is no Law there is no transgression or violation of the Law.
Every 2 year old teaches us that when there is a Law we will want to brake it.
So the Law, any law, can never make us righteous or holily or acceptable to God.
If the Promise Does not come Through the Law, Then Why Does the Bible Teach That Obedience is Required for Receiving the Inheritance?
Righteous and all the promises of God are absolutely unconditional God.
God has made a covenant with us through Jesus Christ that i just like the covenant with Abraham.
He is the one who has passed the the bodies that have been separated He alone will do it.
My response it to believe it by faith.
However, this faith is a faith that changes me.
It is like a tree that is planted in me and grows strong with it’s roots in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The tree grows and it produces fruit.
It must produce fruit or it is not the tree of faith.
So it is not a contradiction for God to make an unconditional covenant with Abraham and then to later say to Abraham because of your obedience I will perform my covenant.
Abraham’s obedience was the fruit of faith and it is for faith that God credited him with righteousness.
I think that there is a lot of confusion over salvation wether you can lose it or not.
I believe that confusion comes from how we understand salvation.
We tend to talk about it and think about it as though it were a thing that we get, we take it home and put it on a self and we have it.
Some believe that no one can ever take my salvation, God have given it to me and I can never lose it.
Then others say no I must look after my salvation, it I don’t love it and polish it and care for it and lock it up at night then it might go missing and I will lose it.
But salvation is not a thing that we have or can lose it is a covenant, a promise by God that he has done it and He is doing it and He will do it.
If I am not saved before the foundations of the world, today and on the day of wrath and for eternity then I’m not saved at all.
It is to the uttermost on not at all.
Salvation that only starts at some point and then stops is not salvation.
My works did not save me nor do they save me nor will they keep me saved.
But like Abraham believed God and was credited with righteousness and then proceeded to life of obedience to God as the fruit of his faith, so it is for you and for me.
I began by saying that God’s righteousness is revealed in two different ways.
Either it is credited to you through faith or it is manifest in the form of wrath of the day of wrath.
If you will be saved on the day of wrath it will be through faith in Jesus Christ.
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