This is the Bayonaut podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today we

listen to what Paul says about walking in righteousness. Yes, first by verse, through the

old letter. Walking first by verse in righteousness through Romans. All right, here we go. Paul's

been working hard to make the case that we are not justified because of our own righteousness,

but by our faith. That faith, what's another good word for faith Brent that we talk about

from Hebrew perspective? Trust. Trust. That faith from a Jewish perspective, I understand

for its trust. So we have been using the phrase trusting in the promises of God, quite a

bit, through Galatians and now Romans. We've been using the phrase trusting in the promises

of God. It kind of sounds like another phrase we used to use all the time. Trust the story.

Trust the story. That probably showed up here in a little bit. Trusting in the promises of God

sounds like the title of a book. Yeah, or a great old hymn. But I mean, that's more like standing on

the promises. Okay. I wouldn't know either of that. I'm not that interesting at this moment.

But what promises? When we say trusting the promises of God, what promises do we mean specifically?

For some, they may not like the phrase because they think that faith should be a reference to some

credal affirmation of the personhood and deity of Jesus. And while I'm not, I don't want to sit here

and take away from this significance of that truth at all. The personhood or the deity of crisis,

not my point here, not even for a moment. But it is important to see that good biblical exegesis

doesn't let that understanding hold much water for very long here. There's a great debate over

the use of a phrase that shows up in the New Testament quite a bit. Brent the phrase is Pistis

Christu. Pistis Christu in the Greek. And how it should be translated. Pistis Christu,

let's have to keep saying that. So we get it. Modern scholarship leans towards saying this phrase

in the New Testament should always be translated faith of Christ and not faith in Christ. Just how

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