#265 – Counted as Righteous (Genesis 15:6)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 2 May 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:05.6 | Genesis chapter 15, verse 6, and he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness. |
| 0:15.4 | This is, in a sense, one of the most important sentences in all the Bible. It's talking about Abraham after God |
| 0:25.1 | has made promises to him. And verse 6 in Genesis 15 says Abraham believed God. And God |
| 0:34.9 | counted that to him, his belief to him as righteousness. |
| 0:41.1 | So how can you be counted righteous before God? |
| 0:46.2 | And what scripture is teaching here and all over the Bible, this is the essence of the gospel, |
| 0:52.7 | is that the only way we can be made righteous before God is through |
| 0:58.4 | believing in God, through faith, through trusting in His promise. You think about it, this is how |
| 1:06.1 | we are saved from our sins. How do you come to salvation? |
| 1:11.5 | It's not through your works. |
| 1:14.0 | It's not you do all these things and then God counts it to you as righteousness. |
| 1:21.0 | No, it's you believe. |
| 1:22.7 | You believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins rose from the dead. |
| 1:28.9 | You confess him as Lord overall. |
| 1:32.4 | You believe that he is who he says he is. |
| 1:35.4 | You believe that he has done what the Bible has said. |
| 1:38.5 | He has done. |
| 1:39.1 | He's lived a perfect life. |
| 1:40.8 | He's died a substitutionary death on the cross for us. He's risen from the grave. |
| 1:46.9 | What does Romans 10, 9 and 10 say? If you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your |
| 1:52.3 | heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. That's how we're counted righteous |
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