Good morning my brothers and sisters welcome back to the morning mindset. I'm curious if you're

ready for a history lesson today. I hope that you're a student of history. I hope you'd learn from things that have gone on before our time because our time tends to be a very shallow time, but in the past people gave a lot more thought to very important things that happened in the world.

And back in Romans chapter four of the New Testament we read the story about one of our spiritual ancestors, that's Abraham

as is the name God gave him. And Paul is carrying on this discussion he's begun in chapter 3 about how our faith in Jesus Christ makes us righteous.

And that may be a new concept to you if you haven't heard episodes 293 and

294 of this morning mindset.

I would encourage you to go back and listen to those because they kind of build the foundation for what we're talking about today.

Paul has established that through our faith in what Jesus Christ did on the cross, God

himself makes us righteous with his very righteousness. So our living in this world

is not for the sake of obtaining God's favor or even becoming righteous.

Our good living in this world is to flow out of who we really are. And so Paul has made that

statement and he's going to go back into history to demonstrate that it has always

been this way.

And he goes back to Abraham, the very first of the people God called to himself

that later became the nation of Israel, the Jewish people.

And in chapter 4, verse number 1, he says,

what then shall we say was gained by Abraham,

our forefather, according to the flesh. For if Abraham was justified by

works he has something to boast about but not before God. So you see he's making the

point that even Abraham was not made

right before God because he did certain things that God commanded him to do. You see

we never can attain righteousness by doing good

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