Romans Chapter 4,

V. 13 through 25.

The promise is Abraham and his descendants that they should inherit the world

did not come through the law, but to the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherence of the law who

are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law, there is no transgression.

That is why it depends on faith in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his descendants.

Not only to the adherents of the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all, as it is written.

I have made you a father of many nations.

The presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into

the existence the things that do not exist.

In hope he believed against hope that he should become the father of many nations as he had been told

so shall your descendants be. He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead because

he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew

strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

That is why his faith was reckoned to him as righteousness. But the words it was reckoned to him were not written for his

sake alone, but for ours also. It would be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from the dead Jesus, our Lord,

who is put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Let's pray together for just a moment.

Oh Father, we long for the outpouring of the gift of the Holy Spirit in a unique way in this

remaining half hour.

To the end that there might be conviction of sin,

the opening of the eyes of the blind, the humbling of pride and the lifting up of

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