God's way of counting (Romans 4:4-8)
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 3 October 2020
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Romans 4:4-8 - 4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: 7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
Romans 2:12-16 - For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, my friends. We are back. It is time for the morning mindset. I'm |
| 0:07.2 | thankful that you're with me. Hey, I hope you did not miss yesterday's Pray Together episode where we had the opportunity to |
| 0:14.7 | pray together for real needs that others have submitted. If you would like to be |
| 0:19.6 | a part of those episodes just watch for the episode every Friday and you can pray along with |
| 0:25.0 | me as we play those episodes but I also want to invite you to share your prayer |
| 0:29.6 | requests with me. Please look at the description in this episode of the |
| 0:33.9 | podcast to find out all the information about sharing your needs and |
| 0:38.0 | requests with us. All right, we're getting back to it and we're going to talk |
| 0:42.2 | today a little bit |
| 0:43.4 | about God's way of counting. |
| 0:45.8 | And when I say counting, I'm not talking about one, two, three, four, |
| 0:49.0 | or five, that sort of counting. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm talking about how God considers certain things, how God views certain things, and the |
| 0:56.6 | word that the Apostle Paul uses when he's talking about this today is the word count. |
| 1:01.8 | God counts something as something else. He considers it to be a |
| 1:06.7 | certain thing. Let's read the passage and we will come right back to that |
| 1:10.7 | thought. He says what does scripture say? Abraham believed God and |
| 1:17.5 | it was counted to him as righteousness. Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift, but as his |
| 1:26.7 | Jew. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness. |
| 1:38.0 | Just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works. |
| 1:46.8 | And now he's going to quote the Old Testament, the Psalms. |
| 1:49.7 | Bless are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered. |
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