Romans 4:1-3: The Difference Between Obedience and Legalism

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

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What does the Bible teach about obedience? Is our obedience something we do in order to justify ourselves? What do we learn from Abraham about his faithfulness to God? As we continue through the book of Romans, Paul is slowly revealing to us that our works of obedience do not make us righteous before God. In Romans 4, he unpacks this by explaining that it was Abraham’s faith in God and belief in His promises that justified him. So, how does this look for us today? Since we are on the other side of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, we are looking back at all of the promises that God has fulfilled. But, this doesn’t change the fact that our faith in God and belief in His promises is also what justifies us. The difference for us is that we now know it is the righteousness of God in Christ that we can rest in as our justification. In this episode of Real Christianity, pastor Dale Partridge walks us through the difference between obedience and legalism, as Paul explains in Romans 4:1-3 how our faith is counted to us as righteousness.

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0:00.0	In this episode of Real Christianity, I discussed the difference between obedience and legalism.
0:04.8	This is an essential distinction for every Christian. In fact, without it, you're often going to mix up these two
0:10.5	and make the gospel confusing. So get ready. All that and more coming up right now.
0:23.9	Welcome to Real Christianity. My name is Dale Partridge. Now, as you know, this show is an audio and
0:28.0	video ministry of relearn.org where our mission is to bring the church back to the Bible.
0:33.7	Question for you. Have you picked up a copy of my new bestselling children's book, Jesus and my
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0:50.0	can buy a copy at Amazon or from our store at relearn.org forward slash gender. Let's go ahead and get
0:56.1	started. We are still in Romans, which is an incredible book. And for the past several months,
1:06.6	we've had the privilege to hear Paul's Holy Spirit-inspired presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
1:12.7	Now, in chapter one, Paul says that the gospel is the power of God undisaubation for everyone
1:18.6	who believes equally with the Jews and the Gentiles. And then he goes on to really defend that claim
1:25.1	in this multi-chapter coordinated argument from Romans chapter one 18 all the way to three chapter
1:32.3	or chapter three verse 20. In those three chapters, we learned a handful of things. I'm just going
1:37.3	to do a little bit of review and then we'll move on. So we learned the impartiality of God's
1:40.9	wrath towards sinners. We learned the universal jurisdiction of the moral law over all people,
1:46.3	a Jew and Gentile. We learned that none are righteous, not even one. And we learned that just because
1:51.2	the Jews were the seed of Abraham that they had the possession of the moral law and that they were
1:57.8	marked with circumcision did not necessarily mean that those things brought about justification
2:02.5	or salvation as a result. So we learned that every person's central need is to be found righteous
2:09.2	and to have their sin taken away, to be justified or to be guiltless before their maker. And the great
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