The illustration that comes alive in us (Romans 4:20-25)
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Romans 4:20-25 - No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. 22 That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” 23 But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, 24 but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, 25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
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 | Hello my friends welcome back to the morning mindset it's time for you and for me to get our minds |
| 0:09.6 | align with the truth of God and I don't know about you but I feel like some days more than others I really really need that |
| 0:18.3 | I get stuck in my own way of thinking it's stuck in the things that have been going on in my life and even find |
| 0:25.3 | myself responding to people with attitudes and actions and words that don't represent the kind of alignment that I know that I know |
| 0:34.0 | know that I need to have and that I want to have with the way God |
| 0:37.8 | thinks about things and so this is a good reset every day for me and I hope it is for you. We're in the book of Romans |
| 0:46.7 | chapter 4 and we've been studying the life of Abraham so to speak because Paul is using Abraham as an illustration, and that |
| 0:56.3 | illustration is meant to fuel us and to come alive in us because the illustration is describing what it is like for us to have faith, |
| 1:07.7 | just like Abraham had faith. We're going to begin reading in verse number 20 |
| 1:12.8 | and go all the way to the end of the passage today, |
| 1:15.1 | the end of chapter 4 in verse 25. |
| 1:18.4 | Here's how it reads. |
| 1:20.0 | No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God. |
| 1:25.7 | But he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able |
| 1:31.8 | to do what he had promised. |
| 1:34.4 | That is why his faith was counted to him as righteousness. |
| 1:40.2 | But the words, it was counted to him. |
| 1:43.0 | Were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. |
| 1:48.0 | It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus, our Lord, who has delivered up for our |
| 1:56.0 | trespasses and raised for our justification. You see Abraham's situation was not unlike our own. He was facing an impossible circumstance. |
| 2:09.0 | In his case, the specifics are that he and his wife were both elderly and could not have children. |
| 2:17.2 | And then God came and God promised him you will not only have a child from your body and the body of your wife Sarah, |
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