| Teacher: Ryan McCall Series: Romans (Acts) |
Ryan's Notes | |
Romans 4
Fall of 2013, Starbuck in Irvington. Perception of Christian life, behavioral change. I would try, retry, quit, retry. Seemed like a hard road that I couldn’t do, which you can’t. Worldly therapist= Felt like a being was hovering over me waiting to crack my rear-end whom I could never please.
Justification by Faith Evidenced in Old Testament
1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Fall of 2013, Starbuck in Irvington. Perception of Christian life, behavioral change. I would try, retry, quit, retry. Seemed like a hard road that I couldn’t do, which you can’t. Worldly therapist= Felt like a being was hovering over me waiting to crack my rear-end whom I could never please.
Justification by Faith Evidenced in Old Testament
1 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Who is Abraham?….born before law.
Made righteous by faith long before law.
What is righteousness: The quality or state of being righteous, free from guilt or sin.
We will discuss more about what Abraham believed.
Credit card example, you have the ability to pay and buy goods, although the debt still exists. You have something better than a credit card.
4 Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.
5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,
Ephesians 2:8-9
Receiving is much harder than giving. “You don’t need to do that”. Receiving takes humility and flies in the face of Pride. Humility is living life by another and God receives the glory in the process. Only One who has lived the Christian Life and that is the Father….
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven,
And whose sins have been covered.
8 “Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”
Who is David? Prophet. Who was David talking about? You!!!
Made righteous by faith long before law.
What is righteousness: The quality or state of being righteous, free from guilt or sin.
We will discuss more about what Abraham believed.
Credit card example, you have the ability to pay and buy goods, although the debt still exists. You have something better than a credit card.
4 Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.
5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,
Ephesians 2:8-9
Receiving is much harder than giving. “You don’t need to do that”. Receiving takes humility and flies in the face of Pride. Humility is living life by another and God receives the glory in the process. Only One who has lived the Christian Life and that is the Father….
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven,
And whose sins have been covered.
8 “Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”
Who is David? Prophet. Who was David talking about? You!!!
Shows the heart of God and His faithfulness to His promises. God fulfilled his promises regardless of Abraham’s reaction. Funny how you only read about Abraham’s shortcomings BEFORE THE CROSS. Nothing is mentioned about his misfires after the cross. Hebrews 11.
Hebrews 10:17 “And their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more”.
Coincidence, I think not.
You are forgiven past, present, and future. You live after the cross. This is truth and a promise God made to himself because of Jesus (The lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world), regardless to your response to it, although there are natural consequences for our actions. Sounds like a prideful statement, but its not….anything less is devaluing what Jesus did for us on the cross. God desires for you to enjoy a secure relationship with Him.
9 Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, “Faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”
10 How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised;
11 and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,
12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.
Galatians 3:2
Abrahams’s righteousness had nothing to do with works, but like you was made righteous by faith.
Growing up…had to get my act together. I need to check off the boxes before I am acceptable, performance based acceptance…..law.
Circumcision today: How often do you read your bible? Stop Sinning? Church Attendance?
You are on a Jesus Based Acceptance
Acts 17:25: God is not served by human hands.
God desired something more than outward change. When He died, you died. He gave you a brand new heart that reflects his nature. The inward drives the outward.
13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified;
15 for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation
Galatians 3:17-18
Exodus 20:18-21
Mt. Sinai….scary, loud, fear, separation from God. Expectations
Speeding problem. Law was an act of Grace, tutor to bring to you Christ. Bring you to point of stop trying and find the abundant life in Jesus.
16 For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Law says do…..Grace says, let me do this (receive), your job to trust and allow Christ to live His life through you….that requires faith and allows God to bring glory to himself.
Matthew 11:28-30
Learn from me (Jesus)..only one person to ever live out the Christian life….The Father…
17 (as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.
18 In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
19 Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;
20 yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God,
21 and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.
“Hope against Hope” requires faith and trust. The flesh or doing things in your own strength resists again this. When you work God rests, when you rest, God works.
Gideon, Jehoshaphat, Red Sea…Hope against Hope….required faith….thats what we have today….walk by flesh or walk by faith by trusting The Spirit in you.
Faith today….trusting Jesus in You in spite of emotions, circumstance, expectations, etc.
22 Therefore it was also credited to him as righteousness.
23 Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him,
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.[1]
What the heck did Abraham believe?
John 8:56: Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day. And he saw it and he was glad.
When you trusted in Jesus, you died with Christ and were raised with Him to a brand new life, a brand new identity.
Perhaps the Christian life is much more creative than us all looking the same and trying to suck it up and fix our behavior. Perhaps we have been invited to something totally radical, which is Christ living in you as you in your unique personality.
Galatians 5:22-23
Look at the personalities in this room….
I have no desire or ability to climb a tree and cut it down, fix someone's car, frame someone's house, or run a department store…..but some of you do in your unique personality, which Jesus gets to express through you on a moment to moment basis to those who are in your unique world…..
Hebrews 10:17 “And their sins and lawless deeds I will remember no more”.
Coincidence, I think not.
You are forgiven past, present, and future. You live after the cross. This is truth and a promise God made to himself because of Jesus (The lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world), regardless to your response to it, although there are natural consequences for our actions. Sounds like a prideful statement, but its not….anything less is devaluing what Jesus did for us on the cross. God desires for you to enjoy a secure relationship with Him.
9 Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, “Faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”
10 How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised;
11 and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,
12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.
Galatians 3:2
Abrahams’s righteousness had nothing to do with works, but like you was made righteous by faith.
Growing up…had to get my act together. I need to check off the boxes before I am acceptable, performance based acceptance…..law.
Circumcision today: How often do you read your bible? Stop Sinning? Church Attendance?
You are on a Jesus Based Acceptance
Acts 17:25: God is not served by human hands.
God desired something more than outward change. When He died, you died. He gave you a brand new heart that reflects his nature. The inward drives the outward.
13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified;
15 for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation
Galatians 3:17-18
Exodus 20:18-21
Mt. Sinai….scary, loud, fear, separation from God. Expectations
Speeding problem. Law was an act of Grace, tutor to bring to you Christ. Bring you to point of stop trying and find the abundant life in Jesus.
16 For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Law says do…..Grace says, let me do this (receive), your job to trust and allow Christ to live His life through you….that requires faith and allows God to bring glory to himself.
Matthew 11:28-30
Learn from me (Jesus)..only one person to ever live out the Christian life….The Father…
17 (as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.
18 In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”
19 Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;
20 yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God,
21 and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.
“Hope against Hope” requires faith and trust. The flesh or doing things in your own strength resists again this. When you work God rests, when you rest, God works.
Gideon, Jehoshaphat, Red Sea…Hope against Hope….required faith….thats what we have today….walk by flesh or walk by faith by trusting The Spirit in you.
Faith today….trusting Jesus in You in spite of emotions, circumstance, expectations, etc.
22 Therefore it was also credited to him as righteousness.
23 Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him,
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.[1]
What the heck did Abraham believe?
John 8:56: Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day. And he saw it and he was glad.
When you trusted in Jesus, you died with Christ and were raised with Him to a brand new life, a brand new identity.
Perhaps the Christian life is much more creative than us all looking the same and trying to suck it up and fix our behavior. Perhaps we have been invited to something totally radical, which is Christ living in you as you in your unique personality.
Galatians 5:22-23
Look at the personalities in this room….
I have no desire or ability to climb a tree and cut it down, fix someone's car, frame someone's house, or run a department store…..but some of you do in your unique personality, which Jesus gets to express through you on a moment to moment basis to those who are in your unique world…..
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