Clearly, God’s promise to give the whole earth to Abraham and his descendants was based not on his obedience to God’s law, but on a right relationship with God that comes by faith.
Romans 4:13Â
In our hearts we know and believe Jesus fulfilled the Law, yet in our heads we bind ourselves to a new kind of law: performance-based righteousness. We fall for the lie that believing isn’t enough.
Don’t misunderstand why I have come—it isn’t to cancel the laws of Moses and the warnings of the prophets. No, I came to fulfill them and to make them all come true.
Matthew 5:17 (TLB)
Belief precedes obedience. Abraham believed long before he obeyed God through circumcision.Â
Nothing that we do or fail to do will make us more right or less right.Â
No law could save the Jews, and no rule, ritual, or rightness can ever save us.Â
Jesus made us as right with God as we need to be. It’s up to us to live in the accomplished work of the cross, power of the Word, and the freedom of the Spirit.Â
Jesus made me as right as I need to be. Write this down.
I am counted righteous, right with God because I believe.
Obedience to God isn’t a qualifier for salvation, it is a response of salvation.Â
Underline the word “before.”
And Abraham is also the spiritual father of those who have been circumcised, but only if they have the same kind of faith Abraham had before he was circumcised.
Romans 4:12
My salvation is secure by believe-based righteousness, Abraham’s belief, and my belief. Don’t tangle it up with an obedience-based righteousness.
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