251 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 3 - Book 21 - The Imputed Righteousness of God

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 21 THE IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD: ROMANS 4 - 5:5 I've had people ask me what qualifications I have. People also ask me how I got the ability to teach. Romans 4:13-15a "For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith, For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law worketh wrath:..." Let's turn for a moment to Chapter 13. Those Ten Commandants are still the perfect Law of a Holy God, there's no denying that. Romans 13:8 If you really love someone you can't talk about them behind their back. If you really love someone you're not going to steal what is theirs. If you really love someone you're not going to enter into an immoral relationship, not if you really love them, and I've tried to stress this to young people. And when some young fellow says, "Oh, if you love me!" Always remember, true love seeks the other person's highest good, whatever that may be. Romans 13:9 "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet;..." Yes, under the law God had to say "Thou shalt and Thou shalt not." Love, love, love. Romans 4:15,16a "Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace;..." Now Grace is the next word that we must stop and define. It's His unmerited favor, that here the Holy, Sinless, Righteous Creator; Sovereign, Powerful, Infinite God, can reach down and become flesh, and walk those filthy dirty streets of Palestine and Jerusalem. We're talking about the God of Creation remember. Why? We're going to live in eternity someplace, it's either going to be in God's presence or the Lake of Fire out of His presence. But whatever, the Scripture says, "That if it's going to be of Grace, then we have to keep our hands off of it, we have to let it be totally the unmerited favor of God on our behalf." Reading on in verse 16: Romans 4:16,17 Abraham came out of abject idolatry, and walked by faith, and that's where we have to come from. Verse 17: We're nothing, but God makes us something. See? Romans 4:18 "Who (speaking of Abraham again) against hope believed in hope (in other words against common sense. Why? He's a hundred years old. His wife is ninety, and God keeps telling them that they're going to have a son. You're going to have a nation of people come from your body. Now verse 19. Romans 4:19 "And being not weak in faith,..." You know even ourselves, we're living in a fast paced culture, and it's awful easy to lose faith. I imagine that people ask that everyday. Calamity, and accidents strike, and the first thing the human mind says is, "Well where's God." I think Abraham was about fifty years old when God made all those promises to him while he was in Ur. And Abraham didn't leave Haran until he was seventy-five years old. My, after all, God wasn't doing anything. Hey, we must sit back and and remember this is how God works. Now finish verse 19: Romans 4:19,20a "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb (remember she's ninety): He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief;..." UNBELIEF! They couldn't believe what God said, and so their step of unbelief was, "Well, Moses send in spies. God never instructed those twelve spies. Let's jump in at verse 16. Hebrews 3:16,17 We're talking about good people, but what was their sin? Unbelief! They could not believe what God said concerning the work of the Cross. And I grant you that it is hard from the human element to comprehend that the Creator God took on flesh and was crucified, was buried and rose from the dead. And by that act of death and suffering, and then being raised from the dead, then God can pass out Salvation to the whole human race (Reference I Corinthians 15:1-4). Hebrews 3:18,19 Romans 4:20-22 "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded (there wasn't an ounce of doubt in Abraham's mind that God was going to do what He said He was going to do) that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Now verse 23. Romans 4:23,24 Now let's finish the chapter with verse 25: Romans 4:25 Oh, if Christ had not been raised from the dead, then the Apostle Paul couldn't have written about justification. II Corinthians 5:21 "For he (God) hath made him (The Christ) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." We know Christ was God, we know He was sinless, we know He never committed a single sin, not even in the thought processes. By Faith! #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible