Romans 4
Where is your trust; who do you trust? Is your trust within
yourself effort; is it that you trust yourself? Many of us in the body of
CHRIST make the same mistakes over and over again expecting different results
and that’s insane or so I'm told. We pray to GOD about a particular thing and
then we through self effort try to work through or work out the solution.
That’s not placing trust in GOD. Unless the god that is being prayed to be
self. Abraham put all his trust in GOD and it was credited to him righteous.
All we need to do is just believe; keep our efforts off; trust in GOD when we
speak with HIM, wait for HIM to answer orally or find HIS answer in HIS Word. Once
the answer comes just believe; trust in HIM. Build up credit in righteousness.
King David pronounced on us whom GOD credits with righteousness apart from
legalistic observance. “Blessed are those who’s transgressions are forgiven;
who’s sins are covered over (because David lived before the LORD JESUS was born
to Mary; sins were covered. Now sins are washed away; removed from us by the
Blood of the Lamb who is JESUS the CHRIST; Psalm 103:12, 1 Peter 1:18-20, Acts
22:16). Blessed is the man whose sin the LORD GOD will not reckon against his
account” (Rom.4:7-8). We must trust as Abraham trusted in GOD so that righteousness
will be accounted to us also. Check this out; we have read that Jews were and
are a stickler about circumcision; every male must be circumcised and must be
circumcised eight days after birth. They believe that this makes them closer to
GOD and in part they are correct; but only in part. Take a close look at this;
Abraham was considered righteous by the LORD GOD before he was circumcised! *Fact
is Abraham was already sealed in righteousness; now remember this because I
will later show you a revelation that will tie this together for some of you*.
Abraham was circumcised as an outward sign of the seal of righteousness that he
already had based on the ground of trust in GOD. He was not circumcised so that
he could be the father of all who are not outwardly circumcised; yet trust in
the LORD GOD completely so they have righteousness credited to them. He was also
circumcised so that those who have the outward sign and walks accordingly as
Abraham does or did in true faith; he will be their father also. The promise given
to Abraham and his seed not seeds; is that he would inherit the world not
through legalism but through righteousness that trust produces. Think about
this; if legalism produced heirs than trust in GOD would be pointless and
worthless. The law brings about punishment but where there is no law there is liberty.
Why was or is the promise based on trusting in GOD? The promise is GOD’s free
gift to us; a promise that we can rely totally on. Often we see the word “seed”
used but whom exactly is the seed? Many believe that the seed is Isaac but
that’s not correct. In order to find out who the seed is we must search out the
genealogy; yes, that part of the bible most people find incredibly boring or
worthless. (Please read Luke 3:23-38 you are not going to find what you need to
see in the genealogy located in the book of Matthew). The LORD GOD appointed
Abraham to be the father of many nations or as I like to say every nation
because in every nation there is at least one person who trust in GOD and his
faith is credited to him as righteous. Abraham is the father of faith in the
Highest GOD and he got to see the LORD JESUS as well as spoke to HIM. JESUS is
the beginning HIS beginning did not begin when HE was born to Mary. If Abraham
focused on his circumstance which was that his body was probably going through
a shortage of testosterones because the blood was not flowing in every area to
function in certain organs that would bring him joy. And in his wife the chance
of fruit bearing was a done deal for her; it was just over and now that she had
gone through menopause she may no longer be interested in dancing the marriage
dance with Abraham. If he had focused on those things I don’t know where we
would be now. But bless GOD; Abraham did not focus on those shortcomings and he
believed as did his wife and they had the time of their lives enjoying the
dance. And because of his faithful act there are billions of us faithful
children. We can’t allow fear to come in; we can’t allow our faith or trust to
waiver for even just a tiny bit. We can’t afford to be in lack when it comes to
our trust in GOD. As we trust in what GOD can do and HE can do all things but
lie; GOD will give us power and in that
power we will find it effortless to glorify the Living GOD. We must be completely
convinced just as we are completely convinced that our name is our name; our
child is our child and our parent is our parent. The LORD GOD is able to do
just what HE said HE will do; this is HIS promise to us and HE alone without
our help (unless HE provides specific instructions of what we are to do) will
accomplish what HE is to do. What does your account in heaven look like is it
–righteousness or +righteousness? Nothing Abraham experienced through faith was
for himself alone it is also for us today. Have you trusted in GOD that it was
HE that raised the LORD JESUS from the dead? This is the first step for the
none believer; he/she must believe that the LORD GOD raised JESUS the CHRIST up
on the third day and that HE walked out of the tomb. That borrowed tomb is
empty. The second act of trust is that you believe that JESUS is the SON of the
Highest GOD. Lastly acknowledge that you are a sinner and that who you are you
desire to be better and that you can’t do it alone but you need the help of
JESUS. Doing these things in your heart and saying them with your mouth
(soft-medium or loud the choice is yours) is an oral and open confession. (Take
a read of John 1 ; John 3:16 and Romans 10:9). JESUS who was and is sinless was
delivered over to die because of the offenses of the world but bless GOD that
it did not end there. The LORD GOD raised JESUS the CHRIST up so that we could
receive HIS free gift.
*I wrote that I would show you a revelation; this is so
awesome. In Romans 2:29 the scripture reads: “the real Jew is one inwardly;
true circumcision is of the heart; spiritual not literal; so that his praise
comes not from other people but from GOD.
On purpose there is no picture today.
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