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Sacred Sunday~Romans 4/God and Abraham

Sacred Sunday~Romans 4/God and Abraham

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Welcome Church! We are here every Sunday to read the Bible, tell personal stories and pray together because when two or more are gathered.....In a non-judgement

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Welcome Church! We are here every Sunday to read the Bible, tell
personal stories and pray together because when two or more are
gathered.....In a non-judgemental down to earth format. God bless
you every one! Today we are reading Romans Chapter 4! How does Paul
know all this? Because of Abraham. Remember him from way back in
Genesis?Paul explains that the Bible tells us that Abraham believed
in God, and because of this, God thought he was a swell guy. And it
certainly wasn't because he was an awesome juggler (he wasn't). God
liked Abraham because Abraham had faith in him. God is pretty big
on people putting their faith in him. Well, just remember
that God was cool with Abraham before he was even circumcised. In
fact, the main reason that Abraham got circumcised was to mark
himself with a sign of his new relationship with God. So Abraham is
basically a stand-in for everyone who has ever believed in God, but
has not been circumcised. Gentile-Christians, we're looking at you.
Like Abraham, no one has to work to get on God's good side. You
just gotta have faith. Really, Paul says, if people could just go
around doing nice things and win God's favor, then what would be
the point of believing at all? When God promised Abraham that he
would have lots of kids and that he would go on to be "the father
of many nations," Abraham didn't doubt God. Sure, Abraham was over
a hundred years old. And his wife, Sarah, was pretty much barren.
But Abraham still believed it would happen. And you know what? It
did. Now that's some strong believing. So there, Paul says. Faith!
Abraham had faith in God's promises. If someone believes in
Jesus—that he died so that our sins could be crossed off God's
ledger and that he came back to life so that we could be square
with God again—then that person is a-okay by God. (Thank you to
www.shmoop.com)