Today in Romans 4 we should know that law is still in effect, that the gentiles come to faith through grace.
Rom.4:1] What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
Abraham had found faith.
Rom.4:2] For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
[3] For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Did not God lead Abraham?
Rom.4:4] Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Working for the flesh, paycheck.
Rom.4:5] But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
But to him that work for the Spirit, for him it is counted as righteousness.
Rom.4:6] Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
[7] Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
This we find in Psalms 32 and verse 1 reads.
Psa.32:1] Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
[2] Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
[3] When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
[4] For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
[5] I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
This is what repentance is, we confess our sins to the Father.
Psa.32:6] For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Rev.17:15, the waters are the people. 1Cor.10:11, all these happen for examples to them in the end times.
Psa.32:7] Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
[8] I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
[9] Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Don’t be led by the mouth. In these days we need to be aware that the dragon spews lies out of his mouth. Rev.12:15-17.
Psa.32:10] Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
[11] Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Back to Romans and verse 8 reads.
Rom.4:8] Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Who’s sin the Lord has covered.
Rom.4:9] Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
[10] How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
He was counted as righteousness when he was not yet circumcised. His faith gave him righteousness.
Rom.4:11] And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Christ on the cross was The Sacrifice, once and for all time.
Rom.4:12] And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Speaking to the gentiles.
Rom.4:13] 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.
[14] For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
Isa.43:26, remind me of my promises, said the Lord. He wants to know if you have read them.
Rom.4:15] Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Don’t let this confuse you, we are still under law, just not blood ordinances. No more sacrifices, no more circumcision. But law is law, sin is transgression of the law.
Rom.4:16] Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
[17] (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Written in Genesis 17:5, from Abrams to Abraham. Quicken means to “make alive”. Upon repentance, we shall live.
Rom.4:18] Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
[19] 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 Sara’s womb:
[20] He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
Find time to read the story of how Abraham and Sarah had their child Isaac. Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90 years old. Sarah laughed so God named their child Isaac, laughter. Genesis 18:1-15, it is a very funny read.
Rom.4:21] And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Promise made, promise fulfilled.
Rom.4:22] And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
[23] Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
Not written for Abraham, but written for us.
Rom.4:24] But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
[25] Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
Justified through repentance, to those that believe on Jesus. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, he was risen on the third day for our justification. Let’s go to his throne.
Father, we thank you for your word and ask that you bless all that love you in Jesus’s precious name, Amen.
KJV along with The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible