=NoNameMcgee;3416624]Romans 4
4 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
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.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
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.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Paul is speaking about "Justification". God created a "Levitical Priesthood" with sacrificial "works of the Law" for remission of sins. Abraham had God's Laws except he didn't have this Levitical Priesthood, it was added 430 years later. (Gal. 3 is also speaking of this same law) Abraham was forgiven his sins by faith in God, not by Levitical Priesthood "works of the Law" for remission of sins.
He set this up in;
Romans 3:
27 Where
is boasting then? It is excluded.
By what law? of works? Nay:
but by the law of faith.
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law.
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Galatians Chapter 3
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Gal. 3:
16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Lets see the promise.
Gen. 26:
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in
thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
But Abraham didn't have the Levitical Priesthood, Levi wasn't even born yet. That Law was "ADDED" 430 years later.
17 And this I say,
that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ,
the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after,
cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
18 For if the inheritance
be of the (Added Law 430 years later) law,
it is no more of promise:
but God gave it to Abraham by promise. And we know why, because Abraham trusted God enough to follow His instructions.
19 Wherefore then serveth the law?(That was Added 430 years later)
It was added because of transgressions,(of the Law Abraham was blessed for keeping)
till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;
and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Now the Seed has come, and Paul is telling the Galatians that they are no longer justified by "works of the Levitical Priesthood sacrificial Law" for justification.
But the promises and the reason for the promise to Abraham still stand.
Rom. 2:
11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without law
shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law
shall be judged by the law;
This is the "Law of Faith" Abraham obeyed.
13 (For
not the hearers of the law(Sodom, Cain, Ham, Pharisees)
are just before God, but the
doers of the law (Noah, Abraham, Caleb, Daniel, Stephen)shall be justified.
