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  1. Mar 8, 2017 · Along that 800 mile journey, Abram's father and brother died. The journey was not easy. When Abram arrived in God's destination of the land of Canaan, tests were going to be administered to establish Abram's resolve to follow God (see Genesis 12:8-18).

  2. Mar 20, 2014 · How does Paul apply Abraham’s example to us as Christians? See Rom 4:23-25. Note: as God gave life to the deadness of Abraham’s physical body and reckoned righteousness to Abraham for believing that He could, so did He raise Jesus from the dead, and so will he reckon righteousness to us who through faith in Christ trust Him with the faith ...

  3. All who are “of faith” are “Abraham’s children” (Gal. 3:7), and are “blessed with faithful Abraham” (Gal. 3:9). Christ died on the cross so that “the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles” (Gal. 3:14).

  4. Paul emphasizes Jesusresurrection from the dead twice here: “Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead” (4:24); and, Jesus “was raised because of our justification” (4:25). As Paul argues in 1 Corinthians 15, the bodily resurrection of Jesus is central to our faith and our forgiveness.

  5. Oct 17, 2019 · In Romans 4, Paul sets out to show that gentile believers are saved by faith in Jesus Christ, not works or abiding by Jewish boundary markers. As Long notes, similar to the book of Galatians, Paul chooses to use Abraham as the figure to display that one can be seen righteous before God without circumcision and keep the law.

  6. Sep 24, 2019 · In Galatians 3:7-9, Paul is creating a biblical argument, focusing on the phrase “credited as righteousness” in Genesis 15. In this story, Abraham believed in the word of God as revealed to him and God considered him “right with God” as a result.

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  8. In Hebrews 11:13, it says: "These all died in faith," that of course meaning Abraham and Sarah.