4-30-2017 Weekly Message

The Meditations of the Week: Psalm 4: 1-8

Word of God: Genesis 15: 1-21

Word of the Word: What Faith Is Justified And Saved?

           The Apostle Paul testified to the Saints in Rome that they called and preached to those whom He had foreknew, to save:

“He also planned to make those who believed in advance to be in conformity with the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren, so that they also called and enlightened those whom he had intended.” (Romans 8: 29-30)

           When the LORD God called him Abraham, and made him an idol and buried him with his father in Babylon, he called him out of the land, and led him out of the land, and led him into the land of Canaan. When God called him, he made a promise of blessing that he would become a great nation, bless him, make his name great, and bless him. He will also bless those who bless him, he who curses him will curse, and all nations will be blessed in him.

           After a long time, he came back to him again in a vision. Until then he had not given him any son, but God said that he who will be his heir will not inherit Eliezer his servant, but will inherit his son from his body. He also said that his descendants would be as many as the stars of heaven. I told him that at his age he would not be able to give birth to a son anymore, and that he would be his heir instead of his son, but that God would be so many that his descendants from his body would be countless Upon hearing, he immediately gave up his thoughts and believed in God.

         When Abram believed in the Lord God, God regarded that faith as righteous. That is correct! God still believes in God is righteous and saves. He believed that the Word of God in his thought was not to believe in God but to believe in Himself. In other words, the belief in God shows that you can not believe it at all.

         In other words, God looks at people and sees the heart of the heart, calling people whom He has previously known, to believe and justify Him. When the apostle Paul realized this truth and wrote to the saints of the church in Ephesus, “You are saved by grace through faith, and it is from you that it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one may boast. . “(Ephesians 2: 8-9).

          God gives grace to those He has foreknew and gives them faith to know Him and to believe Him. The Bible says that God mocks the ridiculers but gives grace to the humble (Proverbs 3:34). Noah was the only one who had found grace in the eyes of God at that time. The God who knew him had come to him and told him to build a giant ark of 150 meters in length, and he built the ark for 120 years in faith in God.

            By returning to Abraham’s faith and seeing what it is that he believed in God, we hope to be a blessed time to look again at our faith. When Abram became ninety-nine years old, God, who appeared to him again, told him that he was the Almighty God. He also told him to walk in front of himself, to be perfect, to be perfect. God made a covenant between Him and Himself, saying He would be a father among many peoples. He finally gave birth to his son Isaac in the promise of Almighty God when he became a hundred.

           The apostle Paul testified about Abraham’s faith in the Holy Spirit:

“Then what can we say about our fathers, Abraham, about the flesh?” If Abraham was justified by his deeds, he would have something to boast about him, but not before God. Now to him that believes in him is righteous, for his wages are not regarded as grace, but as debt, but he that believeth in him that he is unfaithful to the ungodly, without works, is counted as righteous “(Romans 4: 1-5)

            He also asked Abraham about the gift of faith which he received from God, that he might be a father to many nations, as he said, “Though he had no hope, but believed in hope, thy seed would be. He did not think that his body was dead, nor did he consider Sarah’s attitude to be dead, because he was not weakened in faith, but about a hundred years old, and did not doubt the promise of God because of his lack of faith, For he was glorified, and convinced that he would also do it, which he had promised, and for him faith was deemed righteous “(Romans 4: 18-22).

             When his son Isaac became a young man, God called to test Abraham and told him to give his son Isaac as a burnt offering on a mountain among the mountains in the land of Moriah. He got up early in the morning and erased the tree for his burnt offering to his son Isaac. Through this work, God showed Jesus, the only Begotten Son of God, to run on the wooden cross and give it as a burnt offering to remove the sin of the world. When God asked me about Isaac’s lamb for burnt offering to his father Abraham, he told him to prophesy later in life that God himself would become a man and be killed like a lamb, through his mouth: “My son God will prepare himself for the burnt offering. “(Ge 22: 8)

          God made King Solomon to build a temple in Mount Moriah (2 Chronicles 3: 1), as he had prophesied through Abraham’s mouth, to offer burnt offerings, and then to have Jesus as his burnt offering on the Mount of Moriah on Calvary’s cross.

            God said to Abraham, “Do not lay your hand on a child and do nothing to him, for you have not spared any of your sons, I know that you are afraid of God.” Genesis 22:12) When he lifted his eyes, he grabbed a ram in the bush and offered burnt offerings for his son. It is as if Jesus, who was arrested and dragged forward, was to die on the cross like a burnt offering.

           That is correct! Even today, God is testing those who believe in Him, so that they can truly choose those who fear Him to do their work. When the Apostle Paul wrote to the Hebrews, he testified that these Abraham practices were not due to his acts of righteousness, but by faith. “By faith Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when he was tempted, and the one who received the promises offered his only begotten son, saying,” He who is to be called thy seed is born of Isaac ” Because he thought that he could raise him up, so that he received him again in the form of a model “(Hebrews 11: 17-19)

 When the apostle James wrote to the twelve tribes of Israel, he testified of Abraham ‘s offering of Isaac, being justified by man’ s doing, not by faith, but saying that prostitute Rahab was saved by helping spies. But James is not a letter to the church, but a letter to the twelve tribes of Israel, emphasizing that they must have faith as well as their father Abraham. The Apostle James is to show them in the Holy Spirit that they will repent and believe in Jesus Christ during the time of Jacob’s suffering, and at the same time, that they will be required to do the acts of the law. The apostle John testified of the Jewish Saints to be saved during the Great Tribulation, “Here are the patience of the saints, and here are the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:12).

        In conclusion, the faith that God calls to those who have forebeared and gives us grace is a faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that can be raised even if we die.This is why the Lord Jesus Christ, who is incarnated, said, “I am the resurrection and the life: he who believes in me will live, even if he dies, and he who lives and believes in me will never die” (John 11:25). “The Lord said to us now,” Do you believe this? “” Do you believe that I am the Almighty God? “Amen! Hallelujah!