Saturday July 23 – Romans 4:1 to 4:13

They call it ‘the Abrahamic ecumene’, the promise and challenge of how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam claim Abe. So what?

If Abraham gets put right with God, a model of being justified, redeemed, saved, sanctified by the atoning faithfulness and righteousness of God – how do any of us get some of that?

Paul’s midrash, his sermon on when God gets right with God, says circumcision was not the first step to get it, but a seal to show it. Was the first step of ‘faith’ his cognitive assent alone?

The sermon continues to chase down faith as related to trust, and as imputed, or ‘reckoned to’ him, not earned by his state of mind or good deeds – as we rely upon the same imputed justification…
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