THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 4:1-13 | GOD BEGINS TO RE-ESTABLISH THE LOST PART OF HIS KINGDOM

Mike Balloun teaches today. 09/12/20.

ROMANS CHAPTER 4 VERSES 1-13
GOD BEGINS TO RE-ESTABLISH THE LOST PART OF HIS KINGDOM… and that through Abraham

VERSES: Genesis 15; Genesis 17; Psalm 32:1-2; James 2:17-26; Acts 17:31

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First, as we have noted before, the initial purpose of Paul’s Letter to all the beloved of God, called (to be) saints at Rome, is that he intends to settle disputes among the New Man converts (Ephesians 2); those believing Jews and Gentiles, by putting them all on the same spiritual ground. He starts off in the first three chapters by explaining how both were slaves of sin. Sin being that nature innate and ineradicable in all man-kind, regardless whether they were Gentile outside the Law of Moses or Jews under the Law. Both groups Paul declares irreconcilably ungodly and unrighteous; hopelessly condemned under the Just Wrath of God’s Righteousness. And therefore, they were equally in vital need of Justification unto right standing with God. And that could only be through the imputed righteousness of the sinless substitutionary death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. He being set forth by God as the propitiation for sin and administrated in the power of His grace to all; Jew or Gentile. All who will see themselves completely inadequate in the light of God’s Righteousness and justly deserving of Wrath will confess their great need of His gracious justification unto righteousness by believing on Christ’s propitiation offering. (When our insufficiency collides with His all-sufficiency, it leaves a vacuum/a void that only faith can fill.)

The result of Christ’s offering is God moving from His position of forbearance; unable to forgive the sin of sinners (due to His righteous Justice needing to be satisfied) to that of a place where He might be just to forgive sinners for their sin. And thereby through Christ, He now calls all men to accountability according to the freely offered justification from their sin. (Acts 17:31) This justification unto right-standing with God without works is the sole foundational doctrinal subject presented so far as the Gospel of God in the first three chapters. (In this initial Justification, righteousness is imputed, but man is not restored/reconciled to the same degree of intimacy as in the deeper level of Justification. This is seen in the example of Adam and Eve in the Garden.)

Now it is to be seen that Romans Chapter 4 is an advance of God’s Gospel on previous chapters dealing with justification and righteousness imputed without works. This righteousness is solely in the merit and power of the Blood and the Cross of Christ, the Son of Man. Paul now begins to picture Abraham as the further example of Justification by faith without works, but in addition he then introduces Jesus Christ’s Resurrection power as the Son of God and Great High Priest unto our further justification in righteousness by works. (Abraham is an example of first being justified by faith alone and then his going from faith to faith is an example of works AFTER justification.)
The doctrinal truths brought forth here in the 4th Chapter of Romans can only be clearly understood by having a good familiarity with God’s dealings with Abraham in Genesis chapters 15 and 17.
It is there we discover the promise to Abraham of 2 seeds; that seed of the physical (verse13) and that of the Seed of the spiritual; Jesus the Christ (verse 18).
Abraham’s 2 Covenants are seen, one in chapter 15, the covenant of grace, and the covenant of ‘Law’ in chapter 17.
Abraham’s 2 justifications are seen, one by faith without works in 15:5 and one by works in 17:22-27 and 22:16-18.
Abraham’s 2 eternal inheritances are seen, one by the physical seed, being the earthly realm; and one by the spiritual Seed, being the heavenly realm. (Genesis 15:5 referring to the heavenly inheritance, and verses 7 & 16 referring to the earthly inheritance.)
Also the 2 signs and seals of righteousness are seen, one in circumcision, which was given to Abraham and one being baptism, which was to the Gospel New Man and was the seal of the Holy Spirit.
And two pictures of the resurrection are shown in Abraham’s and Sarah’s bodies, and also in the fulfillment of the Covenant of Grace which God intended to fulfill thousands of years later, which demands there be the resurrection of Abraham and his faithful Seed/seed from among the dead.
(It should be here noted the corresponding essential truth, for clear understanding going forth, that what has not yet been differentiated by Paul, but only now hinted, is the distinguishing between sin from the sin nature. The justification.....

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