We want to say shalom and welcome to everyone. God bless you. Welcome to the Bible classes of the Holy Scriptures in Israel, where we do study the Word of God from a first century Hebrew messianic perspective. We are very thankful that you are able to be with us in the study of the Word of God. We are arriving now, beloved friends and dear brothers and sisters, to the fourth chapter of the book of Romans. And I hope you have your Bibles with you. And if you have your Bible, please open your Bible to Romans chapter 4. We are going to read today for this session the first 17 verses in Romans chapter 4.

But let's pray together. First of all, we commit the meeting to the Lord for today. Blessing upon the study of the Word of God. Help us as we study this important letter that Shaul Paul wrote to the Roman believers. Bless your word, we pray, for we ask it in Yeshua's name, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So, follow me, please. I'm reading from chapter 4 of the book of Romans. First 17 verses i'm not sure how much we will cover but let's read these verses together and so Paul continues to write to the Roman believers and he says in verse one what shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh has found for if Abraham were justified by works he has but not before God.

For what says the Scriptures? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describes the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputes righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. Blessedness then upon the circumcision only or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

How was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness of the faith which He had yet been uncircumcised, that He might be the Father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised, that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but also who walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had been yet uncircumcised. For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed, through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of none effect. Because the law worketh wrath, for where no law is, there is no transgression. Faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that only which is of the law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all as it is written I have made thee a father of many nations And I'm stopping here, dear brothers and sisters, with verse 17 of this chapter of Romans, chapter 4, 17.

Again we are in this very unique epistle, a very unique letter that was written by the Apostle Paul to the Roman believers. Allow me please to repeat the five essays that we learn from the division of the whole book of Romans. The book of Romans presents before us these five divisions which began with that letter. The s in the English s and the the five divisions are simply as as as this chapter 1 to chapter 3 verse 20 the first s is sin and the fact that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God is presented in these three chapters from chapter 3 verse 21 to the end of chapter 5 chapter 5 verse 21 the teaching or the theme of salvation is presented by the apostle Paul as he ministered to the Roman believers.

Then from chapter 6 verse 1 to the end of chapter 8 verse 39, the third theme presented to the Romans is the theme of sanctification, to be set apart, to be separated unto God, to be holy, to live a life that is sanctified, a life that the believers are called to live, sanctification. Then he will continue as we will study together in chapter 9, 10, and 11, and he will share with the Roman believers the truth of the sovereignty of God in relationship to his earthly people Israel, past, present, and future, dealing with his earthly people of Israel. And Shaul Paul will conclude the remaining portion of the book of Romans from chapter 12 verse 1 to chapter 16 verse 27 with the importance of service.

The fifth S, to serve the Lord. The saints of God are called to live a life of service here upon the face of this world. Are called to serve the Lord. So five S's sin, salvation, sanctification, sovereignty, and service. Now that we have entered into the second section which is the theme of salvation in these verses that we are studying together chapter 3 verse 21 to chapter 5 verse 21 the apostle Paul is speaking of salvation of justification and that we are saved believers are saved are justified and if you remember we have covered in our previous meeting together in chapter 3 verse 21 to the end of the chapter how justification is explained by the apostle Shaul Paul to the believers at Rome and we have covered this already brothers and sisters and he is explaining in this sevenfold in fact let me just read these a sevenfold explanation so you can see it and hear it justification we are justified by God we are justified in him in Christ in the Messiah we are justified by the holy Spirit of God we are justified by grace.

We are justified by faith. We are justified by blood. And we are justified also by works, the works that we do prove that we have been justified. So if you will look throughout the Scriptures, you will find out that we are justified by God, Romans 3.26. We are justified in Christ, in Him, 1 Corinthians 1.30. Holy Spirit first Corinthians 6 verse 9 we are justified by grace Roman 3 verse 24 we are justified by faith Acts 27 verse 25 and we are justified by the blood of Yeshua the Messiah Roman 3:25 but James also mentioned the fact that we are justified by works in James 2:21 and these works are coming out of one that was already grace through faith in the Lord Jesus the Messiah now Paul have already explained the meaning of justification the meaning of salvation in chapter 3 and verse 21 to verse 31 we have already covered it in our previous meeting together and now beloved brothers and sisters we arrive to chapter 4 and in this portion the apostle Shaul Paul is providing for us in Romans 4 verses 1 to 25 the justification in relationship or illustrated in the life of Abraham our father and why does he choose to speak of Abraham Abraham Avinu Abraham our father why because Abraham is reckoned by the people of Israel.

The father of the Hebrew he is the first Hebrew the first ivri and he is also became the father of all those that believe in God because of the fact that he believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness so really in the fourth chapter the apostle Paul takes the Romans and presenting before them really the fact that justification is illustrated in the life of Abraham and it is illustrated in the life of Abraham long before the law was given the Torah was given to Israel and long before the Messiah Yeshua came to pay for the sin of this world and Paul Shaul wants to illustrate that in the life of Abraham, to show all of us and to show all believers that to be justified, to be reckoned as righteous was always by faith.

And it has nothing to do with any works that we are doing. It has nothing to do with the works of the law. Create for himself God is holy man by nature is sinner and in order to be reckoned just before God one always need to believe God to trust God to accept God's provision and not to seek to be justified on the basis of a law keeping or any merit any human merit so in this portion beloved brothers and sisters actually we read only the first 17 verses of Roman chapter 4 but in this fourth chapter the apostle Paul is presenting before the the Romans and illustrations from the life of Abraham in fact in verses 1 to 8 Abraham was justified by faith and not by works illustration that Paul will show to the Roman believers.

Secondly, in verses 9 to 17, Paul will present the fact that Abraham was justified by grace and not by law. And thirdly, in verses 18 to 25, Paul will present before the Romans that Abraham was justified by resurrection power and not by human effort. Give you these divisions again verses 1 to 8 Abraham was justified by faith not by works verses 9 to 17 Abraham was justified by grace and not by law and verses 18 to 25 Abraham was justified by resurrection power and not by human effort or human power that's what the apostle Shaul Paul will present before the Romans and you and I as we are studying these verses together. And so notice that in the first three verses, actually verses 1 to 8, Abraham was justified by faith.

The Hebrew word for faith is emunah, le-ha-amin, and not by works, simply by faith. And so in verses 1, 2, and 3, Paul shows that Abraham experienced what he experienced in his own life, way back to Genesis chapter 15 and so let me read the first three verses what shall we say then that Abraham our father is pertaining to the flesh has found in other words what did Abraham discover on this matter of justification or the matter of forgiveness and salvation what did he discover in his time Paul is saying in verse. 2 he said if Abraham was justified by works he he has whereof to glory or to bows but not before God for what says the Scripture verse 3 and Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness notice what Paul does beloved brothers and sisters Paul is showing to the Roman believers because you see he's explaining truth of salvation you know it is always a problem with us all isn't it we or mankind believe or seems to think that he if he or she will do something for God and then God will accept me because after all i have done it and i've earned it and unless we understand that we have inherited a sin nature that we possess is a corrupt nation.

It's a depraved nature. It cannot be fixed. It cannot be improved. It cannot be doing things that are pleasing to God. This in nature that we have inherited when Adam fell into sin some 6,000 years ago in the Garden of Eden, you and I have inherited. Sin nature. That is the reason why we all die. The wages of sin is death. That's why Adam died because God said to him, Adam, the day that you will eat out of this tree, thou shalt surely die. In Hebrew it says, Adam, you will be separated from me because the word death means separation. If Adam, if you will violate my word, you will be separated from me.

Isaiah 59 tells us that our iniquities have separated between us and our God. God said to Israel in Isaiah 59 that God will not hear because sin and iniquities have separated a holy God from a sinful man, sinful women, people that's why sin entered into this world and there is nothing that one can do to lift himself or herself and to receive justification on the basis of their own merit in fact if you remember or we will get to it in Romans 5 and verse 12 we read wherefore by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin And so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned.

Why we die, the word death means separation. We are separated from God spiritually and we die physically because sin came into this world. And so if God is going to recognize just and saved and forgiven. He must provide for us this way of justification. It cannot come out of any merit of any man or woman, of any person. And therefore Paul is saying, listen, Abraham experienced in his life righteousness or justification by God simply because he believed. He says, what shall we say then? That Abraham our father. Notice he used the word our father. Because our father is an expression that is very Hebraic expression.

Come from the Hebrew word Avinu. Avinu, Abraham Avinu. You know, Israel has, in the history of Israel, there are three great men that the Jewish people always look up to. Our father the second one is Moshe our lawgiver and the third one is David our king Avraham Avinu Moshe Rabbenu and David Malkeinu these are the three men that are unique in the history of the people of Israel and so when Paul is writing to the Romans he's taking them back to our father Abraham. And you know, brothers and sisters, it's not only that the Jewish people called Abraham our father, but God himself said to Israel in Isaiah 51, Abraham, your father.

God himself attributed Abraham as the father of the nation by physical birth of the nation of Israel. And of course, he became our father of all believers. In the Lord Jesus the Messiah today, spiritually speaking. But up to the time when Apostle Paul was presenting and writing, he's just now showing to the believers at Rome concerning Abraham our father. If you turn with me for a moment to Genesis chapter 15, and notice what we do read there. This is exactly what Paul is quoting in verse 3. Is quoting verse 6 of Genesis chapter 15. It says in verse 1, After these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

And Abram said, Lord, God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus. And Abraham said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed, and lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And in verse 5 and 6 we read, And the Lord, this is God, and he brought him forth abroad, He said, look, look now towards heaven and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them.

And he said unto him, so shall thy seed be. And then we read this amazing verse. And he believed God. He believed in the Lord. And he counted it to him for righteousness. He just believed. To remind you the Messiah hasn't come as yet in the days of Abraham therefore he could not believe in the person of Yeshua the Messiah who came many years later but he believed God who is the one that sent the Messiah in the fullness of the time so Abraham believed God and God counted Abraham's faith in what he promised him as righteousness, as justification. And so Paul is mentioning in the first three verses, Paul shows Abraham's experience from Genesis chapter 15 verses 1 to 6, where Abraham, as we read here in verses 1 and 2 of Romans chapter 4, if Abraham was justified by works, He hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

God did not count Abraham righteous or declare him righteous because Abraham did something. Of course not. It does say in verse 3, for what says the Scripture, what the Word of God says? And Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Is that the word counted or the word reckoned or the word imputed is mentioned quite a few times in this fourth chapter what is the meaning of the word counted the Hebrew word from Genesis chapter 15 verse 6 is is to think or to reckon it And so when Abraham believed in what God said to him, God reckoned it, counted it, as Abraham was righteous.

He counted it for Abraham as righteous, as righteousness. By the way, you will notice how many times in our chapter you have the word counted or reckoned or imputed. It comes from the Greek word, listen to this, the Greek word legezomai, legezomai, which comes from the Hebrew word vayachsheveha. The same word counted is the same word reckon is the same word imputed in the Greek. What that means is that every time you read this in the English, three different words, in the in the Greek and in the Hebrew it's the same meaning to count to reckon to impute is simply to to put to one's account to put to one's account if somebody would put to your account a certain sum put it into your account.

And so God has put into Abraham's account righteousness. He declared him, he reckoned him, he imputed unto him righteousness. Although Abraham by nature was unrighteous, like all of us by nature are unrighteous because. All of us have inherited the sin nature of Adam, and by nature we are unrighteous. But for the believer in God and God's word, God is reckoning their trust in him, believe in him as righteousness. Just to notice that if you just go down with me in these verses that are before us, in verse 3 we read, for righteousness. In verse 4 it says it was reckoned of grace. In verse 5 it says his faith is counted for righteousness.

In verse 6 it says it was imputed, God imputed righteousness. In verse 8 it says the Lord imputed not sin. In verse 9 he reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. In verse 10, then it was reckoned unto him. In verse 11, at the end, it says that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. And we can go all the way down in verses 23 and 24, where it says that it was imputed unto him. And in verse 24, but for us also to whom it shall be imputed. We believe on him that raised up Yeshua our Lord from the dead. You notice how many times in this fourth chapter the apostle Shaul Paul used the word to put to one's account, to be reckoned to someone's account, to be counted in someone's account, to be imputed for someone's benefit in his or her account.

This is the thought that we learn here from the fourth chapter of the book of Romans so in verses 1 2 and 3 Paul show Abraham's experience from Genesis chapter 15 verses 1 to 6 the fact that that God have counted him for righteousness because Abraham simply believed God and this is so important beloved friends and dear brothers and sisters especially when there are so many. Systems of men, of the human race in the world in which we live in, so many religious systems. And these religious systems say you have to do this, that, and the other in order to please God. They set up rules. They set up regulation. They set up all sorts of man-made systems.

The more we try to fulfill these systems, we find out that we fail. Even the law that God has given to our people of Israel by the law of Moshe that law was never given to Israel in order to be receiving righteousness on the merit of keeping the law but it was given to our people of Israel in order to drive to drive the people of Israel to the sacrifice which pointed to the Mashiach the Messiah who came in the fullness of the time and so God's law is holy and righteous and the demands are perfect. And the problem is not with God's law. The problem is the human sinful nature that we all have.

And when God gave the law, it should have been driving Israel to say, God, I know that I will fail it. Put me on the basis of the grace that you have provided our father Abraham. Our people Israel said all that the Lord have said we will do we will keep and they broke the law before the law even came down to the camp when they violated the first commandment thou shall not have any other God before me and Moses had to break the first 10 commandments that came he brought he had to break them because our forefathers the Hebrews were worshiping idols the golden calf saying this is the God that brought you out of the land of Egypt and had God's law enter into the midst of the camp it will consume the whole nation because God is holy and you and i are not better or are not different God had given we have violated we have broken our own laws that's why Paul is reminding and instructing the believers at Rome the justification is provided by God imputed by God and it is it is illustrated in the life of Abraham long before the law was even given.

That not to the one who worketh the justification is imputed by to the one that simply believe. So he says, notice this verses 4 and 5, Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. And you seek to work for that, to earn it, and to say, well, God will justify me because I'm working, I'm doing something on my own, I'm seeking to be justified on the basis of my works and my merit. Paul says, well, if that's the way, well, God, it will not reckon to you because of grace anymore, chesed in Hebrew, but it will be reckoned to you by debt, as if because if you earned it, You deserve to receive it because you worked for that.

And it's no longer grace. It's entirely on your side. You seek to accomplish justification for yourself on a basis of your own merit and your own works. And can you imagine all one's life to work and to work and to work and to work and to work when in actuality he or she knows very well in their own heart. Hearts, here I fail again, and here I fail again, and here I didn't accomplish what God's standards required for me. When it says, "Thou shalt not lie," I lied. When it says, "Thou shalt not covet," I coveted. When it says, "Thou shalt not lust," I lusted.

When it says, "Honor your father and your mother," I dishonor them. Of grace but it is of debt you earned it if you did but we know very well as before God it is just not possible and so in verse 5 Paul continues and he says look at this verse 5 why because of the Messiah that God can now justify even the ungodly You see, beloved brothers and sisters, of course, in Abraham's days, the Messiah hasn't come. Yet that's why Abraham believed God trusted him it was counted unto him for righteousness that's why you will notice that Abraham also offers sacrifices in order to point him to the coming Messiah and the sacrifices atoned for his sins in view of the coming Redeemer who would remove sin once and for all when he came to take away the sin of this world Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

Verse 5 is so beautiful. Now, does that mean that God wants mankind to be lawless and to say, well, I guess I cannot work it high enough, I cannot achieve 100%, so I will carry on and live in sin? That's why the instruction we have in God's Word, the Torah, the Word of God was given to Israel as a guideline on how to live a moral life. But justification never came by any merit. It always came on a basis of faith, and faith in God, and God alone, in God's provision alone. With us today in the present day age in which you and I live in today we live in the days of the church age the Messiah has already come the church was already formed we live in this dispensation after the Messiah came and in in Ephesians chapter 2 we do read beloved brothers and sisters and we know these verses Ephesians 2 verses 8 and 9 listen to them not a true faith and that not of yourself it is a gift of God we've already dealt with that truth that even faith is worked out by God in our own hearts God is the one that produces trust in him in our lives and then in verse 9 Paul continues and he says not of works lest any man should boast We are so sinful by nature that we are capable to say, "God, even this little thing, you have done 99% but there was something that I have done and therefore you must accept me because we have an inclination to boast." And so Paul says in Ephesians chapter 2.

Any man should boast. And then in Romans chapter 4, about Abraham Avinu, Abraham our father, he says in verse 5, But to him that worketh not, but believeth, on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Can you imagine? You know, sometimes we wonder, justified and ungodly person. Well, when that ungodly person turn with his heart to the Lord and acknowledge the Lord that He is God and acknowledge the fact that God is holy and righteous and admit in his or her heart that we are sinners by nature, God's providing for that person a way to be receiving simply by faith. Notice another verse, a very important verse in the book of Titus.

Turn with me for a moment to the book of Titus. There the Apostle Paul writing to Titus and you notice what he said to Titus in chapter 3. Titus chapter 3 and verse 5 we read and I'll read this verse in chapter 3 and verse 5. I'll read actually verse 4. Remember Titus was serving the Lord and the Apostle Shaul Paul wrote to him to encourage him as he is ministering to various assemblies and he is saying to him, but after, notice that, after verse 4 and 5, but after that the kindness and love of God our Savior towards men appeared. That kindness of God appeared when Yeshua came. When Yeshua came to this world, God showed his kindness, grace to send the Mashiach the Messiah Messiah of Israel the Savior of the world so after the kindness and the love of God our Savior that appeared notice verse 5 now not by works of righteousness which we have done but notice that but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration.

And the renewing of the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit of God touched our hearts and wooed us and produced in us trust in Yeshua, Jesus, our Lord and our Messiah, to accept God's provision and to realize that it's not by works that we have done, not the works of righteousness, because all our righteousness is considered to be a filthy rag, Isaiah said to our people of Israel in days of old. But according to his mercy, he had saved us. And this is what the Apostle Paul is instructing the Roman believers in verses 4 and 5 of Romans chapter 4. Paul shows that not to the one that is working and trying to earn on his own merit salvation and justification.

No, but it is to the one that simply believe God and believe God's word. You know, it will be very, very sad, very sad that thousands upon thousands will have to stand one day before God. And they will say, God, look what I've done. Look at my life. I've done this and I've done that and I've done this and I've done that. That? I worked very hard, God. You have to let me come in. And God will have to say, your sins are still upon you. You are not justified because you refused to receive the one who paid for your sins. What a sad day that will be for anyone who dies who leaves this world without the Mashiach, without Christ.

This is what the Word of God teaches us, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends. It shows us that on the basis of the human merit, no one will be justified. And because all of us are guilty before God, because of our sin nature that we have inherited from Adam, that's why we are called sinners. Sinners because God declared, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. So Paul continues now in this fourth chapter, speaking about illustrating justification from the life of Abraham, our father. And so in verses 1 to 3, Paul showed the experience of Abraham from Genesis 15, to six in verses four and five Paul show that not the one that works receive justification but the one that believe and now in verses six to eight Paul show notice that he is now illustrating this in the life of David and you remember what i said that there are three fathers that are there are three men i should say that are unique in the history of our people Israel Abraham Avinu, Abraham our father, Moshe Rabbeinu, Moses, the one who is our teacher, our rabbi, the lawgiver, and David Malkeinu, David our king.

These three men are looked and reckoned by our people of Israel in a tremendous respect because they were called uniquely for a special purpose and they would be the one that were used by God in the history of Israel. And will be used by God in a future day as day when Israel will be restored and there will be the resurrection from the dead and Moshe and Abraham and Moshe and David and all those that died as believers in the history of Israel will be resurrected and will enter into the messianic kingdom. And so here he is now speaking about David. Remember, Abraham lived before the law was given, but David lived once the law was given, after the law was given.

He became the king of Israel, the second king of Israel. He was a king that was after the heart of God, not after the heart of man, a choice of God. And so in verses 6, 7, and 8, Paul is showing David's confession. And David's confession was under the law that he confessed. And he confessed when he was already under the law that he is blessed because God has declared him justified because he believed God. And so notice what we read in verse 6, 7, and 8. And we'll go to Psalm 32. Even as David... Also describes the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness. Without works, Paul is saying, how David said in verse 7, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. You notice what he does here. When it's come to Abraham, Abraham lived long before the law was given to Israel. When it's come to David, David lived under the law. And under the law, God could impute righteousness if one believed God, accepted God's provision, the sacrifices, blood had to be atoned, and God can forgive the one who accepted his will. Imputing righteousness to the one who believed, even under the law. But it was not because David fulfilled the law, but because David confessed that he couldn't fulfill the law. And I'm reading this again.

Even as David also described the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven. Whose sins are covered. You remember what happened in David's life? David sinned against God by taking Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, the Chittite, and then actually murdering Uriah by sending him to the front line. He knew he had sinned against God. He repented. God forgave his sins. Just for a moment go back to the book of 2 Samuel. 2 Samuel we read about what David had done that brought about the fact that man and you remember what we read in chapter 2nd Samuel chapter 11 I'm not going to read the whole passage but what we read David sent in verse 3 inquired after the woman and one said is not this but Sheva the daughter of Eliam the wife of Uriah the Chittai and David sent messengers and he took her and she came in unto him and he laid with her for she was from her uncleanness and she returned unto the house and and the woman conceived and now that she conceived David then sent her husband Uriah who did not want to stay at home he sent him to the front line so Uriah will be killed so he will not find out of what David have done but God knew it.

All our sins so great so many he knows everything about us our failure and our sins and he still loves us he wants us to live a life that will be pleasing to him and when we do sin and we do we can always go to the throne of grace and if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness even as believers after we have already have accepted the Lord are just the Messiah and we we are justified we are reconciled we are once and for all forgiven and yet as believers we fail the Lord as David did and so in chapter 12 the Lord God sent nathan to David and he said nathan David came to him and he said to him nathan came to David and he said to him in verse 7 nathan said to David thou art that man.

And then David said unto Nathan in verse 13, I have sinned against the Lord. I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also has put away thy sin. Thou shalt not die. And God punished David. Although his sin was forgiven, the consequence of his sin he had to face. He lost actually four sons. He had so much trouble in his life. But he was justified because he confessed his sin and he turned to God. God by faith, and God forgave him. That's why every one of us, when we came to the Lord Jesus the Messiah, God forgave our sins because we came to him on the basis of the finished work of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah.

And so now turn with me to Psalm 51 for a moment. In Psalm 51, David confessed his sins. He wrote the whole Psalm confessing his sins and David wrote this Psalm and just listen to some of the words in this Psalm to the chief musician of Psalm of David when nathan the prophet came unto him after he had gone unto Bathsheba and notice what David says in verse one have mercy upon me o God according to thy loving kindness according to the multitude of thy tender mercy blot out my transgression thoroughly for mine iniquity, and cleanse me for my sin. For I acknowledge my transgression, and my sin is ever before me.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightst be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me, David is saying. See, God broken David's bones. He has disciplined him. Although he forgave his sins. Uphold me with thy free spirit. You see, because David lived in the previous dispensation, David could say to God, take not from me the Holy Spirit of God. You and I cannot say it today because we live in this present age. The Holy Spirit of God resides in every true believer not to leave us.

And then in verse 12, David says, He doesn't say rejoice unto me your salvation because he was saved, but the joy of salvation to restore unto me. And when we sin also, the joy of the salvation that we already have, we can't enjoy it because sin creep into our lives. But our salvation is secure. Our justification is secure because we have accepted Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah. And so now go back to Psalm 32. Quickly with me please and in Psalm 32 the Psalm that David wrote that apostle Shaul Paul is quoting in verses 6 and 7 and 8 of Romans chapter 4 and listen to some of the verses in Psalm 32 where Paul is saying a Psalm of David is covered blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputes not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile you see Psalm 51 was written after David sinned Psalm 32 was written after David received justification and forgiveness and the Lord did not impute unto him iniquity but imputed unto him righteousness And so if you go back with me to Romans chapter 4 and verses 6, 7, and 8, Paul shows to the Roman believers David's confession, recording in Psalm 32 when he was under the law.

And it was not his law-keeping that saved him and provided for him righteousness, but it was his confession. And his faith in God's provision and trust in God not in the own in his own merit and so we read once again and i will conclude with this beloved brothers and sisters in verses six seven and eight Paul is now mentioning David even as David also he described the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth Unrighteousness. Without works. Notice, without works. How could David say that he have earned his righteousness because he fell into sin? He dishonored God? Verse 7, David said, saying, sins and God before the coming of the Messiah could forgive sins and attribute righteousness to the ones who believe whether it was before the law was given in Abraham's days or whether it is after the law was given in David's days or whether it is today after the Messiah given in our days And you and I today are justified.

And we are justified because we came to accept God's provision, not because we earned our justification. And so, beloved brothers and sisters, in Romans chapter 4, in verses 1 to 8. Provide an illustration from the life of Abraham our father by showing that Abraham was justified by faith alone and not by works. Because the best works that we can produce it only come out of a sin nature that we all possess and we can never be justified before God by the deeds of the law. And praise God that he provided for us the Redeemer. In Isaiah 64 and verse 6 we read, have taken us away that will be the national confession of our people of Israel at the second coming of the Messiah when Yeshua will come and Israel as a nation will come to acknowledge that he is indeed the promised Messiah and Israel as a nation will come to know him and they will recognize that all their righteousnesses really in reality before God is a filthy rag, and it is the Messiah Jesus himself that provided for them forgiveness of sin and justification.

All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, but the Lord laid upon him the iniquities of us all. Praise God for this fact. And so, beloved friends and dear brothers and sisters, we have covered in our meeting today. The first eight verses of Romans chapter 4. May the Lord bless his word and encourage our hearts to be thankful, to be thankful because we are declared righteous because of what Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, has done for us. Simply believing makes a difference. So Abba our Father, thank you for your word. Bless your word to our hearts. Help us to understand the word of God be more able to grasp these amazing truths that are found in your word.

Bless your word today, we pray to all of us, for we ask it in Yeshua's name. Amen. Amen. My dear friend, until the next time, we say to you, Shalom, Shalom. God bless you. Bye-bye. You