Shalom and welcome everyone to the Bible classes of the Holy Scriptures in Israel and where the Word of God is being presented regularly from a first century Hebrew messianic perspective and also where we are presenting the person of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah who loved us and gave himself for us. We are starting the book of Romans. I hope you have your Bible with you today and please open the Bible to the book of Romans chapter 4. But before we will read the last portion of Romans chapter 4, let's ask the Lord to bless his meeting. Our God and our Father, we just ask your blessing upon the teaching of your word.

We pray in the name of Yeshua, our Messiah. Amen. Amen. Well, my dear friend, please turn with me to Romans chapter 4, and we are going to read in this session today the last portion of Romans chapter 4, really from verse 18 to the end of the chapter, to verse 25, only a few verses. For verse 17 just for the context so we will be we will be in we will have the connection with the previous meeting that we have had in the study of Roman chapter 4 so Roman 4 and verse 17 we read as it is written i have made thee a father of many nations him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Verse 18 is where we're studying today. Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations. According to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he consider not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. He staggered not at the promises of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, glory to God and being fully persuaded that that what he had promised he was able to perform and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness now it was not written for his sake alone this is for Abraham's sake alone that it was imputed unto him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up Yeshua, Jesus, our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offenses and was raised for our justification.

And here I'm stopping here at the end of chapter 4, beloved brothers and sisters. Verses and i trust to finish with these verses beloved brothers and sisters today let us remember what we have covered so far in the Romans chapter four just to remind you that we are in the section in the book of Roman where the apostle Paul is dealing with the theme of salvation the apostle Paul remember provided for the a Roman believer, the truth of the great work of salvation. In fact, the theme of the book of Romans is the righteousness of God. In other words, the whole theme of the book of Romans is the righteousness of God, out of which the Apostle Paul divided the book of Romans into five sections, which began with the letter and we have already spoken about it sin salvation sanctification sovereignty and service sin all have sinned and come short of the glory of God salvation is the provision of God's salvation for mankind and we spoke about sanctification he's speaking about the fact that we all are being sanctified we are called to be.

Sanctified in our day-by-day living, the sovereignty of God in relationship to Israel, and ultimately the service that all believers are called to serve the Lord. Five essence, the whole book of Romans is divided into these five sections. We are in the second section, which deals not so much now with sin, but with the provision of God's great salvation, the end of chapter 5 and verse 21 now he have already explained in chapter 3 verse 21 to verse 31 the justification what does it mean to be justified but now in chapter 4 verses 1 to 25 the apostle Paul illustrates justification from the life of father Abraham of the father of the Hebrews and the father of the many nations Abraham and he takes the the Roman believers all the way back to the book of Genesis bereshit in Hebrew right at the beginning because someone might raise a question and the question will be one might raise a question and the question will be how does the doctrine of justification by.

Relate to history? Before God gave the law and once God gave the law to the people of Israel, how is it applied to people in days of old? If it's now God providing justification to believers in the Lord Jesus the Messiah, how does justification relate to days of old? The question might be. And here, beloved brothers and sisters, the fourth chapter of Romans chapter 4 the apostle Paul answering this question by pointing to Abraham who was justified before the law was given to Israel and he's speaking about David who were justified while the law was intact and in effect and he's pointing to them to see that they were justified even though before Abraham was under the law and even David once, David himself was under the law.

They were justified simply by faith and not by works. So if you remember, we have mentioned that in Romans chapter 4, Paul points to three facts that took place in Abraham's life. Three facts. Number one, verses 1 to 8, which we have covered. Abraham was justified by faith and faith alone and not by works. Paul pointed to that in Romans 4 verses 1 to 8. Secondly, from Romans chapter 4 verses 9 to 17, which we have also covered as well, Abraham was justified by grace and not by law because Abraham lived long before the law, the Torah, was given to our people of Israel. And so Abraham was justified by faith and not by works and Abraham was justified by grace and not by law.

That's what he has taught us up to now in Romans chapter 4 in verses 1 to 17. But now in verses 18 we can say 17b to verse 25 the Apostle Paul presents the third lesson that he seeks to teach us from the fourth chapter of the book of Romans in relationship to our father Abraham. And the third lesson is that Abraham was justified by resurrection power and not by human effort. Abraham was justified by resurrection power and not by human effort. Effort this is what he's seeking to explain because somebody might say well i will do something i will earn my justification and Shaul Paul says no he have already mentioned in the first 17 verses that Abraham was justified by faith alone and not by works he have already mentioned in verses 9 to 17b that Abraham was justified by grace, chesed, and not by law, not by the Torah.

And now he's emphasizing, as he's concluding with the fourth chapter, he's concluding with explaining the fact that Abraham was justified by resurrection power and not by human effort, human power. This is so important, beloved. Brothers and sisters to understand and you notice what he does this is i think it's all it's so beautiful because in the in verses 17b to verse 25 Paul provides five important points about Abraham's faith he is showing to the Romans how Abraham was justified by resurrection power and not by human effort by first of all pointing to five important points in the life of and he's relating that of course to the book of Genesis what happened in the life of Abraham long time before the Messiah came and so notice the first thing is found in verse 17 we can say 17b because in verse 17b let me read you I'll read verse 17 the whole verse again it says as it is written as it is written I have made thee a father of many.

Nations God said to Abraham and notice before him whom he believed notice that before him whom he believed in other words a God made a promise to Abraham according to Genesis chapter 17 and verse 5 that he will make him a father of many nations yes he will be the father of Yitzhak Yaakov and the nation of Israel but he will be a father of many nations is spiritually speaking there will be many nations who will come out or who will have the faith of Abraham who will be we might say descendants of Abraham by faith although not by birth that has to do with the with the Abraham descended through Isaac and Jacob and the people of Israel but they will be descendants of Abraham by faith in we read in verse.

Neither shall thy name be any more called Avram but thy name shall be called Avraham why? For a father of many nations have I made thee and the word Avram in Hebrew Av is Abba and Ram is Hai his name was called Avram a Hai father but then his name was changed to Av-ra-ham which means that he is a father of many nations this is spiritually speaking Abraham will have spiritual children by faith and they will have Abraham faith so he he promised him that he will be a father of many nations quoting of course Genesis 17 and verse 5. And so notice, beloved brothers and sisters, in verse 17b now we read that out of the five points, the important points concerning Abraham's faith, we read that Abraham's object of faith was none else but God himself.

And so I'm reading back in Romans chapter 4, and notice that we read in verse 17, he said, who quickeneth or raising the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. In other words, beloved brothers and sisters, Abraham believed God, according to this verse 17, God was the object of his faith and not man. In other words, even though the Messiah hasn't come as yet, righteousness beloved brothers and sisters and therefore what we learn from here dear brothers and sisters that Abraham a object of faith was God himself this is important because you and I just like Abraham today we believe God and we believe God's provision we live on the other side of the cross we believe in a time where Abraham has.

Yeshua, Jesus came, and we're living on the other side, we might say, of history, and we believe the same thing. We believe God, but we believe what God presents before us today, that the Messiah has come. We believe God, and we believe in the person of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. And you notice what it says in verse 17, why his object of faith was in God, because he believed that God quickened as the dead, And He calleth those things which be not as though they were. In other words, God is the one who is raising, who is able to raise the dead. And He is the one that calleth what you and I don't see today.

He calleth, according to verse 17, He calleth those things which be not as though they were. Kind of God that we believe in this is the kind of God that Abraham believed in he believed in the true and living God and God was his object of faith that is important secondly he continued notice what the apostle Paul does here because he wants to provide these important lessons from the life of Abraham to show us that Abraham was justified by the resurrection power and not by human effort And so in verse 18, he continues and he says that Abraham's hope was in God and not in his own hope.

Not hoping in himself, but hoping in the hopes that God provided for him. You know, we sometimes use this expression, you know, I hope so. In Hebrew we say, I hope so. Hope so but God provided a sure hope a hope that is secure in God's promises and so we read in verse notice in verse 18 we do read who against hope notice that against we might say against human hope he yet believed notice he believed in hope Now he's taking them back to Genesis 15 in verse 5. And there God said to Abraham, and I just want you again to go back now to Genesis 15. And you remember what God did in Genesis chapter 15.

Abraham is aging now. Time is passing by. He is not having yet the promised son that he was waiting for. So the word of the Lord came unto Abraham. As it says here, Avram in verse 1, these things, he said, after these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abraham in a vision, saying, fear not, Abraham, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. And Abraham said, Lord, notice that, Lord God, "What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless? And the steward of my house is Eliezer of Damascus." And Abram said, "Behold, to me thou hast given no seed. And lo, one born in my house is my heir." No children to Abram.

No children. So he says, "Look, I have no children." See, the word of the Lord came to him, and it says in verse 4, And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir. And he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And so notice, he brought him forth abroad, and he said, Look now towards heaven. The stars if thou be able to number them and he said unto him so shall thy seed be and that's where we get this famous verse and Abraham notice that so he believed God so he believed God it says in verse 6 he believed the Lord and it counted unto him for righteousness see Abraham simply believed God even though humanly speaking Everything seems to be hopeless.

And if you just believe God, beloved brothers and sisters, as it says here in verse 18, against hope, he believed in hope. We might say it's almost like a dilemma what we read, against hope, he believed in hope. Seems to be contrary, a contradiction here. But really it is against human hope. Everything seems to be impossible. It's not going to happen. And yet at the same time we read, he believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according to that which was spoken. And he's quoting here, Genesis 15 verses 5 and 6, so shall thy seed be. That is so beautiful. So the second lesson or the second point that we learn here from this portion, is that God made his promise to Abraham and Abraham, against human hope, believed in the hope that God had provided for him.

The sure hope. But now thirdly, notice that in verse 19 we read about the important points in the life of Abraham to show us that he was justified by faith and by faith alone. In verse 19 we read that Abraham was so strong in faith that not as in spite of his own condition, his faith in God was strong. And so we read, listen to this, and I'm reading verse 19. Years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. You notice that, brothers and sisters? By the time we are reading here, in Genesis, when he was waiting for his son to be born, he was 99 years old. His wife, Sarah, who became Sarah, she is 89 years old.

She is going to be 90 years old. When if a child will be born to her. In fact, what we read here that he considered not his own, now notice, his own body now dead. Humanly speaking, his body was dead that he would not be able to produce a child. And secondly, not only his own body that he did being nearly 100 years of age, Sarah, Sarah, you became Sarah, the deadness of her womb. Humanly speaking, it was not possible for Sarah to bear a child, for Abraham to produce a seed for that child. And yet, beloved brothers and sisters, it says here in this verse 19, spite of his own condition in spite of his own condition his own bodily condition his own wives a condition he still as it says in verse 19 was not noticed that he he had faith he was not weak in faith he was strong in his faith that means that he simply devoted himself to God and to God's promises because.

The object of his faith was God. God is the God of the impossible. All things were made by him and without him nothing was made which was made as we read concerning the person of God the Son, the Mashiach. In him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shines in darkness. God is able to do all things. Is anything too hard for God? Nothing. Is impossible for God to do after all he is God he is the creator of all things he is the sustainer of all things and Abraham believes God and it's counted unto him for righteousness and what is righteousness righteousness is an act of God whereby he that is God declare a sinner who believes In the person of the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, he declares him to be righteous.

In the days of Abraham, the Messiah hasn't come as yet. So Abraham believed God and God's word and God's promises. And it was reckoned unto him for righteousness. And righteousness in the word of God is simply to declare one just and one righteous. Nature all of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God but God declares us righteous on the basis of the finished work of the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah so Abraham object of faith was God verse 17 Abraham hope was in God and not in his own Romans 4 verse 18 Abraham was strong in faith in spite of his own condition 19 and now in verse 20 we read of Abraham's faith that was without doubting without wavering we read in verse 20 beloved brothers and sisters he notice that he staggered not he wavered not at the promise of God through unbelief but he was strong in faith giving glory to God You know, it gives glory to God when one comes to trust in Him in spite of the fact that things seem to be impossible, humanly speaking.

That's what faith is. You remember when we studied in the book of Hebrews and we were reading Hebrews chapter 11, if you remember verse 6, we read what faith is. Description of faith Hebrews 11 verse 6 without faith it is a i read actually verse 3 what faith is i'll read that in verse well i'll read verse without faith it is impossible to please him this is verse 6 he that cometh to God must believe that he either that he is a rewarder of them which diligently seek him Let me also read verse 1 of Hebrews 11: "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen." That's what faith is.

Here's the description. Faith is the substance or the assurance of things hoped for, and it is the evidence of things that are not seen. That's what we read here in verse 20. He staggered not at the promises of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. And so the apostle continues. You know that he's building. It's so beautiful to see how the apostle, Shaul Paul, is very systematic. He's a theologian. He was a parush. He was a Pharisee. He was a teacher of the Word of God. And you notice that by Revelation, and he received the truth of the gospel of our Lord Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah.

You can see how he communicates this with the readers in this context with the Roman believers. And you and I, as we are studying it together, he's giving them now the fifth point here. And the fifth point is in verse 21 and verse 22. And I'm reading in verse 21 and verse 22, perform the promises that he makes. And so I'm reading verse 21 and 22, and being fully persuaded that what he, this is God, had promised, he was able to perform. If God made a promise, God is also capable, able to produce, to perform the promises that he made. He continued in verse 22, "...and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness." Quoting once again Genesis 15 and verse 6.

Abraham simply believed that God is able to perform what he promised. If he promised, he will fulfill. Of God are yeah and Amen in him in the Mashiach in Christ yeah yes they are Amen God will fulfill his promises now if God will not fulfill his promises to Abraham or fulfill his promises to the nation of Israel how can we today be assured that God will fulfill the promises to the believers in this present age of the the assembly. Abraham believed that the same God who promised, he was fully persuaded that what he had promised he shall also perform. Therefore it was counted unto him for righteousness.

What a beautiful statement we read here concerning Abraham and his being persuaded that God is able to perform the promises that he made unto him. You know, it just come to my mind a verse that come to my mind. If you turn with me for a moment to 2 Timothy chapter 1 and verse 12, the apostle Paul was just about ready to leave this scene. He was going to pass away. He finished the work that the Lord had given him to do here in this world. Paul said to Timothy in verse 12 of 2 Timothy chapter 1, Paul said, For this cause I also suffered these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed.

For I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. What we really see, Abraham in days of old and Shaul a little bit later on. We see these men of faith and women of faith that we have recorded for us in the word of God. I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Paul, the very same one who wrote 2 Timothy 1 verse 12, said to the Roman believers questioning Abraham that he was fully persuaded that what he promised, what God promised, God was able to perform.

And therefore, because of this faith, it was imputed unto him for righteousness. It was reckoned unto him for righteousness. So, beloved brothers and sisters, these verses are essential. As the Apostle Paul, again, I just want to remind you that someone might ask the question, how does the doctrine of justification by faith relate to history? Before God gave the law and during the time that God gave the law, we live today in the days of grace and God's righteousness have been attributed unto us if God declare the sinner who believe in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah righteous today well the question immediately arise by someone who might ask well how does that apply in days of all in the days of Abraham and even prior in the days of Adam.

Since they have fallen into sin how did God attribute to them righteousness were they justified like we are justified today reckoned to be declared to be righteous because we believe in the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah how were they justified well it is very interesting that the whole chapter of the book of of the fourth book of the of Roman the apostle Shaul Paul takes us all the way back to the father of all Abraham Avinu, Abraham our father. The father of the nation of Israel and the father, the spiritual father, all true believers. And he presented, if you remember, and I repeat this one more time, the three facts in Romans chapter 4.

Abraham was justified by faith alone and not by works. Verses 1 to 8. Abraham was justified by grace alone and not by law. And Abraham was justified by resurrection power and not by human effort, verses 17b to verse 25. And in the first half of this final section, Paul, in these verses 17 onward, he presents in this first section these important points that Abraham, object of faith was God his hope was in God he was strong in faith in spite of his condition his faith was without wavering without doubting and Abraham's faith was in God's ability to perform what he promised and therefore he was declared righteous because he believed that God is able to raise even the dead God is able to raise out of one who died he's able to raise him and this is beloved brothers and sisters where we are going to the final verses of our chapter and these final verses beloved brothers and sisters verse 23 24 and 25 of our chapter I want to emphasize these verses for our benefit now because you notice what what Paul is speaking here he's speaking about the truth.

Of resurrection. He's speaking about the truth of resurrection. In fact, the whole chapter here is emphasizing the truth of the resurrection, and especially the portion that we are dealing with right now. And so notice what we read in verses, and I want to read verse 23, verse 24, and verse 25. First of all, in verse three we read now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed unto him in other words whenever you come to Genesis 15 6 Genesis 15 and verse 6 and you read and Abraham believed God and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness whenever you come to read that portion to remember Paul is saying to the Roman.

Whatever was written there was written for your benefit and mine it was not only written for the benefit of Abraham in his days and of course in the days of Israel but it was also written for your benefit in mind today that's why very clear verse verse 23 now it was written it was not written that he's for his sake only that he was reckoned righteous but it was written in order that you and I will benefit from this as well. It was written for your benefit and for mine as well. And so let me read verse 23 again. Me so we will be just like Abraham that our object of faith will be God that our faith will be contrary to human hope but in divine hope that our faith will be in God in spite of the fact that we don't quite see things the way is clear as we read here verse 19 in spite of his own condition still to believe God then fourthly that our faith will be without wavering without doubting and fifthly that our faith will be in the God who is able to perform to perform what he promised and so it was written not only for his own benefit some years earlier before the Messiah came but it was written for us as well today.

That we will realize that what God promised in his word is a sure promise, and it is for our own benefit that we will trust God as Abraham believed God. And now notice what he says, and this probably will lead us to the final thought here for this message in Romans chapter 4, and he says that, notice that, but for us, verse 24, to whom it shall be imputed, that justification or righteousness will be imputed to us if not as if now obviously they were believers so the qualification is faith in God faith in the Messiah if we believe on him on God who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead who was delivered for our offenses and was raised for our justification in other words what the lesson is here that he's concluding here with looking back into history specifically into the history of our father Abraham what the apostle Paul saying you see just like justification was attributed or counted to Abraham's account because of his faith in the same way it will be counted unto us if we believe.

In God who what who sent the Messiah Yeshua Jesus who was notice that who have a who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead and then notice verse 25 who was delivered for our offenses and was raised for our justification you see beloved brothers and sisters the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah was delivered for our offenses. The very reason that the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, had to come down to this world, it was in order that he would be delivered for our sin and sins. Now, the Messiah hasn't come in Abraham's days as yet, but the measure of light that he had, he believed in God who will provide the Messiah.

No, let me show you for a moment just a verse in Genesis chapter 22. If you would just turn with me to Genesis chapter 22. Remember when God said to Abraham, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains, which I will tell thee off. Now notice that as he's walking, imagine, God promised him that through Isaac a nation will be born into this world. And he finally gave Isaac to Abraham when Abraham was 100 years old. And now God is saying to Abraham, you take your son and I want you now to offer him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah.

Had to trust God that God will do something if God provided a promise and provided the son of promise and now he's asking me to offer this son of promise on an altar on Mount Moriah what shall I do? He believed God and he believed that if God made that promise he's able to raise up Isaac. Even if you will have to offer him on the altar and so we do read he rose up early in the morning verse 3 of Genesis chapter 22 he settled his ass he took his two two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and he claimed the wood and burnt offering he rose up and he went to the place of which God have told him and on the third day Avraham lifted up his eyes and he saw the place afar off and Avraham said to his young man abide here with the with the donkey with the chamo and i and the land will go yonder and worship and come again notice he believed that he and Yitzhak or Yitzhak and him go to Mount Moriah worship there and come back together although God said to him offer your son Isaac on the altar for me.

Another will kill him offer him as a sacrifice but Abraham believed that he will return back with Yitzchak his son and notice what we read in a bit later on he took verse 6 Abraham took the wood and the burnt of the burnt offering he laid it upon Isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they and they went both of them together the father and the son the father and the son have been how wonderful to see the obedience of Isaac and the faithfulness of Abraham and Isaac speckled to Avraham his father and he said my father Abba avi and he said here am i my son and he said look behold here's the fire and here's the wood but where is the sacrifice or where is the lamb for the burnt offering.

Abraham gave him as an answer and Abraham said my son God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering and so they went both of them together in a sense what we can say here the promise that the Mashiach will come God will provide himself not only for himself but he will provide himself as a lamb for a burnt offering and surely beloved brothers and sisters when the Mashiach came God himself took union humanity with his divine nature and himself he became a man was born to the virgin Miriam and himself he gave himself a ransom for many And Abraham believed God. And it was reckoned, it was counted unto him for righteousness.

This is how wonderful to learn from the Scripture concerning the faith of our father Abraham, who believed what God had said concerning the promise of the coming Messiah who would come to give himself. Chapter 8 for a moment. When Yeshua came to this world and he was born to the virgin Miriam, took human nature, humanity with his divine nature, when he lived upon the face of this earth, when he had this constant conflict with the religious people of our nation, of Israel, you remember what the Lord Jesus the Messiah said? He said, to them in verse 55 and 56 of John chapter 8 concerning Abraham he said in verse 55 we read yet he said yet ye have not known him but I known him and if I should say I know I know him not I would be a liar unto you but I know him and keep his saying in other words he said I know God and I'm keeping the saying, the promises of God.

And then he said in verse 56, he says, Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. And he saw it. And he was glad. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. And he saw it. And he was glad. This is what we just read from Genesis chapter 22, verses 6 to 14, where Isaac asked him, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for his sacrifice? And Abraham said, My son God will provide himself as a lamb for a burnt offering. And they went, both of them, together. Abraham rejoiced to see my day, Yeshua said. And he saw it. And he was glad. One more verse, if you may, please.

Turn to Hebrews chapter 11 for a moment. Hebrews chapter 11, you can see how the Scripture is connected. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 13, where we read concerning Abraham. In verse 13, specifically, I'll just read a little bit even earlier, verse 8, by faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place where he should offer, he should offer, after receive, for inheritance he obeyed and he went out not knowing whither he went. And then notice what we read a little bit later on, where it says in verse 12, Therefore sprang there even of one and him who was good as dead, so many as the stars of the skies in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.

And then verse 13, These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. Abraham saw it afar off. And they were persuaded. Of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims here on the earth. Amazing. Amazing when you read this about Abraham and Isaac and Sarah. And here we are just going back now to the conclusion of our chapter here. And I just want to go to emphasize these two things here, beloved brothers and sisters, as we are going to conclude the truth of the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus the Messiah. Not only of his death, but also of his burial and resurrection.

That's why we did say that this final section in Romans 4 verses 17 or verse 18 to 25, Abraham was justified by resurrection power and not by human effort. At the end of this fourth chapter in the book of Roman where it says in verse 24 but for us also it was imputed to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raise up Jesus our Lord from the dead who was delivered for our offenses and was raised for our justification You see, if you and I are going to be receiving the Reckon Just, we must believe in what God declared in His Word. And He declared in His Word that the Messiah would come to this world to die for the sin of this world.

He was delivered for our offenses. All we like sheep have gone astray. To his own way, but the Lord laid upon him the iniquities of us all. Isaiah said that concerning the Messiah some 750 years before Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah came, that when a Messiah will come, he will be delivered for our offenses. The Lord will lay upon him the iniquities of us all. The Scripture is very clear. Scripture tells us we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition, but with the precious blood of the Messiah. This is in 1 Peter chapter 1. In 1 Peter chapter 3 it says in verse 18: just that he might bring us to God.

He was delivered for our offenses. That's why it is essential to believe the work of the Lord Jesus the Messiah that he did for us on the tree. That is exactly what the gospel is. 1 Corinthians 15 tells us in verse 3, I deliver unto you first of all that which I also receive, how that the Messiah died for our sins. According to the Scriptures. We must believe that, right? But not only that. And Paul finishing this amazing fourth chapter, looking back to Abraham's justification, and he's emphasizing the fact that Abraham was justified by the resurrection power, He believed God that he's able to bring a child for him, even though his deadness of his body, the deadness of Sarah's womb.

And here we find out that God raised the Messiah who died, who was buried, and he rose again. And notice it says, who was delivered, verse 25, for our offenses, but notice that, and he was delivered, or he was raised, justification the Messiah Jesus himself was raised in order to declare the believer in him just to declare us just and that is essential beloved brothers and sisters the psalmist of Israel said in Psalm 16 10 thou will not leave thine holy one in sheol neither will thou let thine. Want to see corruption Isaiah in chapter 53 said in verse 10 he shall see the travail of his soul and be satisfied and throughout the new testament the new covenant we read concerning the Messiah that he will be resurrected for our justification when they came to the tomb Yeshua was no longer there he is not here he is risen And he was raised in order to declare the believer in him just, justified, to recognize as justified.

And so, amazing verse. So let me conclude, beloved brothers and sisters, in verse 9 and 10 of Romans chapter 10. If you may please turn to Romans chapter 10 and verses 9 and 10. Verses in our study of the book of Romans but the apostle Shaul Paul as he was sharing the gospel did share the fact that in order for one to have salvation one must believe not only in the death not only in the burial but also in the resurrection of our Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah so he says in Romans 10 and verses 9 and 10 If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Yeshua, the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, notice that, that God had raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. If you believe, If you would confess with your mouth the Lord Yeshua, the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God had raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. So, beloved brothers and sisters, we concluded here with Romans chapter 4, when the question is asked. How does the doctrine of justification by faith relate to history? Before God gave the law and even once God gave the law how can one can receive justification and Paul emphasized that justification is by faith and faith alone not by law or any human law and not by any human merit and that's why he takes us to one man specifically by the name of Abraham so throughout Roman chapter 4 verses 1 to 8 Abraham was justified by faith and not by works verses 9 to 17 Abraham was justified by grace and not by law and thirdly in verses 17b to the end of the chapter verse 25 Abraham was justified by resurrection power and not by human effort.

How wonderful it is for us to know that. And therefore, we understand that the law, the Torah, is a high holy standard of God, but it was never given to Israel in order that Israel will be justified through the keeping of the Torah. Torah would help Israel to live a godly life but justification came on the basis of faith in God's provision of salvation through the blood atonement initially the sacrifices were given and God covered sin but all the sacrifices that were given to Israel were pointing to the Mashiach who would come in the fullness of the time and when Yeshua Jesus the Messiah came He was, as it says here, he was delivered for our offenses, but he was raised for our justification.

Praise God for this, my dear friend, because on our own, on our own, we cannot do that because all of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God. May God bless his word to us all. We will close the meeting right now in prayer and we'll say shalom to everyone. And our father thank you for your word bless your word help us to appreciate what our Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah has done for us he was off he was delivered for our offenses but he was raised for our justification we give you thanks and praise and ask it in Yeshua's name Amen and Amen well God bless you my dear friend until the next time we say shalom