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Resource List:
Romans 1-7 For You = Timothy Keller
The Gospel of God: Romans = R.C. Sproul
The Lord’s Prayer
PRAY
God our Father in heaven we praise you for your greatness and glory which finds its fulness in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It is this gospel that we cling to as our hope for forgiveness.
We come before you this day in full agreement and recognition in our guilt and need for a savior.
We fall short even in our practice of this faith we claim, LORD we believe but help our unbelief!
We ask that you would speak to us today Father.
Grant us your Spirit that we might be willing to not only hear but apply your Word to our lives today.
May we leave today changed by your Holy presence, encouraged by your righteous promises.
As we open your Bible to Romas 4 impress upon us the faith of Abraham, bring us into this faith if we are outside of it.
Deepen and strengthen our steadfastness to it if we are in it, God circumcise our hearts we pray!
Thank you LORD Jesus for we know that you will answer this prayer, for we ask that your glory be made manifest in us for your namesake.
In the righteous name of Jesus we pray.
Amen
INTRO = S.H.A.R.P.
What if I told you that you could have the righteousness of Abraham?
How would you respond to me?
Do you ever feel like I do about these men in scripture?
Are you ever discouraged about your own walk with God, longing for more?
What if I told you that you could have the righteousness of Abraham? or David? or Moses?
What if I told you that you could have a faith more sure and steadfast then they had?
Would you want to know how?
Are you hungry for that beloved?
Paul Will Tell Us - I will seek to stay out of His way!
Circumcised Hearts - i hope to make clear later
Rom 4:1-25
Theme = Romans 2:28-29 & Romans 1:17
Abrahams righteousness was granted to him because of his faith
To receive Abrahams righteousness we need Abrahams faith
Abrahams faith was illustrated in his circumcision
in the flesh
Our faith is illustrated in our circumcision
of the heart
Our faith can be even more sure then Abrahams!
THE SERMON BODY
Boring Word Studies… - imputed
Counted
Circumcised
Romans 3 = Law & Boasting
Romans 9 = God’s Sovereign Choice
Gen 15.6
V4
From Timothy Keller pg 98
because I have tried my best to be a good Christian.
= salvation by works
because I believe in God and try to do His will.
= faith + works
Because I believe in God with all my heart.
= faith as a work
What is saving faith?…
To really believe
V16
From Timothy Keller pg 103-104
To know that reality is greater than how we feel or how things appear = v19
To focus on the facts of God = v20-21
To trust the bare word of God = v21
CONCLUSION
Goal
That you will have saving faith or that your saving faith might increase.
That you might rejoice in your righteous standing before God.
Application
Points from Timothy Keller pg 106
No Boasting = 2-3
No Cowering = 6-8
A Great Identity = 12-17
Complete Assurance = 16
Hope, When Hope is Gone = 18
Preservation = 20-25
CLOSE = S.H.A.R.P.
Questions from Timothy Keller pg 107
How is having a hope that goes beyond all human hope of particular encouragement or comfort to you today?
Can you think of ways recently that you have acted in faith when it was hard?
Are you being called to do so right now?
Reflect on the list of ways that justification changes us, which is most precious to you today and why?
Which most challenges the way you see yourself and your life, and why?
E.N.D.
Our great God and Father we exalt your Holy Name and praise you this day for these truths we have heard.
We come before your great throne humbly approaching You by the blood of the Lamb yet without fear due to your faithfulness and lovingkindness given to us by faith in this same Lamb, our God and Savior Jesus the Christ.
Praise be to you that our “lawless deeds are forgiven” that our “sins are covered” that our sins will not be counted against us!
Thank you Jesus for your salvation.
Grant those who have heard this word today faith, saving faith, and increased faith in you Oh LORD.
Let us be numbered amon your peoples by the faith of Abraham as true children of the promise.
Cast out of us all boasting of ourselves, yet grant in us by the power of your Spirit the fruits of the Spirit such as peace, joy, and hope.
Holy Spirit we beg thee to dwell within us as the sign and seal of our good confession that we might look to thee as the guarantor of our salvation.
That even now you might draw us unto Christ who was “delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.”
Help us we pray to “walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.”
Amen
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