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The Promise Is Through Faith, Not Law
Romans 4:13-17
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For the promise to Avraham and his seed that he would inherit the world did not come through legalism but through the righteousness that trust produces.
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For if the heirs are produced by legalism, then trust is pointless and the promise worthless.
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For what law brings is punishment. But where there is no law, there is also no violation.
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The reason the promise is based on trusting is so that it may come as God’s free gift, a promise that can be relied on by all the seed, not only those who live within the framework of the Torah, but also those with the kind of trust Avraham had — Avraham avinu for all of us.
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This accords with the Tanakh, where it says, “I have appointed you to be a father to many nations.” Avraham is our father in God’s sight because he trusted God as the one who gives life to the dead and calls nonexistent things into existence.
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