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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 4:13 - God’s Faithfulness

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Romans in Outline No. 46

1.1  THE “WORLD” IN THE PROMISE:

The world of people — John 3:16

2.1  Personal promises: Abraham

The father of a multitude of nations

Genesis 17:4; 17:8

2.2  National promises: Jews

A great nation of physical descendants

Genesis 12:2

2.3  Universal promises: Gentiles

All the families of the earth blessed through Abraham’s physical line of descent

Genesis 12:3; 22:18; 28:14

1.2  IDENTIFICATION OF “SEED”

2.1  Isaac

Genesis 17:18-21

2.2  Jews

Genesis 22:17-18

2.3  Messiah

Galatians 3:16

2.4  All believers

Galatians 3:29

1.3  THE NATURE OF THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT: Unconditional

Genesis 17:7

1.4  THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT STANDS IN SPITE OF A SEED OF SINNERS/LAWBREAKERS

2.1  Isaac

3.1  COVENANT RECONFIRMED TO ISAAC — Genesis 26:1-4

3.2  BUT A SINNER

Genesis 26:6-11

2.2  Jacob

3.1  THE COVENANT RECONFIRMED TO JACOB

Bethel #1   Genesis 28:13-15

Bethel #2   Genesis 35:9-12; 48:3-4

3.2  BUT A SINNER

Genesis 27

2.3  Joseph

3.1  JOSEPH TOLD HIS BROTHERS THE PROMISE WOULD BE FULFILLED

Genesis 50:24-26

3.2  BUT THESE BROTHERS HAD SINNED

Genesis 37:18-36; Genesis 38:12-26

2.4  Moses

3.1  THE COVENANT PROMISE WAS STILL IN EFFECT

Exodus 2:24; Exodus 6:2-8

3.2  BUT ISRAEL BROKE THE LAW

Exodus Numbers

2.5  David

3.1  DAVID REMINDED ISRAEL OF THE COVENANT

1 Chronicles 16:15-18

3.2  BUT DAVID BROKE THE LAW

2 Samuel 11

2.6  In the time of captivity

3.1  THE COVENANT STILL STOOD

Deuteronomy 4:30-31

3.2  BUT THEY WERE LAW—BREAKERS

Deuteronomy 4:25-29

2.7  At the time of Jesus’ birth

3.1  ZECHARIAH PROPHESIED

Luke 1:67-75

3.2  BUT ISRAEL’S HEART WAS FAR FROM GOD

2.8  At the beginning of the church

3.1  PETER IDENTIFIES JEWS AS SONS OF THE COVENANT

Acts 3:25-26

3.2  THIS IS AFTER THEY HAD CRUCIFIED CHRIST

Acts 3:12-15

2.9  To Hebrew believers

3.1  THE COVENANT IS CONFIRMED BY GOD’S OATH AND HE CANNOT LIE

Hebrews 6:13-18

3.2  THE HEBREW BELIEVERS APPARENTLY WERE ON THE VERGE OF TURNING AWAY FROM CHRIST

Hebrews 3:12

1.5  SO THEN THE PROMISE IS FULFILLED BY FAITH RIGHTEOUSNESS

Romans 4:13

For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. (NKJV)

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