01/26 ~ From New Testament Letters
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Paul’s Letter To The Romans
14 - For if it’s the adherents of the law who are to be the HEIRS, then faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For the law brings wrath {cause and effect! imo} but if there were no law there is no breaking it.
16 That’s why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may stand on grace, and be guaranteed - to all his offspring. Not only to the adherent of the law, but also to the one who shares the faith Abraham had. (Before circumcision! Which circumcision represents the spiritual, and literal, self first and foremost removed from humanity/each person.) Father Abraham, father of us all! 17 As it’s written, “I have made you a father of many nations” [Gen.17:5]. And he walked before God/in his Presence, in whom he believed. In He who gives life to the dead, and calls into existence the things that don’t (yet) exist. 18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told - “So shall your offspring be.” (Abraham lived in the desert, and one starry night when Abraham was an old man, God told him, “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens” and “I will make you a father of a multitude of nations”.
[Galatians 3:16 and 29 - “The promises were made to Abraham and to his seed (offspring). Not ‘to offsprings’ as many, but referring to one. ‘And to your offspring’ which is Christ.” (THE seed ..implanted.) “And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, and HEIRS according to promise.” (And not according to works/earning. Life is a gift, not earned. God cannot ‘owe’ us.)]
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