God has chosen an imperfect people to be conjoined in participating in the divine nature for a perfectly orchestrated purpose. Scripture is riddled with the immoral side of humanity being judged regardless of Israel or Judah, the Church or pagan, disciple or Pharisee. God is no respecter of persons. In the Old Testament time after time people in a temporal state become confronted by an immortal, holy, awesome being whose very face is so radiant and spectacular just to glimpse upon Him would expel you from existence. He (God) chooses by His own bidding to speak to Abram and immediately challenges his faith by summoning him out of Haran into an unknown land inhabited by the Canaanites. After some shifting-Genesis 15 Abram is concerned that he has no heir to his estate and raises his concern to God-and God tells Abram that if he count the number of stars in the sky, so shall the number of his offspring be. Genesis 15:6 “Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.” This small spark in history was just a single cell in the vast landscape of God’s orchestration of salvation. The fullness of His plan was left veiled until revealed at the appropriate time. Abram, an imperfect, faulted mortal being, received an invitation to participate in God’s redemptive work through single acts of obedience. What you read in Abram’s life is the redemptive grace of God continually manifesting in Abram’s life of obedience and disobedience. Abram did not make excuses as to why he did not obey; rather, he was given reason to surrender. Despite all humanistic logic and reasoning his hope lied in the One who promised. “Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact his body was as good as dead-since he was about a hundred years old-and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised. This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.” The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness-for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised for our justification. Romans 4:25 Through the belief and faith of Abraham, God raised up a people who were intended to be identified by the world as God’s possession. And through these people would be born their liberator, their redeemer.
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