Lesson 54 Warring Against the Flesh: Justified by Jesus’ Resurrection
Questions 5 and 6
The fact that Abraham did not look to the “facts,” but instead exercised “faith” in God’s Word about a coming son, brought God’s declaration of “righteous!”.
Abraham believing that God could bring life out of a dead womb is compared to us believing that God brought Jesus out of the tomb. Isaac was born from Sarah’s dead womb, and Jesus rose from the dead and exited the tomb.
Do you see how neither of these things depend on the person but instead on God’s power? Abraham and Sarah were weak, and Sarah’s womb was dead. Jesus was dead. But God’s power was not limited by Sarah’s dead womb, nor by Jesus being dead in the tomb.
Notice that Abraham believed against all the odds. According to nature, nothing living can come out of something dead. Abraham’s faith was a supernatural faith, given by God Himself, and it enabled him to believe the supernatural and the impossible.
Has God given you faith to believe the impossible, the supernatural? To believe the evidence in His Word over the “fact” that Jesus died?
Question 5. According to Romans 4:23-24, what benefit did Abraham get by believing?
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As Abraham believed God, it was credited to him as righteousness. Now, remember something, Abraham did not live perfectly. He had lied about his wife twice, telling her to say she was his sister rather than his wife, thereby exposing her to impurity. This was a terrible sin, one for which he was brought to account by a wicked king. Abraham was nothing but weak in himself.
And yet, to be righteous before God, Abraham did not need to try to earn his way back into favor with God, did not need to atone for his sins; no, he needed to believe the message about life from the dead.
Question 6. According to Romans 4:23-24, for whom were the words, “it was credited to him,” written?