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Holy Scriptures of the Lord found in a letter
to the Descendants of Abraham (Romans 4-5)
A short explanation of these Holy
Scriptures
is
provided at the
end of these passages.
1 What then shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not
before God.
3 For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned
to him as righteousness."
4 Now to one who works, his wages are not reckoned as a gift but as his due.
5 And to one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith
is reckoned as righteousness.
6 So also David pronounces a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness
apart from works:
7 "Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not reckon his sin."
9 Is this blessing pronounced only upon the circumcised, or also upon the
uncircumcised? We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
10 How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised?
It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
11 He received circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which he had by
faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who
believe without being circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,
12 and likewise the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but
also follow the example of the faith which our father Abraham had before he was
circumcised.
13 The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world,
did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
14 If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the
promise is void.
15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and
be guaranteed to all his descendants -- not only to the adherents of the law but also to
those who share the faith of Abraham, for he is the father of us all,
17 as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations" -- in
the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into
existence the things that do not 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 descendants be."
19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as
dead because he was about a hundred years old, or when he considered the barrenness of
Sarah's womb.
20 No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in
his faith as he gave glory to God,
21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
22 That is why his faith was "reckoned to him as righteousness."
23 But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake
alone,
24 but for ours also. It will be reckoned to us who believe in him that raised from
the dead Jesus our Lord,
25 who was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
5:1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we
rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces
endurance,
4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our
hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.
6 While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man -- though perhaps for a good man one
will dare even to die.
8 But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for
us.
9 Since, therefore, we are now justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved
by him from the wrath of God.
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,
much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through
whom we have now received our reconciliation.
12 Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and
so death spread to all men because all men sinned --
13 sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted
where there is no law.
14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like
the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's
trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man
Jesus Christ abounded for many.
16 And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment
following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses
brings justification.
17 If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more
will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in
life through the one man Jesus Christ.
18 Then as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of
righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man's
obedience many will be made righteous.
20 Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded
all the more,
21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness to
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
These writings tell us that our forefather Abraham was
justified by faith. What does this mean? It means that since we can do nothing
to change those sins we have committed (and all have sinned---man dare not think
himself perfect! You do not do such a blasphemous thing as to think you are
perfect, do you?) that we must ask the Lord to help us in our desire to be
righteous in His sight. We can do nothing on our own to correct the wrongs we
have committed against Him whether by accident or deliberately. The Lord is
willing to help us though so that we may be right with Him. Our faith, even if
not strong, is enough to tell Him we want His assistance in finding His
blessings of a new life close to Him and not be burdened with the wrongs we have
done. Please consider our precious and perfect Lord and how we are dogs in His
sight if we are not made clean. But the Lord loves even the dogs and has first
loved us and offered us the free gift even before we have chosen His way which
is perfect. Our perfect Lord has promised that He will make us clean so that we
may approach Him with confidence as a forgiven one. Will you become a forgiven
one? Will you accept the Free Gift of Life from our Savior Jesus who is the
anointed, the Christ? STOP, before you say no and turn away. Let me be your
friend even if you reject my ways as those of an infidel. I have risked
rejection by my people for accepting that a man may have many wives which is
acceptable before the Lord as the Holy Scriptures say. Do you know that I have
been rejected by my people for accepting what the Lord through His Holy
Scriptures says about marriage? You may not accept my beliefs about the Lord but
surely you must know that I love you as a brother and am willing to listen to
you as well and be a friend. Will you but consider the way you have chosen to
approach the Lord. The Lord has said you and I are not perfect and that only a
perfect one can approach Him. How then can we approach Him? By accepting His
free gift of salvation which washes us of all sins and impure thoughts whether
in the past, present, or future. We will not become perfect in deed but will be
given (invisible) robes of righteousness that take our sins as far from us as
the east is from the west. Each time we sin He will again remove our sins before
they can even become a part of us. This is not to say that we should sin but
that if we are weakened He will be true to His promise to take our sins away and
someday we will spend eternity in fellowship with our perfect Lord. Will you
praise our Lord with me as we thank Him that He loves us for I know that you
believe as I do that the Lord loves us. Praise the Name of the Lord! I thank you
for reading this because I know the Lord wants us to know the truth for the
truth will set us free. Be my brother, write me. I will not stand by while you
are attacked for your marriage practices. These rights I will stand with you in
defending except for the abominable practice of taking back a wife after she has
married another man. With this practice, a form of hidden prostitution is
allowed to exist in Muslim countries. A man takes a wife for a night an divorces
her. Then another man takes the same woman for a wife for the night and then
divorces her. The first man returns to get the woman as a wife for the night
again and so forth. This is nothing more than prostitution disguised as marriage
and the Koran says it's ok. This practice alone should make you doubt the
righteousness of your religion if you're a Muslim.
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