God Calls You Abraham’s Offering

Metaphor: Abraham’s Offering

Concept: From the beginning of chapter four of Romans Paul teaches how Abraham’s actions were because of His faith. His offering to Melchizedek in Genesis was in fact an act of faith in God as Abraham saw Him rightfully so as a priest unto God. NASU
Rom 4:13-16; For the promise to Abraham or his posterity, that he should inherit the world, did not come through [observing the commands of] the Law but through the righteousness of faith.  [Gen 17:4-6; 22:16-18.]
14 If it is the adherents of the Law who are to be the heirs, then faith is made futile and empty of all meaning and the promise [of God] is made void (is annulled and has no power).
15 For the Law results in [divine] wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression [of it either].
Rom 4:16; Therefore, [inheriting] the promise is the outcome of faith and depends [entirely] on faith, in order that it might be given as an act of grace (unmerited favor), to make it stable and valid and guaranteed to all his descendants — not only to the devotees and adherents of the Law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is [thus] the father of us all. AMP

God looks at Abraham’s acts of righteousness and sees faith. It is because of this that Abraham is not only the Father of the Jews but also the Father of all who respond to God in faith. Not everyone who calls Abraham their father is his lineage, only those who come to God in faith will receive his blessing.

 Today ask God to help have a life style that chooses to respond to Him in acts of faith which He will attribute to you as righteousness.