Abraham's steps to follow

Here is outtake from the adult Sunday school meeting this morning and will have a new article late this evening:

Paul writes in Romans 4: [16] Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

[17] (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
[18] Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
[19] And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:
[20] He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
[21] And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

[22] And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

God did all that so the promise is sure. The surety is in God's grace and if it's grace, the only thing grace will accept is faith. Faith is the only way to make the promise sure. You trust God at His Word.

The rest of this passage talks about how Abraham trusted God, not just initially, but all the way through his life. It says he wasn't weak in faith. He started out kind of weak in faith, then he didn't stagger.

So you have weak faith, staggering faith and then you have strong faith. The thing that moved him from weak faith to where he didn't stagger and stumble and then was strong--" being fully persuaded" . . .

I love verse 21. That came about because Abraham didn't look at his circumstances; he looked at what God's Word said and He focused on that and kept that in his mind all the time.

When we walk in the steps of Abraham, we come to be fully persuaded.