Calling Good Things Into Existence, Part 1 (TMF:1156)

Monday, June 24, 2019
Peace to Live By: Calling Good Things Into Existence, Part 1 (TMF:1156) - Daniel Litton
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       I want you to turn over to Romans chapter 4, and here the Apostle Paul is discussing the promise that God made the Abraham in the Old Testament. Our belief in God, we read then, the promise that we have in Christ, became reality for us through our ‘faith’ in Christ’s work on the cross. That’s how we have come into right relationship with God. Now, in the text it says that God promised Abraham that he was to be the father of many nations. And how did God accomplish this task? Paul tells us God did it because he “calls into existence the things that do not exist.” God made a promise in the past that something would exist that did not exist. And how did he fulfill his promise to Abraham, and really to himself? He fulfilled it, the text tells us, by calling that which didn’t exist, which hadn’t happened yet, into existence, just like he did in Genesis 1. God speaks, and what he desires happens. And the text tells us that Abraham believed what God had said, and exercised ‘hope’ that God would do what he said he would do. And we can do the same things in our lives.