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Romans 9:30

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What should we say then? The Gentiles did not look for a way to be right with God, but they found it by having faith.

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I want to belong to him, and I want to be right with God based not on my obedience to the law but on my faith in Christ.

By faith Noah, out of great respect for God, built an ark to save his family after God warned him about things that could not yet be seen. By doing this Noah showed the world that it was guilty, but he was considered right with God because of his faith.

But even though we’re used to following the law, we still know that no one can be made right with God that way. Instead, a person needs to believe in Jesus Christ. So we too have put our faith in Christ Jesus to be made right with God. We’re not trying to do that by obeying the law, because no one can be made right with God by obeying the law.

He was circumcised as a sign, as an indication that his faith had already made him right with God before he was circumcised. So Abraham is the father of all who are made right with God by believing, even though they haven’t been circumcised.

Remember that you used to be separated from Christ. You weren’t considered to be citizens of Israel, and so you didn’t have a share in what the covenants promised. You were without hope and without God in the world.

But we, through the Spirit, are eagerly waiting to be made completely right with God by faith.

And in Isaiah, God says boldly, “I was found by those who weren’t trying to find me. I made myself known to those who weren’t asking for me.”

But doing what God requires starts with having faith in him. Scripture says, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go up into heaven?’ ” (That means to go up into heaven and bring Christ down.)

What should we say then? Is God unfair? Not at all!

You’ve spent enough time in the past doing what ungodly people choose to do. You lived a wild life and wanted the wrong things. You got drunk and went to wild parties. You worshiped statues of gods, which is something the Lord hates.

But you’re a man of God, so run away from all those things. Instead, develop righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.

So the law was put in charge of us until Christ came. He came so that we could be shown to be in the right because of faith.

Scripture saw long ago that God would make the Gentiles right with himself by faith. It announced the good news ahead of time to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

With your heart you believe and are made right with God, and with your mouth you say what you believe. And so you are saved.

The people of Israel tried to become right with God by obeying the law, but that didn’t work.

So, because we’ve been made right with God through faith, we now have peace with him through our Lord Jesus Christ.

That’s why “this was considered to make him right with God.”

Abraham and his family received a promise that he would inherit the world, but that wasn’t because he obeyed the law. It was because of his faith, which made him right with God.

Is this blessing only for those who are circumcised, or is it also for those who aren’t circumcised? We’ve been saying Abraham was considered right with God because of his faith.

But some people might be thinking about this in a human way and ask, “Doesn’t the fact that we’re wrong prove more clearly that God is right? So how is it fair for God to punish us?”




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