Sermon in Abraham series, #3. Genesis 15:1-6
GOD’S CREDIT CARD
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I. How’s your credit?
II. God appears to Abram again.
A. A new vision (more verbal than visual).
B. Abram’s complaint.
C. God’s reaffirmation.
III. Abram’s shows his faith.
A. He believed the Lord.
B. God credited it to him.
C. As righteousness.
IV. The Apostle Paul and Abraham.
A. Issue – must Gentiles become Jews first, then Christians?
B. Paul points to Abraham. Romans 4:1-5; Galatians 3:5-8
C. Fifteen centuries after Paul, Luther inherited his insight.
V. Correction by James.
A. Issue – is it just a matter of saying you believe?
B. A different application from Abraham.
VI. A pastor’s quandary.
A. I believe salvation is God’s action.
B. But believing is more than uttering some words.