Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Romans 4:13-25
by: Dale Rood.
It is interesting, in considering the Abrahamic covenant (Genesis 15), that no obligations were sworn to by Abraham. The only obligation was that of God to Abraham and his descendants along the line of Isaac. Paul here expanded on that, pointing out that Abraham’s response was not one of obligation but rather one of faith. In verse 22, Paul quoted Genesis 15:6 which says, “Abram believed the Lord, and it was credited to him as righteousness” (NIV). We, who come in the line of the Abrahamic covenant through Jesus (Galatians 3:29), are also called to live by faith.