Romans 4 (Part 4): Raised for Our Justification
Part 4 of 4 • ⏱️ 2-Min Read Passage: Rom.4:23-25 Scripture Focus: "Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification." (Rom.4:25) Today's Lesson Paul closes the chapter by turning Abraham's story toward us. The words "it was imputed to him" were not written for Abraham's sake alone. They were written for our sake also, upon whom righteousness is imputed, if we believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. This is where the doctrine of imputed righteousness stops being a distant Old Testament account and becomes your own possession. The same principle that credited righteousness to Abraham now applies to you: you believe, and God credits. But Paul does not leave the ground of that credit unexplained. He names two finished acts of Christ. He was delivered for our offences, and He was raised again for our justification. Notice the order and the precision. His death dealt with the offences, the very sins that st...