7 Therefore know that onlythose who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying,“In you all the nations shall be blessed.”
9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. HEBREWS 11: 17 By faithAbraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
ROMANS 4:1-4 1 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it wasaccounted to him for righteousness.” 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. ABRAHAM'S FAITH: HIS CIRCUMCISION ROMANS 4: 9-12
9 Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcisedonly, or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
10 How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised.
11 And he received the sign of circumcision,a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,
12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham had while still uncircumcised.
1 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
6 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.
7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
8 And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”
12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
15 Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, 16 and said: “By Myself, I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son— 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. DAILY PRAISE SONG:
“All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear! Who among them has declared these things?
TheLordloves him; He shall do His pleasure on Babylon, And His arm shall be againstthe Chaldeans.
ISAIAH 61: 8
“For I, theLord, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, And will make with them an everlasting covenant.
JEREMIAH 31: 3
TheLord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore, with lovingkindness,
I have drawn you.
EZEKIEL 16: 8
“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time wasthe time oflove; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,” says theLord God.
HOSEA 3; 1
Then theLord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who isloved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like theloveoftheLord
for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and lovethe raisin cakes ofthe pagans.”
MALACHI 1: 2
“I ( THE LORD) have loved you,” says theLord. “Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” Says theLord. “Yet Jacob I have loved.
MALACHI 2: 11
Judah has dealt treacherously, And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, For Judah has profaned TheLord’s holy institution which He loves: He has married the daughter of a foreign god.
