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Romans4:16-25

When God created human beings, He recognized the human beings and put them the responsibility to take care of the created world. Furthermore, He even gave them the will of freedom to choose anything. At first, God built the confident relationship to make with friends. They can even choose God who they must depend on. However, they chose bad decision and did against His commandments. So, the confident relationship was broken.
There needed to restore the relationship between God and human beings. In such perspective, God called Abraham to restore the broken relationship. Abraham might reject His calling. However, he responded to trust God by obeying His calling and the commandments of blessing. Human beings can the way of faith to be recognized as they are right in the sight of God. God led to Abraham to follow the way of faith by depending on the promises of God.

Abraham’s faith was the faith to trust the promises of God.
God gave Abraham the promise of blessing. The blessings were for him to present the land and descendents, the blessing of life, and the eternal blessing companying God. The secular blessings are insecure; the blessing of faith is guaranteed to be certain by the eternal God. The faith pursued to take the thinking and vision of God beyond circumstance and limited human conditions.

The faith of Abraham was not the view of human to unable the impossible things, but to believe the view of God to enable the impossible things. Christians can trust the God who created anything out of nothing. The faith to take the view of God can make fruit of faith against the destiny of death. Abraham’s faith was a kind of enduring perspective to trust the promises of God, not to wave his faith.

The issue to be transferred as the representative is not onl　y applied to the original sin, but also the salvation of Jesus to recompose the sins of human. Jesus was chastised in the imposing for our sins; we human beings are released in the punishment of God. Jesus was on the curse of sin and death; we are on the blessing of God. This is the gospel. The story of Abraham in the confident relationship with God was to restore the broken confident relationship between God and human