{"id":1385,"date":"2014-08-14T23:44:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowwonderchoices.com\/thoughts\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:36:53","slug":"abraham-believed-god-and-it-was-accounted-to-him-for-righteousness-galatians-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rainbowwonderchoices.com\/thoughts\/abraham-believed-god-and-it-was-accounted-to-him-for-righteousness-galatians-36\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018..Abraham \u201cbelieved God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.\u201d \u2019 Galatians 3:6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018..Abraham \u201cbelieved God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.\u201d\u2019 Galatians 3:6 (Genesis 15:3 \u201cAnd he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Believing God or having faith in God results in obedience and right actions. Abraham&#8217;s belief or faith in God caused him to offer up Isaac when he was tested by God. When Abraham believed God \u2013 he was at that very moment declared righteous &#8211; not at that instance when Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son (this action only proved Abraham\u2019s belief or faith in God.<\/p>\n<div id=\"zed_ea8crr98\" class=\"zedity-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"zedity-iframe-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:320px;max-height:160px\" data-origw=\"320\" data-origh=\"160\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"zedity-iframe\" title=\"Gen 22\" src=\"http:\/\/rainbowwonderchoices.com\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/zedity-Gen-22.html?_54w70q0\" width=\"320\" height=\"160\" scrolling=\"no\" data-id=\"1386\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Believe in the context of believing God is therefore active not passive and certainly not just a mental assent only. Actions proved the belief \u2013 as Abraham\u2019s belief was later demonstrated by his actions when he stretched out his hand over Isaac. \u00a0He who says he believes God and continually sin and running towards sin, with no repentance does not really believe \u2013 it\u2019s just a mental assent just like what God through the Bible says in James 2:19 \u201cYou believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe\u2014and tremble!\u201d A true believer&#8217;s heart runs away from sin and not towards sin. He lives by faith in God.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018..the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes.. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, \u201cThe just shall live by faith.\u201d \u2019Romans 1:16-17<\/p>\n<p>Abraham&#8217;s justified by faith in God. God through the Bible says \u2018believing\u2019 in God is \u2018NOT works\u2019 but is grace\u00a0and faith \u2013 see Romans 4:3-5<\/p>\n<div id=\"zed_ekd6t443\" class=\"zedity-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"zedity-iframe-wrapper\" style=\"max-width:320px;max-height:260px\" data-origw=\"320\" data-origh=\"260\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"zedity-iframe\" title=\"Romans4\" src=\"http:\/\/rainbowwonderchoices.com\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/zedity-Romans41.html?_ehat1l9z\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" scrolling=\"no\" data-id=\"1388\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,\u201d Romans 5:1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018..Abraham \u201cbelieved God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.\u201d\u2019 Galatians 3:6 (Genesis 15:3 \u201cAnd he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.\u201d) Believing God or having faith in God results in obedience and right actions. Abraham&#8217;s belief or faith in God caused him to offer up Isaac when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rainbowwonderchoices.com\/thoughts\/abraham-believed-god-and-it-was-accounted-to-him-for-righteousness-galatians-36\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018..Abraham \u201cbelieved God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.\u201d \u2019 Galatians 3:6<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soul"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018..Abraham \u201cbelieved God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.\u201d \u2019 Galatians 3:6 - Thoughts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rainbowwonderchoices.com\/thoughts\/abraham-believed-god-and-it-was-accounted-to-him-for-righteousness-galatians-36\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018..Abraham \u201cbelieved God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.\u201d \u2019 Galatians 3:6 - Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u2018..Abraham \u201cbelieved God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.\u201d\u2019 Galatians 3:6 (Genesis 15:3 \u201cAnd he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.\u201d) Believing God or having faith in God results in obedience and right actions. 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