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 From a Tomb Of Deadness



"And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.”
(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing."(Genesis 18:10-11)

Sarah knew her womb was dead,(a tomb of deadness).She and Abraham both knew they were completely incapable of producing a son with the deadness of his body and the deadness of Sarah's womb.Only God could bring forth a son from her dead womb.A son raised from the tomb of her dead womb.From deadness came forth life.

"And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.(Romans 4:19)

"By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised."(Hebrews 11:11)

"He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”(Romans 4:20-22)

Abraham believed (being fully convinced) that God would perform all the promises made to him and based on that it was put to his account that he was righteous and through this son that would be born to him and Sarah God would bring forth His Son into the human race and would redeem the human race through His death and resurrection.
As God brought forth a son from Sarah's dead womb,(a tomb of deadness)He brought forth His Son from the dead (a tomb of deadness)

"Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him,but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification."(Romans 4:23-25)

He was delivered up for our sins and shed His blood and died for us and was resurrected from the dead to give us the assurance that we who believe on Him that it is imputed to us or put to our account that we are righteous,justified before God by faith and at peace with God.

"Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."(Romans 5:1)

God's omnipotence (all power)was revealed to Abraham and Sarah in the birth of their son.God revealed what He could do that man couldn't do.God reveals His omnipotence in raising His son from the dead.

"and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places"(Ephesians 1:19-20)
(Note that Paul's prayer here is that we may know this power of resurrection that is directed towards us now in this life)(Ephesians 1:15-23)
He wants us to experience this resurrected life of Christ living in us and out through us.This dead flesh cannot produce this life no more than Abraham and Sarah could produce that life of their son through their dead flesh,it took God's power.This life is produced by God's power by His Spirit living through us.This is simply a life of faith.If God can raise His Son from the dead,then He is capable of producing that Life through us.Dead unto self and alive unto God.

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