Romans 4 & 5 Salvation comes from faithfulness; which is a gift, not from works of your own efforts.

Paul is going to show that salvation by faithfulness does not eradicate Torah and the Tanakh. He says, "on the contrary, we establish Torah through our faithfulness. Faithfulness is established in our hearts and minds by Elohim, when writes His Torah in our hearts and minds.

Paul is going to use two characters from the Tanakh, Abraham and David, to illustrate this. He is going to show how these two men were declared righteous by Elohim and not by their own efforts Abraham lived and died four hundred years before Torah was given to Israel at Mt. Sinai. Although Abraham knew Torah and followed it, he was declared righteous before he was even circumcised. David lived after Torah was given, but Scripture makes it very clear he had tremendous sin in his life. Elohim declared these men righteous by their faithfulness. Elohim made this declaration on them aside from what they did. Elohim is not asking us to live by some laws in order to come to Him. We are declared righteous by His choosing. And since He has awarded us that salvation through the faithfulness He gave us, how then ought we to live?

Paul told us in chapter 5 that death reigned over all mankind through the disobedience of Adam and righteousness and justification reigns over all who are faithful through the obedience of Yeshua Messiah.

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