Righteousness · Sunday 8 of 32
Righteousness Illustrated, Pt. 2
Romans 4:13-25 · Sunday, 15 June 2025 · 8 preachers
Father's Day
The 8 treatments
Same passage, same morning, different rooms.
Caleb Combs
Romans 4:17‑25 is examined as a call to trust God not only for salvation but in every area of daily life. The passage shows Abraham’s example of faith that glorifies God, brings righteousness, and…
Chuck Lindsey
Romans 4 is examined to show that Abraham was saved by believing God’s promise, not by any human effort or keeping the law. The sermon explains that righteousness is a gift given to those who admit…
Jayson Combs
Romans 4 is studied to show that true faith is a settled confidence in God, not a self‑generated force. The sermon uses Abraham, David, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to illustrate faith that focuses…
John Carter
What do you do when faith has to live in delay? This message explores Romans 4 and the example of Abraham, who believed God's promise even when fulfillment seemed impossible. The sermon contrasts…
Josh Combs
The sermon opens with an exploration of Romans 4, showing that the promise to Abraham came through faith, not law. It defines faith as a believing obedience that God can do what He says, illustrated…
Josh Yates
The sermon titled “How big is your God?” uses Romans 4 to show that God’s promise to Abraham was fulfilled by faith, not by the law. It stresses that God gives life to the dead and calls things into…
Justin Dean
The Love of God
The sermon explains that Abraham was declared right with God not by obeying the law but by trusting God’s promise. It emphasizes that salvation rests on God’s grace and our faith in His character…
Ryan Story
Faith
Using a personal story of ignoring illness, the sermon shows how everyday passivity mirrors spiritual passivity. It then turns to Romans 4, emphasizing that Abraham’s righteousness came through…
The passage
Read Romans 4:13-25 (ESV)
Chapter 4
13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
14 For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.
15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.
16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
20 No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
22 That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.”
23 But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone,
24 but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Where else these verses were handled
Other Sundays of this series whose preachers spoke into this passage — counted from verified spoken references, not from the schedule.
| Sunday | Passage | References | Preachers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Righteousness Explained | 3:21-31 | 6 | 1 |
| Applying Righteousness: Towards Others/Government | 13:1-10 | 3 | 1 |
| Introduction/Main Theme | 1:1-17 | 3 | 1 |
| The Blessings of Righteousness | 5:1-11 | 3 | 1 |
| The Spirit - Sets Us Free | 8:1-8 | 2 | 1 |
| The Spirit - Gives Us Life | 8:9-11 | 1 | 1 |
| Through One Man | 5:12-21 | 1 | 1 |