Then's the crucial passage on defense and its intimate connection to sincere belief. Paul highlights the fact that entering into eternal deliverance isn't a particular job. The striking illustration of simply earned stipend arguably represents the exact contrary of the sanctioned doctrine of voluntary sovereign grace and the doctrine of justification. However, it shows that we don't completely understand defense by genuine faith, If we suppose in possible terms of a direct dependent relationship we've with Christ. There's no favor to be won with God. There's no hourly paycheck paid for good deeds. Salvation is an unlimited gift given by faith, by believing in the work of Christ on our behalf. Some frustrated people simply suppose that defense is a unique act of political deliverance, so the process of sanctification generally begins after defense. Thus, defense represents the extraordinary gift that we must inescapably" take the arm"from there in our sanctification and work out our deliverance. Therefore, the political defense for this loose scheme is considered to have passed at the portentous morning and all Godly graces of eternal justice are a thing of the history for an aged saints. The abecedarian problem with this way of thinking is whether one intimately reads the entire passage of apologies from Rom.4 is really taken as present reality. Thus, it's regularly at conspicuous work among more mature saints. This is why he says that Abraham was declared righteous believing. Therefore, it was only just for the act of believing credited to him. Abraham willingly adhered God in the sincere belief that Sarah would have a baby, but quick obedience was respectable only because of the eternal justice that was alien to him. This is Paul's conclusive argument from ch. 1 any justice that we rightly represent a foreign justice. The question is what remains of the process that was going on in Abraham's mind and understanding in the act of believing. By profession, he says that Abraham considered himself a saintless person. Abraham as irreverent himself and thus the only cure for this specific problem wasn't in court, Abraham, but eternal justice. That he'd have a son who remains a literal experience in the most open times of his Christian experience. Seeing this creative process of distinct identity was part of Abraham throughout his Christian experience. When he considered himself ungodly, he also realized that his entire belief was by grace and thus the identity of himself handed Abraham with the rich ground in which defense flourished. though our distinctive identity in Christ is seen as fully righteous, yet we have the unethical nature that still lacks the grace of Christ to induce all who believe truly respectable. Thus, we widely fete that we're ungodly in ourselves. Our whole Christian experience is by grace.