Peace With God | Sermon 12/12/2021

The Call to Serve as Pioneers in a Church Plant

All right. I'm so glad that so many of you are willing to be pioneers. That's what a church plant needs, you know pioneers people who are who are you know, happy to serve happy to try new things and happy to Bear with us as we continue to serve the Lord and get better at what we do to the glory of God.

Justification by Faith in Romans 4

So We are going to continue our series of sola fide by faith alone. And that's going to be in Romans chapter 4 continuing on With with our passage. You might remember we did verses 1 through 12 of Romans 4 last week, and we're gonna continue on today from that.

So if you would turn in your Bibles to Romans chapter 4 starting in verse 13. Hear now the words of the living and one true God. For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world Was not through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

For if those who are of the law are heirs faith is made void and the promise is nullified. For the law brings about wrath, but where there is no law there is also no violation. For this reason it is by faith in order that it may be accordance with grace.

So that the promise would will be guaranteed to all the descendants. Not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. Who's the father of us all as it is written a father of many nations?

Have I made you in the presence of him who he believed even God? Who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist in hope against hope? He believed so that he might become a father of many nations.

According to that which had been spoken. So shall your descendants be? Without becoming weak in faith. He contemplated his own body. Not as good as dead since he was about 100 years old and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

Yet with respect to the promise of God he did not waver in unbelief, but grew strong in faith giving glory to God and Being fully assured that what God had promised he was able also to perform. Therefore it was also credited him as righteousness.

Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him. But for our sake also to whom it was will be credited as those who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He who was delivered over because of our transgressions and was raised because of our justification therefore Having been justified by faith.

We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Thus ending the reading of God's Holy Word. Let's pray quickly father. Please bless the proclamation of your word today. Lord speak through me and Let it be helpful for your people today.

Lord, please Help us Lord to to see the the defense that Paul is making for justification by faith that it is Biblical that it is Lord your will in that Justification by faith that it is not by any sort of work or thing that we can do to merit salvation.

So Lord help me to speak clearly today. Let it be helpful for you to peep for your people and let it be true. And we give you all the glory in it in Jesus name. Amen. So I said it last week That all other world religions are works based systems that offer no real hope of peace.

They offer no real hope of peace. Christianity demonstrates a Savior who accomplished the work Died for his people was raised in power showing he can accomplish likewise in us. And it is all by faith through grace.

It is something that we can't make pilgrimage for it's not something we can accomplish by becoming a monk in the Himalayas. It's not something we can spiritually ascend to through gross ritual or inner enlightenment.

Right. None of those things can can can achieve these things. Consider Islam for instance. Salvation in Islam is only through the worship of the Muslim God Allah and a non-trinitarian false God and accepting Muhammad as Prophet doing good works being sincere repenting of sin and Hoping that Allah will forgive you.

The only Guarantee for salvation in Islam is by dying in jihad. Jihad means striving and it can be used differently and in different contexts. The Quran demonstrates one way in surah 9. It is a call for Muslims to engage in offensive warfare against non-muslims.

This is not the offensive holy war God called Joshua to do when the Canaanites were practicing grave evil and Sacrificing their children and performing all kinds of immoralities. Something of which it has never been instituted since by the way.

This is for them a right alternative to persuasion or conversion or proselytizing. To simply exterminate those who don't believe the way they do. Of course not all Muslim sects believe this. Okay, not not all branches of Islam believe this but it is in the Quran.

They all agree though that one must believe in the Prophet Muhammad. Surah 963 says know they not that for those who oppose Allah and his prophet is the fire of hell wherein shall they dwell. Surah 33 70 through 71.

Oh ye who believe fear Allah and always say a word directed That he may make your conduct whole and sound and forgive you your sins. He that obeys Allah and his prophet has already attained the achievement the highest achievement and So I could I could go on and on with verses from the Quran.

Showing you you need works. You need to seek Allah to be forgiven and It says it actually says in their text. There will be no mediator. No one is allowed According to Islam to bear the burden of your sins and you you have to have faith in a mere man.

What is one of the biggest goals in the afterlife for Muslims part of it to worship Allah. But even Orthodox Muslim theologians all Alga gazali and all I share have discussed men receiving Heavenly virgins for a reward and pleasure.

One of them describes heaven as a slave market. He says where where there will be no buy and sale. But if any man wishes to take a woman for himself, he can have that woman at that moment. He can just take her.

This is diametrically opposed to Christianity. This is diametrically opposed to the hope and truth recorded in the Bible concerning Christ. The eternal state the way of salvation and the nature of God completely.

Christianity is Reported today is the largest religion in our world at an estimated 2 .2 billion Followers, which is over 31 Next is Islam at 1 .6 billion Muslims, which is 23 We just covered that.

Third is Hinduism at 1 billion, which is 15 Hinduism claims that there are 330 million gods. 330 million gods, but recognizes one as supreme. Brahma is this impersonal and unknowable God impersonal and unknowable.

Hinduism views mankind as Divine because Brahma is everything. Hinduism asserts that everyone else is divine as well. All all of reality outside of this Brahma is considered mere illusion. So the goal.

The spiritual goal of a Hindu is to become one with Brahma thus ceasing to exist in its illusory form of individual self. This freedom is referred to as what's called moksha. Moksha until moksha is achieved a Hindu believes that he will be repeatedly Reincarnated in order that he may work towards self-realization of the truth.

How a person is reincarnated is determined by what's called karma? It's a principle of cause and effect governed by nature's balance. What one did in the past affects and corresponds with what happens in the future?

Future past lives all Included. And so you might you might hear that word karma. You might hear it at school work at the store on TV. Hopefully if I do blank if I do this nice thing good karma will come to me.

You might have heard that before. Good karma will come back to me or someone does something bad to someone else and they wish bad Karma on them or or they recognize mom and that person. Did you see what they did?

They're gonna have bad karma. That's what they say, right? So if you are kind and selfless and good during this lifetime, you will be rewarded by being reincarnated into a more pleasant life after this one.

That's the goal. That's that's the goal that seems very anticlimactic to me. Some. If you know on the other hand, I'm sorry if you live a life of selfishness and evil. You will be reincarnated into the next life in an unpleasant and hard existence.

Some even think it's possible in that instance. You might reincarnate into an animal. Interesting and so when I was researching reincarnation there would be articles on my web search titled 11 signs your soul has been being reincarnated a lot of times.

So it's like okay. How many times have have you been reincarnated? It's just it's laughable, right? It's laughable. Islam and Hinduism both deny original sin and. And so when there is a denial of original sin in a sin nature.

There's no need for a Savior or you become your own Savior. Whether it be good works or jihad of Islam or working out good karma in Hinduism you are justified saved or reach the celestial promise through those acts of self self.

You aren't the problem the world is everyone else is. The problem and you can be empowered to remedy your situation. That's what they sell us all the time, right? And so ex-muslims and ex-hindus who are now Christians.

They they'll tell you how bankrupt those systems are. They're striving never amounted to any salvation oneness or enlightenment. It left them just as lost as when they started. And as Christians, we're often shocked by hearing these beliefs, right?

It's a bit shocking to me. That one could think that a suicide jihad death could bring someone salvation. Or or in India. They do these bathing rituals in feces and trash infested rivers. Thinking if they bathe in them, they'll come out with their sins cleansed from them.

That's that's a real thing okay, and so This July even millions of people will sacrifice time money and their health to do what's called Hajj the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Right, they must do this at least once in their lifetime to be able to earn salvation with Allah.

To make it to paradise. We are shocked by these things, but in many ways we shouldn't be in Jesus's day. There were those who did external rites. Rituals and followed traditions to earn salvation Themselves and those were the Pharisees right.

Pharisees did that. All these religions of the world are no different. John MacArthur says this you see there are only two kinds of religion in the whole world the the religion of divine Accomplishment that is Christianity the accomplishment of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Then there is the religion of human achievement and that covers every other religion there is he says. So last week we were able to see how the Lord Defines justification by faith in the latter part of Romans chapter 3 and into our text Romans 4 we considered the one who works and therefore earns a wage as well as the one who doesn't work and receives grace.

Abraham didn't work. He approached God with the empty hand of faith believed God into his account was imputed the righteousness of God and It is this righteousness that comes from Christ in his remember his passive and active obedience that can avail before a holy God.

Our so-called Righteousnesses. The so-called righteousnesses of a Hindu or a Muslim or any other religion? Cannot merit eternal life. Our text today is continuing on in Romans 4 13. Through Romans 5 1 and so if if verses 1 through 12 of chapter 4 we're defining What justification is you might look at our passage today as the Apollo Gia the?

The apologetic defense of the theology that Paul established in the verses prior. So let's go verse by verse and let's begin that now. Let's let's look at what the Lord is saying in Romans 4 so starting in verse 13.

For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world Was not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. This promise we talked about was from Genesis 15 6.

We also see it repeated in Genesis 17. He says God says this as for me behold my covenant is with you. And you will be the father of molt a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be Abram. But you shall be called Abraham for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

I have made you exceedingly Fruitful and I will make nations of you and kings will come forth from you. So a multitude of nations not just Israel a multitude isn't just from Isaac and Ishmael. Okay, it is it is hundreds.

It is thousands of nations. I Don't think this promise is even by blood relation. From from out of every nation will come spiritual offspring as a result of this covenant God made to Abraham out of Jesus says it this way out of every tongue tribe people and nation will spiritual Israel manifest.

There are there are Christians on every continent today. I bet you there's one on Antarctica right now. They're doing research. There's a there's Christian on every continent today, this is being further and further realized in our world today.

Mustard seed kingdom of God mustard seed type stuff, right? The promise that he would be heir to the world was not through law. It says it was before it and it was and it was even before works. Abraham's status of a righteous justification by God did not depend on his observance of circumcision and Not even on his obedience to the law.

Paul makes it clear his justification was independent of the law. We continue to see a contrast through this chapter of of law and works. Opposed to grace and faith those those things are always in contrast with Paul here.

He says the promise was through the righteousness imputed by God through faith. Now, let me take a let me take a sidestep for a second because I think it's important to address this. This is not to make the law or works bad.

Okay. I want you to know that we'll see After this in Romans 6 and Romans 7 that they are not bad. The point is this definitely. You listen to this law and works this is what he's trying to say. Law and works will not produce Justification.

Law and works will not produce a right standing before God. Law and works though after justification and regeneration. After they're applied to a believer are good and profitable to observe to produce Sanctification the ongoing process of God working in us and making us more holy and more like Christ.

And this sanctification is something a believer is empowered to do by the Holy Spirit and It is authored by Christ who will finish the work started in you. And Ephesians 2 10 says for you are to walk in the good works that God prepared beforehand.

You just walk in them. God prepared the works and he gave you the law so that as Christians we don't earn our salvation, but we observe the law as it is righteous and is God's nature and it is what? Sanctifies us.

Okay, that's one of the big differences if a true Justification has occurred. Then a true lifelong process of sanctification the act of becoming more like Christ will manifest as well. We don't just become licentious or what's called antinomian, which is lawless After justification is applied.

And and that's where James the brother of Jesus if you remember this passage, I know LDS message this. I'm sorry mentioned this passage a lot in James chapter 2. They say faith without works is dead. Well, that's what I'm describing here.

That's what I'm describing here that there will be fruit Appearing due to God's work of justification in a believer. The fruit is the sanctification part. It is it is it is the evidence that God has done a work in you.

It's not what saves you. It's evidence that God has done a work. Yeah faith without works is dead in that sense. But we're talking about saving faith. Justifying faith here. It is different than Sanctification.

Okay, that's the that's a sidestep you need to hear he says heir of the world heir of the world. Galatians 316 says Christ is the seed of Abraham. He is the offspring. Abraham is the type. Christ is the substance and fulfillment of the promise.

Christ has inherited the entire world and he receives Spiritual Israel as his progeny. Christ gets spiritual Israel. He gets us. We are his bride. He receives us. Verse 14. For if those who are of the law are heirs.

Faith is made void and the promise is nullified. In other words if a man or woman could be made an heir through works of the law, then faith is Unnecessary. Faith wouldn't be necessary anymore. The promise hinges upon faith.

That's what for 1 through 12 established if it was of the law, it would be made void. We need divine intercession not human striving. There is there's nothing in the middle here there's there's no other Option.

It is either faith alone sola fide or it is nothing. There's no other way To bring about this promise of God. Verse 15. For the law brings about wrath, but where there is no law there also is no violation.

Now let's just say Abraham rejected God's promise and tried to do works. Let's just say he did that. Or or if the law was present in his day and he tried to observe it for justification. Let's say he did that.

Nice try. Paul's saying nice try but the law just brings about wrath. The law just brings about wrath. You me anyone in this world can attempt it all they want. But trying to follow the law to bring about justification or a right standing before a holy God will only Result in wrath to our account not righteousness to our account.

What does it mean though? It says where there is no law. Where there is no law there also is no violation. What does that mean? Violation also means transgression in the Greek. This is saying God's wrath is made ever more apparent since after given the law.

Meaning being taught the precepts of God learning what exactly pleases our Holy God. We then as men and women do the opposite of that after learning what what God desires we do the opposite. We transgress the law.

John Calvin says in other words. Transgression here is not a mere act of sin. It's not just sin. But a willful determination to violate what is right? I Know some of you might be thinking. But wait if there is no law.

How is there a transgression of it in in Abraham's in Paul's point about Abraham? How did how did God find fault before the law or those who don't know the law? Well, we went over it a bit in the last sermon with Romans 1.

It said that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all Ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth of God so all types not just some all types of Ungodliness and unrighteousness.

It says God has revealed himself through what has been made and they don't honor him despite that general revelation of himself. God has generally revealed himself to all men and women everywhere. So that even on the undiscovered island in Papua New Guinea God has revealed himself Romans.

Romans 2 says even though the Gentiles didn't have the law it is written on all men's hearts. Even if they don't have the law, it's written on all men's hearts. Even even in an isolated tribe in the Amazon.

When a murder takes place. They want vengeance. A Young tribe boy. His his father is killed. He wants vengeance. Someone has murdered his father. Where does he get that mindset? Where is he? Where does he get that?

Well, how is that wired in him? When they steal in that tribe someone else's food or belongings they want restitution. They feel wrong. God has written his law on all men's hearts. They know they just suppress the truth.

But back to back to Calvin's point sin versus transgression. Let's use our children for an example, okay? Yeah, you have a four-year-old at the grocery store you're going grocery shopping four-year-olds with mom and something.

Overcomes this young man and he steals a candy bar and he puts it in his pocket. This little four-year-old boy steals a candy bar and puts it in his pocket. Okay, so He puts it in there for later. Is that is that wrong?

Is that wrong that he steals that would would most parents if they became aware would they put it back? I'd say so I think most would and Even the ones who don't put it back and let their child steal that that candy bar.

I think they would know it's wrong. I think they would know that. Is what the four-year-old did sin? Yeah, I think the Bible demonstrates. Stealing is a sin and even though he didn't know what he was doing.

He stole it and it's still sin. So it's a stint. It's a sin to steal and So now after this mom gives jr. A lesson on stealing. She teaches him for the first time. How is it how it is wrong to steal things that don't belong to you.

Every person has a right to their own property and let's just say a few weeks later. Junior and mom go grocery shopping again, and he steals another candy bar again. This time he not only sinned. But he transgressed his mother's command.

Do you see what I'm saying? The first time was sin. The second time is sin. But this time there's an extra level to it. He's transgressed his mother's command. He knowingly and willfully disobeyed both our sin both carry consequences, but Paul is Demonstrating why the law so readily brings about wrath.

Because when you read the law and you don't do it, you're convicted. You you've just read it. You know what God requires now and you don't do it. You do the opposite of it. So that's that's transgression.

Okay Verse 16 through the first part of 17. It says for this reason it is by faith in order that it might be in accordance with grace. So that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants. Not only to those who are of the law.

But also to those who are of the faith of Abraham who is a father of us all as it is written a father of many nations. I have made you and. So since this law creates wrath It must be that justification is by faith.

There is a logical stream of thought here. Okay, listen, listen this essentially it's saying Justification is by faith so that. So that it can be by grace God's grace so that The promise will be guaranteed to all who believe by faith whether Jew or Gentile you have this stream.

So that so that this stream is connection this chain. To remove one of these parts of the stream would be to dam it up affecting all the other parts. Then it would not be guaranteed to all those who believe by faith.

Works would dam up the flow of faith. Law law dams up the living waters of grace at the source. Okay Dr. White puts it this way. He says like a key that only fits in a particular lock. So faith is the sole key that matches the lock of grace.

You hear that Faith is the sole key that unlocks them that matches the lock the lock of grace one can attempt. To get the keys of works and law into the lock of grace all day long, but it'll never work.

Works and law are not in accordance with grace only faith is it says in accordance with grace brothers and sisters. Paul is saying God made a promise and his promise is Guaranteed by his grace. His grace is the guarantee of that promise.

Praise the Living God for that grace. Your poor performance is not the guarantee for that grace for that justification for that promise. Your failings this week aren't the guarantee his grace is and The Apostle belabors basically carves the point out into our brains at this point.

That this promise is for Jew and Gentile all who believe by faith. The dividing wall has been broken down. So that even listen to this even an ethnic Jew in Israel today. Who doesn't believe that Jesus Christ is the Mashiach the Messiah?

He can't say that Abraham is his father. He can't even an ethnic Jew in Israel who doesn't believe in Christ can't say His father is Abraham. Your father is Abraham in that sense. You see what I'm saying?

You have the inheritance of Abraham. You are descendants of Abraham. You are the spiritual Israel those who believe by faith in Christ. Second part of verse 17. It says in the presence of him who believed even God Who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist?

Abraham believed God. God's character is impeccable. God's character is perfect because he is God. God doesn't choose to be perfect. God is perfect by nature because he is God. Okay, this this is the God who can give a guarantee because he is perfect and righteous when he makes a promise or a Guarantee it will be upheld it will be it will be given if the Lord says it he will make good on that promise.

This is the God who gives life to the dead. He raised the widow of Zarephath's son from the dead in first Kings 17. He raised the Shunammite woman's son in second Kings 4. He raised the man whose body literally just touched the bones of Elisha and this man raised to life in second Kings 13 and Jesus said to the widow's son in Nain.

Young man, I say to you get up and that dead corpse Obeyed the Lord's Word and it says the dead man sat up and began to speak. He was alive again in Luke 7. Then you have poor poor Jairus. He comes to Jesus, but he learns as his servant comes down.

He says don't even don't even bother him anymore. Your daughter has died. Jairus his daughter died. But Jesus says no, let's go and he followed Jairus back to the house and told the little girl my child get up and she stood up at once.

God raised her from the dead. Then you have John 11 the famous passage of Lazarus of Bethany. Jesus is good friend. God raised him from the dead in Matthew 27 after Jesus's death on the cross when he says it is finished and the veil is torn in two and the whole world is Shaking all of a sudden these tombs break right open and all these saints come back to life.

God raises from the dead. Then Tabitha was raised from the dead by God through Peter in Acts 9 after becoming deadly sick. Now here's here's one of my favorite Eutychus. Someone named your next child that Eutychus.

I love that Eutychus a young man Who was sitting in the window in the upper room and Paul was giving a long sermon. Not unlike maybe what you hear today. It's not your typical 25 minute Thing here. I get it.

And so Paul is giving this long sermon this long oration or or homily and Eutychus falls asleep in the window and he literally falls back and goes all the way down and he dies when he hits the ground Eutychus and so Paul runs out of the house and He God raises Eutychus from the dead.

He said, you know I wonder I wonder what I wonder what the thinking was there. I'm sure God was so delighted to raise a young man who just simply fell asleep Listening to a sermon. So if God has grace on a man who falls asleep during a sermon I don't ever feel bad if I I see some of you sometimes you got your eyes are you're closing a little bit.

You know what? That's okay. You're not gonna die number one, and I'll have grace on you too. Okay. All right and so We have we have these examples, right? Of course the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the focal point of all scripture and the most Important event that has ever occurred in history.

You realize that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most important event that has ever occurred in the history of mankind and so You have this God who who gives life to the dead? Abraham Believed on this God who gives life to the dead.

Sarah's womb was closed. It was barren in other words. Sarah's womb was dead. It was dead. God brought life to Sarah's womb. God God's promise was carried out through a womb. Don't you see the correlation?

We what are we celebrating during this this Christmas season the the promise of God being carried out through a womb. Interesting amazing the advent the incarnation of Christ in Sarah's case though Isaac was born God gave life to a dead womb and when Isaac was to be sacrificed and killed on Mount Moriah God gave life back to Isaac and a ram was provided instead.

It says it says after that it says God calls into being that which does not exist. This harkens back to Genesis 1, right? This definitely this passage supports creatio Exnahilo creation out of nothing no doubt no doubt.

But it could also be speaking to Sarah's womb to produce Isaac. It could be both. It could also be pointing to Hosea 1 10. Listen to this it says you have the number of the sons of Israel will be like the sand of the sea.

Which cannot be measured or numbered and in the place where it said to them You are not my people. It will be said to them. You are the sons of the Living God. Hosea 2 23 Highlights this again. It shows God saying I will say to not my people that's all capitalized in the Bible and well in my Bible actually and You know, I think that's a smart thing by the translator because he's saying he's calling that a name of someone.

He says I will I will say to not my people as if that's one name. That you are sons of the Living God so. Meaning God calls into being by his grace a people for himself who once not were. You were once not a people and now through Christ through the promise through Abraham you are a people God calls out of out of nothing.

He calls you into existence as the people of God verse 18 in hope against hope. If you want to go to the next one in hope against hope He believed. So that he might become a father of many nations according to that which has been spoken.

So shall your descendants be in in what seemed impossible due to his old age and their barrenness. Abraham believed God's promise to make his descendants great in number. You see Abraham shows us true.

Faith is directed towards God. Towards the God who is able and not towards our circumstance. The Proverbs talk about it often a False balance is an abomination to the Lord a just weight is his delight.

So in the Bible times or even in countries to this day that still use these Weights and scales and balances there are wicked people who tamper with these balances with these scales. They tamper with them.

Maybe they hollow out some of the the Measuring weights or maybe they make the measuring weights heavier than what they're what they're recorded to be. Or they press down on the scale when when you're weighing the goods, right?

This happens even today in other countries. It definitely happened in the Bible times. That's why God says He hates those who tamper with scales just weights are are a delight to him and So what would happen is if a crooked man a crooked merchant had some goods on this scale and he put the weights That were tampered with on the other side and maybe they were heavier or lighter they would be in his favor so that the person purchasing the goods would receive less of that product and The merchant would receive more money at the same time.

That's a that's that's wicked. That's crooked. Or maybe maybe some of you guys have messed with your wife and when she's checking her weight on the scale She gets on and she doesn't know you're right behind her and you kind of like press your toe on the scale.

Putting some weight on the corner and all of a sudden she's 50 pounds heavier than what she thought she would be and and she starts Screaming half to death, you know, that's a maybe that's. It got ladies if they do that, that's not for me.

Okay. That they've heard it now. Don't transgress it. Okay. So you get what I'm saying though this this scale thing and So basically in in what what I would call the scale of faith. We take God and we put him on one side and we take our circumstance and we put it on the other side and we We alter the scale we in our sin.

We alter it in our unbelief. We press down on the side of our circumstance making our circumstance heavier than God. But but know this that every time God is is more than your circumstance God is far more than your circumstance every time.

You know, we have to stop thinking when we can control it that we're sovereign over it. Have just weights and scales between God and your circumstance know that God Outweighs that circumstance every time we make that circumstance too powerful.

You look at what you're going on in your life and you look at that issue. You lost your job. Your your marriage is in turmoil you you know. You maybe you've even lost a child and we can give those things or maybe they're smaller things than that.

But we give those things more power than the Living God. Don't do that. That's that's what we're talking about verse 19. Without becoming weak in faith. He contemplated his own body now as good as dead since he was a hundred years old.

Someone some hundred year old guy is somewhere going. Hey and the deadness of Sarah's womb. To further understand the context of this listen to Genesis 17 15 through 19. It says God said to Abraham as for Sarah your wife you shall not call her name Sarah.

But Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart will a child be born to a man 100 years old and will Sarah who is 90 years old bear a child and Abraham said to God.