Romans 3:3

Romans 3:3

For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

1.“…shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?”

a. 2 Timothy 2:13 “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”

b. Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”

c. Matthew 5:18 “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”

2. God is a God of faith

a. Jesus said to have the faith of God: in the margin of Mark 11:22, it reads, “Have the faith of God,”

 b. God created the universe by his word: Psalm 33:6 “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.”

c. Romans 4:17 “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

1). Ephesians 2:5, 6 “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

And raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:

2). Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

3). Comparing the Scriptures Romans 4:17, Ephesians 2:5, 6 and Colossians 2:12, God was quickening us and raising us when he was quickening and raising Jesus. God was calling “those things which be not as though they were.” That was faith!