EMAIL:Dear Ken and Marcus, Last week, you discussed Romans Romans 13: The promise to Abraham and his descendants, that they should inherit the world,  did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14: 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 descendants -- not only to the adherents of the law  but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, for he 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 descendants be." 19: He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body,  which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old,  or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. 20: No distrust 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 "reckoned to him as righteousness." 23: But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake alone, 24: but for ours also.  It will be reckoned to us  who believe in him that raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, 25: who was put to death for our trespasses  and raised for our justification.