“As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.”
Romans 4:17
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Connection with Sarai's barren womb
Abraham learned to trust "the God who gives life to the dead" while standing beside Sarai, who could not have children. Barren is where God likes to begin: the son He brought from her closed womb started a long line of impossible births.
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God told a childless couple from a pagan city that they would father nations. Paul names the God Abraham learned to trust, the One who "gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist." Sarai's closed womb begins a pattern of life brought out of deadness that runs through Scripture to Jesus' birth and His empty tomb.
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