Romans 4:21. And being fully persuaded, etc. This simple confidence in God's promise gave glory to God, and is the essence of faith (comp. Genesis 18:14, and Hebrews 11:1). ‘Many find it harder to believe that God can love them, notwithstanding their sinfulness, than the hundred-years-old patriarch did to believe that he should be the father of many nations. Confidence in God's word, a full persuasion that He can do what seems to us impossible, is as necessary in the one case as in the other. The sinner honors God, in trusting His grace, as much as Abraham did in trusting His power' (Hodge).

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