Abraham earned grace by being well-pleasing, Genesis 17... and he kept earning it, by fulfilling his part of the Covenant of Promise: circumcision (throughout their generation, every man of them, or they've broken the Covenant). By offering his son for sacrifice as commanded... Abraham kept the Commandments given to him.
Nowhere does the Bible say that anyone else earned grace as wage or that God owed anyone grace in return for what they had done. In Exodus 33:13, Psalms 119:29-30, and Titus 2:11-14, our salvation involves God being gracious to us by teaching us to obey His law, not that we need to obey His law in order to earn His grace as a wage. Grace is a gift and the gift of God teaching us to obey His law is not something that can be earned as a wage.
Here's your "gospel" to Abraham:
Genesis 12:1-3 And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and out of the house of thy father, and come into the land which I will shew thee.[2] And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.[3] And I will bless those that bless thee and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.
Not "good news" for those gentiles, right?
Genesis 12:1-5 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
The souls that they had acquired in Haran refers to making Gentile converts in accordance with the promises in verse 1-3 of spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom that was made known in advance to him by being blessed through turning from his wickedness and walking in God's way in obedience to His law so that he may be a blessing to Gentiles by teaching them how to do that (Matthew 4:15-23), which very good news for those Gentiles. In John 8:39, Jesus said that if they were children of Abraham, then they would be doing the same works that he did, so the way that the children of Abraham are multibed in accordance with the promise is by being a blessing to the nations by teaching them to do the same works that Abraham did of walking in God's way in obedience to His law.
In Genesis 18:19, God knew Abraham that he might teach his children and those of his household to walk in God's way by doing righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to him all that he had promised, namely, in Genesis 26:4-5, God will multiply his children as the stars in the heaven, to his children he will give all of these lands, and through his children all of the nations of the earth will be blessed because Abraham heard God's voice and guarded His charge, His commandments, His statutes, and His laws. Furthermore:
Deuteronomy 30:15-16 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
So all of the promises were made to Abraham and brought about because Abraham walked in God's way in obedience to His law and busied himself teaching his children and those of his household how to do that and because they did that. God's law is how the children of Abraham know how to be blessed by walking in God's way in obedience to His law (Psalms 119:1-3), so the way to inherit the promise of being a blessing to the nations is by teaching the nations how to live blessed lives by turning them from their wickedness and teaching them how to walk in God's way. Furthermore, Jesus, who is God's way (John 14:6) was sent as the fulfillment of the promise to bless us by turning us from our wickedness (Acts 3:25-26), which is in accordance with spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom.
The promises are by no means limited to only the physical children of Abraham, but rather Gentiles are able to become fellow heirs and partakers of the promise in Christ through the Gospel (Ephesians 3:6). In Galatians 3:26-29, it says that there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for we are all one in Christ Jesus, so it connects being children of God in Christ through faith with being children of Abraham, heirs according to the promise. In 1 John 3:4-10, those who do not practice righteousness in obedience to God's law are not children of God, in 1 John 2:6, those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked, he walked in obedience to God's law, and in Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the law, so every element of being children of God, in Christ, through faith, children of Abraham, and heirs according to the promise is all directly connected to living in obedience to God's law through faith in Christ, to whom the promise was made regardless of whether someone is a Jew or a Greek.
Romans 8:2 the law of the Spirit…made me free from the law of sin and death.
The Law of Sin and Death
... ... ... on steriods:
In Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul contrasted serving the Law of God with his mind with serving the law of sin with his flesh, and contrasted the Law of the Spirit of Life with the law of sin and death, so he equated the Law of God with the Law of the Spirit of life by contrasting them both with the law of sin and death, so the Law of God is not the law of sin and death. In Romans 7:12-25, Paul said that the Law of God is holy, righteous, and good, and that he wanted to do good and delighted in obeying the Law of God, but that there was a law of sin that was working in his members that was waging war against the law of his mind in order to hold him captive and cause him not to do the good that he wanted to do. Verses that we should interpret as referring to the Law of God should make sense for it to be referring to something that Paul delighted in doing (Romans 7:22), so for example, it would be absurd to interpret Romans 7:5 as referring to the Law of God as if Paul delighted in stirring up sinful passions in order to bear fruit unto death, but rather it is the law of sin that does that. So verses that refer to a law that is sinful, that causes sin to increase, or that hinders us from obeying the Law of God should be interpreted as referring to the law of sin, such as Romans 5:20, Romans 6:14, Galatians 2:19, Galatians 5:16-18, and 1 Corinthians 15:56.
[22] But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:
[28] But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
We are instructed not to hate our brother in our heart (Leviticus 19:17), so that was nothing brand new. If we correctly understand what is being prohibited by the 7th and 10th Commandments against committing adultery and coveting in our hearts, then we will not look at a woman with lust in our hearts, so again that is nothing brand new.
About "works" or "good works"?
Which of these seven assemblies are rescued by their "good works"?
Doing good works in intrinsically part of the concept of Jesus saving us from not doing good works.
Matthew 19:7-9 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?[8] He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.[9] And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
In Matthew 19:3, Jesus was asked whether it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason. To give some context, Gittin 90a-b interprets Deuteronomy 24:1-4 as saying that a man was permitted to divorce his wife if she ruined his meal or if he found someone who was prettier than her, so it was divorce over frivolous reasons that was not the case from the beginning. Jesus should not be interpreted as expressing disagreement with himself and the Father.
in the Law of the Kingdom, Matthew 5:28-30.
In Exodus 20:6, God wanted His people to love Him and obey His commandments, and there are many other verses that connect our love for God with our obedience to His commandments throughout both the OT and the NT, so obedience to God has always been a matter of the heart, otherwise God would not have disdained it when His people honored Him with their lips while their hearts were far from him (Isaiah 29:13).
Deuteronomy 13:1-5 And if there arise within thee a prophet, or one who dreams a dream and he gives thee a sign or a wonder,[2] and the sign or the wonder come to pass which he spoke to thee, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye know not;[3] ye shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or the dreamer of that dream, because the Lord thy God tries you, to know whether ye love your God with all your heart and with all your soul.[4] Ye shall follow the Lord your God and fear Him, and ye shall hear His voice, and attach yourselves to Him.LXX
Indeed, we should hear God's voice and not interpret Jesus as speaking against hearing God's voice.
Deuteronomy 23:7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, because he is thy brother
Deuteronomy 25:19 blot out the name of Amalec from under heaven
Malachi 1:3-4 and hated Esau and laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness? [4] Because one will say, Idumea has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus saith the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set Himself for ever.LXX
Psalms 139:22 I have hated them with perfect hatred: they were counted my enemies.LXX
When we are angry, we don't need to keep it a secret because the Psalms show us that God can handle our emotion and we can give voice to our desire for vengeance while not actually pursuing it, which is part of the way that we can leave vengeance in God's hands. The imprecatory Psalms can also be understood as being in the mouths of the accusers, such as in Psalms 109:1-5, the accusers are all plural, but verse 6-20 switches to singular, where verse 20 can be translated as saying this is what my adversaries what God to do. At first he wanted vengeance of his enemies, but as we continue to let it do its work on us, it is asking us to reflect upon what our enemies would say about us, and whether they have a case against us.
Isaiah 66:3-4 and they acted wickedly before Me, and chose that which I did not want.ABP
Do you consistently interpret Isaiah 1:15 as God being against prayer? Or can you please interact with the point that I made about Isaiah 1:11-20 in that the problem was not that they were doing those things, but that they were doing them while their hands were full of blood. Likewise, please interact with Psalms 51:16-19, where he spoke about God not delighting in sacrifices or being pleased by burnt offerings, but rather what God wanted as a broken and contrite heart, then he will delight in right sacrifices and in burnt offerings with bulls being offered in His altar, so again it is clearly not speaking against doing those things, but against doing them without having a broken and contrite heart. Likewise, Isaiah 66:3-4, the problem wasn't with the offerings, but that they were offering them while they were continuing to act wickedly before God. Again, it doesn't make sense to think that God commanded His people to do something that He didn't want them to do.
Matthew 9:11-13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. (Hosea 6:6)
Some of God's laws appear to conflict with each other, such as when God commanded priests to rest on the Sabbath, but all commanded priests to make offerings on the Sabbath (Numbers 28:9-10), however, it was not the case that they were forced to sin by breaking one of the two commands no matter what they chose to do, but that the lesser command was never intended to be understood as preventing the greater command from being obeyed, so again the issue is about having the right priority. This is why Jesus said in Matthew 12:5-7 that priests who did their duties on the Sabbath were held innocent, why David and his men were held innocent, why Jesus defended his disciples as being innocent, and why he again quoted desiring mercy rather than sacrifice.
It is unlawful to work and the Sabbath and healing is work, so some Pharisees had reasoned that it was therefore unlawful to heal on the Sabbath, however, we are also instructed to love our neighbor, and no command was intended to be understood as preventing the greatest two commandments from being obeyed, which is why Jesus ruled that it was lawful to heal on the Sabbath, so again it is about having the right priority, and needing to have the right priority is the point that Jesus was making in Matthew 9:11-13, so none of this has anything to do with speaking against obeying anything that the Father has commanded.
But Paul's gospel starts with "christ crucified".
Does what she did not have anything to do with "Christ crucified"?
The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel are scattered among the nations…
The Bible makes it clear that having faith in Christ and being in him is not limited to just Jews (Galatians 3:26-29), so the pressing concern for Gentiles is the way to become joined to Israel through faith in Christ. In Ephesians 2:12, 19, Gentiles were once separated from Christ, alienated from Israel, strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world, but now in Christ all of that is no longer true in that Gentile are no longer strangers or aliens, but are now fellow citizens of Israel along with the saints in the household of God.
Paul's focus was on bringing the Gospel to the Gentiles and he tailored his message for them, but that does not mean that it was a different message. In Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law is the way to believe in everything that Christ accomplished in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (Acts 21:20), so the response to Paul's Gospel is the same as the response to the Gospel of the Kingdom, which means that it is not a different Gospel.
But Ιησους did not teach
Paul's inclusion, or his imputations or his mysteries
Jesus did sent his disciples to make disciples of all nations. In Genesis 15:6, Abraham was declared righteous by faith, so that has always been the case. Christ expressed his righteousness by living in obedience to God's law, that is the same way that we live when we have been imputed with his righteousness, which is in accordance with the Gospel of the Kingdom. Again, Ephesians 3:6 directly spells out what the mystery is, which is according to the sod level of interpretation. Perhaps the common interpretation was that it was referring to the scattered exiles, but Paul was making the point that not just the scattered exiles, but all Gentiles are included as fellow heirs through faith in Christ in accordance with the Gospel and the mystery.