In Romans 4, Paul is explaining the implications of faith, and the implications of the family and inheritance of God. One way Paul refers to God, in verse 17, reveals something truly unique about our God. Paul refers to God as "the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were."This is huge! God calls things that are not, as though they were. In other words....in God's view things that we can't understand or see, God understands them and sees them. Its for his very reason that by Jesus death on a cross, there is a victory. Where in human eyes we see death, and defeat--God proclaims victory. This is also why Jesus is able to say "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." God flips our world upside down.
This is shown time and again throughout scripture--the way the world works is not the way God works. That's also why we can be entirely new, holy, blameless and pure, without really feeling all that different. The Bible teaches that you were crucified with Christ, and the old you has been put away. I don't really feel dead, but in God's Kingdom, He calls things that are not as though they were.
We also have to remember the power of God's speech, if God speaks something it comes into existence, just look at Genesis 1.
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