This past Sunday Pastor Jeff brought us the Word out of Romans 4 and 5. In this sermon, we were encouraged to be obedient to Christ’s call on our lives. We were encouraged that even when a request feels strange, or even impossible, if God has called us, then it will be done. This point was solidified at first by highlighting Abraham’s obedience to leave his home to set out for the land of Canaan at age 75 (Gen 12:4) and his ultimate obedience taking Isaac up Mount Moriah (Gen 22). Finally, this point was solidified by looking at the example of Christ who was obedient to death, and even death on the cross. In the same way, it is our obedience through Christ that in the end, as is stated in Revelation 12:11 that we will have triumphed “by the blood of the Lamb and the word of [our] testimony” that in the end we, “did not love [our] lives even unto to death.””
