Carlton Rivers - July 5, 2015
Romans 4:17-25 God Call Things Into Being
This is the story in a nut-shell: By raising Jesus from the dead God proclaims his belief in our redeemed innocence. Isaac’s birth from Sarah’s barren womb prophetically declared the resurrection of Jesus from the tomb! Abraham’s best efforts could not produce Isaac. Sarah’s dead womb is a picture of the impossibility of the flesh to produce a child. This underlines mankind’s inability to redeem themselves under the law of willpower. Jesus said that “Abraham saw my day!” Man’s most extreme self sacrifice could not match the sacrifice of God’s Lamb. Co-Pastor Phillip Baker at Grace Cafe Church
