Peter Roselle: Answering God's Call with Faith and Obedience (Genesis 12:1)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2024-02-09

Peter Roselle: Answering God's Call with Faith and Obedience (Genesis 12:1)
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Here's a phone call, God to Abraham. [Genesis 12:1]
The Lord said to Abraham:
Get out of your country,
from a family, from your family
and from your father's house,
to a land that I will show you.
Big call right there.
You're going to be the father of many nations.
Really? My wife is 90, like whatever she was at the time.
And it says in Hebrews all those years later.
By faith, Abraham did what?
That's what makes God happy: Obey.
I can't perfectly follow the law, but I could sure try.
I could sure just press in
and know what's a sin
and what's not a sin.
What does He bless?
He blesses obedience.
He can't bless sin.
He doesn't want to bless it.
But we have to know the difference.
I love this cause I've said it so many times
since we started the church.
I have it memorized.
Hebrews 11:8,
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out, right?
He picked up the phone, God said, I want you to go.
He said, Okay.
"Out to a place which he would receive as an inheritance"
and here's what we should all say together.
"And he went out not knowing where he was going."
Doesn't that sound like a contradiction?
Well, well fire up the GPS put the address in.
The address is God's will for my life.
And He's not telling me where yet,
cause He wants me to take the first step.
But that's dangerous!
Yes, it's a dangerous yes.
That's the whole point.
Try the dangerous no...
you don't want to live there.
You don't want to be in rebellion.
That's Jonah.
You want to end up looking at the inside of a whale.
Go ahead, run the other way
when He tells you to go to Nineveh.
But God found a way to get him back there, didn't he?
By the subway train, spit him right out on the beach?
You might not believe Noah, but Jesus quoted Noah.
So you figure that one out.
How about Moses?
We did this last week.
He got a really difficult phone call from God.
He's out in the desert
and all of a sudden he stops by the burning bush.
Like this is different.
Don't see that very often.
There's a fire but the bush isn't being consumed.
So he got interested and he walks over and the Lord said
"I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are
in Egypt and have heard their cry
because of their task masters for I know their sorrows."
And the reason I'm calling you Moses
is I'm sending you back
to Pharaoh that you might bring my people,
the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
Aren't we glad he said yes?
Was it dangerous?
What's the big deal about dangerous if God is on your side?
He figured that out, wasn't easy.
Boy, that guy had a rough time with those people.
And then in Hebrews it talks about a great cloud
of witnesses, which we won't go into right now
But as I thought about all the people in the Old Testament
they all had to take a stand
and say that dangerous yes.
And the ones who didn't like Saul didn't end well. [1Samuel 15]
The ones who didn't like Samson, [Judges 16]
all the gifting in the world didn't end well.
So we have to aim high and and trust God
that even though we don't have all the answers yet
He will show us if we pause, and we pray, and we stay
on our knees, and keep... "I know what you showed me Lord
but I don't have the release yet."
That's okay.
But I, I can't stay in my mother's basement till I'm 60 years old.
I hope I'm not offending anybody who's
in their mother's basement at 60.
There could be a good reason to stay there
if you're taking care of her.
Okay, I'm making a general statement here.
We got to qualify everything these days, right?
This was a really good call cause this was a
dramatic call that God made to Isaiah.
It says in the verses right before this,
I was called up into heaven,
and I was in the throne room of heaven.
In Isaiah chapter six.
And he hears these "flaming creatures singing Holy, holy
holy is the Eternal, the
commander of the heavenly armies.
The earth is filled with this glorious presence."
And they were so loud that the doorframes shook.
So if you ever wonder why our music is loud
there's your verse, Isaiah 6:4.
and the holy house kept filling with smoke.
Smoke comes from fire.
Fire comes from our hearts.
The more contagious we are with that fire burning
the more smoke's going to arrive.
And that's incense.
And the incense is pleasing to God.
Our worship comes up to Him like incense,
I want to burn for You.
Get the verse.
We were singing it.
I want to burn for You.
And, and the pure, the incense is the less sin that's
in the container, the, the sweeter the smell is to the Lord.