"DivineSovereignty" Tagged Sermons
The series closes facing the sheer strangeness of God commanding what amounts to a pagan ritual and abomination: child sacrifice. The story’s purpose is to push us past the law itself to the truth beneath it. Our bond with God is finally rooted in his love, not merely his commands.
How can God command Abraham to do the very thing (child sacrifice) that he elsewhere forbids? The dilemma finds its resolution in Abraham’s remarkable serenity, a faith that makes him, in that moment, more like God himself.
The series opens with what it means to be an Orthodox Presbyterian (a church ruled by elders) before introducing the five points of Calvinism centered on God’s sovereignty and predestination. Many of history’s most influential theologians were themselves Calvinists, all pointing back to the cross of Christ.