Redeemer Church of Oklahoma City

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. –Hebrews 11:8 How many times have you struggled with a decision because you didn’t know what the circumstances would be like? Worse yet, [...]

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, Abram passed through the land to the place [...]

  I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose. –Galatians 2:21 The Apostle Paul knows the law. He probably came closer to keeping some it than most of us ever could. He also knows that he is a sinner, even the chief [...]

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” –Genesis 11:4 These Babylonians know what they want: “Let’s make a name for ourselves.” But there’s only [...]

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention [...]

Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him. –Genesis 6:22 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. –Hebrews 11:7 It’s [...]

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD  –Genesis 6:7, 8 That’s the law [...]

Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. If Cain’s revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech’s is seventy-sevenfold.” –Genesis 4:23,24 Lamech, a ruler of the City of Man, boasts that [...]

Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” –Genesis 4:8,9 It’s a famous story and very powerful. We [...]

He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life. –Genesis 3:24 A flaming sword of the justice of God protecting his holiness from us and us from his holiness…wow! [...]