Sermon
The Great Commission: Teaching Them to Observe All That I Have Commanded You
Treeline Church
Speaker: Andrew Hager
May 20, 2024 · 33 min
Summary
Matthew 28:20 teaches that obedience to Jesus' commands flows from new spiritual life, freedom from sin, and the destination of Christian perfection. The pastor explains four biblical reasons why obeying Jesus matters: believers have been made spiritually alive, set free from bondage, warned away from destruction, and called toward sanctification.
Highlights
You cannot continue to sin any more than someone who is alive can lay perfectly still in a coffin. You just can't do it.
Freedom isn't just doing whatever you want. Freedom is the ability to actually be the person he's making you into.
Obedience isn't what we do to get to Jesus. Obedience is just what happens when you know that he is with us all the time.