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Yes, Jesus came and He died for us but what we need to understand as believers is that, our trust and faith in Jesus has not taken away the moral, ethical and the judicial rights God expects of us. Jesus has given us assess to the Father but we still need to walk in obedience to the things that are expected of us as a believer. Jesus did His part but the Word and instructions remain the same.

The roots of Christianity are in the justification by faith and that began way back from Abraham. He was told to leave His father's house and he left all behind - the gods, the people, the comfort and everything. It takes a great act of faith and obedience to be able to pull that off. God saw that in Abraham already because He knew every man.

Jeremiah 1:5 (NIV)
>“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

All blessings are linked to Abraham and that was due to his obedience to God's instructions. We are the seeds of Abraham and God still requires the same from us today. 

As Abraham progressed in Obedience to God, God increased the magnitude of the promise He had with him. God told Him he would become a great nation and then afterwards told him he would be a father of many nations. He further went and told him nations and kings would come out of him and in Genesis 18:18, God told him that he would become a might nation and bless the nations of the earth. God also told him that all nations of the earth shall be blessed because of him, as recorded in Genesis 22:18. The key needed to unlock these promises as a covenant He had with Abraham was obedience. That is still what God requires from us today.

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Abraham tried to do a shortcut when he had Ishmael. Abraham left his father's house at 75, gave birth to Ishmael at 86 and it was not until he was 99 before God revealed to him that circumcision is vital in the steps to obedience and it was a year after this revelation that Isaac was born. God was intentional. God waited for 13 years to reveal unto him the importance of circumcision and a year after he had Isaac and he was circumcised. God requires total obedience from us.

1 Samuel 15:22 (NIV)
>But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

What instruction has God given you personally that you are struggling to go a tad with? Whatever it is, you can be sure that in the end of it, you will be more blessed than you started, even if you feel you are losing so much. Abraham left all his people behind and the key to his blessings can be attributed to his obedience. He must have felt he lost it all too but then God rewarded his faith.

Have faith in God. He is on His throne. He never fail and He always prevail. You are in a safe hand of God when you choose to go all out to do whatever it is that He instructed you to do. If you don't have a specific instructions yet too, don't forget that His Word is the manual that we need to live a fulfilled and pleasing life to God. To obey is better than sacrifice. Don't take for granted the work of His Grace.

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