Christ Making Us Obedient - 9.4.26

Pastor Robert Maasbach delivers a powerful devotional on the transformative power of Christ in making believers obedient. Drawing from personal testimony, Scripture, and biblical examples—particularly Peter’s journey—he emphasizes that true obedience is not achieved through human effort but through a living, intimate relationship with Jesus. The episode recounts how God orchestrated events in 1988 when Pastor Maasbach was led to Dover, Kent, to start a Jesus Now crusade, illustrating how obedience opens doors to divine purposes. He uses Romans 1:5 and 15:18–19 to show that obedience is a grace-enabled response to God’s call, made possible only through faith in Christ. Through stories of Peter’s failures and triumphs, Elijah’s despair, and the pastor’s own aging experience, he reassures listeners that God uses imperfect people and that obedience is sustained by love for Christ, not performance. The message culminates in a call to embrace aging and weakness as opportunities for God to glorify Himself through us.