The Bible is absolutely clear that we are never to kill another human being as a sacrifice to God. However, there is an underlying thread in what Jephthah did and what Abraham was told to do: God commands us to give him everything, not only our gold and silver, desires and reputation, but every relationship as well.
The heart of the Christian life is death to self and a willingness to suffer the loss of everything for the sake of the Lord Jesus.
However, it is only as we understand our obligation to take up our own cross daily, that we understand that we can never be saved by our our cross, but only by Christ's. When we are convicted that our own taking up our cross is radically defective, then we will truly cast ourselves on God's mercy in the Lord Jesus and be saved.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
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