Keep Walking in Christ and Looking Up
October 19, 2025 · 2:12:45 · Watch on YouTube ↗
Summary
This Sunday service brought together two complementary messages. A visiting minister from California opened the Word from Colossians 2:6 - "As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him." He reminded the church that we first came to Christ by faith, in that unforgettable moment when God opened our eyes and gave us peace with Him. Yet receiving Christ is only the beginning: like Demas, some who once burned for Jesus later drift away, so the call is to stay rooted in Him, in whom the whole fullness of God dwells.
Drawing on Romans 8, he compared walking in the Spirit to boarding an airplane: the law of gravity still exists, but a greater power lifts us above it, and so the law of life in Christ raises us over sin and death. Through the picture of a father who gave his only son, and an auction where buying the son's portrait won everything else, he pressed home Romans 8:32 - the God who did not spare His own Son will surely give us all things in Him.
A second message, from Psalm 121, spoke to those in painful, unanswered seasons. Sharing his own struggles over a daughter's health and an uncertain future, the preacher confessed he had no neat answers, only one word from God: keep looking up. When we fix our eyes on the troubles around us, despair grows, but our help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. The service also honored the church's pastors and servants and closed in prayer for the sick and grieving.
Key Points
- We first receive Christ by faith - that moment of peace with God when our sins are covered and forgiven.
- Receiving Christ is only the start; we are called to keep walking in Him and never drift away as Demas did.
- All the fullness of God dwells in Christ, so apart from Him our wisdom, service, and prayers add up to nothing.
- Walking in the Spirit lifts us above the law of sin and death, just as an airplane carries us above gravity.
- The Father who did not spare His own Son will surely give us everything else in Him.
- In painful seasons God may redirect our questions instead of answering them, as Jesus did over the man born blind.
- When answers are slow, keep your eyes upward - your help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.
Devotional
There are seasons when the questions outnumber the answers, when a child's health, an uncertain future, or a closed door presses hard against your heart. In those moments God may not hand you a tidy explanation; He simply says, keep looking up. The same Lord who did not spare His own Son will not abandon you now, and the whole fullness of His grace already dwells in Christ. So lift your gaze above the horizon of your troubles, walk on in Him, and let your help come from the One who made heaven and earth.
“As you received Christ by faith, so keep walking in Him - never drift away.”
“He who did not spare His own Son will surely give us everything else in Him.”
“When you have no answers, just keep looking up - your help comes from the Lord.”
