The Daily Walk | 03.13.2026 | Pastor Mike Gibbons | Obadiah 21

Good morning, First Baptist Wimberly.

This is Mike Gibbons.

Welcome to Friday.

I am really looking forward to this Sunday when we finish up our brief walk through Obadiah.

Because it is God's Word, I hope you have seen how this book, written over 2,500 years ago to a small Middle Eastern nation, has something to say to us today.

Obadiah's theme is divine sovereignty.

The Lord of history works out his purposes even during the captivity and cruelty towards his people, the people of Israel.

God will bring Edom down.

He is in control of the plans of men, was what he was trying to tell Israel at that time.

But he's also the God of the future.

There is a coming kingdom of God.

Listen to verse 21.

Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the Lord's.

The king is building his kingdom, and he will prevail.

Mount Zion will be a proud capital again, cleansed from all the defilements of foreign destruction, as Jerusalem was at that time.

But this also points toward Christ and the new Jerusalem.

So I have a simple question for you this morning.

If the Lord is sovereign, and if the kingdom will be the Lord's, is that King your King?

Are you part of his kingdom?

Let me put it another way.

When the day of the Lord eventually comes, which it will, will you bow the knee joyfully to the king?

Because that is what you are doing now, in following his commands and loving him faithfully.

Will you greet him with great joy?

Or will you fall in utter terror because you know your day of judgment is coming?

The awful wrath of God against sin has already fell on Christ at the cross.

If we recognize our sin and turn to Him in repentance and faith, we can escape that judgment and wrath.

Self-sufficiency, hard-hearted arrogance, indifferent apathy, and reliance on worldly wisdom will lead to a horrible outcome on that day.

I pray that for you, that rather than the judgment of God on that day, that it will be the joy of Jesus.

And if you have turned to Him in repentance and faith, I pray that your joy is evident to all today.

This is Mike Gibbons, and I love being your pastor.