When Your Faith is Tested

February 12, 2023 Speaker: Mike Law Series: Genesis

Topic: Exposition Scripture: Genesis 22:1–24

Introduction

Sermon in a sentence: When your faith is tested, trust the Lord to provide.

1. Trust God When He Tests Your Faith [Genesis 22:1–2] 
     a. Remember God’s History [Genesis 21]
     b. Recognize God’s Hints [Genesis 12:1]
     c. Realize God Wants Your Heart [Jam. 1:13, Lev. 18:21, Deut. 12:31, Rom. 11:33, Isa. 55:9]

2. Trust God to Provide in the Present [Genesis 22:3–19]
     a. Faith Obeys God’s Commands [Genesis 22:3–5, cf. Gen. 15:5, Jam. 2:18–22,]
     b. Faith Depends Upon God to Provide [Genesis 22:6-8]
     c. Faith Believes that God can Raise the Dead [Genesis 22:9–10, cf. Heb. 11:17–19]
     d. Faith Fears God [Genesis 22:11–12, cf. Jhn. 3:16; Rom. 8:32]
     e. Faith Looks to the Substitute God has Provided [Genesis 22:13–14, cf. Rom. 5:8; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Jhn. 4:10]
     f. Faith Believes that God Keeps his Promises [Genesis 22:15–19, cf. Gen. 3:15]

3. Trust God to Provide for the Future [Genesis 22:20–24]
     a. Father Nahor Had Many Sons?
     b. What’s Past is Prologue

Conclusion

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