![]() ![]() Your name is Philip and Jesus asks you how you’re going to feed 5,000 people for dinner-tonight. You are part of a newly formed nation called Israel, leaving Egypt, and you find yourself a nomad wandering through the desert for forty years.ģ. Your name is Abraham and your son’s name is Isaac.Ģ. So, if you’re wondering if God is testing you right now, I’ve come up with a series of questions to help you decide:ġ. It’s important to know when it’s God, Satan, the world, life, or just our own flesh tempting us. It’s interesting: It says God tested Abraham. It’s like, really, God, is this necessary?! I thought we had all this worked out!? I thought waiting for a son was the major test of my life! He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”Ībraham was living in the land of the Philistines, it says in Genesis 21, for “many days.” I’ll be reading from the New Revised Standard Version, and I’m going to be walking through this verse-by-verse gleaning along the way because this is such a rich passage.ġ After these things God tested Abraham. In Genesis 22:1–19, God takes Abraham through the wringer by the ultimate test of obedience, one that challenges us, especially parents, to our core. ![]() We’ve got more to learn before the end of our story. So, in Genesis 22, he’s not done with Abraham yet, and he’s not done with us either. Then, he finally had a son at the age of one hundred-and there’s hope on the horizon.īut God wanted to take Abraham even deeper in relationship with him. He received this promise when he was a lot younger, and God has been forming him all along. In recent weeks, we’ve seen how Abraham’s story unfolds as he awaits the fulfillment of the promise that God would make him into a great nation. You can listen to it on the HIM Publications podcast here or watch it on YouTube here.īefore we get into our text for today, let’s review where we’ve been. The following is a sermon preached on Jat Harpeth Christian Church in Franklin, Tennessee.
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