1.

Do/ Did you like taking

tests? Why or why not?
2. For you, what are the best
and worst parts of school?
3. Who is the most dependable
and faithful person you know?
Why?

Perseverance

-The quality that allows

someone to continue trying to
do something even though it
is difficult

PASSING THE
TEST
TRUSTING

GOD

JAMES 1:2-3
Consider it pure joy, my brothers
and sisters,whenever you face trials
of many kinds,3because you know that
the testing of your faith produces
perseverance.

LIFE of ABRAHAM,
his RESPONSE TO GODs
TESTING of FAITH
(Genesis 22)

Some time later God testedAbraham. He said to

him, Abraham!
Here I am,he replied.
1

Then God said, Take your son, your only son,

whom you loveIsaacand go to the region of
Moriah.
Sacrifice him there as a burnt offeringon a
mountain I will show you.
2

Early the next morningAbraham got up and

loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his
3

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the

place in the distance.5He said to his servants,
Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy
go over there. We will worship and then we will
come back to you.
4

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering

and placed it on his son Isaac,and he himself
carried the fire and the knife.As the two of
them went on together,7Isaac spoke up and said
to his father Abraham, Father?
6

Abraham answered, God himself will

providethe lambfor the burnt offering, my
son. And the two of them went on together.
8

When they reached the place God had told him

about,Abraham built an altarthere and
arranged the woodon it. He bound his son
Isaac and laid him on the altar,on top of
the wood.10Then he reached out his hand and
took the knifeto slay his son. 11But the
angel of theLORDcalled out to him from
9

Do not lay a hand on the boy, he said. Do

not do anything to him. Now I know that you
fear God,because you have not withheld from
me your son, your only son.
12

Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he

saw a ram[a]caught by its horns.He went over
and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt
offering instead of his son. 14So Abraham
calledthat place TheLORDWill Provide. And
to this day it is said, On the mountain of
13

The angel of theLORDcalled to Abraham from

heavena second time16and said, I swear by
myself,declares theLORD, that because you have
done this and have not withheld your son, your
only son,
15

I will surely bless youand make your

descendantsas numerous as the stars in the
skyand as the sand on the seashore.Your
descendants will take possession of the cities
of their enemies,18and through your offspring [b
]
all nations on earth will be blessed, [c]because
17

TRUST GODs PROMISES.

HEBREWS

11: 17,18

By faith Abraham.. who had received

the promises was about to sacrifice his
one and only son,18even though God
had said to him, It is through Isaac that
your offspring will be reckoned. (will be
named)

 GOD PROMISED ABRAHAM - SON

GOD ASKED HIM TO SACRIFICE HIS ONLY SON
ABRAHAM DID NOT WAVER HIS FAITH
HE CONTINUED TO TRUST GOD

TRUST GODs CHARACTER.

GENESIS

22: 7-8

Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham,

Father?
Yes, my son? Abraham replied.
The fire and wood are here, Isaac said, but
where is the lambfor the burnt offering?
8Abraham answered, God himself will
providethe lambfor the burnt offering, my son.
And the two of them went on together.
7

 Abraham knew GOD is FAITHFUL

GOD is a COVENANT KEEPER, HE fulfills His
PROMISES
HE is LOVING, FAITHFUL and UNCHANGING GOD
His WILL for US is ALWAYS
GOOD
PLEASING and
PERFECT

TRUST GODs POWER.

HEBREWS 11: 19

Abraham reasoned that God could even

raise the dead,and so in a manner of
speaking he did receive Isaac back
from death.

TRUST GODs POWER.

Romans 4: 20,21

Yet he did not waver through unbelief

regarding the promise of God, but was
strengthenedin his faith and gave
glory to God,21being fully persuaded
that God had power to do what he had
promised.
20

 In the midst of a seemingly IMPOSSIBLE

SITUATION
Abraham TRUSTED GOD
He BELIEVED that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE for
HIM
He PASSED the TEST
He was COMMENDED for his FAITH
He saw GODs PROVISION for them

PASSING THE TEST

1. TRUST GODs PROMISE.
2. TRUST GODs CHARACTER.
3. TRUST GODs POWER.

JAMES 1:2-3
Consider it pure joy, my brothers
and sisters,whenever you face trials
of many kinds,3because you know that
the testing of your faith produces
perseverance.