Your Only Son
Pastor Tung Le
September 9, 2023
September 9 & 10, 2023
Pastor Tung Le
Your Only Son
nâçâh = to test;
When God allows trials in our lives that test our faith, they are opportunities to
Abraham believed
God was sending His people a
Abraham’s prophetic message: Abraham was a representation of
God often tests our faith against our
Anything in our lives that competes with God for our
Question: What is our idol?
We need to identify our idols so that if God asks us to give it up for Him, we are more prepared to do so.
“When I consider the cross of Christ, how can anything I do be called sacrifice?” (Amy Carmichael)
Isaac
Isaac is a representation of
Genesis chapter 22 is not about Abraham or Isaac; Genesis chapter 22 is about
“The whole Bible is about Jesus. Old Testament: Anticipation of Jesus’s coming Gospels: Manifestation of Jesus’s glory Acts: Proclamation about Jesus’s resurrection Epistles: Explanation of Jesus’s teachings Revelation: Consummation of Jesus’s promises” (Garrett Kell)
We need to have a
“God wants your mind to be focused on Jesus Christ so much so that Jesus becomes the filter through which everything else flows.” (Tony Evans)
Genesis chapter 22 points to the
“Even in lots of popular art we can still see the themes of [the gospel] echoing throughout … The best movies echo back to us a narrative theme we see in Scripture itself: conquer evil and save the girl. It’s the root of every enduring fairy tale, and we find it in the great factual history of God’s biblical story, throughout and in the end of which Christ defeats His enemies and rescues His bride” (Jared Wilson)
We ought to go out and
Question: How can we live out the gospel this week?
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