
Testing Leads to Surrender
Vs. 1
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. —Hebrews 11:8
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” Abram agreed to what Sarai said. —Genesis 16:1-2
Vs. 2
One -
doesn’t always make sense
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? —Romans 8:31
and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.” —Genesis 21:10
Vs. 3
Two -
Includes Action
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” —John 14:21 21
Vs. 4-5
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. —1 Corinthians 2:14
Verse 6-7
Verse 8
Verse 9
Verse 10
Three –
Can Be A Great Place
Verse 11-12
Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” —Matthew 26:39
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. —John 19:1
Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him —Matthew 26:67
Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him, and with him two others-one on each side and Jesus in the middle. —John 19:17-18
About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”). —Matthew 27:46
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. —John 19:30