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Introduction:
Eighty-nine years ago, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
She was the headlines of every news paper on June 18, 1928.
The flight took 21 hours and as they were over the Atlantic there was an 8 hour span of time they were flying completely blind because of fog.
When they landed off the cost of Whales they had no idea where they were because of the dense fog.
It’s in moments like these you have to trust the plane your flying in.
You have to be certain that the gauges of the plane are working properly so you don’t get off course or run the plane in the ground.
It made me think of our lives sometimes.
Do you ever feel like you’re flying blind?
You can’t see in front of you.
You don’t really know what is happening and you just have to trust that the one guiding you knows what is going on.
This morning I want to talk to you about how we navigate a world full of trials and testings we we have so little information to go on that we might as well be flying blind.
We have been going through the Bible “From the Beginning” looking at the relationship between God and Man.
For the past several weeks we have focused in on Abraham and all that God has called him to do.
Abraham and Sara have truly been on a walk of faith.
God called them to leave all their family and go to a foreign land that he would show them.
God promised this old man and barren woman would birth a great nation and bless the entire world.
Everything that God told them required a leap of faith.
So God comes through.
He gives them the promised land and He gives them a son in their old age just as He said he would.
Now after all the time and faithfulness of waiting to receive the promise of their son, God gives a command to Abraham that doesn’t make any since.
Let’s take a moment and read the story in
What?
What kind of insane request is this.
The child that he has been waiting for now for 15 years, God wants him to sacrifice.
What would you do?
Genesis
What an insane request.
James 1:3
5 Things to Pass the Testing of Life.
1. Be fully convinced of who God is.
Abraham didn’t hesitate because he had full confidence in God.
rom 4:19-
We have a lack of faith because we are not fully convinced in the promise and power of God.
Many people that claim to be Christians, born again believers, are not fully convinced of the to most basic tenants of our faith.
Jesus is God in the flesh.
Jesus was resurrected from the dead by the power of God.
If you are not convinced of these two things, then you are not yet a Christian.
You are still deciding what you believe.
This is why people are uncommitted to Christ.
Because, they are not fully convinced.
This is why some struggle to walk by faith.
They are not convinced.
This is why God takes a back seat in your life.
This is why people struggle with the simple commandments of God.
The faith that we have in Christ is not like Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny.
The miracles of Christ are documented facts with eye witness.
Proving that He is God.
The resurrection of Christ from the dead is not a bedtime story but changed the course of history.
We live in 2017 A.D. Which is Latin for “The year of our Lord.”
I don’t serve a dead Christ, but a risen Savior.
2. Trust & Obey without Question
There is no way to understand the answer until you obey.
When you obey most of the questions will be answered.
Obey first then ask why.
Following God many times doesn’t make since in the moment.
The journey with God is always a journey of faith.
Jesus spent a lot of time teaching his disciples to walk by faith.
Core Value: God Pleasers.
By faith we will please God as we trust him with our lives.
3. Know that God can do the Impossible
You don’t need to know how God will do it, just that He can.
Abraham was convinced that God you raise Issac from the dead if necessary.
Abraham took nothing off the table.
4. God will Provide
Genesis 22:
When God calls God provides.
When a lamb was needed God provided.
Just like Issac we need a lamb
The Lamb that God provided to talk our place was his son.
5. Be Faithful to Follow Through.
Genesis 22:10
Let the trials draw you closer to God.
Through the trials God builds your faith.
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