Hebrews 11:17-22 | A Legacy of Faith
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Graduates: Gabe, Alieaniah,
INTRODUCTION: funny tombstones.
Give Your Family To God
Give Your Family To God
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
By Faith Abraham - After they waited for decades of God’s promises.
when he was tested - Same word as being tempted. Which is fitting since it often hard to determine if something temptation or test.
Test draws us closer to God.
Temptation will draw away.
HAHA either way, the response should be the same. Obey God. I brought you into this world I can take you out.
offered up Isaac - lift up. We don’t like to even give money. Although some of us wouldn’t mind offering our kids haha.
he who received the promises - Genesis 12:1-3
act of offering up his only son - Does that sound familiar? This is a picture of Jesus. So we ask, why would Abraham do this? Because God did.
18 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
It was through Isaac the generations would come. It is through Jesus that we find life.
This still doesn’t answer the question of why Abraham would go through with it.
19 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.
God was able to raise him from the dead - No one had ever been raised from the dead before then. He had that amount of faith.
figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. - He should have been dead. Tell the story. Include lamb part.
God loves your family, more than you love your family.
God loves your family, more than you love your family.
Give Your Desires To God
Give Your Desires To God
20 By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.
By faith - it was passed onto his son.
Isaac didn’t want to do it. Middle child joke.
story - birth, sell birth right. (Joke about older kids tricking younger). Rachel and Jacob tricking Isaac.
Gen 27 - Isaac was tricked. It was his wife. Don’t lie to your husband, but sometimes we can have faith even when our spouses don’t.
Yet, when he found out he still continued on with blessing
Easu was so hairy that when you bump into him you get a rug burn! haha
What God has for you is better than what you have planned for you.
What God has for you is better than what you have planned for you.
21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.
How many sons did Jacob have? 12. Yet, instead of blessing Joseph, he blessed his sons: Ephraim and ....
Give Your Future To God
Give Your Future To God
22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.
Our future is secure in God in this life and the next.
Our future is secure in God in this life and the next.
CONCLUSION: picture of micah and me
airport illustration