Sunday School Lesson

1. Genesis 22:1-14
The Faith Test
November 22, 2015
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

2. What’s the number one thing?

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The Glory of God!

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1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of
God.

5. November Memory Verse
Acts 1:8 NIV
8
But you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will
be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in
all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends
of the earth.”

7. Carols by Candlelight—
40 DAYS OF PRAYER—
Please join all of us in this
season of prayer for Carols by
Candlelight. Specific requests
will be delivered by e-mail daily
through December 10
th
.

8. Sign up at:
CarolsbyCandlelight.org
Printed prayer guides will also be
available each week.
INVITE AN UNCHURCHED
FRIEND TO ATTEND CAROLS

9. Carols by Candlelight—
Dec 11—7:00 p.m. (Friday);
Dec 12—3:00 p.m. and
7:00 p.m. (Saturday);
Dec 13—3:00 p.m. and
7:00 p.m. (Sunday).

10. Hal Warren has asked if anyone
would volunteer after a Carols by
Candlelight performance to put
guest’s information into a data base
which will be located in the Music
Suite. He estimates it will take 35 to
45 mins to enter the information.

11. This information about our guests
who had visited Carols will be used
for follow up visits.
Individuals may volunteer by
e-mailing enunn@fbcj.org.

13. Keyboards at Christmas
Sunday, December 20, 2015
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

14. Christmas Eve Service
Thursday, December 24
Sanctuary—5:00 p.m.

15. One Worship Service
Sunday, December 29 at 10:30 a.m.
No Sunday School or
Evening Activities or
Evening Worship Service.

16. Please Pray For
The Pastor Search Committee
Ross Aven Rodney DePriest
Laurel Ditto Susan Lindsay
Chris Maddux JoeYoung
Paul Moak, Jr.(Chairman)

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French Camp Academy

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Share your faith with one person each month
and build a relationship with them, so they will
not only become a disciple – but a disciple
maker themselves.
Luke 19:11-27

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How have you seen God at work
during the week?

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Sunday

21. Genesis 24:1-17
God Provides
November 29, 2015
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

23. TODAY
Genesis 22:1-14
The Faith Test

24. Hebrews 11:1 NKJV
1 Now faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen.
(Jehovah Jireh – the LORD sees)

25. Genesis 22:1-14 NKJV
Abraham’s Faith Confirmed
1 Now it came to pass after these things
that God tested Abraham, and said to him,
“Abraham!”
And he said, “Here I am.”

26. 2Then He said, “Take now your son,
your only son Isaac, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah, and
offer him there as a burnt offering on
one of the mountains of which I shall
tell you.”

27. 3 So Abraham rose early in the
morning and saddled his donkey, and
took two of his young men with him,
and Isaac his son; and he split the
wood for the burnt offering, and arose
and went to the place of which God
had told him.

28. 4Then on the third day Abraham lifted
his eyes and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said to his young men,
“Stay here with the donkey; the lad
and I will go yonder and worship, and
we will come back to you.”

29. 6 So Abraham took the wood of the
burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his
son; and he took the fire in his hand,
and a knife, and the two of them went
together.

30. 7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father
and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the
wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?”

31. 8 And Abraham said, “My son, God will
provide for Himself the lamb for a
burnt offering.” So the two of them
went together.

32. 9Then they came to the place of
which God had told him. And
Abraham built an altar there and
placed the wood in order; and he
bound Isaac his son and laid him on
the altar, upon the wood.

33. 10 And Abraham stretched out his hand
and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him
from heaven and said, “Abraham,
Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”

34. 12And He said, “Do not lay your hand
on the lad, or do anything to him; for
now I know that you fear God, since
you have not withheld your son, your
only son, from Me.”

35. 13Then Abraham lifted his eyes and
looked, and there behind him was a
ram caught in a thicket by its horns.
So Abraham went and took the ram,
and offered it up for a burnt offering
instead of his son.

36. 14 And Abraham called the name of
the place,The-LORD-Will-Provide
(Hebrew YHWHYireh); as it is said to
this day, “In the Mount of the LORD it
shall be provided.”
Genesis 22:1-14 NKJV

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39. James 2:23 NKJV
23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which
says, “Abraham believed God, and it
was accounted to him for
righteousness.” And he was called the
friend of God.

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41. In the NT Jesus said;
John 15:14-16 NKJV
14You are My friends if you do
whatever I command you (obedience).

42. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for
a servant does not know what his
master is doing; but I have called you
friends, for all things that I heard from
My Father I have made known to you.

43. 16You did not choose Me, but I chose
you and appointed you that you
should go and bear fruit, and that
your fruit should remain, that
whatever you ask the Father in My
name He may give you.
John 15:14-16 NKJV

44. You don’t tell strangers your secrets,
you tell your friends your secrets.
Friend of God as Abraham was, God
let him in on what He was doing.

45. Abraham’s part was to obey God so
that God could bring to him what He
had already promised him.
Our part is obedience through faith –
our human response to Divine
provision.

46. Our obedience makes it possible for
God to give all that He has promised
to us and that is also the basis for our
praying.
God will not bless disobedience.

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Chuck Missler

48. The Resurrection of Isaac
One of Chuck Missler’s favorite
chapters in the Bible is Genesis 22.
• 66 books in the Bible written over a
period of 1500 years by 40 different
men but directed by a single
Author!

49. From Genesis to Revelation the books are
supernaturally engineered – all about Jesus.
1 Corinthians 15
What is the Gospel?
1 Corinthians 15 opens with the Gospel &
climaxes with the Rapture!

50. 1 Corinthians 15:1 & 3-4 NKJV
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you
the Gospel…

51. 3 Christ died for our sins according to
the Scriptures (OT), 4 and that He was
buried, and that He rose again the
third day according to the Scriptures
(OT),
1 Corinthians 15:1 & 3-4 NKJV

52. There are 300 details of Jesus’ life in
the OldTestament.
Where in the OldTestament does it
prophesy that Jesus would be
resurrected the third day?

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Jesus tells that in the book of Jonah (OT)
His resurrection was foretold and we read
in Psalm 16:10 -

54. On the fourth day the body stinks
(Lazarus).
Genesis 22 ranks with Psalm 22 (from
Jesus’ eyes) and Isaiah 53 (reason) in
the OT concerning the death, burial
and resurrection of Jesus Christ!

55. Look back 60 years to see how God
started uniquely preparing Abraham
for this day.
In Genesis 12, God told Abram to
leave his home and then in Genesis 13
He told Abram to leave Lot.

56. All this time Abram’s faith is being
tested and is growing through both
successes and failures.
Then comes the climatic point here in
Genesis 22 when Abraham tells God,
“Yes, I will offer Isaac”.

57. He well knew that God had promised
him that his seed would go on
through Isaac and that since Isaac did
not have any children yet, God would
have to do something miraculous –
like a resurrection!

58. That is the conviction that saved
Abraham’s soul, the resurrection of
his only son.
The fact that Abraham believed and
God counted it unto him as
righteousness was not the issue.

59. The fact that he believed on a
resurrection is what saved him.
Galatians 3:8 tells us that - 8 And the
Scripture, foreseeing that God would
justify the Gentiles by faith, preached
the Gospel to Abraham beforehand,

60. Abraham knew the Gospel (the
Gospel in the stars in Genesis 15:6)
and he knew that he was acting out
prophecy in Genesis 22 - 1 Now it
came to pass after these things that
God tested Abraham, and said to him,
“Abraham!”

61. “after what things”?
The Holy Spirit is hinting here – the
preparation had to take place in order
to bring Abraham to this point.

62. God said, “take your son, your only
son” – wait a minute, Abraham had
two sons (Ishmael and Isaac) but God
calls Isaac his only son.
• Earlier, Abraham would have
protested, “HEY, what about
Ishmael?”

63. Ishmael is thought of as the son of the
flesh (Abraham decided in the flesh to
try and help God out) while Isaac is
called the son of the Spirit or the son
of the Promise.

64. Galatians 4:22-23 NKJV
22 For it is written that Abraham had
two sons: the one by a bondwoman,
the other by a freewoman. 23 But he
who was of the bondwoman was born
according to the flesh, and he of the
freewoman through promise,

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66. Paul was referring to the motivation
that prompted Abraham to accept
Sarah's suggestion and consent to the
cultural capitulation of using a young
slave-maiden as a proxy for child-
bearing.

67. God had made a promise to Abraham that
he would have a son with his wife, Sarah.
• God keeps His promises; He cannot lie
(Numb. 23:19; Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18)
and what He promises, He is quite
capable of performing (Gen. 18:14; Lk.
1:37; Rom. 4:21).

68. When man takes matters into his own
hands and attempts to help God out
by trying to bring about God's
promises by human means and the
devices of self-effort, then he has
acted "according to the flesh."

69. A promise from God is not a challenge
for man to assist God in bringing the
promise to pass, despite the
abominable religious clichés that say,
"God helps those who help
themselves;" or "Just do something,
and God will bless it."

70. Abraham acted "according to the
flesh" when he listened to his wife
instead of God, and chose what Major
IanThomas has called "the reasonable
alternative to faith", by thinking that
he could perform and enact what
could only be accomplished by God.

71. By contrast, “the son by the free
woman (was born) through the
promise.”

72. God took Abraham who was "as good as dead"
(Rom. 4:19) at one hundred years of age and
Sarah with the "deadness of her womb" (Rom.
4:19) at ninety years of age, and supernaturally
caused them to conceive Isaac in accord with
His own promise.
• God's work done God's way by God's grace is
the only way that God is glorified (the #1
thing) in His creation.

73. What God desires from man is simply
the dependent and contingent
reliance of receptivity to His divine
activity, allowing Him to be and do
what He desires to be and do in each
person.

74. This is the faith that Abraham
exemplified as the prototypical
"father" of faith (Romans 4:16;
Galatians 3:7, 26, 29) for all
Christians.

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Galatians 3:29 NKJV
29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are
Abraham’s seed, and heirs according
to the promise.

76. Abraham's receptivity of faith that
allowed God to "bring life out of
death, and call into being that which
did not exist" (Rom. 4:17) in his son,
Isaac, was a pictorial prefiguring of
God's promised regeneration and
restoration of mankind in Jesus Christ.

77. So Isaac, as the promised son received
by faith by Abraham, was a type of
the Promised Son, Jesus, inWhom all
Christians become the promised "sons
of Abraham" by faithful receptivity of
the grace-dynamic of God in accord
with His promise.

78. The Son of God became the Son of
Man (Christmas time) so that sons of
men might become sons of God!

79. Isaac was born "through the promise"
as Abraham and Sarah were receptive
by faith to the extraordinary act of
God enacted through ordinary people
and procedures.

80. Galatians 4:28-29 NKJV
28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are
children of promise. 29 But, as he who
was born according to the flesh
(Ishmael) then persecuted him who
was born according to the Spirit
(Isaac), even so it is now (in 2015).

81. Genesis 22:2-3 NKJV
2Then He said, “Take now your son,
your only son Isaac, whom you love,
and go to the land of Moriah, and
offer him there as a burnt offering on
one of the mountains of which I shall
tell you.”

82. 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning
and saddled his donkey, and took two
of his young men with him, and Isaac
his son; and he split the wood for the
burnt offering, and arose and went to
the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22:2-3 NKJV

83. Abraham is acting out God offering
his only Son and the Holy Spirit
emphasizes “only son” twice in this
passage.
God tells Abraham to go to a specific
place – Mount Moriah!

84. Q) When was Isaac dead to Abraham?
A) When the commandment came.
Hebrews 11:17-19 NKJV
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested,
offered up Isaac, and he who had received
the promises offered up his only begotten
son,

85. 18 of whom it was said, “In Isaac your
seed shall be called,” 19 concluding
that God was able to raise him up,
even from the dead, from which he
also received him in a figurative sense.
Hebrews 11:17-19 NKJV

86. Q) When was Isaac given back to
Abraham?
A) When God provided the substitute
on the Hill – the ram, the
substitutionary ram that was
ordained in the book of Leviticus.

87. Q) How much time between when
Isaac was dead to Abraham and
the resurrection of Isaac?
A) Three days! (see verse 4)

88. Genesis 22:4 NKJV
4Then on the third day Abraham lifted
his eyes and saw the place afar off.

89. Abraham lived near Beersheba and
that is a three day journey to Mount
Moriah – “Abraham lifted his eyes and
saw the place afar off” (Gen 22:4b).

90. He saw the geographic place afar off
and he also saw the Gospel message
afar off (1842 years before it
happened) in the very same spot!
“Abraham rejoiced to see My Day.”

91. Jesus said in John 8 that Abraham
rejoiced to see His Day.
John 8:56-58 NKJV
56 “Your father Abraham rejoiced to
see My day, and he saw it and was
glad.”

92. 57Then the Jews said to Him, “You are
not yet fifty years old, and haveYou seen
Abraham?”
58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I
say to you, before Abraham was,
I AM.”
John 8:56-58 NKJV

93. When Jesus said “I AM”, He was
stating that He was the voice of the
burning bush!

94. A willing, loving Father
(Abraham/God) and His willing,
loving, only begotten Son
(Isaac/Jesus)! (John 3:16)

95. John 15:13-14 NKJV
13 Greater love has no one than this,
than to (willingly) lay down one’s life
for his friends. 14You are My friends if
you do whatever I command you.

96. It is likely that Isaac was 33 years old
when this momentous event
occurred.
1812 BC (Isaac was 33) (Abraham 133)

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Sarah was 90 years old when Isaac
was born and she lived to be 127 years
old so Isaac was 37 when his mother,
Sarah, died.

98. Genesis 23:1-2 NKJV
1 Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-
seven years; these were the years of
the life of Sarah. 2 So Sarah died in
Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the
land of Canaan, and Abraham came to
mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

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The binding of Isaac probably occurred
four years before she died when he was
33 years old.

100. Genesis 22:5 NKJV
5 And Abraham said to his young men,
“Stay here with the donkey; the lad
and I will go yonder and worship, and
we will come back to you.”

101. Abraham was so certain that God
would resurrect Isaac that he told the
two servants that “we” will return.
• Abraham knew (1 John 5:13) that
he was acting out prophecy and he
knew that God would preserve his
seed through Isaac.

102. Genesis 22:6 NKJV
6 So Abraham took the wood of the
burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his
son; and he took the fire in his hand,
and a knife, and the two of them went
together.

103. John 19:17 NKJV
17 And He (Jesus), bearing His cross,
went out to a place called the Place of
a Skull, which is called in Hebrew,
Golgotha,

104. Fire and knife = judgment
At the Garden of Eden we see the
cherubim with fire and the sword (knife)
guarding the way to theTree of Life, not
only so that Adam could not turn back but
also that Satan could not block the way of
his return.

105. We see the same fire in the Shekinah glory
and in the pillar of fire and the fire in the
burning bush itself.
• The bush was not consumed in the
judgment fire.
• Thorns were not consumed in the fire as
a symbol of grace.

106. That’s what drew Moses to the
burning bush (God’s mercy) and that’s
what draws us also: not His
Righteousness but His Grace!
In Hebrews 4:12 we see the knife
again, the sword, theWord of God!

107. Hebrews 4:12 NKJV
12 For the word of God is living and
powerful, and sharper than any two-
edged sword, piercing even to the
division of soul and spirit, and of joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.

108. In Genesis 22:6 we note that they went
forth in agreement.
The Hebrew word is translated agreement
but the English word translates as together.
Can two walk together and not be agreed?
Amos 3:3

109. Verse 7Where is the lamb?
Verse 8Went together (in agreement for the
second time)
Abraham said that God will provide for Himself.
Verse 9 specific place – Isaac had faith also, he
was submissive too.

110. Jesus became obedient, even to death on
the cross. (Philippians 4:8)
Substitute by God and Substitute for God!
Romans 3 – God benefits also two sides to
the cross – it benefits us and that is
overwhelming!

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It also benefits the Lord – win/win.
Romans 3:26 NKJV
26 to demonstrate at the present time His
righteousness, that He might be just and the
justifier of the one
who has faith in Jesus.

112. Q) Why two men at the base of the
hill?
A) Two witnesses required (and also
Jesus was crucified between two
men).

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The father and son are alone.
My God, My God, why hastThou forsaken Me?
(Jesus was alone)
Psalm 22 &
Matt 27:46

114. Isaiah 53:10 says it pleased the Lord to
bruise Him because it opened the way for
HimWho is not willing that any should
perish. (the plan pleased)
• It opened the way for sanctification and
redemption without violating His
nature, His righteousness, His justice.

115. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

116. Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death, died
in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

117. Revelation 21:8 NKJV
8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

118. Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 21:7 NKJV
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will
be his God and he shall be My son.”
•Romans 10:9-10 explains to us how to be saved.

119. Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from
the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one
believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved.”

120. If you have questions or would like to know more,
Please, contact First Baptist Church Jackson at
601-949-1900 or
http://firstbaptistjackson.org/contact/