Intro:
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” James 1:2-4 (NIV)

“Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 24You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.”James 2:21–24 (NIV)

Romans 8:32 (NIV), “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”

Example 1. (Genesis 22:2)
“Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 2Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” Genesis 22:1–2 (NIV)

“the region of Moriah” was the name of the mountain or hill upon which Solomon built the Temple—“Then Solomon began to build the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David.” 2 Chronicles 3:1 (NIV)

Example 2. (Genesis 22:6)
“Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together” Genesis 22:6 (NIV)

John 19:17, “Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull”

Example 3. (Genesis 22:9-10)
“When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.” Genesis 22:9–10 (NIV)

Isaiah 53:7, “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.” Isaiah 53:7

We hear Jesus’ absolute, loving, trust in the Heavenly Father in Luke 23:46, “Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.”

Example 4. (Genesis 22:2, 12, 16)
“…Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 2Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love— Isaac—” Genesis 22:2 (NIV)

“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” Genesis 22:12 (NIV)

“The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,”Genesis 22:16

At Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River and at the Transfiguration—God says of Jesus—“this is
my beloved son.”
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son” John 3:16a

Example 5. (Genesis 22:12, 16)
“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” Genesis 22:12 (NIV)

“The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,”
Genesis 22:16

Romans 8:32a, “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all”
Christ was, “…a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.” 1 Peter 1:19b, 20 (NIV)

Our Lord Jesus was set apart for sacrifice from all eternity, “the lamb, who was slain from the creation of the world.” Revelation 13:8

Example 6.
“By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 19Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death. Hebrews 11:17-19

2 Corinthians 1:9, “We have set our hope on the living God, who raises the dead.”

1 Peter 1:19–20 (NIV), “but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 20He was
chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.”

Romans 8:31-32, What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all–how will he not also, along
with him, graciously give us all things?

Galatians 2:21 reads, “I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”