Welcome to Gospel in Life.

While some might think that Christian faith is just a blind leap, a closer look shows us that it requires deep, rational thinking.

Join us all month as Tim Keller preaches on genuine faith, which requires both a deep conviction of the heart and a sound understanding of the mind.

Teaching this morning is based on the passage that's written out for you. It's in your bulletin.

It's Hebrews chapter 11, verses 17 to 19. It's all written out there

for you. Hebrews chapter 11, 17 to 19. 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,

even though God had said to him, it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.

Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive

Isaac back from death. This is God's word.

We've been looking at Hebrews 11 because we're this fall asking ourselves,

how can you live a life of power?

How can you live a life so that no matter what comes at you,

you face it with equilibrium, you face it with poise,

you face it with strength. And we've said each week in this introduction, Hebrews 11 gives us a series of case studies of men and women who not only were enabled to face life, but they were enabled to actually face down life, to face down

the whole world, to spit in its eye if necessary. Now, we're looking this week at one particular

case study for the third time, that is the case of Abraham. And today we come perhaps to the

thing that all that we've been reading

actually points to, we come to an incident in Abraham's life, which is called a test.

In Genesis 22, which gives us the longer account, which we read earlier during the service,

in that great story, it starts off by saying,

God tested Abraham. And in the beginning of this particular account, this brief account,

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