Roy Tubbs

This faith of Abraham is a paradigm or pattern for us. Is your faith like his? In your trials and troubles, though you "are killed all day long" (Romans 8:36) do you trust that God "gives life to the dead" (Romans 4:17)? In Hebrews 11:17-19, this is taken a step further: "By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac... his only begotten son... accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also had received him in a figurative sense." Abraham reasoned that if he obeyed the command to kill Isaac, he would receive him from the dead a second time.