Radical Faith Series 

Part 4 Radical (Crazy) Faith

Pastor Bruce Davis

Genesis 22: 1 – 18 NIV   

Sometime later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

2 Then 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.”

3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

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, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

9 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. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

12 “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.”

13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

15 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, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring[b] all nations on earth will be blessed,[c] because you have obeyed me.”

 

Radical Faith happens with a personal encounter with the Lord (The Holy Spirit touches you)  

Radical Faith is the standard of faith that the King and the Kingdom requires!  All other levels of faith lead to this Level! 

Baby – Little – Great – Radical Faith: you have obtained many blessings through your process of building faith but on the level of Radical Faith, what you have accumulated must be put to death. 

Men and Women who have a personal encounter with the presence of God are never the same; we need to own our “God Experience”! 

We seek what we desire; Jerimiah 29: 13 NIV  13You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.   

This Level of faith requires giving up All your will/desires!  

Hebrews 11: 19 NIV Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

This is what stops most believers from building faith (Giving Up what God Blessed you with)  

Radical Faith: Radical Obedience - Delayed obedience can cause you to miss your moment to become Radical.

The world can only see the stature of God that We His children allow them to see (When you see us you see the Father) 

The Believers' faith reveals the Father to the World!  

Hebrews 11: 8 – 12NIV   8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he