The Father’s Sacrifice
Tony Evans' Radio
Tony Evans
4.8 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What happens when God asks you to give up the very thing you expect Him to provide? Pastor Jonathan Evans reveals how faith is proven when obedience costs us most—and why trusting God’s provision, even without complete understanding, can change everything.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're unwilling to move when God calls you, you have a fundamental disbelief that God will provide. |
| 0:07.0 | Jonathan Evans says obedience begins when we trust God with the outcome. |
| 0:12.0 | I can move and make sacrifices that God calls me to make, because either way, God will provide for me. |
| 0:19.0 | This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, founding pastor of Oak Cliff Bible |
| 0:26.9 | Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, and President of the Urban Alternative. |
| 0:32.3 | Have you ever felt like God was asking you to give up the very thing you waited on him to |
| 0:37.2 | provide? |
| 0:38.1 | Today, Pastor Jonathan Evans reveals how faith is proven when obedience costs us most, |
| 0:44.2 | and why trusting God's provision, even when we don't fully understand it, changes everything. |
| 0:50.4 | Now, we know that Father sacrifice many things. |
| 0:55.0 | Sacrifices of time and peace working out in the world. |
| 1:01.0 | We want to make the sacrifice to provide. |
| 1:04.0 | We want to make the emotional sacrifice. |
| 1:06.0 | A lot of times we may be the last one to be checked on emotionally |
| 1:09.0 | because we want to make sure everybody else is |
| 1:12.1 | okay first. You got to be willing to go out there and sacrifice even yourself because you're the |
| 1:19.4 | husband, the father. Now, I know God is not a God of confusion, but this sacrifice we're talking |
| 1:25.0 | about in the Bible in Genesis 22, that's confusing. |
| 1:28.4 | That's not a sacrifice that any parent, any father is looking to make. |
| 1:34.1 | When he tells Abraham to sacrifice his own son, that's not one of them sacrifices we want to be a part of. |
| 1:42.3 | It doesn't make sense that this is a promise from God |
| 1:45.2 | given to Abraham, Genesis 12, Genesis 15, God makes a promise to Abraham that he would have |
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