1. Find X x
3 cm
4 cm

2. Why are Tests given? Putting God to the Test
Basically, it is to hold people
accountable for learning

3. Malachi 3:10 God is inviting us to hold Him accountable.
Why was Jehovah challenging
the people to test Him?
What the passage isn’t saying.
What is the relevance for us?
Helps us see what our priorities are…
Helps us determine our depth of faith…
God is inviting us to hold Him
accountable.
Helps us to become better acquainted
with the nature of God.

4. He’s not afraid to take the test!
What can be learned about God’s nature?
He’s not afraid to take the test!
Has He not said, and
will He not do? Or has
He spoken and will not
make it good?
Numbers 23:19,20: Balaam’s
words to Balak…

5. He will not falter Job 42:1,2 Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2
(delay, linger waver back down)
Job 42:1,2
I know you can do everything.
and that no purpose of Yours
can be withheld from You
Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2
…it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled
for refuge to lay hope of the hope set before us.
Matthew 18:14/Matthew 19:26
Is anything too hard for the Lord?

6. He will not fail. They did not think there was but
Daniel 3:15-18
Their Perspective…
They did not think there was but
one solution to the problem!
Has God ever failed?

7. If God appears to have failed, what should we ask?
Helps us to remember His ways and
thoughts are higher than ours- Isa. 55:8,9
Helps us to believe He has a better
solution- 1Cor. 10:13/2 Cor.4:16-18
Helps us to realize that He is still in
control- Isa. 40:27-29
Helps us stop and think that He may be
using us and our struggle to help someone
else-2 Cor. 1:3,4
If God appears to have failed, what should we ask?
Isaiah 59:1/James 1:2-8