All right, good morning. I hope you all have had a good
week. Mine has been eventful all the
way up till this morning. I hit my knee so hard on the
hitch on the back of the van picking, doing pickups this
morning. I almost cried, but I didn't
want to have tears in my eyes when I got up here.
So Genesis chapter 22 is where we're going to be this morning.
It reminds me and hopefully one day we'll we'll we'll do it as
our closing song maybe but there's an old old hymn at the
chorus says safely through another week.
God has brought us on our way. Let us now a blessing seek as
we're here in church. So I hope that is your goal this
morning. But God brings us safely through
each week and I hope you recognize that and don't just
presume by, as the Bible says, upon the, upon the grace of God
that he just gets us through another week.
That's, that's definitely from him.
But Genesis chapter 22 is where we're going to be now.
It's going to be quite interactive This morning.
I got a few questions that I want to ask as we go through
this lesson. And I want you to, to think
about it. And we'll get a few answers and
then and then we'll move on with the lesson when we get to those
points. But we're going to talk about a
very, very familiar story this morning, and that is Genesis
chapter 22. You probably even recognize it.
But Isaac as a type of Christ. And last week we talked about
Melchizedek. There's been a few that maybe
you didn't realize. I didn't realize that was a type
of Christ. Isaac is a very obvious type of
Christ. But there are a few things in
this, in this passage that I want to look at.
Maybe we haven't really noticed before, but go ahead, go to
Genesis 22 if you're not there already.
We're going to read verses one through 14 and then we'll pray
and get into the lesson. Genesis chapter 22 and verse
one. And it says, and it came to pass
after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him,
Abraham, and he said, behold, here am I, which I'll, I'll
mention this. Now the Bible says that he
doesn't tempt us, but here we have that he tempted Abraham.
And I think we know that just means he tested him.
It's a it's a he's putting him through a test, not to get him
to sin, but to make him stronger or to to lead him in a direction
that he wants him to go. And Abraham said, here am I here
I am. And he said, take now thy son,
thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest and get the end of the
land of Moriah. Now Genesis chapter 21, we just
had a Isaac being born and now he says take your only your son,
your only son whom thou lovest and get the end of the land of
Morai and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains, which I will tell thee of.
Now a side note here, when when Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees,
he he left at God's command, but didn't know where he was going.
This is a culmination of the faith of Abraham.
One final Test, I believe he knows exactly where he's going
in this in this passage. He's going to offer his son as a
burnt offering, and he still and he still obeys.
But verse 3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled
his ass and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac
his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up
and went on to the place of which God had told him.
Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the
place afar off. And Abraham said unto his young
men, Abide you here with the ass, and I, and the lad will go
Yonder and worship and come again to you.
Another interesting verse there we'll talk about.
He had every intention of offering his son for a burnt
offering, that that's what God told him to do.
And in verse 6 or verse 5, he says, And will come again to
you, I am the lad. And Hebrews tells us he, he
figured God would just raise him from the dead.
But anyways, verse 6. And Abraham took the wood of the
burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son.
And he took the fire in his hand, and a knife.
And they went, both of them together.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father.
And said, My father, he said, here am I my son.
And he said, Behold the fire in the wood, But where is the lamb
for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering.
So they went, both of them together, and they came to the
place which God had told him of. And Abraham built an altar
there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son,
and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay
his son. And the Angel of the Lord called
unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham.
And he said, Here am I. He said, Lay not thine hand upon
the lad, neither do thou anything unto him.
For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold behind
him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns.
And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a
burnt offering in the stead of his son.
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh, as it
is said to this day. In the mount of the Lord, it
shall be seen. Interesting passage.
We'll look at that this morning. Let's pray.
Father, I thank you for this day that you've given us guy.
Thank you for bringing us again through another week.
And God, not just that we're surviving through it, but that
we're that we're walking with you and and thriving in it.
And God, I just pray that you would help us to keep our
priorities in order as we heard last week.
God, I pray that there wouldn't be anything in our lives that
we're just not willing to give up, not to be, to have a closer
walk with you. God, I pray that every time we
walk through these doors, it will be with the intentions of,
of drawing closer to you and learning what you have for us
and what your law is for us. And God, I pray that you make
this church and the people that are part of it just a, a, a
force for you and not in pride, but got a force that Satan,
Satan trembles at. And, and that I just pray that
you'd help us as we fight and lead our families and raise our
kids now that you would just give us the strength that we
need to do that as fathers, give us the the wisdom and the the
patience as mothers. And God, I just pray that you
would bless each family that's represented here in this church,
that you would help us as we as we strive to live for you in
Jesus name, I pray, Amen. All right, And I already
mentioned this, but Genesis chapter 22 and verse one, I
wanted to point that out. God did tempt Abraham.
It says right there at the end of the verse.
And I, and I think it's important to note, I had a
conversation with a couple guys at work this week and one of
them was saying I just don't believe he's, he claims to be an
atheist. I don't I don't think he is.
He's more agnostic than atheist, but he said, he said, I don't
think that a God could exist and rule and be in charge of the
world that would allow all this bad stuff to happen to people.
And of course, that's the next question.
Why would God allow this to happen to people?
Things, things to happen to people.
And, and it's very clear here. He's tempting, he's testing.
And I do believe God does put things or allow things in the
life of the unsaved to draw them to himself, to point them to
Christ. But in the lives of the saved,
it's absolutely what it's for. It's to strengthen us.
And I wrote this down, God tests us to reveal the good things.
Satan tempts us to bring out the evil.
And that's how you, that's kind of how you know, is it a test or
is it a temptation? If it's tempting you to sin,
that's Satan. If it's testing you to to prove
your faith, that's God. And that's exactly what's
happening here with Abraham. God says in verse 12 of chapter
22 for now I knowest that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast
not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
God was testing him to see I've I've blessed you because you
have followed me, but where, how how strong is this faith that
you've got? He's willing to give his only
son and God stops him and says, OK, now I know that that you
fear me, but I think it's important to know this that in
our in our testing. I think sometimes, myself
included, and maybe maybe I'm the only one, but I think
sometimes we get into a test and we gripe and we complain about
it and we get through it and go, oh man, God got me through that.
But the whole time we, we griped through it.
And I think it's important that in our testing, in our in, in
the test that God gives us that we bring glory to him.
That's what they're for. And so be careful of your of
your attitude and your mindset in those times to bring glory to
God. And that's what Abraham does
here. He doesn't, he doesn't go tell
anybody what he's about to do. You know, I think if it was us
and you wouldn't believe, on Tuesday I got to go take my son
and I got to offer him up for a burnt offer.
Everybody in the church would know about it.
And I'm not making fun of anybody.
That's what I would do. We love to talk about what we're
going through and that's fine. The Bible tells us to bear one
another's burdens and all of that.
But Abraham doesn't tell anybody what's going on.
He's got it all inside. He's bearing it himself because
this is a test that God, God is giving him.
And then he does give glory. He brings glory to God.
He gives glory, but he brings glory to God because God stops
him and says, now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not withheld thy Son. So be careful in your testing to
bring glory to God. But here's where I have a
question for you. Go to John chapter 8, John
chapter 8 and verse 56. And these are not deep
theological questions, but I hope these are questions that
you have when you read through maybe a passage like this.
Jesus is talking and just a quick background, He's talking
to the leaders and they said, are you greater than our Father
Abraham? I mean who?
Who are you? Are you, are you that great?
Are you greater than Abraham? And you may see that probably in
verse 53, I think. Yeah, verse 53 of John chapter
8. Art thou greater than our father
Abraham, which is dead and the prophets are dead who make us
thou thyself? So who?
Who are you? Jesus answered, If I honor
myself, my honor is nothing. It is my father that honoreth
me, of whom you say that he is your God, yet you have not known
him. But I know him, and if I should
say I know him not, I should be a liar like unto you, but I know
him, and I keep his sayings. Verse 56.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and
was glad. So my question for you is, what
is? What is that talking about?
Did Abraham see Christ? I mean no, he lived thousands of
years before Christ. So what is it saying in verse
56? Abraham rejoiced to see my day
and he saw it and was glad. Any any thoughts for the Todd?
Yeah, well, if you, if you go to Genesis 22, I don't think he saw
an Angel at all. He just heard an Angel.
And I'm not not saying you're wrong.
We're talking here, but in verse.
Let's see verse 11. And the Angel of the Lord called
unto him out of heaven and said Abraham, Abraham.
So he didn't see an Angel, but he did hear one.
Any other thoughts? Messiah.
Yeah. Yeah, OK with Johnny.
OK, good. Anything else?
All right, if you're agreeing with Miss Maxine and brother
Johnny, I believe you're correct.
I think that's exactly what it says in Hebrews Chapter 11.
It says Abraham believed and it was counted unto him for
righteousness. Believed what?
That the in the sacrifices? No, I think that Abraham
realized this was the picture of the Messiah that was coming and
he believed that. And so in John chapter 8, Christ
tells them, Abraham, I already closed my Bible.
Where is it at your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day
and he saw it and was glad is a picture of of the coming
Messiah. So I I believe you are correct
on that. And then it says, well, I'll get
to that in a second. But yes, Abraham rejoiced to see
what will Christ was going to do and he saw it in the type of his
son Isaac. So let's get right into our
lesson. That was all that was all
introduction. So Isaac the son and I and I see
first of all here his character. I'm going to be going back and
forth a little bit between Genesis 22 and Hebrews 11.
So if you can keep a finger in Hebrews 11 or a bookmark or
something, we won't reference it a ton, but we will be there a
few times. So Hebrews Chapter 11 and
Genesis chapter 22. So I have another question for
you. In Genesis chapter 22, it says
take now thy son, thine only son Isaac was Isaac, Abraham's only
son. So what is he talking about
there? Any thoughts on that?
We'll come back to that in a second.
Think about it. Yes, Sir.
Does that mean he did not know what he was going to do?
No, I think that. So God is God is all knowing,
right? He obviously knew.
But we do have a free will. Abraham at any point could have
stopped and said, and you know what, I can't go through with
this. I, I, I believe you will.
I and I say, I've said this before, our actions betray what
we actually believe. What I'm saying is this is God
says, now I know you're right, but he didn't know before.
I think another one way to say that is now you've proved that
you fear God. God knew it.
But Abraham, like I said, could have stopped at any point and
God, he goes all the way through with it.
And God says, OK, now you've proved that you fear God, don't,
don't kill your son. So, but anyways, all right, So
Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 18, I think, OK, any any thoughts on
that? I forgot I asked the question
that it says in Genesis 22 that take thy son, thy only son,
Isaac. What we know he had more than
one son. So, Josh?
OK, dot, same. Anything else?
Everybody got the same idea. Yeah.
I think he was the A He was the
only legitimate son of Abraham, but he was also the only son
that that really mattered. And I don't mean that in a bad
way. Ishmael never should have been
there. He was.
God didn't kill him, but but Ishmael was a curse to this day
on the children of Israel. But yes, he was the he was the
son of promise, the one that the that the promises were going to
come through. So the one that really, really
mattered. Take that son, Johnny.
Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if Genesis 22 said thine only
begotten Son, But it's not right, right?
That's right. And that's where I was going
next. We were all we were given power
to become the sons of God. So how is he the only begotten
son of God because he is he is the son of promise.
We are we give him power, but he is the son of God, just like
Isaac was the son of Abraham, the one that all the promise
promises were going to come through very good.
All right, so that is the son, Isaac the son.
But here's the calling in Genesis chapter 17.
You're close to there. Genesis 17.
I got to leave a bookmark or I'm going to be fumbling around here
in a second, but Genesis chapter 17 and I just want to make a
quick point on this and remember Isaac is a type of Christ, not
just this story is a type of Christ.
Isaac himself is a type of Christ.
And so all the way through Isaac's life, then you're going
to see a whole bunch of about similarities.
And we see in Genesis chapter 717 verse 19, when and when,
when Sarah is told that she's going to have a son.
And God said, Sarah, thy wife shall bear a son indeed.
And thou shalt call his name Isaac.
And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting
covenant and with his seed after him.
But but the point I want to make here is that God told them what
they were going to name their son.
They didn't get to choose it in the same way.
Matthew chapter one, verse 21. She shall bring forth a son and
shalt thou shalt call his name Jesus.
His name was was was given before his actual birth, before
he was even conceived. They God told them what his name
would be and what's the importance of what?
What does the name Isaac mean? I think most of us know that
laughter because Sarah laughed when the Angel told her you're
going to have a son. She laughed.
Yeah, OK, am I being old and and barren anyways?
Am I going to have a son? And but that laughter did turn
to joy. It was a laughter at first of
not a mocking God, but a laughing at this at the whole
scenario. Yeah, OK, but when Isaac was
born, there was there was joy. And and we have the same thing
with Jesus Christ birth in Luke chapter one, verse 47.
My spirit hath rejoiced. Actually, that's not the verse I
wanted to to to give you. Well I will that's Mary talking.
My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.
And I've got a side note there. Pastor just talked about this I
think on Sunday night and I can't remember the context, but
he said that even Mary called Jesus Christ her savior.
And I think it was in context with the Catholic Church being
being wrong that they deify Mary.
She calls Jesus Christ here in Luke chapter 1 her savior.
But the point I wanted to make here was there was great joy
with Isaac's birth. There was great joy.
In fact, the angels of heaven came down to rejoice with the
birth of Jesus Christ. So many, many similarities.
And we're, and we'll get even even more pointed similarities
here in just a little bit. Not it's not just similar, it's
a picture. It's a type of Christ.
Isaac is. So then we have the coming of
Isaac. And for this I want you to go to
Genesis chapter 18, Genesis chapter 18 in verse 11.
And what I want you to see here is that both the birth of Christ
and the birth of birth of Isaac were supernatural.
They were miracles. Verse 11 of chapter 18.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age.
Now you have an early Genesis, 430 years old.
This guy started having kids, right?
So it wasn't abnormal. Now it's abnormal.
This is after the flood. They, they don't live nearly as
long as they did in early in the early parts of Genesis.
There. So now Abraham and Sarah were
old and well stricken at age, and it ceased to be with Sarah.
After the manner of woman, she's not able to bear children
anymore. Therefore Sarah laughed within
herself, saying, After I am waxed old, shall I have
pleasure, my Lord, being old also?
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh,
saying, Shall I have a surety bear a child which I'm old?
Is anything too hard for the Lord at the time appointed?
I will return unto thee according to the time of life,
and Sarah shall have a son. But this is a miraculous birth
of Isaac. I mean, even Sarah and Abraham
are going. No chance.
It's not happening. But Jesus Christ was born of a
virgin. That's a miraculous birth.
And that's all we'll say about that.
Both of them are supernatural births.
But then we have the purpose of Isaac's birth.
And what was the purpose of Isaac's birth?
We saw that just now in Genesis chapter 18, to fulfill the
promise that was given to Abraham, to bring a nation to
Abraham as the sands of the sea and as the stars of the sky.
God told Abraham in that promise.
And so to give life to a nation. And Jesus Christ birth was this
for the same purpose, to give life not just to a nation, but
to the entire world, to us even as Gentiles, that we can have
eternal life through this only begotten Son.
So that was Isaac the Son. And now let's look at Isaac the
sacrifice in Genesis 22 here. Isaac on the altar is, I mean,
you don't even have to look into it to see the type of Christ
here. I mean it is a very, very
obvious type of the sacrifice that was going to happen on
Calvary. And I want to look at something
here, a phrase in verse, verse 8 of chapter 22.
And Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself a lamb for
a burnt offering. And I think you can look at that
in three ways. When I don't know if any of you
men, I know some of you were, but I don't know who all was in
the hermeneutics class that pastor taught for the men how to
how to study and how to preach God's word and, and what are you
looking at? And there are phrases in the
Bible that I think I've preached a message.
Now I can't remember what the phrase was, but there was only
four words and each point was one of those words.
I think this is kind of the same way God will provide himself a
lamb. You can look at this phrase a
few different ways. God will provide it.
It's it's the sources from God, right?
So God will provide it. The second way you can look at
it, and I'm not saying interpret this different ways.
I think this is all in this in this statement that God will
provide himself a lamb is that there was a necessity of the
lamb. It had to be there.
And so he will provide it, but he'll provide for us for the
redemption of mankind, a lamb. But the third way I think that
that we can look at this is because there's no punctuation
here. God will provide himself as the
Lamb, right? And so I think very easy to see
that God, God himself is the lamb that he's going to provide.
And so go to look at look at verse 2 of Genesis chapter 22.
The passion here between father and son is what I want to see.
Abraham loved Isaac very much, unlike Ishmael.
He cared for Ishmael, but he didn't love Ishmael like he
loved Isaac. And we see that that parallel
with the the love of the Father and Jesus Christ.
When Christ is in the garden and he's sweating drops of blood and
he's praying to the Father to let this cup pass from me.
I think there's a few things going on there.
I think more important, I think probably the strongest one there
is not. He wasn't afraid of the
suffering. I think we can say that he
wasn't afraid of, Granted, he was a man, he wasn't happy with
being beaten and his beard ripped out, but that's not what
he was afraid of. Even martyrs have gone through
stuff like that with a smile on their face because of the glory
that's being given to God. So I don't think Jesus was
sweating great drops of blood because of the the suffering
that was coming. I think there's two things.
One, the sin that he was going to have to bear.
He had never known sin and he's asking the Father if you can
please let this not happen. Nevertheless, not my will.
But the second thing is the Father.
He knew the Father was going to turn his back on him, that that
relationship had never from eternity past been broken.
And now it's that's about to happen.
And so I think the parallel here, the type here is the love
that Isaac has for his son and he's going to have to sacrifice
him is the same love that Christ that God had for his son, Jesus
Christ. And he's going to have to
sacrifice him for the sins of mankind.
And we don't really see that, that that bond of love between
father and son really anywhere else in the Bible.
We we have many fathers and sons.
You think of Saul and Jonathan and David and and Absalom when
he cries after Absalom is killed.
Absalom, my son Absalom would to God.
But the love between Isaac and and and Abraham here is a is a
is a type of the love between the father and the son.
And in John chapter 17, don't go there, but John chapter 17 and
verse 24 kind of gives us a picture of the bond of love, the
relationship that was about to be broken when Christ took on
the sins of the world. John chapter 17 and verse 24
says this. For Father I will that they also
whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may
behold my glory which Thou hast given me.
For Thou lovest me before the foundation of the world.
This is Christ praying. Thou loved me before the
foundation of the world. So for eternity past this
relationship was there and now it's about to be broken and
Isaac and and Abraham are are a perfect picture of that Now
Genesis chapter 22 back in in our our text in verse 6, we have
a a partnership here. Not only did they love each
other, they, they spent time together and they and they had a
had a relationship. In verse 6, it says and Abraham
took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac
his son. And he took the fire in his hand
and a knife and they went both of them together.
Now I think sometimes we get the picture.
Isaac didn't know what was going on here.
I'm sure they had sacrificed many times before together just
as just as Adam would have, would have shown Cain and Abel
how how to sacrifice to God. And that's why Cain was was
judged for his his sacrifice. Abraham would have done thing
the same thing for Isaac. So Isaac thinks nothing of it.
And I'm sure, you know, I think in our minds, we see them
walking up this mountain and it's it's somber.
They're both you know, they're going up to their death.
Isaac didn't know that Abraham may have been a little more
serious, but I think that it would have been this a
conversation as any father and son would have had going out,
you know, to maybe to church. You know, you're not somber on
your way to church, man, this is going to be tough, you know,
unless you're about to get church discipline or something.
I'm just kidding. But but they weren't, they were
not somber. They were having a conversation.
They were doing this together in communion.
And that's all the way through the life of Jesus Christ.
You, you see that in the Gospels where Jesus goes out and he
prays and he has communion with the Father.
It was a perfect relationship. And because Abraham and Isaac
are human, I'm sure it wasn't perfect, but it was very, very
good communion. And so they have this
partnership. But then I want to look real
quickly at the purpose. What was the purpose of Genesis
chapter 22? When we punish our kids, we
don't punish them to death. But when we punish our kids for
something they've done wrong, it's their fault, right?
They have something that they did wrong.
Or maybe maybe we've had a bad day at work and we come home and
you know, everybody feels the wrath and they didn't even do
anything. But you know, I'm wrong, but
they feel it. We don't have that here.
Isaac did nothing wrong and the father wasn't punishing him.
So, So what is that? It's what we have with Jesus
Christ and God the Father. God wasn't mad at his son and
Jesus did nothing wrong. Perfect type.
And I'm trying to hurry through this so we can get get all the
way through it, but it's a perfect type of what was what
was going to happen. And that's why in Hebrews
Chapter 11, we or John chapter 8, we see Abraham saw what was
coming and he rejoiced in it. And we'll see here in just a
second exactly when, when I think Abraham finally realizes
what exactly is going on here. But I think it's important to
note that in let's see verse 6. And Abraham took the wood of the
burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son.
Perfect picture of the cross being laid on Jesus Christ.
And then he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they both,
they went both of them together. And through the Bible, you'll
see this. But the knife points to death
and the fire points to judgment. And Abraham has both of those.
And so the same way that Jesus Christ carried the cross and
the, and the father had the death and judgment in his hand
of what was about to come. And I don't think these are
stretches at all. I think this is very, very
obviously a picture of of Christ and what was coming.
Let's see, let's keep on moving. All right now, I want to look
real quickly and I already mentioned this, but I want to
look real quickly at Isaac. What is Isaac's part here?
Isaac at this point. Now remember Genesis chapter
2021, Isaac is born. We have all that Genesis chapter
22. Now, Isaac is a young man and
remember, Abraham is an old man. He's old and well stricken in
years. And so I think the point here
that's important to note is that do you think Isaac could have
gotten away if he wanted to? Absolutely.
Isaac, when he realizes what's going on, where, where's the
lamb? God will provide himself a lamb.
Here. Come here, let me bind your
hands and feet. I think Isaac said OK, he could
have stopped it and and Jesus Christ being the God of the
universe Incarnate could have stopped this, but we saw that in
the garden nevertheless. Not my will, but thine a very
obvious type of Christ and what was coming.
I think it's also important to note here that Isaac is
completely alone as the sacrifice.
There's no men with them. Remember they left all the men
at the bottom of the mountain. His father is not with him.
His father's about to kill him and Jesus Christ was the same
way. All the disciples have fled.
His own father has turned his back on him.
Christ is burying this sacrifice alone.
And I think Genesis chapter 22, it's purposely this way.
It's not just said this way. It's this was done on purpose as
a pointing, as a type of what Christ was going to do.
Now I got one point left and we got about 5 minutes.
So I want to, I want to make sure we get through this.
So all right, in Genesis chapter 22 in verse verse 11 is where it
starts. Angel, the Lord called him to
him out of heaven, said Abraham. Abraham said, here am I lay not
thine hand upon the land. This is where the picture sort
of breaks down. Jesus was not spared.
Isaac is spared. So So what do we have going on
here? And I want to look at that just
for a second. I think that OK and I have one
more question for you. It is in is in Hebrews Chapter
11. So if you're still if you still
got that, go to Hebrews Chapter 11 and verse 19.
Yeah. So verse 17 by faith Abraham
when he was tried offered up Isaac, he did offer him.
He didn't kill him, but he definitely offered him.
He's on the altar bound and ready to to slay him when the
Angel stops him. So he did offer him up and that
he had received the promises offered up.
OK, sorry, offered up Isaac. And he that had received the
promises that Isaac would become a great nation offered up his
only begotten Son, of whom it was said that in Isaac shall thy
seed be called. And here's where in verse 19
accounting or assuming that God was able to raise him up even
from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure.
So my question here is what does that mean?
He received him in a figure he didn't receive him figuratively.
So what is what is that saying? What do what do you think that
is saying Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 19.
What is that figure that it's talking about?
Anybody. All right, I'm going to tell
you. So in Genesis chapter 2, the
type seems to break down. Isaac is spared.
But what I think we actually have going on here is a figure
of the resurrection of what? Christ what?
What was going to happen when Christ is resurrected and then
he ascends? Where does he go?
To the Father. And we have the same thing here
with Isaac. He is not literally resurrected,
but figuratively He was. He was dead.
He he was done and figuratively he is resurrected and and
brought back in perfect fellowship with the father.
And I think not just that. I think, I think it's very clear
that the Bible is, is saying that without actually killing
Isaac. Why did God not let Abraham kill
Isaac and raise him from the dead?
I don't know, but he didn't he stopped him.
And then it says in Hebrews 11 as a figure, he resurrected him
figuratively. And I think that's important to
know that the type breaks down there.
But I but I don't think it's, it's not an accident.
It's on purpose to to point out the resurrection.
This is this is also very interesting and I think we'll
finish with this point. Genesis chapter 22 and verse 4.
When does all this happen? The third day.
That's not an accident. This is a type of what Christ
was going to do. Then on the third day, Abraham
lifted up his eyes and saw that place afar off.
And all this happens on the third day, the resurrection of
figuratively of Isaac and, and all of that.
So we'll close with this very, very strong type of Christ.
I don't think there's any argument that, that, that, that
this is not a type of Christ. We're going to look at look at
a, a different 1 next week. And if you want to study up on
it a little bit, right this passage down, it's Leviticus
chapter 14 verses one through 7. But the two birds being
sacrificed are a type of Christ. We're going to look at that next
week. But I want to close with this.
In Genesis 22, verse 7, Isaac spake unto Abraham his father,
and said, my father. He said, here am I my son.
And he said, behold the fire in the wood.
But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
And in direct contrast to that today we don't ask where is the
lamb? John said, behold the lamb which
taketh away the sin of the world.
In this type, we had them looking for the lamb and, and,
and Abraham having faith that God would provide himself a
lamb. He will do it.
And then he did provide himself a lamb.
And that's the one that we worship even now, the one that
was sacrificed for us and sits on the right hand of the father,
the Lamb and he's coming back as the conquering king.
But he he went out as as the lamb, the sacrificed lamb.
And I have a whole lot more that I want to say, but I think we
get the point here. Isaac is a type of Christ.
And so very good Genesis chapter 22.
There's a whole lot there, but it's Hebrews Chapter 11.
The end of that chapter is all about Isaac and and Abraham or
the middle of the chapter there. So you can go back and look at
that this week in your devotions and spend a little more time
studying that. But Isaac as a type of Christ.
Let's pray and then we'll be finished.
Father, I thank you for this day you've given us got to thank you
that the Old Testament is just full of of the proof that from
the foundation of the world. This was this was the plan.
This was not a man sinned and then a redemption plan had to be
coming up come up with from the foundation of the world.
Your son was planned to be sacrificed for mankind and I
thank you for that God, I thank you for where we see in in as
we've talked about before in Genesis 5.
The plan was there, all the genealogies pointing to the
Messiah that would come now here in Genesis 22, Isaac pointing to
the Messiah that would come and even back in the Old Testament,
it being counted to the to the to the those that were saved
then that they believed in the coming Messiah and God.
I just pray that you'd help us now that we are looking back.
I think in some ways it's easier for us.
We've seen the Messiah come. We've seen him be sacrificed and
resurrected and now we just have to believe.
And God, I just pray that you would help us as we study your
word on our own and in church and and wherever we get a chance
that we would see you pointing the see the word of God pointing
to you and it would draw us closer to you.
God, I pray that we'd have just a great fellowship and a great
relationship with you. Pray that you be with the next
hour that you be with our pastor as he preaches that you'd fill
them with your power. But God, I pray that you would
feed us from your word. In Jesus name I pray.
Amen.