1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:07,960 To trust in Jesus and to take him at his word. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,000 Amen. Trust in Him. 3 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,200 I guess we need to. I don't know if you call it 4 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:26,240 stupidity or trust, but so dog, I sing this week walking in the 5 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:34,600 morning at the intersection of a Rd. shadow cast of a tree there 6 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,920 on the intersection. That dog's laying smack dab 7 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,200 right in the middle of it, just laying there. 8 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,480 I walked by hardly gave me acknowledgement. 9 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,640 I don't know if he was trusting or what, but he didn't care if 10 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,840 there was traffic, if there was an individual or anything. 11 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,960 So I'm just going to sit right here at this intersection. 12 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,640 Maybe we need to have trust like the old dog. 13 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,320 Whatever intersection you find yourself at, maybe you just need 14 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:03,760 to trust that the Lord has the direction Amen that you need 15 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:08,520 while there. Hallelujah, bless that dog's 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:13,000 heart. Amen. 17 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,560 Going to be turning to the book of Genesis. 18 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:22,440 As you are turning there this evening, remember that tomorrow 19 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,200 night is prayer here at the church. 20 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:25,920 Second prayer night. I'm missing now. 21 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,040 Someone's going to be here more times than I am on prayer night, 22 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,000 and I'm about ready to get aggravated about it. 23 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,360 Amen. Tomorrow night, prayer from 7 to 24 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,560 8 hour hour. All right. 25 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,920 And then this coming Sunday you will have Bishop in the morning 26 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,760 and you'll have Brother Jerry Mason in the evening at night. 27 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,120 All right, 19th and 20th this month is National Ministry 28 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,800 Conference in Maryville, TN. If you have not registered, you 29 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,320 missed it, but you can still register at the door for a 30 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,480 little fee. All right, so if you still plan 31 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,120 on going, let me know. Genesis chapter 22. 32 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,560 I'm going to read just a few verses and then allow you to be 33 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:14,680 seated here tonight. You might be weak of need or 34 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,040 feeble, and I'll let you be seated here. 35 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,440 Just let me get a few verses in, if you will. 36 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:28,080 I'm going to start with verse #1 I'll just read. 37 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,040 I'll read. How about the first 3 verses and 38 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,000 then I'll let you be seated. Kind. 39 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:37,840 I'm just feeling kind tonight. And it came to pass after these 40 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,000 things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him, 41 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,560 Abraham. And he said, Behold, here I am. 42 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:50,240 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, and thou 43 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:55,800 lovest get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for 44 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,440 a burnt offering up on one of the mountains which I will tell 45 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,080 thee of. Abraham rose up early in the 46 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,000 morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with 47 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,920 him, and Isaac his son, and cleaved the wood for the burnt 48 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:11,480 offering, and rose up and went unto the place of which God had 49 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,760 told him he meant for a little while tonight. 50 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,480 Just all of this. We're going to get through this 51 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,960 whole chapter tonight, all right. 52 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:22,200 And so just throwing all this under the heading that God still 53 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:29,160 everybody say still God still provides, God still a man 54 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:30,640 provides. Hallelujah. 55 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:32,160 Let's pray right now. Father, I love you. 56 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,040 I thank you, God. This is an opportunity God, 57 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,640 that's been afforded to us, God as Christians, as men and women 58 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,520 of God. Lord, there's other people in 59 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,240 other countries that wish they had this opportunity afforded to 60 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:46,520 them, but they're underground. Lord Jesus in secrecy. 61 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:50,040 Lord trying to meet the God we can come publicly open our doors 62 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,080 to whomsoever we'll thank you Lord for this privilege God to 63 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,240 being able to center our lives around your word. 64 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,400 Lord one more time God, let us speak light to us and we'll not 65 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,320 forget to thank you and praise you God for what you do through 66 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,360 it. The lovely name of Jesus Christ, 67 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:08,280 that I pray Hallelujah, and you may be seated tonight in Jesus 68 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,720 name. Continuing on if you allow me 69 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:16,120 with verse number before then on the third day, Abraham lifted up 70 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,360 his eyes and saw the place afar off. 71 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,680 And Abraham said unto his young men, And by thee here with the 72 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,320 ass, and I and the lad will go Yonder and worship, and come 73 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,040 again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the 74 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,280 burnt offering and laid it upon the Isaac his son. 75 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:34,440 And he took the fire in his hand and the knife, and they went, 76 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,840 both of them together. And Isaac spake, and Abraham his 77 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:41,800 father, and said, My father. And he said, Here am I, my son. 78 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,360 And he said, Behold the fire in the wood, But where is the lamb 79 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,760 for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God 80 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,520 will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. 81 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:54,760 So they went, both of them together, and they came to the 82 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,400 place which God had told him of. And Abraham built an altar 83 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,160 there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, 84 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,440 and laid him on the altar upon the wood. 85 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,520 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay 86 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,720 his son. And the Angel of the Lord called 87 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,640 unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. 88 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:17,800 And he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand 89 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,440 upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him. 90 00:05:20,840 --> 00:05:24,240 For now I know that thou fearest God, seen that thou has not 91 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:26,600 withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 92 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,960 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. 93 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,920 Behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. 94 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:35,440 And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a 95 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,240 burnt offering in the stead of his son. 96 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,360 And Abraham called the name of that place Jova Jireh, which it 97 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,600 is said, as it is said to this day in the mount of the Lord, it 98 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,760 shall be seen God still provides. 99 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,200 And so we see this phrase in verse number one that we see 100 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,440 over and over again, which just is a marking of time and of 101 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,200 movement of time as things unfold. 102 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,640 And it came to pass after these things, it's an undetermined 103 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:06,880 amount of time. It could even stand for 104 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,680 different variations of time. It could at one time stand for a 105 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:11,880 few weeks, another time stand for a few years. 106 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:14,280 Nonetheless, it's telling us a sequence. 107 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:18,440 Events at what's happening right now takes place after some other 108 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,080 things that have happened, such as the things we've already 109 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:25,360 studied, Isaac being born, him being winged, Hagar and Ishmael 110 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,560 being released from the House of Abraham and Sarah, Abraham and 111 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,880 Abimelech settling a score over who's well that belonged to and 112 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,080 entering the covenant and all of these things. 113 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,280 And then now it came to pass after these things, that what 114 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:45,920 happens in this chapter unveils and unfolds and a couple other 115 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,320 things will happen and then there will be a shift. 116 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,640 As it is, you remember the first part, Genesis, like one through 117 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,800 11 or so tracks along with some major events in Scripture, you 118 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,920 know, creation, the Tower of Babel, the flood, all these 119 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,680 types of things, the table of nations that tracks along 120 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,920 concerning these events. But when we got to chapter #12 121 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,960 it homes in on the individual Abraham that we've now been with 122 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:12,280 for a long time. But we're right at the, the, 123 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,080 the, the very, very edge of switching from, from Abraham to 124 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,320 Isaac because now we have an Isaac, right? 125 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:20,680 Isaac is now born. And so we're about ready to 126 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:23,160 shift focus. As a matter of fact, once we get 127 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,680 done talking about Isaac tonight, we won't see him again 128 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,400 till chapter 24, and that'll be basically the Alpha and Omega 129 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,560 for Isaac. There's not a whole lot said, a 130 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,320 lot of information given to us concerning the sun concerning 131 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,760 the Isaac. But nonetheless, in Scripture we 132 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,920 know the Isaac is the embodiment of all the promises that has 133 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,040 been given to Abraham and Sarah. Thus thus far. 134 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,960 He is the fulfillment, the embodiment of all of those 135 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,240 promises. And that's in part why as a 136 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,240 reader that I believe God through the inspired scripture 137 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,200 here tells us that after all these things that God did tempt 138 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:01,840 Abraham. Because I think God is tipping 139 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,120 us off just a little bit. He's tipping us off about what's 140 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,200 about ready to take place, about what's about ready to happen 141 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,280 that God did tempt or as we'll see here in a little bit prove 142 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,000 or test Abraham. And so with that, we need to 143 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,360 define what tempt is right, because any Bible scholars that 144 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,360 are out here, their mind starts crossing references in Scripture 145 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,720 that they've read over and over again every year in their Bible 146 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,240 reading program. And they remember verses like 147 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,440 James where the Bible says, let no man say when he is tempted, I 148 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:34,120 am tempted of God for God cannot be tempted with evil neither 149 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,600 temptathy we got a contradiction in Scripture. 150 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:41,799 God tempted Abraham. James said we don't, God cannot 151 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,799 be tempted neither tempathy in a man. 152 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:46,440 So it's important to see what tempted means. 153 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:49,720 In our amplified classic Bible it says it means tested and 154 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,800 proved. It is a Hebrew verb that that's 155 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:58,200 translated temp. That means to test, to try or to 156 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,160 prove. So not in the same way that we 157 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,960 consider temptation in James chapter #1 but a testing, 158 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,360 approving a trying to test or prove. 159 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:12,120 This word actually comes from blacksmithing from years ago 160 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,720 from what they would call metallurgy, right? 161 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,840 Dealing with and, and, and touching and handling and 162 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:22,160 bending and forming metal. And that is this as they would 163 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,160 do with metals, even as blacksmith do their, they fold 164 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,360 in the metal often times they're constantly putting it in the 165 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:30,960 fire back and forth. They're constantly trying to get 166 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,080 impurities out of the metal. Amen. 167 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,600 And so they test it several times as it's being forged. 168 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:41,040 It's proven several times as it's being forged because at 169 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,480 each stage, as it's getting closer to being a completed and 170 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,320 a finished work, they want to make sure they're not leaving 171 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:53,040 any impurities or anything in there that's going to diminish 172 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,600 the quality of the finished product. 173 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,080 And so there's a lot of testings that happened through the 174 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,200 process of doing that. That's where this word tempted 175 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,760 or tested or proving comes from. And that's interesting because 176 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:08,440 Abraham really has been on a journey, almost like a piece of 177 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,960 metal that's coming to a final act of completion. 178 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:15,640 He's went through a lot of tests, a lot of proving a lot of 179 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,280 times that he had strong faith and that he had doubt and then 180 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,400 he had strong faith. I mean, his his waffling back 181 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:22,920 and forth is like a person's heartbeat. 182 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,640 I mean, it's just up and down. And so Abraham, though, is 183 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,800 coming to a final product of completion. 184 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:33,400 And so we have another test, another proving time for you, 185 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,000 Abraham. And it's perhaps going to be one 186 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,240 of the most ultimate test, a man of Abraham's journey and of 187 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,640 Abraham's life. And so we know this is a test. 188 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:45,680 God's already tipped, tipped us off. 189 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:49,400 God tempted or tested Abraham, but Abraham doesn't know it's a 190 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:54,760 test. And that's a big one, Brother 191 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:59,960 Trout, we all know. But the one who's being tested 192 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:05,280 don't know that this is a test. There's no lines coming up on 193 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,240 the screen saying this is only a test and a weird high pitched 194 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:15,240 beep saying no, this, this is another life in the day of 195 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,040 Abraham. And again, he's been tested with 196 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,760 various issues. He was tested with leave your 197 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,560 father, your country, your country didn't go to a, a, a 198 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:28,840 place that I will tell you, which was hundreds and hundreds 199 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,800 and hundreds of miles away. I mean, almost 1000 miles away. 200 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,440 He's been tested with what do you do during times of famine? 201 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:43,680 Happen to trust he's been tested with will you separate from your 202 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:47,800 your, your family lot? Will you choose different planes 203 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:52,080 in different areas as your home? Been tested with that? 204 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,960 He's been tested that whenever he went and fought for getting 205 00:11:54,960 --> 00:12:01,200 locked back, would he take spoils from the king of Sodom or 206 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,280 would he just leave it be and say God is my exceeding great 207 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,120 reward? He's being tested. 208 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,320 He's been tested and waiting. He's been tested in his 209 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,520 obedience over and over again. And that's just hitting the tops 210 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,720 of the trees that we have in scripture of Abraham being 211 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,400 tested. But now as he's reaching the 212 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,880 apex of his purpose in life, the apex of his mission in life, 213 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:27,080 really, Isaac, Amen. He's coming to a place where 214 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,040 he's going to be tested again and God wants to prove Abraham 215 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,400 motives in this grand finale. He wants to prove the motives of 216 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,280 Abraham and it's a little bit really about priority because 217 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:45,840 God knows that Abraham loves Isaac even said whenever he 218 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:51,160 started defining what son he wanted, he said thy son, well, I 219 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:56,360 got you know, you should not know thy only son named him 220 00:12:56,680 --> 00:13:00,440 specifically Isaac, whom thou lovest. 221 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:05,320 God knew that he loved Isaac, but he had this test, this 222 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:09,800 ultimate test about whether he loved Abraham, loved the matters 223 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:15,640 of heaven more than him himself and more than his earthly love. 224 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,120 He will needed to know whether Abraham was going to make it 225 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,600 more about him or he's going to make it about God because in 226 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:26,280 essence, let's think for a moment. 227 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:32,600 We see that Isaac is going to be sacrificed, but in the sacrifice 228 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,320 of Isaac is really the sacrifice of Abraham's will. 229 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:45,000 He's the one that he loves. For that matter, I've already 230 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,480 told one to go on his way. This is the only one that's here 231 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,760 left. Amen. 232 00:13:52,560 --> 00:14:00,640 And so with that request of the Lord, will you do this? 233 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:08,320 You got to start then channeling all the years before this of 234 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:15,640 frustration, of reiterated promise after promise after 235 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,840 promise that God's told him, the constant waiting. 236 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,480 I know what you say God, but where's it at? 237 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:28,600 And to have that after all these years, all the ups and downs, 238 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,240 all the self doubt, all the wondering if it would or if it 239 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:37,080 wouldn't be, here it is. And now you're going to request 240 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:43,240 that I give that back. Now the very vein through which 241 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,360 everything that you say is going to happen for my life should be 242 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,440 accomplished through, you're saying give it back to me. 243 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,040 And it's not just me giving back, Isaac. 244 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,280 I'm giving back then the great nation. 245 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:57,480 I'm not just giving back to Isaac. 246 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,880 I'm giving back the land my descendants are supposed to 247 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,400 have. I'm not just you understand it 248 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,640 it it's not just a moment. It's everything of all those 249 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:11,880 years prior to that moment that is resting on Isaac, he said in 250 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,120 Isaac shall thy seed be called you're. 251 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:17,480 You're asking me to give all of that back. 252 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,880 I know it looks like just a lone son, but all of that is hinged 253 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,040 upon Isaac. So he he he's dealing with this 254 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,360 moment right here and just again, God, so that there isn't 255 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,120 any confusion. He's very exact. 256 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:36,000 Thy son, Isaac, whom thou love. I want you to offer. 257 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,280 Yes, that one that Sarah from the very beginning waited for 25 258 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,960 years. Yeah, that's the one that I 259 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,520 want. And I know, Abraham, that right 260 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,000 now, positionally, as far as who's close to you, that that's 261 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,560 the only one close to you. That's the only one that you 262 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,480 have ready at hand because you already, you already, you 263 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:58,520 released Ishmael and you already released Haggard. 264 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,720 And so I understand Abraham. I understand that you you 265 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,240 released Ishmael and you grieved over that. 266 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,520 You were sorry full over that. And that was just that, the son 267 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,280 of your handmade. But I'm wondering how much 268 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:17,480 harder this must have been for Abraham to sacrifice. 269 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:23,920 Not send away, but sacrifice this son Isaac, who isn't the 270 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:27,160 son of his handmaid, but the son of his wife. 271 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,840 That's what I'm requesting. Abraham. 272 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:39,600 I want you to give him back. Note the scripture though. 273 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,520 He says I want you to offer him verse 2 there in the land of 274 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:47,080 Moriah at a mountain that I'll specify. 275 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,400 So I want you to offer him there for a burnt offering, folks. 276 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,440 I mean, this has turned from from releasing the sun to 277 00:16:55,680 --> 00:17:01,720 becoming gruesome because as burnt offerings go and will 278 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,000 become that we see the prescriptions for in the book of 279 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:11,800 Leviticus, a burnt offering was completely 100% surrendered to 280 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:17,000 the altar of fire for consumption by the fire on the 281 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,400 altar. There isn't anything kept back. 282 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,560 No, there's no keeping. It's not like God and Abraham's 283 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,920 going half east. No, it's a burnt offering. 284 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:36,560 It is a complete surrender, putting all of Isaac up on that 285 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,760 offering for a burnt offering. Not only that, there is going to 286 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:44,920 be a death, there is going to be bloodshed. 287 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:52,000 And he's like, is this what this has come to in this moment? 288 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:56,880 How in the world, God, are you asking this of me? 289 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,040 Because I released Ishmael, but you're telling me I'm going to 290 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,680 have to slay. There's going to be some 291 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,800 cutting. There's going to be some taking 292 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:09,080 of life from this because this is a burnt offering unto you. 293 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:13,840 You want all of Isaac. You want all that I love and you 294 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:15,720 want me to surrender it to you on an. 295 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:23,000 So if you thought he had some difficulty in lingering and 296 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:29,120 letting Ishmael go. Sarah's idea, but God appointed. 297 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:33,240 What do you think he's experiencing concerning Isaac. 298 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,760 Note the language here and you'd have to go back a few few 299 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,440 lessons to Genesis 12. But notice the language here. 300 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:46,160 It's very, very similar to whenever Abraham got his initial 301 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:50,360 call from God in Genesis 12, whenever he left ER of the 302 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:54,800 Chaldees and and Haran at the urging of God in Genesis 12 and 303 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,320 verse 10. The Lord at that point told him 304 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:02,680 to get thee out unto a land. I will shew thee. 305 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:07,360 And now he's telling him in verse number, verse #2 He's 306 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:11,480 telling him to offer him meaning, Isaac, offer him up on 307 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,720 one of the mountains, which I will tell thee of. 308 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,440 I mean, couldn't we just be playing God? 309 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,680 Well, what's the whole thing of this? 310 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:27,000 You know, I will tell you. I will show you stuff. 311 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:32,840 Trust, trust. And yet both of these episodes 312 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,640 of leaving the land and going where he knows, not taking the 313 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,720 son and sacrificing up on the mountain, he's yet to be 314 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:44,240 revealed. Both of these relate to a view 315 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:50,560 of Abraham, where he came from. False gods, I want to remind 316 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,960 you. False gods, right? 317 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,440 Pagan gods. Little G Little O Little D 318 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,400 Little S that were worshipped. If you'll remember Abraham's 319 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,600 family, Abraham's family had worship. 320 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,480 The Bible talks about Tira worshipping strange gods. 321 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,520 I believe it's in the book of Joshua. 322 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,640 But nonetheless here they were worshippers of false gods. 323 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,640 That's what God pulled Abraham out of to call and make it to 324 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:20,920 himself. A people set apart and different 325 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,880 from those of that day. We'll back several several 326 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,280 lessons, like part 25 if you really need to know, from Babel 327 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:29,680 to Blessing. Amen. 328 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,040 We talked and talked about how Abram was urged to leave ER of 329 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:36,120 of Chow these and Haram. And I'm just going to hit this 330 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:37,760 real quickly. Just kinds of review. 331 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,280 You remember the whole tower of Babel, they said was kind of 332 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,360 like a cigarette, kind of like a pyramid. 333 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:44,680 Remember that had the steps that's called a cigarette. 334 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,600 Those were often Pagan temples. And at the very top was a room 335 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,840 that was reserved for a false deity. 336 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:57,800 And so ER and Haram both had cigarettes and they both served 337 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,120 the moon gods. And so whenever God called him 338 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:07,680 away from the places of Ur and Haran in that day, they believed 339 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,640 that false gods were gods over regions, localities, places. 340 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,200 And so whenever God was saying, I want you to leave your 341 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,480 country, your kindred, your people leaving the place that in 342 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:22,840 essence was leaving their God, it was something that he asked 343 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:28,640 of Abraham and his family. But now God is even asking 344 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:32,080 something else of him. He is asking him to sacrifice 345 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:36,840 Isaac on a mountain that he will specify in the land of Moriah. 346 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:38,680 Now here's something interesting. 347 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,440 We know according to biblical record, you'll read it if you 348 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,640 read your Bible, that among the Canaanites there were times that 349 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,000 people offered up their children, sometimes even their 350 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,160 babies, and to a false God called Molech, they would make 351 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,640 them pass through the fire. It was a God that they would be 352 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,080 able, a fire inside of its arms would become burning hot with 353 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,720 heat and they would lay their child upon it and it would 354 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,840 basically be incinerated or burn up. 355 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,200 They were doing that for their God. 356 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,600 They even believed many times that their gods expected that 357 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,080 they're gods expected offering those types of things. 358 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,000 Amen in scripture. Amen. 359 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,080 So parents would cause their children to walk through the 360 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,520 fire or pass through the fire because they're worshipping 361 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:23,960 these false gods. And although it was less common, 362 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,560 some of Mesopotamia, which was where, uh, of child deeds was 363 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,880 located, There's some old Mesopotamian texts that indicate 364 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:36,680 that children were occasionally offered in desperate rituals. 365 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,680 Even there that there were children, sometimes even infants 366 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,920 that would be sacrifice in in modes of extreme circumstances 367 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:50,800 in order to appease their deities or avert some type of 368 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,680 disaster in that land. That means where Abraham lived, 369 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,640 where his father and them had served false gods. 370 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,480 So here's the fact. Other people of that time and 371 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:08,920 generation were willing to sacrifice their children to 372 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,960 false gods. Dennis Prager even said this. 373 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,000 He said in the ancient world, child sacrifice was universally 374 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,480 considered acceptable and even admirable. 375 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:26,760 So when God asks for Isaac, this isn't foreign to Abraham. 376 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:31,000 This practice not foreign to Abraham. 377 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,280 Amen. In that world that Abraham had 378 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:40,240 lived, God, sometimes have they seen it, demanded the children 379 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,560 as proof of their devotion to those gods. 380 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,720 So here's God, I've asked you to leave your country, and by 381 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,800 virtue of leaving your country, leaving your God, he says. 382 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:57,640 I'm testing you right now to see if you have the same passion for 383 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:05,360 me as all these others that serve other gods, have passion 384 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:12,240 and devotion for their God. That brings a whole lot of stuff 385 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,680 in my mind. I'll only talk about a little 386 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,560 bit of it, but the Bible says in Romans 6 and verse 19, I'm 387 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,600 reading this from the ESV, Paul says it to the Church of Rome. 388 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,000 He says I'm speaking in human terms because of your natural 389 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,480 limitations. Watch this now, he says. 390 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,520 For just as you once, everybody say, once presented your members 391 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,240 as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, leading to more 392 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:39,800 lawlessness, he says, so everybody say now, now present 393 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,440 your members as slaves to righteousness leading to 394 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,760 sanctification. You know what Paul was saying? 395 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:52,840 Will you do for me and be as passionate toward me and as be 396 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:58,240 as rendering of your members toward me as you did your former 397 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:03,440 life? He says. 398 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,560 As adamant and as passionate, You were worldly. 399 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:13,240 Will you be as adamant and as passionately godly? 400 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:23,440 In other words, will you treat me like the lifestyle that you 401 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:28,240 used to live? Will you be just as engaged? 402 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:32,960 You know what he's looking at motive. 403 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,880 I actually leave your land, which is leaving your God. 404 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:43,280 But I'm asking you, will you surrender to me what you were 405 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:48,680 willing to surrender to that or are you going to keep some back? 406 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,200 Is there certain areas you're going to say no, that's off 407 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,600 bounds. That's my little private 408 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:59,040 protected thing. Will you let it all go? 409 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,120 Because if we're not willing to let it all go for him, but we 410 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:10,040 did for this, it's still proving to us really who our God is. 411 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,200 Amen. So will you. 412 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,760 I mean, Abraham's building an altar. 413 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:23,040 He's going to build an altar, right? 414 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,320 This what's going to and Abraham's not an office at 415 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,320 building altars. We we've seen that enough even 416 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,760 since his growth pattern for maturity for the Lord, he's been 417 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:37,240 building altars, but on this altar is going to be a little 418 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,480 different. He's putting, he's putting Isaac 419 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,120 on this altar, something that he loves. 420 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,560 There's a whole lot of preaching the word folks. 421 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,720 He's taking something that he loves, something that's very 422 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,640 unique, right? Because there's just one of 423 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,000 them. And he says I'll put that on the 424 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,200 altar. Let me ask us tonight, are we 425 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:10,000 willing to put some of the things that we love and lay them 426 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,080 on, build the altar and lay it on the altar? 427 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,040 I'm not even borrowing someone else's altar to put this on. 428 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,000 I'm putting in the blood, sweat and tears to build the altar, to 429 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,280 lay this thing I love on the altar. 430 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,440 And yet in the moment the Bible says, and we'll get there. 431 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,200 I'm going to be a little bit around about in this, these 432 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,600 first 14 verses right now. And the Bible says, though 433 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,680 whenever Abraham is in that moment, he's, he has the wood 434 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,120 made, the fire is there, and he lays the sun on there, and he 435 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:41,040 has that knife in his hand that finally the Angel of the Lord 436 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:42,960 cried out to him, Abraham, Abraham. 437 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,200 And he's like here in my eye. And that the Angel stopped him 438 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,960 from harming Isaac. And look what the Bible says 439 00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,280 there in verse #12 it says for now. 440 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:58,000 For now I know that word no, doesn't mean like just 441 00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:00,720 knowledge. It's a word that that if you 442 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:05,160 look at it, actually means it has been demonstrated to him. 443 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,160 God's like. Now I know because it's been 444 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:09,800 demonstrated. It's been acted out. 445 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,480 For now I know that thou fearest Amen, which isn't talking about 446 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,440 trembling. It's talking about reverence. 447 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,920 It's talking about respect. Now I know that you reverence 448 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:27,200 and respect God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy Son, whom 449 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:33,640 thou lovest, which is the only one upon whom all these other 450 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,880 things are predicated and hinged. 451 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,200 The great nation and the land, it's all really on the altar, as 452 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,960 Isaac is laying on the altar, he says. 453 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:48,880 But for now, I know because you didn't withhold from me what or 454 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:58,760 who you loved. I wonder if he knows I have a 455 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:05,320 reverence and respect for him. I wonder if he really knows. 456 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:10,480 Can he know based upon the demonstration of what I'm laying 457 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:18,160 on my altar? He says if I'm putting terms 458 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,960 like this, Abraham, you've presented to me like others has 459 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:30,040 offered to their gods, you're not willing to give me less than 460 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:38,240 what men have given to them. Now I know we need a now I know 461 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:44,560 moment with God. Now I know you're not playing 462 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,720 games. Now I know you're not just in 463 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,720 this thing for the blessing. Now I know that you'll be with 464 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,320 me as long as I scratch you, right? 465 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,560 But if I get sandpaper with you, you're going to turn on me. 466 00:29:55,560 --> 00:30:02,240 Now I know, now I know. And God asked Abraham, look at 467 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,440 this year. God asked him to surrender Isaac 468 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,800 at a mountain in the land of Moriah. 469 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:12,200 That's what Jesus 22 says. We don't have time to look at 470 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,400 this deeply, but just for consideration. 471 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:20,800 The Mount of Moriah, even in the land of Moriah, is the same 472 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,640 location that in the future will become the site for the temple 473 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,160 that Solomon would build. The Bible says in Second 474 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,120 Chronicles chapter #3 and verse one. 475 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,800 Then Solomon begin to build the House of the Lord at Jerusalem 476 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,000 in Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, 477 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,000 in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor 478 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,200 of Ornan the Jebusite. There's a lot of history with 479 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:48,880 Mount Moriah and that land. It's not just where Abraham 480 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,160 offers Isaac. It's where David pauses whenever 481 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,720 there's the sword that's drawn toward Jerusalem. 482 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,120 And David's like Ornan. I would like to have your oxen. 483 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,600 I'd like to have the, the, the, the, the, the yoke that's upon 484 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,680 them. I want to buy them because I'm 485 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,200 going to make a sacrifice right here. 486 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,320 I'm going to build an altar. I'm going to make a sacrifice. 487 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,680 And he's like, oh, you can have, He says, no, I don't want to 488 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,080 give to God something that doesn't cost me something. 489 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:13,720 And he says, I'm going to buy them. 490 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,640 And he built an altar. He made a sacrifice and later in 491 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,360 the Scripture tells us that Solomon at the very place of 492 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:23,640 that altar, that's where he started building the temple. 493 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,320 So there's a lot of history. Isn't it amazing and this is the 494 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,000 way my mind works tonight that the future side of the temples 495 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,800 were Abraham willingly offered Isaac as a sacrifice to God. 496 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,360 And yet sister Sheila in that I see a truth for every generation 497 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,200 that the future of the church, however I say future, the future 498 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,240 of the church depends on our surrendering our children to God 499 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,560 with abandoned. That's where the church will be 500 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:56,000 built and go on because if you don't surrender your kids, you 501 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,480 don't have a generation for a future church. 502 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,000 It's good as brother Fred is around here. 503 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,840 He's he's mowed for years. He'll do anything. 504 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,480 I asked him if I called him he would anytime he would do it. 505 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,120 But he's going to push up tulips on these days. 506 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,680 And I'm not trying to be morbid, but he's going to push up tulips 507 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,520 one of these days. And if there's no children, if 508 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,120 there's no younger generation, if there's whenever Bishop and 509 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,960 them go, if there's not a younger generation, if we don't 510 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,760 teach our kids, if we don't instruct them, if we don't show 511 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,880 them the necessity and all these things, there won't be a future 512 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,800 church. Yeah, overall there will be. 513 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,160 I think God's going to have a remedy. 514 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,840 He always has. But I'm talking about there will 515 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,760 never be a future church if we don't learn to surrender our 516 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,040 children today. It's on that that a future 517 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:50,000 church exists. So we go back to the previous 518 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,640 chapter. I know, oh, he's going back. 519 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,000 We ain't going to get done. He thinks he's going. 520 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,280 But in verse 14, we had Abraham rose early in the morning to 521 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,680 release Ishmael. Now we have Abraham rising early 522 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,480 in the morning verse #3 to start his journey for the sacrifice of 523 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,720 Isaac. Again, is, is this prompt 524 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,240 obedience for Abraham? I don't know. 525 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,760 Is he wanting to go undetected? So we understand that God spoke 526 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,840 this to Abraham. We, we don't have record that he 527 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,360 ever shared it with his wife. Matter of fact, there were other 528 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:26,760 times that God promised thing to Abraham. 529 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,720 He didn't have a conversation with his wife about it. 530 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:30,720 He, she had to find out from God. 531 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,720 So I don't know if this this is prompt obedience or if he's 532 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:39,920 trying to go undetected. All right, there's a reason why 533 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,560 even Jewish tradition and Jewish old, old commentaries, they even 534 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,840 believe that the death that happens in the next chapter, 535 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:50,800 chapter 23, which is the death of Sarah, is because she come to 536 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,480 learn of the near death that almost happened for her son 537 00:33:54,480 --> 00:34:01,840 Isaac, Amen. So I don't know. 538 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:04,920 But nevertheless, he got up early, he leaves. 539 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:11,120 Look at this now he leaves his location before journeying 540 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,920 prepared for sacrifice. It's amazing to me. 541 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,480 The Bible says he clave wood or he cut wood before he went. 542 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:25,480 He didn't wait till he got there then cut the wood, which he 543 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,159 could have because that area had plenty of of wood in the area to 544 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:31,520 do so. But he cut it before he went. 545 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,840 He cut the wood, he claved the wood before he went. 546 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:39,400 In other words, Abraham's not going to arrive at the scene, at 547 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,920 the place and then begin to excuse himself because he has no 548 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,800 wood for sacrifice. He's thinking about sacrifice 549 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:52,800 before he ever left the house. He's planning and preparing for 550 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,040 sacrifice before he ever gets at the appointed spot. 551 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:03,880 He's can I tell you today that we prepare for sacrifice before 552 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,760 we ever reach the place of sacrifice, just to see that I 553 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,280 don't get here and say, OK, I'm going to worship, I'm going to 554 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:11,680 sacrifice. No, no, no. 555 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,440 As I'm getting ready and then on a Wednesday, even whenever I 556 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,200 wake up in the morning, I'm already thinking about sacrifice 557 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:23,200 on Wednesday night. Because whenever I come with 558 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,480 wood already prepared, I don't have to waste time cutting wood. 559 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,880 I'm all ready to lay wood in order. 560 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:31,760 Some people got to get here early enough. 561 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,840 They got to pray through all their dilemma in order to have 562 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,280 church. Well, honey, if you just had the 563 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,160 daily prayer time at home, you wouldn't have to do that when 564 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:43,480 you got to church. Got to prepare after. 565 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,600 We know you prepare before you ever get here. 566 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,960 He's bringing along the wood. He's even bringing along the 567 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:54,160 sacrifice from the place of origin, from where he leaves. 568 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,680 He's prepared for this and that, folks, is something that's 569 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:00,920 rooted all throughout Old Testament. 570 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,320 Old Testament is built upon the sacrificial system. 571 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,000 You see it, it's bloody. There's animals being that 572 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,280 that's being killed and being slain and being offered for sin 573 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,560 offerings, trespass offerings, peace offerings, all these 574 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,400 different types of offerings. Amen. 575 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,440 That's taking place in Scripture and Leviticus is very good about 576 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,040 it. It's prescribing what type of 577 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,480 animal, how old it should be, what else should be brought with 578 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,800 it for this particular offering. If you want to sin, offering it 579 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,440 takes a certain animal at a certain age and certain things 580 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,360 accompany it. You know what that meant? 581 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,760 That meant nobody went to the Tabernacle scratching their 582 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,800 head. Well, I wonder why I'm going to 583 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:41,560 give God No, because it required a certain animal, a certain age, 584 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:44,040 certain things with it for certain sacrifices. 585 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,680 And so if you wanted a sin offering, you had to be 586 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,120 premeditating about that before you ever got there to have the 587 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,440 right sacrifice at the right age with the right accompanying 588 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,200 things to offer to God. You know what that was? 589 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,640 That was a safeguard for God's people not to be mindless in 590 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:04,360 their worship, but they would engage their not mindless 591 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:11,760 worship, but mindful worship. What is that that's preparing 592 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:16,840 before you leave the house? You, you have premeditated 593 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,360 murder when somebody needs to have some premeditated worship, 594 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,840 premeditated sacrifice. Listen, you don't show up 595 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:26,480 meetings where you know that they're going to take up an 596 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,520 offering and open your wallet and say, well, look at there, I 597 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,440 don't have no money. There's nothing premeditated 598 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,760 about that. They've been advertising it for 599 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,600 three months that they going to take up an offering, special 600 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,160 offering for XYZ. You know what you do, you make 601 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,440 sure you're ready. Then whenever you go, you're 602 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:49,840 going to be able to give. If not, maybe you do that 603 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:58,840 because you don't want to give. Well, they're going to hope that 604 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:03,920 they keep me in Idaho somebody. Amen. 605 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:09,440 So he's mindful of this first instance of worship in Scripture 606 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,840 right here, right? Our dear Pastor Wilkes told us 607 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,160 about the law first mentioned. It's true for Scripture. 608 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,720 First time a word is mentioned usually gives its purest 609 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:20,360 definition, or at least its definition origin. 610 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,360 It might get broader, a little deeper, but that is the core of 611 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,640 what it means. And so whenever Abraham talks to 612 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,720 the two lads that are with him and he's going to go to this 613 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:30,560 Yonder mountain, that's afar off, says me. 614 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:36,360 And the lads going to Yonder mountain to worship, Abraham 615 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:37,840 knew what was going to take place on that mountain 616 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:45,480 Sacrifice. And he called it worship because 617 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,240 at the heart of worship is sacrifice. 618 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,560 So that's where we're going. So three day journey, three day 619 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,760 journey from the time he left to get into the mountainous region 620 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:02,240 or area. Folks, do you understand the 621 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:04,480 mind games that could happen in three days? 622 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,200 Toton Wood, having your son there, knowing he's soon to be 623 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,360 no more? Do you understand the 624 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:18,600 contemplations, the reconsiderations that can happen 625 00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,040 in three days? And here he is journeying with 626 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,600 all of that. And yet the Bible tells us that 627 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,800 Abraham stayed committed to the request. 628 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,840 And there even seems to be a sense of faith. 629 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:35,000 Everybody say faith at the final curing for this, this metalwork 630 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:38,880 Abraham, this is the proving. This is like a final, final work 631 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,720 here. Abraham has a sense of faith and 632 00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:45,320 he says to those two that stay servants that stay, I am the 633 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:51,960 lad, go Yonder and worship and come again to you. 634 00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:59,560 Who's going to come again? The young lad and I, that's 635 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,880 faith. Hebrews tells us about his faith 636 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:08,160 in Hebrews 11 and verse 17. The Bible says by faith Abraham, 637 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:14,280 when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received 638 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:19,560 the promises offered up his only begotten Son, of whom it was 639 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:24,400 said, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called look. 19 640 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:31,120 accounting that God was able to raise him. 641 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:32,480 Who him? Isaac. 642 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:38,720 To raise Isaac up even from the dead from whence also received 643 00:40:38,720 --> 00:40:40,000 him and a like figure. What do you say? 644 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,600 Abraham had so much faith. He believed that even if Ioffer 645 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,640 him up as a sacrifice, God can resurrect him. 646 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,800 Now we're sitting here saying, Oh yeah, right. 647 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,680 Yeah, no, Abraham, you're saying that with having read the Bible 648 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,880 and seen countless read resurrections and Christ 649 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,520 resurrected himself. But I'm talking about a man. 650 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,040 To this point, we have no recorded mention of a 651 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:08,600 resurrection in Scripture yet. And he's saying without 652 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:16,600 precedent, God raise him up. Now that's some heavy faith. 653 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,840 It's like it'd be like the day seeing something happened that 654 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,960 you didn't even know God could do, you know, or there was no 655 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,560 precedent of him doing before. Well, I think God will just do 656 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:34,000 this. I'm just saying this is the 657 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,880 faith that we're seeing Abraham, and so his faith is at its peak. 658 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,720 Has it always been like that? No, we've seen Abraham the 659 00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:42,600 doubter, but he's there right now. 660 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,760 He believed dog would resurrect Isaac even if he sacrificed 661 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,120 Isaac. It's amazing. 662 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,760 It's amazing for a man who had struggles. 663 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:57,840 I mean, he's having a good day. Praise God, he's having a good 664 00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:59,080 day. If he's having one of his bad 665 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,360 days, he might not have made a three day journey. 666 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,040 But in this chapter, and we see a lot of these, if you're 667 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,360 getting worried because I'm not to verse 14 yet, it's OK because 668 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,800 verses 15 through 24, there won't be a whole lot to mention 669 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,120 there. In case anybody's getting 670 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:16,800 nervous. Sister Maya, she's biting her 671 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,880 fingernails and stuff. No, I'm joking. 672 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:20,960 She isn't. I don't think she is. 673 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,080 There's a lot of typologies here in the Scripture, right? 674 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,600 A lot of typologies of Christ, a lot of foreshadowing that's 675 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,320 taking place here in Scripture. And I'm not going to say all of 676 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,720 them, but there are several of them, right? 677 00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:41,440 For one, Isaac is labeled as the only son of his father that's 678 00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:45,280 destined to be sacrifice. That sounds like another only 679 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:51,720 son that the New Testament talks about destined to be a sacrifice 680 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:54,240 upon the tree. And for a portion of the way. 681 00:42:54,240 --> 00:42:56,640 The Bible tells us there is a one position whenever they get 682 00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,760 to the base of that region of of of the land of Moriah and the 683 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,520 mountains that the Bible particularly tells us that 684 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:08,760 Abraham took the wood and he placed it upon his son Isaac and 685 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,960 Isaac carried the wood. We know that there was a part of 686 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:17,040 the journey that Christ had wood on his shoulders to that he 687 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:21,080 carried to the place, or at least with the aid of another, 688 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,440 carried to the place of sacrifice. 689 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,320 And in all of this we got to pause. 690 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,640 You've all had Doctor Lane come through here at one time. 691 00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,520 You probably don't remember it when we talked about the binding 692 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:38,000 or the, the acada of, of, of Isaac, which is the binding. 693 00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,480 Isaac in Scripture here is old enough to carry wood. 694 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,520 We know that for a fact. Josephus, who writes the 695 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:50,120 Antiquities of the Jews, says that in this moment now Isaac 696 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,200 was 25 years old at the time of the binding. 697 00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:57,320 Some Jewish rabbinical commentaries, Bareishis Raba, 698 00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:02,120 says that Isaac was 37 years old at the binding. 699 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:07,240 They take the fact, Sarah being 90 whenever she had him in 127 700 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:09,280 when she died. They believe him that her death 701 00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,320 was prompted by the near death of her son. 702 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,560 So if anywhere even between 25 and 37 years old, Isaac being 703 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:26,320 Isaac with his dad being hundreds of years old could have 704 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:32,440 rejected if he wanted to reject. This ain't man putting a 705 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:41,840 helpless boy on an altar. This is a man allowing another 706 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:45,360 man. Operative word is allowing 707 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:50,760 allowing another man to place him up on this altar, which 708 00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,200 mirrors another New Testament story. 709 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,960 Christ said they didn't take my life. 710 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,720 I gave my life. I could have got off the cross 711 00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:07,600 if I wanted to. Foreshadowings. 712 00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,200 Typology's here in the Scripture. 713 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,240 Oh, it sounds like something else. 714 00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,680 So much is recorded though, in the Bible, and I've already 715 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,400 alluded to this, but there's a lot recorded about Abraham and 716 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,560 there's a lot recorded about Jacob and there's a whole, whole 717 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:26,480 lot recorded about Joseph in the last several chapters of the, 718 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,680 of, of the book of Genesis that we'll get to one of these years. 719 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:35,320 But Isaac just gets a meager little mention here in the 720 00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,720 Scripture, little mention, and then like passed over. 721 00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:42,480 And that's all right. Not a whole lot of notice had it 722 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:47,120 not been for his willingness to be sacrificed. 723 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,280 It's like the gleaming moment of his life. 724 00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,960 Let me tell you, if you're known for anything, let it be known 725 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,600 for your sacrifice. Not a whole lot written about 726 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,320 him, but the thing that was written about him and noted his 727 00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:07,080 sacrifice. But everything doesn't. 728 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,000 Everything. Every glimpses of Calvary, all 729 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,960 those foreshadowings, all of those typologies, they don't 730 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,520 just stay with Isaac. And the Bible does this. 731 00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,280 It switches to Isaac to something else, switches from 732 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,560 Isaac, begins to carry over to the ram that's caught in the 733 00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,920 thicket. Right, Because Isaac asked his 734 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,720 dad. He's noting the fire. 735 00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:26,520 He's not in the wood. Of course it's on my shoulders. 736 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:34,120 Dad, where is the lamb? We are everything we need, but 737 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:38,720 we don't have a lamb. And the feigned reply of Abraham 738 00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:46,120 to his son was God will provide himself the lamb. 739 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,440 I mean Abraham's, I mean Isaac's had a place. 740 00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:54,120 You know, Dad, how in the world, how are we going to, how are we 741 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:55,760 going to accomplish this without a lamb? 742 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:04,040 But with certainty, his Father says God will provide him. 743 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:10,560 And no doubt that foreshadows a ram being found in a thicket in 744 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:14,000 verse 13. But even greater than that, it 745 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:19,800 foreshadows what John said. Behold, the Lamb of God, which 746 00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:24,800 taketh away the sins of the world. 747 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,880 And every generation since Isaac Ford, I believe, have wrestled 748 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,280 with the same question. How in the world is this thing 749 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,680 going to be pulled off? And before Calvary, it's always 750 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,960 been God will provide. And ever since Calvary, it's 751 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:45,960 been God has provided, Amen. God has provided a lamb, a ram 752 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:50,120 caught, the Bible says in verse 13, in the thicket by his horns. 753 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,240 A thicket is a dense growth. It's a dense growth of bushes or 754 00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:56,800 shrubs or small trees with intertwined branches. 755 00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:01,280 But in the ancient Near East, it often meant a patch of thorny 756 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,120 brush. Thorny brush? 757 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:11,560 So a ram entangled in thorns by its horns. 758 00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:19,480 Bible tells us in New Testament Scripture that the soldiers 759 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:27,960 planted together a crown of an emblem of sin, right? 760 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,160 All the way back to Genesis 3, when the ground is cursed, a 761 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:37,360 curse as a result from sin, thorns and thistles will grow. 762 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:43,480 And yet now we have this crown, if you will, that's placed upon 763 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:46,240 the head of the Lord Jesus Christ. 764 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:50,240 It was placed upon His head according to Matthew 27, right? 765 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,880 A ram caught in the thicket, Jesus with the entanglement of 766 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:58,160 thorns up on his head. And the Bible says in verse #13 767 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:04,080 Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt 768 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:09,080 offering in the stead. Everybody say in the stead, in 769 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:13,400 the stead, or as they substitute for his son. 770 00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:16,400 The New Testament scripture says it over and over and says it 771 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,560 many different ways. But just pull a couple of 772 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:24,520 phrases from Romans chapter #6 The Bible says that God died for 773 00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:29,840 the ungodly. It says God died for us right 774 00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,320 pre adventure someone even dared to die, but God commended his 775 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:39,000 love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, he died for 776 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:43,200 us. What in our stead he was our 777 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:47,920 substitute. We see that all the way back in 778 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:54,240 this moment. So this very place then Abraham 779 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:58,160 calls Jehovah Jireh or the Lord our provider in the Hebrew, it's 780 00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,840 year a literally means see to it concerning the sacrifice. 781 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,840 They were basically saying the Lord will see to it. 782 00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,560 The Lord will see to it. So the place where David made a 783 00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:14,560 sacrifice of oxen and with the wood of of of the yoke had that 784 00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,520 costly, costly offering he gave to the Lord because he had 785 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,000 counted the people. It's also the place then where 786 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,280 the temple would stand someday and what's going to take place 787 00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:27,320 at that temple. Myriad of sacrifices would be 788 00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:31,560 brought to this place, Abraham says, in this mount, in this 789 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,640 mount, the Mount of the Lord, it shall be seen, or in the Mount 790 00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,640 of the Lord it shall be provided forever. 791 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,760 Now recorded in Israel's history, when the people would 792 00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:44,080 approach that temple there in Mount Moriah with sacrifices, 793 00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:48,240 they would recall this day of Genesis 22 that God would 794 00:50:48,240 --> 00:50:51,600 provide for them. And all the sacrifices to the 795 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:57,040 Old Testament is based upon that premise that He will provide, He 796 00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:05,880 will see to it, He will give the sacrifice to end all sacrifices. 797 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,640 Genesis 22, verse 15, We're doing all right. 798 00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:14,400 Give me 5 minutes at a time. Verse #15 And the Bible says in 799 00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:18,280 the Angel, the Lord called unto Abraham, Abraham out of heaven 800 00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,440 the second time, and said by myself, I have sworn, save the 801 00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:24,200 Lord for because thou has done this thing, what thing? 802 00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,680 The sacrifice. And that's not withheld by son, 803 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,640 by the only son. That in multiplying this should 804 00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,360 sound very familiar. We've regurgitated this over and 805 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,640 over and over and over and over. Amen. 806 00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:36,440 That in blessing I will bless thee. 807 00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,720 In multiplying I will multiply by seed, as the stars of the 808 00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:43,440 heaven, as the sand which is upon the seashore, and by seed 809 00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,920 shall possess the gate of his enemies. 810 00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:52,400 Let's just note here, just for a quick minute, that blessing 811 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,520 seems to be tied to obedience here. 812 00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,040 Or at least obedience brings a confirmation to what has already 813 00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:03,520 been spoken over Abraham's life, right? 814 00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,000 And we hear about promised descendants, stars of the sky, 815 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,400 sands along the seashore, but also the land is entangled in 816 00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,360 here too, because he says he shall possess the gate of his 817 00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,640 enemies and gates denoted cities that denoted, if you will, 818 00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,320 property. And in thy seat you all the 819 00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,640 nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my 820 00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,000 voice. So Abraham returned unto his 821 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,080 young men just like he said he would. 822 00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,400 And they rose up and went together to bear Sheba and 823 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,640 Abraham dwell at bear Sheba. You know a principle that I see 824 00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:34,880 happening right here in Scripture. 825 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:37,840 He says in multiply, and I'll multiply thee and blessing I 826 00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:39,680 will bless thee The descendant stars, the sky. 827 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,800 All this I see a New Testament principle in from the book of 828 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,920 Matthew. But the Lord of the master of 829 00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:51,080 the house said you've been faithful over a few things. 830 00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:56,520 I'll make you ruler over Abraham. 831 00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:01,400 I can entrust you with multitudes because I've 832 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:08,520 witnessed how you've handled 1 in multiply. 833 00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:12,840 And I'll multiply you because I've seen what you've done with 834 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,640 Isaac. You've not kept him back. 835 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,960 You gave him to me, and so I'm figuring if you gave him to me, 836 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:26,440 you'll give anything that comes through your loins to me. 837 00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,600 OK, let's go on verse #20 Brother Reese, will you read 838 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:32,760 this for me? I'm just joking. 839 00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:38,640 It's a genealogy. And it came to pass. 840 00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:45,360 Yeah, and it came to pass after these things that it was told 841 00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:50,280 Abraham saying, behold, Milka, she has also born children to 842 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:51,280 thy brethren. Nahor. 843 00:53:51,720 --> 00:53:54,960 This goes all the way back, all the way back to to Haran, right. 844 00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:59,960 His brother Nahor, he also has children, his first born Buzz, 845 00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:06,080 his brother Kim Mule, the father of Amram and Hassad and Hazo and 846 00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:11,800 Phil, Dash and Jidlath and Beth. You'll look at verse 23 and 847 00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,400 Beth, you'll begat Rebecca. Everybody say Rebecca, these 848 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,880 eight Milka did bear to Nahor Abraham's brother and this 849 00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:27,440 concubine whose name was Ryuma, she bear also Tiba and Gaham and 850 00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:33,280 the Ash and Makkah. Interestingly, between the the 851 00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,120 the wife and the concubine, there's 12. 852 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,280 Jacob will later have 12. Ishmael has 12. 853 00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,720 But what's most important again? And it it says, and it came to 854 00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:46,440 pass after these things. So we got a passage of time. 855 00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,720 We got unfolding events, however long this was. 856 00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,000 But the sharing of the descendants is really for this 857 00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,920 purpose, right? Because genealogies are always 858 00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:54,920 doing something for us. They're connecting this to 859 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,080 something else. They're bridging a gap. 860 00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:02,280 And that's what Beth Yule, who has a daughter named Rebecca, 861 00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:09,640 not spelled like yours. The importance is that's teeing 862 00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:14,600 up the ball for just two chapters over Genesis 24, which 863 00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:16,280 is the longest chapter of Genesis. 864 00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:21,520 When the servant goes to find a wife for Isaac and that wife 865 00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:26,080 will be Rebecca. Spoiler alert. 866 00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:27,760 Look, God does. Spoiler alert. 867 00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:33,560 It's like little, little Easter eggs to discover Rebecca. 868 00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:37,440 What's interesting about that? And I'm I'm closing. 869 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,920 I am, you can stay on me. So we see the sacrifice 870 00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:47,360 concerning Isaac. We don't even see Isaac show up 871 00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,480 again until Rebecca is presented to him as a wife. 872 00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,800 And if Isaac does have some typology or foreshadowing of 873 00:55:55,800 --> 00:56:01,360 Christ, that's interesting because two major events, the 874 00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:09,160 sacrifice and receiving his bride, receiving this bride, and 875 00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:14,120 you'll hear he kind of just kind of off into the horizon with 876 00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:15,920 Rebecca. They go into the scene kind of 877 00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:20,480 closes essentially on Isaac once he receives his bride. 878 00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:26,960 Folks, I'm awaiting that day when the curtain closes and he's 879 00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:32,400 received us as his bride. Amen. 880 00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:38,120 Purchased it at the altar, but receives it then later. 881 00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:41,680 Amen, Someone say Amen. Next week we're going to talk 882 00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:47,200 about death. Sarah dies, folks, I'm telling 883 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,280 you. I mean, if you had a baby at the 884 00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,240 age she was, she probably died pretty soon too. 885 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:58,280 But she going to die. She going to die, so we're going 886 00:56:58,280 --> 00:56:59,360 to talk about we got to got it all. 887 00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:00,920 She's going to die and then we're going to talk about a 888 00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:02,360 wedding. I mean, that's kind of how it 889 00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,240 all happens. Death, wedding, baby bedding, 890 00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:06,920 you know, baby dedications that kind of all go together. 891 00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:11,440 So that's right Hatch patch dispatch. 892 00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:14,560 Sometimes you do the patch. Amen. 893 00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:16,920 Hallelujah. So please just remember tonight, 894 00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,360 tomorrow night prayer at the church. 895 00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:24,800 All right, God still provides. God still provides. 896 00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:27,680 Father, we come to you tonight. We're so thankful again God, 897 00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:30,800 that we had this opportunity. I pray, O Lord, continue to open 898 00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,440 our minds of night and revelation, God, concerning your 899 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,240 word. In them are the words of life, 900 00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,040 God, words to live by. I pray, O Lord God, for 901 00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,400 conviction, Lord Jesus, God, that turns our hearts, Lord, 902 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,600 towards you. God, help us, Lord, to repair 903 00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,560 our ways. God, anywhere that there may be 904 00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,920 no alignment. I pray, Father God, we want to 905 00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,000 be as you would want us to be, God. 906 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,040 We want Lord, to surrender and render our bodies and the 907 00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,560 faculties of our being, Lord to the same passion, Lord, as we 908 00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:58,120 did when we were serving and other things. 909 00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,720 The Lord toward you God will give the glory and the praise 910 00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,680 God for what you accomplish. The Lord, this week in Jesus 911 00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,200 name I pray and the church say Amen. 912 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:08,160 Amen. God bless you tonight. 913 00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:09,880 Jesus name Hallelujah.