ABRAHAMS TRIAL OF FAITH. by tonabamiro @ 2013-10-25 – 15:11:20 Genesis 22 King James Version (KJV) 1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 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 unto the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. 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. 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. 9 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. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. 11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 13 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. 14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. 15 And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. 19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. 20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor; 21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abrahams brother. 24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. Every example we have in the Old Testament, we have the substance in the New, the Old Testament is a shadow of the New. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, just to name a few in the Old Testament, they all point to our Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament. Preaching on the passage above, the one in Genesis 22, one man of God said we should all try to sacrifice, we should all give our Isaac to God. He said we should indeed sacrifice, even we should sacrifice our money, etc. The story of Abraham in the passage above, is really a story of the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ: it is a story of how God sacrificed His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, for our sin. The place where Abraham was to sacrifice his son (Mount Moriah), this was the same place where Jesus Christ was crucified. We are no more under the law, the Bible says if we would try to be justified by the law, Christ is of no avail unto us. When we preach people have to do something, we bring them under the law; rather, what we should preach is the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. What we should preach is people should put their faith in Jesus, they should put their faith in his sacrifice for the sin of the would, we should preach they should put their faith in him, and they will be led by the Spirit of God. God provided a ram for Abraham, God has provided His Son for us, we put faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. We should not preach the law, that people must do. We should not preach people should observe the Law (Nomos in the the Greek). However, the Lord says if we love him we would obey his commandments (Entolas).
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:38:45 +0000
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