God Will Provide

ABRAHAM AND ISAAC: GOD WILL PROVIDE

(MULTILINE REVEAL SMALL)

A. The Legendary Life

1. Abraham’s background…

“The LORD had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father’s household

to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you;

I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.’

So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five

years old when he set out from Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for

the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.” (Genesis 12:1-5; 15:1-6; 17:1-6, 15-21)

a. God promised Abram that he would make a great nation out of his descendants.

2. Abraham’s crisis…

“Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, ‘Abraham!’ ‘Here I am,’ he replied.

Then God said, ‘Take your son, your only son, whom you love – Isaac – and go to

the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.’”

(Genesis 22:1-2)

a. God tells Abraham to the child through whom the promise was to be fulfilled.

B. The Life-Changing Lesson

“Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for

the place God had told him about. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place

in the distance. He said to his servants, ‘Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy

go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.’” (Genesis 22:3-5)

“By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced

the promises, was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him,

‘It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.’ Abraham reasoned that God

could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.”

(Hebrews 11:17-19)

1. Abraham the of God, regarding the of God, and in to God.

“Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself

carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went together, Isaac spoke up

and said to his father Abraham, ‘Father?’ ‘Yes, my son?’ Abraham replied.

‘The fire and the wood are here,’ Isaac said, ‘but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?’ Abraham answered, ‘God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.’

And the two of them went on together.” (Genesis 22:6-8)

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