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THEME.
(1) God tested Abraham faith.
(2) examples of obedience.
(3) Abraham builts a Altar and sacrifices a ram.
(4) Abraham names the place
Jehovah jireh.and its still is named today.
(5) Abraham promised blessing.
(6) Conversions of Gentiles foretold because of Abraham faith.
[1] Abraham offering Isaac.
Verse 1
Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
-( Divine methods used by testing believers.
By demanding great sacrifices
Ge 22-1; Ex 20-20;
By leading men in difficult ways. De 8-2;13-3;
By giving opportunities for choice. 1 K 3-5;2 Chr 23-31; Ps 7-9;11-5;17-3;
By proposing hard tasks. Jn 6-5-6;11-6;
By permitting men to suffer when in the pathway of duty.
Ac 16-23;16-34;
By permitting temptation.Ja 1-3;)
Verse 2
He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”
-( Paternal love.examples.
Laban. Ge 31-28;
Jacob. Ge 37-35;52-38;46-30;
David. 2 Sam 12-16;13-39;
Jairus .mk 5-23;
Father of the prodigal. Lu 15-20;)
-( human offered as sacrifices.
Le 18-21;De 12-31;2 K 3-27;
16-3;2 Chr 28-3; Ps 166-38;
Isa 57-5; Jer 19-5; Eze 16-20;)
-( high places used for worship.
Ge 22-2;31-54; Jud 6-26; 1 Sam 9-12;10-5;1 K 3-4;18-19;)
-( example of faith tested.
By a strange plan of campaign
. Jos 6-3;
By reducing a generals army.
Jud 7-7;
By requiring dependence upon a poor widow. 1 K 17-9;
By demanding the last morsel
Of bread. 1 K 17-13;
By requiring what appeared to be useless work.2 K 3-16;
By requiring extensive preparation with no blessings in sight.2 K 4-3;
Other example of. Mt 9-28; Mk 7-27; He 11-8"17"36; Jam 1-3;
1 Pet 1-7;)
Verse 3
So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
