The Rest of the Story!
Genesis 22
Pastor Kim Wenzel
1 Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called.
“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”
2 “Take
your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the
land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the
mountains, which I will show you.”
3 The
next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two
of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped
wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had
told him about.
4 On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
5 “Stay
here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will
travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come
right back.”
6 So
Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders,
while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them
walked on together,
7 Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”
8 “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.
9 When
they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built
an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and
laid him on the altar on top of the wood.
10 And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice.
11 At that moment the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”
12 “Don’t
lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way,
for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me
even your son, your only son.”
13 Then
Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he
took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his
son.
14 Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
15 Then the angel of the Lord called again to Abraham from heaven.
16 “This is what the Lord says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your son, your only son, I swear by my own name that
17 I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants[a]beyond
number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your
descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies.
18 And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have obeyed me.”
Today's Verse
James 3:1
Not many of you should become
teachers, my fellow
believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more
strictly.
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