JESUS AND ISAAC - Week 6
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INTRODUCTION
1. The accounts of the Sacrificial Sons, Isaac and Jesus, are among the most powerful and poignant in all of Scripture.
2. Both accounts are about both the sacrifices of Fathers (Abraham and God) and the Sons (Isaac and Jesus).
3. Both accounts resulted in the consummation of the will of God through faith.
4. Isaac is an OT type of Christ .
5. In a sense he is “only begotten” ().
6. He had a supernatural birth.
7. Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son.
8. Isaac carried the wood on which he was to be sacrificed.
9. The sight of Isaac’s sacrifice is though to correspond very closely, geographically, to the site of Christ’s crucifixion.
10. Abraham’s statement that “God will provide for Himself a Lamb” is prophetic of the mission of Christ.
SACRIFICE MEANS GIVING UP SOMETHING YOU LOVE
SACRIFICE MEANS GIVING UP SOMETHING YOU LOVE
A. If you don’t love it, it’s not a sacrifice.
B. The Rich Young Ruler, for instance, was willing to make a lot of “sacrifices” for the kingdom as long as it did not cost him what he really loved.
Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and said:
C. Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you
C. Notice the escalating descriptive phrases of Abraham’s regard for Isaac in the verse (this verse contains the first occurence in the Bible).
D. This can be compared to where the Passover Lamb is described progressively as “a lamb,” “the lamb,” and “your lamb.”
Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.
E. In fact, the Passover initiation and observance can be used to mirror the acounts of the sacrifices of Isaac and Christ.
But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
John 1
But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.
C.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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Gen. 22
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
a. Jesus later referred to in Revelation as a “lamb that has been slain...”
F. Both Isaac and Jesus were willing to submit to their Fathers.
a. Each understood that their sacrifice was to have a deeper meaning and accomplish something that nothing else could.
SACRIFICE MEANS OBEDIENCE
SACRIFICE MEANS OBEDIENCE
A. Three times in the passage Abraham says, “Here I am.”
a. This is reminiscent of Isaiah’s response to the Divine Commission in . It indicates a readiness and willingness to obey.
B. God gave Abraham specific instructions, detailed instructions and Abraham followed every one.
a. Some of the commands were even open-ended: “go to the land of Moriah…on one of the mountains which I shall tell you” ().
b. It’s one thing to talk about sacrificial obedience, it’s another thing to sacrificially obey.
C. Jesus demonstrated this by His prayer in the garden, “Nevertheless not my will but thine.”
D. Even though it was costly, Jesus saw sacrificial obedience as a joyful opportunity ().
E. Obedience and sacrifice are impossible to separate.
SACRIFICE MEANS ACTING IN FAITH
SACRIFICE MEANS ACTING IN FAITH
A. Abraham and Isaac believed that their sacrifice would be redeemed by God.
B.
And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,” concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
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B. God had promised Abraham’s greatness through Isaac and Abraham believed that promise.
C. Abraham acted in faith, but not blind faith.
D. God had promised and Abraham acted on that promise.
CONCLUSION
CON
We may not know how God is going to work, but we must believe that He will.
God can do wonderful things with our sacrifices.
He can do what we cannot, if we are willing to turn loose.
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