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Ps 11:19 may be the most profound verses in the NT.
Truth like this comes through suffering.
God wanted to show Abraham His secret, but it could not come without immense suffering.
The secret to which all of us are called is that of making the transition from the flesh to the Spirit.
That time had come when Jesus prepared His disciples for a realm beyond the level of nature and they didn’t like what they were hearing one bit.
It is expedient for you that I go away
Abraham needed a lesson in how to make the transition from the level of nature to the level of the Spirit.
That was the whole purpose in the ordeal of having to sacrifice Isaac.
When God initially said:
Genesis 21:12 (NKJV)
But God said to Abraham, “Do not let it be displeasing in your sight because of the lad or because of your bondwoman.
Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac your seed shall be called.
There was far more that God meant than what Abraham could have known.
Genesis 21:10 (NKJV)
Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac.”
Abraham needed to be taught:
How the offspring of Isaac would be incorporated into the family of God.
The nature of God’s calling of His people.
Although Isaac was a ‘miracle baby’ he was nonetheless born naturally.
Abraham was to receive a lesson not only in God’s calling, but also in what was meant by “seed”.
What Abraham was to learn...
What the writer of Hebrews brings out...
is precisely what the Jews seemed never to understand about Abraham’s seed.
John 8:33 (AV)
They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
These Jews would have been most anoyed that “seed” should mean somthing other than what they understood.
For they took Gen 21:12 to simply mean the exclusion of Ishamael’s line.
Paul said even the non-beleiving Jews spiritual origin was tracable to Hagar.
Likewise, according to Paul, beleiving Gentiles revealed their spiritual ancestry as traceable to Sarah.
Imagine Paul calling a Jew and Arab!
(Islam is largely comprised of the sons of Ismael)
Abrahams ordeal was far more than a trial of his faith...
God did want to see if Abraham loved Him like the heathen oved their gods.
But on a spiritual level.
The spiritual aspect was to demonstrate that there is a discontinuity between the natural level and the spiritual level.
The only way to teach Abraham this was for him to give up Isaac utterly.
Abraham must kill Isaac and see him no more.
Abraham was willing to go thorugh this if only because he knew that God was able to raise Isaac from the dead.
Abraham bade Isaac farwell and raised the knife.....
Suddenly the angel grabbed Abraham’s arm in the nick of time....
God stepped in and Abraham never forgot it.
Abraham got Isaac back but,
Isaac never looked the same again.
Abraham got Isaac back “in a figure”.
Abraham was now detached from his son at a natural level.
The tie ever afterwards was spiritual.
He learned that his “seed” was to be continued not aat the level of nature but by God’s own intervention.
God did not want Isaac to continue by nature.
God wanted Isaac’s existence to be due entirely to the intervention of the Spirit.
Thus Isaac’s posterity woudl be after the “figure” of Isaac — no the Isaac who lived before God’s intervention at mount Moriah.
The Greek work translated “figure” is parabole - a parable, a likeness pointing behond itself, or a figure.
Abraham’s discovery that his seed would be continued only by God’s intervention....
The seed would continue by regeneration not procreation.
Abraham’s true posterity would be reconned as having spring from the “figure” of Isaac, not the Isaac before the sacrifice.
All of Abraham’s posterity who do not undergo a similar death and intervention by God’s act are reckoned to be SONS OF HASTE who have HAGAR for a mother.
God is determined to keep the responsibility fo the continuation of the seed of Isaac to Himself alone.
He let’s nature perpetuate itelf according to the laws of creation and procreation.
In His “Secret” will in the OT God has claimed total responsibility for the continuation of Isaac’s seed.
What matters, then is the “Figure” of Isaac not the “Flesh” of Isaac.
We are son’s of Isaac only if we have been raised up to New Life.
Isaac owed His survival to God alone, not to his father Abraham.
And so it is with us!
The flesh must die for the Spirit to reign.
Nature must die before grace can rule.
What began in the Spirit often seeks perfection in the flesh!
We must never assume that God’s anointing yesterday ensures His blessing upon an institution today!
So many have become worldly,and indifferent to the need for fresh power from on High.
Christ’s warning to the church at Ephesus:
Every conversion is a miracle!
God steps down...
God stoops down…t o where we are.
I don’t want to be a son of Haste.
They that wait upon the Lord...
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