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The Lord Will See To It

Genesis 22:1-8

We invite you to join us for worship each Sunday morning at 9:30. You can also download our service at Baptist-Christian at iTunes. This is one of those situations where understanding comes only from experience. It’s hard to imagine what Abraham must have thought when God told him to sacrifice Isaac. I am using an outline I found from Herbert Lockyer for this series. God provided for Abraham in three distinct and extraordinary ways. We will consider the first today. We see A MEMORIAL OF DIVINE INTERVENTION! This event in Abraham’s life is the first recorded instance of naming a place where God intervened and manifested Himself to a person. One author says most often the point of consecrating a place or giving it extraordinary sanctity was to remind the person of the awful circumstances they were in, and more importantly, to magnify and remind them of God’s great grace that redeemed them out of such severe circumstances. Abraham knew, and saw, Isaac was the son of promise, a holy gift from God that couldn’t be duplicated or replaced. So it was unimaginable that God would ask Abraham to give him up, sacrifice, the only son Abraham would ever have.

Has God ever asked something of you that was just way more than you could imagine? Has He ever called you to Moriah? He often does, not to hurt us, but to bring us face-to-face with our faith in Him. Such an experience will change a person’s life for the rest of their life. God makes it clear to us He is setting us on a course to rendezvous with Him to for the single purpose of driving a knife deep into the heart of our most beloved possession. It could be an attitude, pride, job, independence from God, or anything (anyone) else we love so deeply. God calls His children to meet with Him to put to death their skepticism, reluctance, excuses, and fears of whatever God may ask them to do. Here is a truth for you – God leaves no part of a person’s life untouched, uncalled, uncleansed by His redeeming grace. The journey to Moriah isn’t always instantaneous; it can take days, weeks, months, decades, but the trip must be endured. Only Abraham knows the full weight of that dagger as he lifted it over Isaac. Notice that God didn’t provide the lamb until Abraham raised the knife. God didn’t provide as a result of an ultimatum from Abraham. God delivered Abraham because of His unquestioning faith in God’s resurrection power! Perhaps the most encouraging words any Christian can ever hear from God is “now I know you fear Me above all others.” Of course we understand God knew all along, but Abraham had to know. Men, God is still calling us to Moriah today. All of us must meet with God over the altar of sacrifice. On the altar, under our raised knife is that which is most dear to us, but that which must be dealt with so we can continue our journey with God in ways we would not otherwise know. Men, it is our mandate and our own deliverance that will prepare our families with faith so strong that the most severe circumstances can’t divert them from their own personal meeting with God that will result in Him counting it to us for righteousness.

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