<TITLE>11. Par 116-128</TITLE>L-116 There little Isaac looked around; he said, "Father," he said, "Here's the altar and the--the fire, and..." but said, "where is the sacrifice?"
He said, "God will provide Himself a sacrifice."
Bound his only little son, throwed him up on the altar, pulled out the knife, and started to take his life. "God, You gave him."
As he started pull the knife down, an Angel grabbed his hand, said, "Abraham, Abraham, stay your hand."
Just then a little lamb, ram, bleated in the wilderness, got his horns hooked around some vines. Abraham rushed quickly, grabbed the ram, unloosed his son, and substitutionary (See?) and killed the ram.
Then God spoke to Abraham, said, "Abraham, I know now that you love Me; you haven't withheld anything from Me."

L-121 Now look, for the text I want, let's read in the 13th and 14th verse.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up... a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
You know Who that ram was? That was Christ: offered Him up, instead.
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

L-123 Jehovah-jireh, which was God's first redemptive Name. "Jehovah-jireh" means "the Lord will provide a sacrifice."
Now, He was Jehovah-jireh; He was Jehovah-rapha, nissi, and on down like that. He had seven compound redemptive Names. And substitutionary to a human life took a lamb and offered it up as the provided sacrifice, that in Isaac all the nations would be blessed, and through Isaac came out Christ. "And we being dead in Christ, take on Abraham's Seed and are heirs according to the promise." There you are. And that brings, not in our bodies; we are Gentiles in our bodies; we're sinners in our bodies. But in our souls, being borned again with the same spirit was upon faithful Abraham, that strain down in there makes us want to trust God, but the body gets scared. Oh, if we're the children of Abraham, let's be as father Abraham was.

L-125 Now, Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide the sacrifice." He did provide the sacrifice.
Now, in Romans the 4th chapter, let's begin at the 17th verse.
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,)... (parenthesis)... before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Now, you see? Then we as Christians don't look, feel, see, taste, smell, hear, when we're speaking to God. We just believe God; and it was imputed to Abraham for righteousness.

L-128 Now, the senses are worldly instruments. You believe it? Now, God can control them; I'll admit that. But they are not given to us to contact our heavenly Father, because He is not in human flesh. God is a Spirit. And we contact Him by spirit, through faith, believing. Now, if we... Say I--I have a... When I had any hair, I had wavy hair just like my daddy. My daddy had close-set eyes, deep, blue. Many people say, "You look like your dad," or, "look like your mother." Well, I have a lot of things that--that's like my people. My old granddad built the Tabernacle here. Some say, "Oh, you're just like your granddad. You look like your granddad. You talk like him. You have a nature like him. What is that? It's some strain that's been handed down through that generation, that I have here.
You look like your parent; there's something about them. You seen a little girl, say, "Don't she look like her mother? She just acts like her mother." You've seen people do that.
Now, if we are born of our heavenly Father, God, "Who calls those things which are not as though they were," there's got to be something in us like that. See? That's the reason that a real consecrated Christian, that's all out for God, looks to what God said instead of what you see or feel. That's the earthly man there; if we walk in the flesh, we can't please God. We walk after the Spirit. See?


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