<TITLE>18. Par 60-62</TITLE>L-60 Now, I used to be a patrolman. I could walk any time. Six days a week I used to have to walk around thirty miles every day, through the jungles. Well, I know men of them days, which didn't have the travel like we have today of automobiles, they walked where they went, they easily walk, say, twenty-five miles a day. All right. Say, he went--he went twenty-five miles each day and three days, would be seventy-five miles. Then he lifted up his eyes and saw a way off in a distance, the mountains where God had told him.
Now, it's at least a hundred miles, nearly, away. You can see a mountain maybe, fifty or seventy-five miles away. But say, we said, at least it was a hundred miles. Then when he drew near the mountain... I just love this. Listen at it.
He said; now to the servants he said, "You stay here." Took the wood off the mule, laid it upon his son's back (Beautiful type of Christ here at Calvary.), laid it upon Isaac's back, which through Isaac... That's Isaac's obedience to death was the same as Christ obedient... And through Isaac was the seed of Abraham; through Isaac come Christ, and through Christ comes you and I by the Holy Spirit Who woos us to God, gives us the same promise, the same hope, the same Life, the same Spirit; everything that they had, same children. We being dead in Christ, we take Abraham's Seed and are heirs according to the promise. And look now in this type here.

L-61 Little Isaac with the wood laying on his back, and he said now... I love these words of Abraham. He said, to the servants, "You abide here," maybe not in that tone of voice, that word. "You wait here while the lad and I goes yonder to worship. And the lad and I will return." Amen.
How is he going to return? If he's going up to kill him, how's he going to return? There you are. That's the trust in God. Oh, he didn't know how it would be. That's the reason he could call it Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide.
So he said... He started up the hill, Isaac packing the wood, just the same as Christ packing the cross going up the hill, the sacrifice place. And when he got way up the winding mountain to the top, way up in the rugged rocky country, up in there where he was at, then he laid up some rocks and made an altar. And he laid the wood down here. And he set the fire.

L-62 Then he said, little Isaac said to him; he said, "Father?"
He said, "Here am I, my son."
He said, "Here is the wood, and here is the altar, but where is the lamb for the burnt sacrifice?"
Abraham, looked down at him; he said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb for the sacrifice...?... knowing what was in that father's heart. It was that crucial moment, ready for a decision.
Are you at that spot tonight, sinner friend? that crucial moment where there must be a decision made in a few minutes?
He said, "God will provide for Himself a sacrifice." And they got everything ready. Then Abraham took his only son, and took his hands and bound them, and laid it behind, laid him up on the altar, pulled the knife out of the sheath, and maybe, he was choking back the tears. But he had to make the decision. Would he obey God, yes, or no? What are you going to do about it?
Pulled the knife back, reached over and stroked the curly hair of his boy, laid it back, raised his little head back, and raised the knife to plunge it into his own son's throat, not sparing his own son because God ask him to do it.
And when he did, the Holy Spirit caught his hand, said, "Abraham, stay your hand. Stay your hand, Abraham. I know now that you love Me." And just about that time, a little ram bleated behind him (That's a male sheep.), caught in the wilderness by its horns.


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