<TITLE>06. Par 18-21</TITLE>L-18 Now, I want to read a text here tonight out of the Bible, if the Lord willing. And we'll talk just a little while on it and then start the prayer line, praying for the sick.
And I believe there's a ministerial breakfast... No, it's a Christian Businessmen's breakfast in the morning, and I think they--they know where it's at...?... perhaps have already announced it.
In the Book of Genesis we wish to read some of God's Word in the 22nd chapter of Genesis, and beginning with the 7th and 8th verse and then the 14th verse inclusive. We read this:
 And Isaac spake unto his father, Abraham, and said, My father: and he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Behold... the wood: but where is the lamb for the burnt-offering?
 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering: so they both went together.
 (14th verse) 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.
And now may He add His Word--His blessings to His Word, the reading of His Word.

L-19 The reason I like to read His Word is because I know that you're going to get something by coming here if you only receive that Word. For my word will fail, and every other man's word will fail, but God's Word cannot fail. And faith cometh by hearing, and hearing, the Word of God.
Now, we'll have to go back a little while tonight to get the--the context of this text: "Jehovah-jireh." God appeared to mankind in seven compound redemptive Names, and in those redemptive Names He represented Himself to the human race, for everything that we have need of while we're in this journey and in our fallen state from glory.
He appeared in these redemptive Names as Jehovah-jireh, "the Lord will provide Himself a sacrifice"; Jehovah-rapha, "the Lord that healeth thee"; "Jehovah, thy banner"; and Jehovah... Seven different compound redemptive Names that He appeared in...

L-20 Now, speaking maybe tonight on this redemptive name, tomorrow night we may take Jehovah-jireh. And now they're inseparable. What He appeared as God to the human race in the beginning, He has to continue on under those Names and under that provision. If He didn't, He certainly told something was wrong when He appeared to the human race and said that's what He was. And look what you'd make God then: just a man. You'd make Him a liar. And if the redemptive Names did not apply to Jesus, then He isn't the Saviour. And if all these redemptive Names was in Jesus, well, then He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. And so there's no way out of it. And you have--can't... They're inseparable. If Jehovah appeared as Jehovah that--that will provide the sacrifice, then He appeared Jehovah that will heal, Jehovah that is our banner, Jehovah that is our shield, Jehovah that is our strength. And Jehovah is our praise, and all these different names that he appeared in, He has to remain that, because He introduced Himself to the human race by those Names. You see it?

L-21 Now, this old man and his young son standing upon the mount ready to be offered: a very beautiful type of Christ and God. Isaac was a type of Christ.
Now, to get something about his life, let's go back at the beginning and find out, how what pictured this up here on the hill. We'll get the context to get to our text, and we go back and find out that God called Abraham by... In the Genesis the 12th chapter, by sovereign grace He called Abraham, not because Abraham was any better than anyone else, but because God by foreknowledge and election called Abraham; and that's the way He called you. The Bible said so.
Notice. Not because Abraham was good. He come from his father...?... which means "delay." And they come down from Babylon, perhaps idolaters from Nimrod who first built Babylon and caused it to be a confederation, and all the people had to flock into it. It...


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