<TITLE>08. Par 30-34</TITLE>L-30 Now, watch. An ordinary man ought to walk twenty five miles a day. When I was patrolling for five years, I walked thirty five miles a day through the wilderness ten hours year in and year out. And today why a man's got gasoline feet nearly and could do that. What could a man in them days whose only transportation he had nearly was either by a little slow mule that he could out walk hisself nearly.
So the only way he had was travel by foot. And now, Abraham let's say he walked twenty five miles a day. And he was seventy five miles back down. And he lifted up his eyes, and perhaps maybe another twenty-five or thirty miles away, he saw the mountain. He said, "Yep. That's the one God showed me in the vision."

L-31 Now, he said to the servants, the boys that was with him, listen to this now; he said, "You all tarry here while the boy and I go yonder to worship. The boy and I will return."
Oh, my. What? With the knife in his belt and in his heart to do the will of God, was going to kill his own son. "You wait here. The boy and I are going yonder to worship. The boy and I will return." How? He knowed God would keep His Word some way.
On they go up to the top of the mountain. Now, watch. When he got to the mountain, he took all this wood and laid it on Isaac's back.
Wonder why he done all those things? Because he was a figure of Christ. Isaac packed the wood up the hill that he himself was the sacrifice to lay on. Christ packed the cross up the hill where He, the Sacrifice, was to be laid on.
Abraham, shadowed God, the Father, giving His only begotten Son, for our sins. Abraham was giving his only son for obedience to God.

L-32 Notice now. As they go up the hill, Abraham packing the fire. And when they got up there, he said, "Father."
He said, "Here I am."
He said, "Here is the wood. And here is the fire. Here is the altar. But where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"
Oh, could you imagine that Father's heart pumping hard? His only child... "Where is the sacrifice?"
Abraham choking back the tears, think of your ownself choking back the tears, with a stern look towards heaven, he said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb for the sacrifice."

L-33 I'm not emotional much but that just gets me. "God will provide for Himself a sacrifice, or a lamb for the sacrifice." He said, "Turn around Isaac. Turn your back to me, son."
He did. Isaac thought, "What's this? It's leather cords taking my hands. Surely father understands what he's doing." Around his feet went some cords, tied them together. He looked over.
Abraham looked at him, brushed back the hair out of his eyes, kissed him on the cheek, "God be with you, my son." Laid him upon the altar, looked back, choking back the tears, little Isaac, obedient to death not asking a question.
Abraham pulled a big knife from his... the sheath from... the knife from the sheath, brushed back the hair away from his little neck, looked up to God and started to take the life of his own son. Just as he raised his hand, the Holy Ghost caught his hand. Said, "Abraham. Stay your hand. For I know now that you love Me, not even to spare your own son."

L-34 And about that time... Oh, God. A--a sacrifice bleated, a little ram, not a female, not a ewe, a ram was caught in the wilderness by his horns. What was it? Jehovah-jireh had provided a lamb.
Where did that lamb come from? Where did that lamb come from, friends? You know what it was? Why, he was a hundred miles from civilization. Where did it come from? Besides that he was way upon top of the mountain where there's no water. Where did it come from? It wasn't a vision now.
He took the ram, loosed Isaac, his son, raised the ram up and cut its throat and blood run out of it. It was a real lamb, not a myth, neither a vision. It was a real lamb. What was it? The God that I spoke to the other night, brought Hisself down in flesh, had brought a lamb there. Jehovah-jireh had provided a ram for the sacrifice.


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