<TITLE>14. Par 61-64</TITLE>L-61 Now, he didn't want to tell Sarah, 'cause maybe the women don't understand every time just right. So I can imagine the next morning he got up and chopped him a arm full of wood and put it up on a mule. And he took, said, "Now, the son and I are going out for a little trip. We'll be back few days."
All right, Sarah standing there a waving good-bye to her little boy as he went out on the mule. And they walked. And He had some servants. Now, the Bible said, "He went three day's journey in the mountains." Three days, an ordinary man, I can walk thirty miles a day easy. I've done it many times on patrol, year in and out. A man in them days that didn't have gasoline feet like we have today, could probably walk better.
But let's say he walked fifty... or twenty-five miles each day. That would make him seventy-five miles back from camp. And then, he raised up his head and looked afar off. I don't know how many more miles back into no man's land and he saw the mountain. And God told him, "That's the mountain."

L-62 And he went to the mountain and told the boys... I love this. He told the boys, the servants, he took the wood and put it on Isaac's back, perfect type of Christ. And Abraham took the fire and so forth and told the servants... Listen to this, talk about faith. He said, "You wait here. The lad and I is going yonder to worship. The lad and I shall return."
How is he going to return? He's going there to kill him. But he said, "He received him as one from the dead, knowing that God could raise him from the dead." There you are. So he didn't stagger about it. He believed God.

L-63 Here goes little Isaac up the hill, packing away on the wood, just a beautiful picture about eight hundred years later of Christ going up Golgotha, packing His wood cross that He was to die on. And he goes up to the top of the hill, and father Abraham rolled up some rocks, put the wood out, laid the fire down.
And little Isaac said, "Father."
And he said, "Here I am, son."
He said, "Here is the altar; here is the fire; here is the wood." The little fellow didn't understand. He said, "But where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"
And Abraham, I can imagine as he looked upon his darling little boy, he said, "God will provide a lamb for the burnt offering." So when he got everything ready, takes his own little son, pulls his robe off and lays it down, takes a rope which was around his waist, perhaps, tied his hands and tied his feet, laid him up on the altar, pulled back his hair, no doubt holding the tears back and they was choking down his throat. Looked back like that, pulled his little hair back, reached down and pulled out the knife. Looked up, pulled his hair back and started to take his own son's life.

L-64 And as he raised his knife, the Holy Ghost caught his hand and said, "Abraham, stay your hand. I see now that you love Me. I see that you wouldn't even withhold your only begotten son. You wouldn't withhold him for Me." Now, what happened? About that time a little ram bleated, had his horns hooked in the vines. A ram, a little sheep bleated.
And Abraham went and got the ram and killed it instead of his son. That ram was Christ. I want to ask you something. Where did that ram come from? Now look, he's a hundred miles from civilization. He's up on top of a mountain where there's no water, a hundred miles from civilization in that country where there's lions, and tigers, and wolves, and hyenas.


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