<TITLE>13. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 And he laid that wood on Isaac's shoulders, and he starts up the hill. And when he got up to the top of the hill, he rolled some rocks together, laid the wood. Little Isaac got suspicious. He said, "Father..." What's the first word the Bible ever mentioned of Isaac's voice, was, "My father." "My father, here is the altar; here is the fire; here is the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
And the trembling old father, not... it's... Just at the last moment he turned to him, and he said, "My son, God will provide a Lamb." Are you Abraham's children? "God will provide for Himself a Sacrifice." Why, it was the last moment. So he reaches under his belt, pulls out the rope, and little Isaac didn't start screaming. He was like Christ, submitted Himself to death. Put his son's hands behind him, tied his hands and his feet, laid him upon the altar... Could you imagine how he felt? There's the faith of Abraham. Have you got it?

L-54 "God's able to do this," he said. "But this is His commission, and this is what I'll carry out." Picked up that honed knife, pulled the little curly locks back out of his little twelve year old boy's face, leaning back, thinking of Sarah at home, his only son, probably kissed him on the cheek, laid him back, looked up, picked up the knife and raised his hand. That's believing God. And as he started to bring the knife down, the Holy Spirit caught his hand, said, "Abraham, Abraham, stay your hands. I know now that you trust Me. I know that you love Me." Said, "You haven't even would spare your own son." And about that time, a lamb bleated behind him. It was a little ram, not a ewe now; it was a ram, male, Christ. Had his horns hooked in the vines, right behind him.

L-55 I want to ask you a question. Where did that ram come from? He was three day's journey from civilization, and up on top of a mountain where there's no water, why, the wild beasts would've killed... The lio--the lions and things would have got the little ram if it'd wandered ninety miles back in the wilderness. And then, up on top of the mountain, another day's journey where there's no water, no grass, if you know the land, have been in there, just rocks that's all. And here was this little ram hooked in the wilderness by its horns. The sagebrush and stuff had it all hooked up by its horns. Where did it come from? Why?
No wonder Abraham called it--Him Jehovah-jireh. What happened? The Lord spoke that ram into existence. He spoke it in existence one minute, and another minute it went out of existence. What is He? He is able. Amen. He's Jehovah-jireh. He's God. It wasn't a vision; the lamb bled.

L-56 The same God that could pull the elements together and make a body for Him to live in and walk up before Abraham, that same God spoke a ram into existence, for there was a need for a sacrifice.
How's He going to bring you out of that wheelchair. I don't know. That's His business. He's Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide. What was it? His Word was at stake. God will provide.
You say, "Brother Branham, I'm eat up with cancer." That hasn't got one thing to do with it. "The doctor says I can't live but a six months longer. My heart's so bad the valves are stopped." I don't care what they've done. He's still Jehovah-jireh. He made that heart.
What was He? He was Christ. That ram represented Christ. Jehovah-jireh has already provided a Sacrifice for you.


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