<TITLE>18. Par 59-61</TITLE>L-59 But that's THUS SAITH THE LORD. Abraham took the little fellow. Watch, put the wood upon Isaac's back. Type of Christ with the wood on his back. Up the mountain they went. On up. Got up a past the timberline. Got on up amongst the big rocks, way on up to the big boulders, to the bleached sands, on up in the top of the mountain, where nothing but just old vines and things wrapped around stumps... or the rocks. He rolled hisself twelve stones together, laid the wood down, took the fire, and lit the sacrif... lit the altar.
Little Isaac got suspicious. He said, "My father..."
He said, "Here am I, my son."
He said, "Here is the altar. Here is the wood. Here's the fire, but where is the lamb or the sacrifice?"
He said, "My son, God will provide for Himself a lamb for this sacrifice." There you are. "The only thing I'm doing... just following instructions. It's up to God to provide the lamb."
"How am I going to receive my sight? How am I going to...?" That isn't a question. Just follow the instructions, believing without failure. God will provide for Himself, a lamb for the sacrifice.

L-60 Then he said, "Isaac, put your hands behind you." He took a string and begin to tie his hands. Isaac knew then. Watch his obedience like Jesus, the true Son of God, obedience unto death; took the cross. Tied his hands and his feet. Abraham lifted up the little boy and laid him up on the rock.
I can imagine him standing there and trying to... His intellectuals trying to go to work: "What are you going to tell Sarah when you get home?" "I... I... a..." But the little buzzer kept saying, "I'm Jehovah. I will provide. You just follow Me." See two things working, same time. What are you going to listen to? If you listen to this, you're gone. Listen to this... You can't go. You've got to be sure. Here... It's perfect.
Now, pulled his hair back out of his face, took his head, laid it back so the throat would be empty--opened his little shirt and pulled it back so his throat would be still... "Lay your head back a little farther, honey, for daddy." Think that was easy? There had to be something down here moving, a real love that wouldn't fail. Laid his head back, took the big knife out like that (just razor hone sharp), pulled his head back, took it out, lift up to God, caught the top of his hair, held it back like that, and he raised his hand. About that time the Holy Ghost grabbed his hand: "Just stay your hand, Abraham. I know you love Me."
And about that time a ram bleated behind him. It wasn't there a second before. A ram had his horns hooked in the vine, caught in the vine. "Baaa..." Abraham looked around, went and got the ram, and laid it upon the altar, tied it with the string that Isaac was tied with, and killed the ram.

L-61 I want to ask you something. Where did that ram come from? It was at least a hundred miles from civilization amongst lions, jackals, all kind (Everything eats a sheep.)... wild dogs... And again, it was way up on the mountain where there's no food or water, and it wasn't there when Abraham was hunting stones around to make the altar, but there it was. (See?) O God! Jehovah Jireh: He had provided Himself a lamb for that sacrifice. And He's the same Jehovah Jireh tonight. Only thing is, that to the seed, now, of Abraham, He has already provided the Lamb. The Lamb has already been killed--a bleeding Lamb.
Now, that wasn't a vision Abraham saw, because the ram bled, and a vision don't bleed. See? He killed a ram. God spoke it into existence and Abraham took it out of existence in less than a minute's time. Come into existence and went out the next minute, because God had a reason for it, because He'd brought somebody to that place, testing him. The Bible said Abraham was tested. And the seed of Abraham is tested. How God was testing His servant! And He's able to provide or make anything any way He wants to because He's Jehovah Jireh.


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