<TITLE>02. Par 10-16</TITLE>L-10   Now let us stand as we read God's Word, as we read now from the Book of Genesis. And we're beginning at the 22nd chapter and the 7th verse, reading the 14th, inclusive.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and 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 went both of them together.
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound his own son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou lay... upon him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast withheld... not withheld thy... only son from me.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the thicket by the horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in... stead of his son.
And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD shall it be seen.

L-11   Let us bow our heads just a moment, for a word of prayer.

L-12 Our Heavenly Father, we are told by this Word, which is God, that, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing of the Word of God." And now, Father, we pray that You will impart to us the context of this reading, that we might learn as it is told us by the Bible, that, "All those things back in the Old Testament was examples that we should see." To those who obey God's call, are blessed. Those who refuse it, are cursed. So we pray, Father, that we'll have understanding, tonight, by the revelation. May the Holy Spirit reveal to us the things that's pertaining to us in this day, it's all hid in this great mystery of God that's been since the foundation of the world. For we ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen.
You may be seated.

L-13   I want to talk on the subject, the Lord willing, from the thought of: Jehovah-Jireh. The word means "God will provide Himself a sacrifice."

L-14 And we're speaking of Abraham, and this was at the time that he was looking for a promised son. To get the real truth of this, we'll go back. And this was in the 22nd chapter. We want to visit back; I got a few Scriptures wrote out here, that I'd like to refer to, if possible. And I want to speak on them, and I want to start from the 12th chapter. We'll go back to find out who this character Abraham is, and now how--how did it come that God chose him.

L-15   We know that the promise was given to Abraham and his Seed after him, and only to be in Abraham are we heirs with him with the promise. Now Abraham had seed, and the seed, of course, was, he had many seed, seeds, but he had one Seed that the promise was to. He had Ishmael; and then after Sarah died, he married another woman and had seven sons besides the daughters; and they're all seed of Abraham, but the--the seeds of Abraham. But the Seed was the one had the promise. And the Seed, actually, is the faith of Abraham, that he had in the promised Word of God.

L-16   Now Abraham, we find out, we... don't appear until we find him here about the 12th chapter. The 11th chapter of Genesis, we find that his father came down from Babylon. And Abraham was just an ordinary man, just as you or I, or anyone else. And he was getting, rather, what we would think, aged man. He was seventy-five years old. He had married his half sister. Her name was Sarah. And his name then, of course, wasn't Abraham, it was Abram. And--and hers was Sarah. So we find that she was ten years younger than he, which made her sixty-five, and him seventy-five years old.


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